According to state figures, the COVID hospitalization number in the county was 350 as of Friday, down slightly from 351 on Thursday.
The number of those patients being treated in intensive care ticked slightly upward, from 52 on Thursday to 59 on Friday.Another 889 virus cases were confirmed Friday, giving the county a cumulative pandemic total of 2,829,091.
The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 0.7% as of Friday, roughly the same as it has been for the past two weeks. On Thursday, the county Department of Public Health reported an uptick in COVID infections attributed to the BA.2, an offshoot of the Omicron variant that spurred a winter surge in cases and hospitalizations.
According to the county, the BA.2 sub-variant accounted for 14.7% of all specially sequenced cases from the week ending March 5 — more than double the 6.4% rate from the previous week. Experts have suggested that BA.2 is at least 30% more contagious than the Omicron variant, which was already substantially more easily spread than the original COVID-19 virus.
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