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Almost 9 in 10 Californians live in areas with high COVID levels as BA.5 fuels infections

A woman in mask shops at Santee Alley on Thursday in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 9 in 10 Californians now live in counties with a high COVID-19 community level, in which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends universal masking in indoor public spaces.

The new developments underscore the increasing concerns about super-infectious subvariants of omicron that have fueled a summer coronavirus wave.

With the coronavirus resurgent and cases and hospitalizations on the rise, Los Angeles is poised to become the first Southern California county

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