• Mystery Emerges Among COVID-19 Patterns In Los Angeles County

    From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 21 19:31:26 2021
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    Officials are trying to understand why some of LA's highest coronavirus
    case rates are currently in communities with high vaccination rates.
    Paige Austin's profile picture
    Paige Austin,
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    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. (Mario
    Tama/Getty Images)
    LOS ANGELES, CA — While unvaccinated people continue to become infected, hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at dramatically higher rates,
    a peculiar pattern is developing in Los Angeles County that has health officials puzzling for an explanation.

    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. Authorities
    aren't quite sure why that would be. Differences in behavior or waning
    immunity from vaccines may be factors. People in those communities may
    also have lower levels of natural immunity due to historically low
    levels of coronavirus exposure.

    Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said authorities are
    trying to examine what factors are in play in individual communities
    that have above-average vaccination rates but still had among the
    highest new-case rates. One common denominator appears to be age.
    Younger people are driving this pandemic, Ferrer said.


    The median age of people becoming infected ranges from 26 to 36, meaning
    young people are driving the numbers. More than half of the county's
    confirmed COVID-19 cases to date have been among people 18 to
    49-year-old, according to county health officials.

    "I will say the one thing that does jump out -- the average ages were
    very low in all these communities," she said. "This is, essentially, in
    the communities with the highest rates, this is a pandemic that is in
    fact fueled by younger people."

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    Given the young median age of infected people, "we know that
    intermingling both socially and at work sites is contributing," she said.

    "Whoever you are and wherever you live, whether you live in a community
    with a high vaccination rate or with not-so-high vaccination rates, the
    most important thing you as a person are going to need to do is get
    yourself vaccinated, the people you love vaccinated, and then be
    sensible about precautions around intermingling while transmission rates
    remain relatively high across the county," Ferrer said.

    Of the 10 communities that had the highest rate of new cases, seven had vaccination rates that exceed the countywide rate, according to Ferrer.
    She insisted, however, the numbers don't mean vaccines aren't effective.

    "If you're not vaccinated, you've got a much higher risk of ending up
    infected, ending up in the hospital and tragically passing away. That's
    crystal clear and it hasn't really changed for months now," Ferrer said
    during a media briefing.

    She said current figures show unvaccinated people are nine times more
    likely than vaccinated people to get infected, and 67 times more likely
    to be hospitalized.

    Communities such as Lancaster, Palmdale, Studio City and Santa Clarita
    were among the 10 Los Angeles County areas that had the highest rates of
    new COVID-19 infections during a two-week period that ended Nov. 6, even
    though most of the areas that made the list have above-average
    vaccination rates, the county's health director said Thursday.

    The top two communities on the list with the highest new case rates -- Lancaster and Palmdale -- have below-average rates of fully vaccinated residents, at 58% and 66%, respectively. But Studio City, with the
    third- highest new case rate, has a 79% vaccination rate, and Santa
    Clarita, placing fourth on the list, has a 75% vaccine rate.

    The countywide number of fully vaccinated residents is 73%.

    Of the other communities on the top 10 list of highest new-case rates,
    only Willowbrook, at 62%, falls below the countywide vaccination rate.

    "Some of our communities that have right now these higher case rates are
    in fact communities that have really decent coverage in terms of
    vaccination ... and they still have a problem with high case rates,"
    Ferrer said.

    She said a variety of factors could be at play in different communities,
    among them the possibility that some areas had large numbers of people
    who were never previously infected with COVID-19 and remain
    unvaccinated, leading to higher current infection numbers.

    "That certainly is possible, although we have to look at more data to
    draw that conclusion," Ferrer said.

    The county reported another 26 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, raising the
    overall virus-related death toll to 26,949. Another 1,088 cases were
    reported, giving the county a cumulative pandemic total of 1,515,324.

    The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus
    in the county was 1.1% as of Thursday.

    According to state figures, there were 611 COVID-positive patients being treated in county hospitals as of Thursday, down from 616 on Wednesday.
    Of those hospitalized, 148 were in intensive care, down from 155.

    Ferrer said 82% of county residents aged 12 and over have received at
    least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of the
    county's overall population of 10.3 million people, 71% have received at
    least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.

    She said the number of people who received a first dose of vaccine in
    the past week jumped up sharply, due primarily to the expansion of
    vaccine availability to include children aged 5-11.

    Black residents continue to have the lowest vaccination rates, at 54%,
    followed by Latina/o residents at 59%, whites at 72% and Asians at 80%.

    Of the roughly 5.99 million residents who were fully vaccinated as of
    Nov. 16, 75,249 have subsequently tested positive for the virus, for a
    rate of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528 have
    been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.042%, and 422 have died, a rate of
    0.007%.

