Los Angeles Set To Reach The CDC's "High" Covid Community Level In Next 48 Hours, Says Top Health Of

[pstokely]

Source: Deadline

UPDATED: Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer confirmed today the county is on pace to move into the “high” COVID-19 community level by this Thursday. If the county remains in the “high” level for two consecutive weeks, it will again impose a mandatory indoor mask-wearing mandate. The level is determined by hospitalization rates. According to state figures, there are now 1,153 Covid-positive patients in county hospitals, with 115 of them being treated in intensive care.

On Saturday, L.A. saw its highest number of daily new cases since the original Omicon wave in January at 8,359. One important difference however is that, while the average 7-day test positivity in the county was just under 8.5% at the end of January, today it is close to 15%. The current dominant BA.5 subvariant is also thought to be many times more transmissible than the original Omicon that caused the winter wave.

Read more: https://deadline.com/2022/07/los-angeles-next-week-high-covid-cdc-1235060083/

[NullTuples]

1. These waiting periods are killing people & ruining bodies.

"If the county remains in the “high” level for two consecutive weeks, it will again impose a mandatory indoor mask-wearing mandate."

Why not just make it as soon as they hit "high", with the mandate in effect for a minimum of two weeks?

[iluvtennis]

2. Agree. If it's now high, start the indoor mask mandates. Overall, the powers that be haven't been

proactive enough with COVID safe guards.

[LoisB]

4. Agree. Why wait. Do it now. I am in L.A. County and people have gotten lax about distancing

and wearing masks. (Not me)

[gldstwmn]

3. Can we get Novavax now? It's better against these variants.

We are going to be in for it come fall.

[LisaL]

7. I haven't seen any evidence that Novavax is better against variants.

It was designed based on the original covid sequence.

[gldstwmn]

9. If you go to the link in this tweet and check out the Power Point

it suggests that it is:

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=sklUoNAgELzI3L1ByuU0TQ

[joshcryer]

11. They need to fast track mRNA based vaccines that target these.

Screw the nearly years long testing period. We know mRNA vaccines are safe.

[Initech]

5. Damn it to hell. Here we go again.

[LisaL]

8. It's the new sub-variant BA.5.

It might be the most infectious virus known to men.

[Rebl2]

6. I never

have quit masking because I have a parent in nursing home. They have never dropped mask mandate, so I have kept wearing mine.

[progree]

10. California: 5th highest state in cases per capita, per NY Times

I did this for the "COVID in California: Hospitalizations in California up 63% in a month ,,," LBN story, so thought I'd share it here as well

In all of below, "Cases" is NEW cases, not cumulative total cases
YES YES, I know, with home-testing, only a small percent of cases are reported

U.S. in past 14 days (actually 7 day average ending July 11 compared to 7 day average ending June 27)
Cases: +8%, Hospitalizations: +17%, ICUs: +21%, Deaths: -2%
Cases: 35 per 100,000

California is 5th highest cases PER CAPITA.

Top 18 states in per capita cases: #1-Kentucky, #2-Alaska, #3-Texas, #4-Alabama, #5-California
#6-Louisiana, #7-Florida, #8-Arkansas, #9-New York, #10-Hawaii, #11-New Mexico, #12-Mississippi, #13-Colorado, #14-New Jersey, #15-West Virginia, #16-Illinois, #17-Washington, #18-South Carolina

Notice the South is starting to dominate the rankings, which has been the case the last 2 summers starting about this time of year, so its going to get more so in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, California also fits that pattern (as well as high winter peaks in common with most of the rest of the country)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
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California in past 14 days (actually 7 day average ending July 11 compared to 7 day average ending June 27)
Cases: -5%, Hospitalizations: +26%, ICUs: +38%, Deaths: +40%
Cases: 46 per 100,000 (5th highest state)
In ICUs: June 1: 280, July 11: 450

Essentially, cases have flat-lined since about June 10, while the increase in hospitalizations and deaths, which lag cases, have been echoing the large increases in cases between early April and June 10. They should soon start to slow down, unless Ba.4 and Ba.5 are a little worse per infection, as some say.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/california-covid-cases.html
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Lots more at the web pages.
The "Last 90 days" button is extremely helpful