Los Angeles County reported 43,883 new cases of COVID-19 and 53 additional deaths associated with the coronavirus, in recently reported numbers that likely reflect delays over the weekend.
The number of COVID patients in Los Angeles County hospitals increased to 4,507, up from 4,386 on Saturday, according to the latest state figures released Sunday. The number of those patients in intensive care rose to 622, up 20 from Saturday’s total.
The latest figures come one day after the county reported 66 deaths associated with the virus — the most fatalities reported in one day since April 2, 2021.
“The extraordinarily high number of new cases reflects worrisome rates of community transmission,” the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said Saturday.
Many coronavirus patients entered the hospital for other reasons and only discovered they had COVID after a mandated test, but the surging numbers are putting a strain on hospitals nonetheless, with many nurses and other staffers unavailable themselves due to the pandemic.
Overall, COVID patient numbers are still well below those seen last winter, when the number topped 8,000.
Health officials are urging residents to avoid going to emergency rooms unless absolutely necessary, and to not go to an emergency room to get tested for COVID.
“As deaths often lag behind surges in cases and hospitalizations, sadly, the increase in deaths does not come as a surprise and tragically, we are prepared for even higher number of deaths in the coming weeks,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Saturday. “With unvaccinated individuals 22 times more likely to die from COVID-19 compared to those fully vaccinated, residents should not delay getting vaccinated and boosted as these measures are saving lives.”
Ferrer has also urged residents to avoid dangerous activities in the coming weeks, particularly those that are indoors and involve mingling with unvaccinated or higher-risk people. She also stressed that while the Omicron variant is easily capable of infecting vaccinated people, the shots are still proving to be effective in preventing infected people from winding up hospitalized.
She called on residents to get vaccinated and obtain booster shots; wear upgraded masks such as N95, KN95 or KF94 varieties; and get tested, saying the county dramatically expanded testing availability after shortages two weeks ago that led to long lines at some test centers.
As of Friday, more than 80% of all adult ICU beds in the county were occupied.
Los Angeles County has logged 2,257,502 cases of COVID-19 and 28,059 deaths associated with the virus since the pandemic began.
More than 10,630,000 individuals have been tested during the pandemic, with 20% of people testing positive to date. The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 17.3% Sunday.
Please get vaccinated and wear a mask!
If they worked we’d be done with the disease. Two weeks to flatten the curve to get the experimental juice or lose your ability to feed yourself- you’re fired! If you don’t know what fascism is please let this be exhibit one. I know it makes you feel better to wear a mask and get the experimental juice but the SCIENCE has not proven either one to be the magic to stop this virus. Viruses mutate as part of their evolutionary process. They weaken over time. Otherwise none of us living today would have ever been born. Thirdly real vaccines… Read more »
“but the SCIENCE has not proven either one to be the magic to stop this virus”
Masks and vaccines have been proven to prevent transmission and severe illness/death.
There is no “magic” in science.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-what-you-need-to-know
Next time proofread your comment. There is a difference between “your” and “you’re”
Get vaccinated.
You never identified where you live? Oshkosh, East Cleveland or South Central Los Angeles? We must credit your medical advice about masks! You endorse Purple masks like Erickson’s purple nail polish? He’s wearing earrings now. Unfortunately, their mask White.
You are so creepy and random.
Completely off topic, we are from West Hollywood here and, the article is about our COVID-19 pandemic☣
You mad bro? Instead of being a fascist try learning g some decorum and manners.
Side note, this isn’t a term paper and you’re not a teacher. Get over yourself and stay away from me. Not because of 6 feet safe. 5 feet DANGER but because you seem angry and unfriendly.
Masks don’t work and neither does the vaccine. Do you need more data then almost two years of this not going away? Science has spoken to is. Natural immunity is the only way out.
Have a great day.
I will always be unfriendly to quacky anti-vaxxers.
I love how you tried to insult me because I provided a peer reviewed study showing that masks and vaccines work.
“Science has spoken to is.”
What? Come again? Proofread much? What is going on?
