COVID-19 transmission levels remain high in San Mateo County, local health officials said Tuesday, and are likely to remain at a sustained level in the coming weeks.
Speaking to the county's Board of Supervisors, officials with San Mateo County Health said the emergence of subvariants of the already highly contagious omicron variant are keeping both local and statewide transmission levels high.
"What we're finding is that as these subvariants come along, one will overtake the previous because, essentially, they are more infectious," he said. That level of hospitalization, and even fewer patients in intensive care due to the virus, has kept local hospitals and medical centers from becoming overwhelmed with patients for the time being, she said.
Those test results, however, are often not reported to the county, making it difficult to determine the true level of transmission from up-to-date case counts alone.
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