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California now has nation’s lowest virus transmission rate

AP, Sept. 21, 2021

September 21, 2021

California now has nation’s lowest virus transmission rate

The severity of last winter may have helped temper this most recent surge in California, said Andrew Noymer, a public health [associate] professor at University of California, Irvine. “It’s a combination of immunity from vaccination and from the huge winter wave that we had,” he said.