Omicron variant likely to bring spike in COVID cases, hospitalizations, officials warn
by Alex Wigglesworth and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
Dec 19, 2021
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Responding to new alarms about worsening COVID-19 conditions, health officials offered up a troubling forecast about increased hospitalizations and the spread of the new omicron variant in California and beyond.
The majority of California’s confirmed omicron cases — 38 — have been recorded in Los Angeles County, which on Saturday reported 3,730 new cases of the coronavirus from all variants, mostly delta, its highest single-day total in months and more than double the number of new cases reported Wednesday.
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