California's summer COVID wave shows signs of waning. What are the numbers in your community?

There are immoderate encouraging signs that California’s summertime COVID question mightiness beryllium leveling off.

That’s not to accidental the seasonal spike is successful the rearview reflector conscionable yet, however. Coronavirus levels successful California’s wastewater stay “very high,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arsenic they are successful overmuch of the country.

But portion immoderate COVID indicators are rising successful the Golden State, others are starting to autumn — a hint that the summertime question whitethorn soon commencement to decline.

Statewide, the complaint astatine which coronavirus laboratory tests are coming backmost affirmative was 11.72% for the week that ended Sept. 6, the highest truthful acold this season, and up from 10.8% the anterior week. Still, viral levels successful wastewater are importantly little than during past summer’s peak.

The latest COVID infirmary admittance complaint was 3.9 hospitalizations for each 100,000 residents. That’s a flimsy diminution from 4.14 the anterior week. Overall, COVID hospitalizations stay debased statewide, peculiarly compared with earlier surges.

The fig of recently admitted COVID infirmary patients has declined somewhat successful Los Angeles County and Santa Clara County, but ticked up somewhat up successful Orange County. In San Francisco, immoderate doctors judge the summertime COVID question is cresting.

“There are a fewer much radical successful the hospitals, but I deliberation it’s little than past summer,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert. “I consciousness similar we are astatine a plateau.”

Those who are being hospitalized thin to beryllium older radical who didn’t get immunized against COVID wrong the past year, Chin-Hong said, and immoderate person a secondary corruption known arsenic superimposed bacterial pneumonia.

Los Angeles County

In L.A. County, determination are hints that COVID enactment is either peaking oregon starting to decline. Viral levels successful section wastewater are inactive rising, but the trial positivity complaint is declining.

For the week that ended Sept. 6, 12.2% of wastewater samples tested for COVID successful the region were positive, down from 15.9% the anterior week.

“Many indicators of COVID-19 enactment successful L.A. County declined successful this week’s data,” the L.A. County Department of Public Health told The Times connected Friday. “While it’s excessively aboriginal to cognize if we person passed the summertime highest of COVID-19 enactment this season, this suggests assemblage transmission is slowing.”

Orange County

In Orange County, “we look to beryllium successful the mediate of a question close now,” said Dr. Christopher Zimmerman, lawman aesculapian manager of the county’s Communicable Disease Control Division.

The trial positivity complaint has plateaued successful caller weeks — it was 15.3% for the week that ended Sept. 6, up from 12.9% the anterior week, but down from 17.9% the week earlier that.

COVID is inactive prompting radical to question urgent aesculapian care, however. Countywide, 2.9% of exigency country visits were for COVID-like unwellness for the week that ended Sept. 6, the highest level this year, and up from 2.6% for the week that ended Aug. 30.

San Diego County

For the week that ended Sept. 6, 14.1% of coronavirus laboratory tests successful San Diego County were affirmative for infection. That’s down from 15.5% the anterior week, and 16.1% for the week that ended Aug. 23.

Ventura County

COVID is besides inactive sending radical to the exigency country successful Ventura County. Countywide, 1.73% of ER patients for the week that ended Sept. 12 were determination to question attraction for COVID, up from 1.46% the anterior week.

San Francisco

In San Francisco, the trial positivity complaint was 7.5% for the week that ended Sept. 7, down from 8.4% for the week that ended Aug. 31.

“COVID-19 enactment successful San Francisco remains elevated, but not arsenic precocious arsenic the erstwhile summer’s peaks,” the section Department of Public Health said.

Silicon Valley

In Santa Clara County, the coronavirus remains astatine a “high” level successful the sewershed of San José and Palo Alto.

Roughly 1.3% of ER visits for the week that ended Sunday were attributed to COVID successful Santa Clara County, down from the anterior week’s fig of 2%.