EXCLUSIVE: CA's chief epidemiologist explains why Bay Area is state's COVID hotspot

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EXCLUSIVE: CA's chief epidemiologist explains why Bay Area is state's COVID hotspot
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According to CDC data, the eye of the storm in California is in the Bay Area. Santa Cruz, San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin are some of the counties with the highest COVID case rates in the entire state.

Dr. Gandhi of UCSF says that even if you are vaccinated, double boosted and doing everything right, this omicron subvariant can still infect you."It's a question that we are all kind of thinking about and looking at quite a bit. I will say this particular virus continues to throw curveballs.

Recently BART's reinstated its mask mandate and San Jose is requiring city employees to mask indoors again. So, we asked:"I think we should always maintain that readiness and possibility that especially if we see again a large impact on our health care system if we see an increase in deaths that is really unusual severely. Thankfully we've maintained low hospitalizations, but those are all the things that we are concerned about."Dr. Pan confirmed omicron's sub-variant BA 2.

"We could have a variant evolve that is more serious and evades our immunity to an extent that we really have a much larger impact on our infrastructure," said Dr. Pan. The state of California is currently not requiring students to be vaccinated or boosted until 2023. We asked Dr. Pan about this.

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