    Ferrer noted that the county has not seen a spike in COVID infections
    following Halloween, unlike the situation last year when cases began
    rising sharply. She said she is hopeful that residents will continue to exercise caution over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

    "We will need to take a cautionary note from what we're currently seeing
    in other parts of the United States and in other parts of the world
    right now," Ferrer said. "In the Mountain West and throughout Europe,
    cases are rising and hospitals are once more flooded with COVID cases,
    almost all of them among unvaccinated people. These trends remind us
    that the virus is much more easily transmitted when people are indoors
    and intermingling without protection from vaccines and other mitigation measures."

    City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin

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  • From HeartDoc Andrew@21:1/5 to MichaelE on Mon Nov 22 07:38:58 2021
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    MichaelE wrote:

    http://patch.com/california/los-angeles/mystery-emerges-among-covid-19-patterns-los-angeles-county



    Officials are trying to understand why some of LA's highest coronavirus
    case rates are currently in communities with high vaccination rates.
    Paige Austin's profile picture
    Paige Austin,
    Patch Staff
    Verified Patch Staff Badge
    Posted Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 5:47 pm PT
    Replies (74)
    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also >communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also >communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. (Mario >Tama/Getty Images)
    LOS ANGELES, CA — While unvaccinated people continue to become infected, >hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at dramatically higher rates,
    a peculiar pattern is developing in Los Angeles County that has health >officials puzzling for an explanation.

    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also >communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. Authorities >aren't quite sure why that would be. Differences in behavior or waning >immunity from vaccines may be factors. People in those communities may
    also have lower levels of natural immunity due to historically low
    levels of coronavirus exposure.

    Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said authorities are >trying to examine what factors are in play in individual communities
    that have above-average vaccination rates but still had among the
    highest new-case rates. One common denominator appears to be age.
    Younger people are driving this pandemic, Ferrer said.


    The median age of people becoming infected ranges from 26 to 36, meaning >young people are driving the numbers. More than half of the county's >confirmed COVID-19 cases to date have been among people 18 to
    49-year-old, according to county health officials.

    "I will say the one thing that does jump out -- the average ages were
    very low in all these communities," she said. "This is, essentially, in
    the communities with the highest rates, this is a pandemic that is in
    fact fueled by younger people."

    Find out what's happening in Los Angeles with free, real-time updates
    from Patch.
    Your email address
    Let's go!
    Given the young median age of infected people, "we know that
    intermingling both socially and at work sites is contributing," she said.

    "Whoever you are and wherever you live, whether you live in a community
    with a high vaccination rate or with not-so-high vaccination rates, the
    most important thing you as a person are going to need to do is get
    yourself vaccinated, the people you love vaccinated, and then be
    sensible about precautions around intermingling while transmission rates >remain relatively high across the county," Ferrer said.

    Of the 10 communities that had the highest rate of new cases, seven had >vaccination rates that exceed the countywide rate, according to Ferrer.
    She insisted, however, the numbers don't mean vaccines aren't effective.

    "If you're not vaccinated, you've got a much higher risk of ending up >infected, ending up in the hospital and tragically passing away. That's >crystal clear and it hasn't really changed for months now," Ferrer said >during a media briefing.

    She said current figures show unvaccinated people are nine times more
    likely than vaccinated people to get infected, and 67 times more likely
    to be hospitalized.

    Communities such as Lancaster, Palmdale, Studio City and Santa Clarita
    were among the 10 Los Angeles County areas that had the highest rates of
    new COVID-19 infections during a two-week period that ended Nov. 6, even >though most of the areas that made the list have above-average
    vaccination rates, the county's health director said Thursday.

    The top two communities on the list with the highest new case rates -- >Lancaster and Palmdale -- have below-average rates of fully vaccinated >residents, at 58% and 66%, respectively. But Studio City, with the
    third- highest new case rate, has a 79% vaccination rate, and Santa
    Clarita, placing fourth on the list, has a 75% vaccine rate.

    The countywide number of fully vaccinated residents is 73%.

    Of the other communities on the top 10 list of highest new-case rates,
    only Willowbrook, at 62%, falls below the countywide vaccination rate.

    "Some of our communities that have right now these higher case rates are
    in fact communities that have really decent coverage in terms of
    vaccination ... and they still have a problem with high case rates,"
    Ferrer said.

    She said a variety of factors could be at play in different communities, >among them the possibility that some areas had large numbers of people
    who were never previously infected with COVID-19 and remain
    unvaccinated, leading to higher current infection numbers.

    "That certainly is possible, although we have to look at more data to
    draw that conclusion," Ferrer said.

    The county reported another 26 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, raising the >overall virus-related death toll to 26,949. Another 1,088 cases were >reported, giving the county a cumulative pandemic total of 1,515,324.

    The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus
    in the county was 1.1% as of Thursday.

