Sacramento-area counties move into CDC’s medium COVID-19 status levels
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Sacramento-area counties move into CDC’s medium COVID-19 status level. Here’s what it means
The California Department of Public Health respiratory virus dashboard, which includes separate charts for COVID-19 and influenza, shows the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 in California on a steady rise, up to 1,592 patients on Dec. 2 from 1,151 one month earlier.