“Natural immunity” or “post-infection immunity” vs vaccine induced 💉 immunity for COVID-19, natural immunity is NOT better. The COVID-19 vaccines create more effective and longer-lasting immunity than natural immunity from infection. NO it’s “natural immunity” that does NOT work, the vaccines are effective at preventing illness and death even in the event of breakthrough infections.
Numerous studies have consistently shown that Masks 😷 are SAFE and EFFECTIVE when it comes to REDUCING the spread of COVID-19 and, the anti-maskers ask for unrealistic burdens of proof while never offering any themselves❗
Reality ✅ both India and Japan are dealing with a serious COVID-19 Pandemic but, are making progress because they DON’T have the antivaxx idiots like the United States ❗
Yes you can get “natural immunity” from polio but, you are likely to need to spend the rest of your life in an iron lung. Many other diseases require boosters after vaccination NOT just COVID-19. Masks 😷 have proven effective in fighting respiratory infections like flu, and curbing the COVID-19.
The mRNA vaccines are NOT experimental, they are backed by decades of research; development and testing supporting their safety and efficacy. NO viruses are NOT guaranteed to take the evolutionary path of weakening, with several instances of doing quite the opposite like influenza has form time to time. Viruses can ONLY mutate if they can replicate and to do this they need to infect a host. This can be stopped by immunity/vaccination or nonpharmaceutical interventions.
Please worry about yourself.
We ARE worrying about ourselves, I don’t care about you but I have to put up with you. Get vaccinated.
This vax doesn’t work. Just have a look at the numbers. The data is irrefutable. Israel on the four juice jab. They have high infections. Please explain this science. Thanks.
“Just have a look at the numbers. The data is irrefutable.”
The numbers showing most people hospitalized for covid are unvaccinated? Yes the data is irrefutable.
The COVID-19 Vaccines are highly effective with, more breakthrough infections with the Omicron Variant but, the vaccines remain highly effective at preventing serious illness and death in these cases. In israel (occupied Palestine) yes high infection rates were a problem when the indigenous Palestinians were denied vaccine access. The unvaccinated are breaders of new and more dangerous COVID-19 variants, in the United States the problem is with misinformed antivaxxers❗
The vaccine works but wait, now you need not just 2 shots but 3. Oh wait nope, not just 3 shots but now the CDC says a 4th shot. And don’t forget your mask, oh no, not the cloth mask that we said would stop the virus but a medical grade one is needed now because the government doesn’t know that the F they’re talking about.
Do recall that there have been several variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 over the past 2 years so things are likely to change. Vaccines are highly effective but, boosters are necessary because your immune memory T-cells don’t retain the ability to recognize the virus for very long. This is the case with other diseases as well. YES mask are a highly effective nonpharmaceutical containment but, the Omicron Variant has a much higher Ro (R naught) than previous variants, it’s way more contagious so YES you will need a better mask ❗ 😷
You post gibberish all the time. Not wanting an experimental vaccine does not equate to an anti-vaxxer. Furthermore Israel is vaxxed to the max yet has a huge number of infections. Explain that!! Listen up. I have every real vaccine that works. Everyone of them. I won’t be putting something into my body that I don’t want-ever. If you believe this is a vaccine then YOU are all set. That’s how the science works. Then you post about masks. They do not work. The NEJM has a peer reviewed study about the efficacy of masks. Go read it. They are… Read more »
Do note the hyperlinks to credible Medical Science⚕ sources that antivaxxers FAIL to provide. VAERS is NOT a reliable source because ANYONE can post nonsense on VAERS and antivaxxers do all the time. VAERS is a first step in safety monitoring NOT a list of proven incidents.
Safety & Efficacy of mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in a nationwide setting from NEJW: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475
YOU & antivaxxers are cherry picking sections of articles to come to conclusions that even the authors of the studies claim are UNTRUE. Note the response from the authors of the NEJM article YOU mention:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2020836
Here is an article for the general public of how the NEJM article has been taken out of context and misrepresented to promote anti-mask PR which it does NOT:
https://t.co/zrKa6l5cRI
FYI the nazis and current fascists like the proud boys and 3% losers are staunchly antivaxx ❗