    According to state figures, there were 611 COVID-positive patients being >treated in county hospitals as of Thursday, down from 616 on Wednesday.
    Of those hospitalized, 148 were in intensive care, down from 155.

    Ferrer said 82% of county residents aged 12 and over have received at
    least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of the >county's overall population of 10.3 million people, 71% have received at >least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.

    She said the number of people who received a first dose of vaccine in
    the past week jumped up sharply, due primarily to the expansion of
    vaccine availability to include children aged 5-11.

    Black residents continue to have the lowest vaccination rates, at 54%, >followed by Latina/o residents at 59%, whites at 72% and Asians at 80%.

    Of the roughly 5.99 million residents who were fully vaccinated as of
    Nov. 16, 75,249 have subsequently tested positive for the virus, for a
    rate of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528 have
    been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.042%, and 422 have died, a rate of
    0.007%.

    Ferrer noted that the county has not seen a spike in COVID infections >following Halloween, unlike the situation last year when cases began
    rising sharply. She said she is hopeful that residents will continue to >exercise caution over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

    "We will need to take a cautionary note from what we're currently seeing
    in other parts of the United States and in other parts of the world
    right now," Ferrer said. "In the Mountain West and throughout Europe,
    cases are rising and hospitals are once more flooded with COVID cases,
    almost all of them among unvaccinated people. These trends remind us
    that the virus is much more easily transmitted when people are indoors
    and intermingling without protection from vaccines and other mitigation >measures."

    City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin

    The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
    the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
    finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
    among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
    asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
    15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
    doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
    best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
    mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
    Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
    COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.

    Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
    and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

    So how are you ?








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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to HeartDoc Andrew on Mon Nov 22 06:55:45 2021
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    HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
    MichaelE wrote:

    http://patch.com/california/los-angeles/mystery-emerges-among-covid-19-patterns-los-angeles-county



    Officials are trying to understand why some of LA's highest coronavirus
    case rates are currently in communities with high vaccination rates.
    Paige Austin's profile picture
    Paige Austin,
    Patch Staff
    Verified Patch Staff Badge
    Posted Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 5:47 pm PT
    Replies (74)
    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
    communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
    communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. (Mario
    Tama/Getty Images)
    LOS ANGELES, CA — While unvaccinated people continue to become infected, >> hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at dramatically higher rates,
    a peculiar pattern is developing in Los Angeles County that has health
    officials puzzling for an explanation.

    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
    communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. Authorities
    aren't quite sure why that would be. Differences in behavior or waning
    immunity from vaccines may be factors. People in those communities may
    also have lower levels of natural immunity due to historically low
    levels of coronavirus exposure.

    Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said authorities are
    trying to examine what factors are in play in individual communities
    that have above-average vaccination rates but still had among the
    highest new-case rates. One common denominator appears to be age.
    Younger people are driving this pandemic, Ferrer said.


    The median age of people becoming infected ranges from 26 to 36, meaning
    young people are driving the numbers. More than half of the county's
    confirmed COVID-19 cases to date have been among people 18 to
    49-year-old, according to county health officials.

    "I will say the one thing that does jump out -- the average ages were
    very low in all these communities," she said. "This is, essentially, in
    the communities with the highest rates, this is a pandemic that is in
    fact fueled by younger people."

    Find out what's happening in Los Angeles with free, real-time updates
    from Patch.
    Your email address
    Let's go!
    Given the young median age of infected people, "we know that
    intermingling both socially and at work sites is contributing," she said.

    "Whoever you are and wherever you live, whether you live in a community
    with a high vaccination rate or with not-so-high vaccination rates, the
    most important thing you as a person are going to need to do is get
    yourself vaccinated, the people you love vaccinated, and then be
    sensible about precautions around intermingling while transmission rates
    remain relatively high across the county," Ferrer said.

    Of the 10 communities that had the highest rate of new cases, seven had
    vaccination rates that exceed the countywide rate, according to Ferrer.
    She insisted, however, the numbers don't mean vaccines aren't effective.

    "If you're not vaccinated, you've got a much higher risk of ending up
    infected, ending up in the hospital and tragically passing away. That's
    crystal clear and it hasn't really changed for months now," Ferrer said
    during a media briefing.

    She said current figures show unvaccinated people are nine times more
    likely than vaccinated people to get infected, and 67 times more likely
    to be hospitalized.

    Communities such as Lancaster, Palmdale, Studio City and Santa Clarita
    were among the 10 Los Angeles County areas that had the highest rates of
    new COVID-19 infections during a two-week period that ended Nov. 6, even
    though most of the areas that made the list have above-average
    vaccination rates, the county's health director said Thursday.

