COVID-19 cases hit levels of past summer surges in California

Consider this California’s first coronavirus surge of the endemic era. Even with the rise in home tests that don’t make it into official statistics, the state is now reporting more confirmed cases per day than it did at the peak of the summer 2020 surge, and is closing in on summer 2021 surge levels. … “This is what endemicity looks like,” said Andrew Noymer, a professor of [public] health at UC Irvine. …