    The top two communities on the list with the highest new case rates --
    Lancaster and Palmdale -- have below-average rates of fully vaccinated
    residents, at 58% and 66%, respectively. But Studio City, with the
    third- highest new case rate, has a 79% vaccination rate, and Santa
    Clarita, placing fourth on the list, has a 75% vaccine rate.

    The countywide number of fully vaccinated residents is 73%.

    Of the other communities on the top 10 list of highest new-case rates,
    only Willowbrook, at 62%, falls below the countywide vaccination rate.

    "Some of our communities that have right now these higher case rates are
    in fact communities that have really decent coverage in terms of
    vaccination ... and they still have a problem with high case rates,"
    Ferrer said.

    She said a variety of factors could be at play in different communities,
    among them the possibility that some areas had large numbers of people
    who were never previously infected with COVID-19 and remain
    unvaccinated, leading to higher current infection numbers.

    "That certainly is possible, although we have to look at more data to
    draw that conclusion," Ferrer said.

    The county reported another 26 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, raising the
    overall virus-related death toll to 26,949. Another 1,088 cases were
    reported, giving the county a cumulative pandemic total of 1,515,324.

    The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus
    in the county was 1.1% as of Thursday.

    According to state figures, there were 611 COVID-positive patients being
    treated in county hospitals as of Thursday, down from 616 on Wednesday.
    Of those hospitalized, 148 were in intensive care, down from 155.

    Ferrer said 82% of county residents aged 12 and over have received at
    least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of the
    county's overall population of 10.3 million people, 71% have received at
    least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.

    She said the number of people who received a first dose of vaccine in
    the past week jumped up sharply, due primarily to the expansion of
    vaccine availability to include children aged 5-11.

    Black residents continue to have the lowest vaccination rates, at 54%,
    followed by Latina/o residents at 59%, whites at 72% and Asians at 80%.

    Of the roughly 5.99 million residents who were fully vaccinated as of
    Nov. 16, 75,249 have subsequently tested positive for the virus, for a
    rate of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528 have
    been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.042%, and 422 have died, a rate of
    0.007%.

    Ferrer noted that the county has not seen a spike in COVID infections
    following Halloween, unlike the situation last year when cases began
    rising sharply. She said she is hopeful that residents will continue to
    exercise caution over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

    "We will need to take a cautionary note from what we're currently seeing
    in other parts of the United States and in other parts of the world
    right now," Ferrer said. "In the Mountain West and throughout Europe,
    cases are rising and hospitals are once more flooded with COVID cases,
    almost all of them among unvaccinated people. These trends remind us
    that the virus is much more easily transmitted when people are indoors
    and intermingling without protection from vaccines and other mitigation
    measures."

    City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin

    The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
    the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
    among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
    asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
    15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
    doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
    best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
    Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
    COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.

    Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
    and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

    So how are you ?
    I am wonderfully hungry!


    Michael

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  • From HeartDoc Andrew@21:1/5 to MichaelE on Mon Nov 22 10:14:27 2021
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    MichaelE wrote:
    HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
    MichaelE wrote:

    http://patch.com/california/los-angeles/mystery-emerges-among-covid-19-patterns-los-angeles-county



    Officials are trying to understand why some of LA's highest coronavirus
    case rates are currently in communities with high vaccination rates.
    Paige Austin's profile picture
    Paige Austin,
    Patch Staff
    Verified Patch Staff Badge
    Posted Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 5:47 pm PT
    Replies (74)
    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
    communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
    communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. (Mario
    Tama/Getty Images)
    LOS ANGELES, CA — While unvaccinated people continue to become infected, >>> hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at dramatically higher rates, >>> a peculiar pattern is developing in Los Angeles County that has health
    officials puzzling for an explanation.

    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
    communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. Authorities >>> aren't quite sure why that would be. Differences in behavior or waning
    immunity from vaccines may be factors. People in those communities may
    also have lower levels of natural immunity due to historically low
    levels of coronavirus exposure.

    Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said authorities are >>> trying to examine what factors are in play in individual communities
    that have above-average vaccination rates but still had among the
    highest new-case rates. One common denominator appears to be age.
    Younger people are driving this pandemic, Ferrer said.


    The median age of people becoming infected ranges from 26 to 36, meaning >>> young people are driving the numbers. More than half of the county's
    confirmed COVID-19 cases to date have been among people 18 to
    49-year-old, according to county health officials.

    "I will say the one thing that does jump out -- the average ages were
    very low in all these communities," she said. "This is, essentially, in
    the communities with the highest rates, this is a pandemic that is in
    fact fueled by younger people."

    Find out what's happening in Los Angeles with free, real-time updates >>>from Patch.
    Your email address
    Let's go!
    Given the young median age of infected people, "we know that
    intermingling both socially and at work sites is contributing," she said. >>>
    "Whoever you are and wherever you live, whether you live in a community
    with a high vaccination rate or with not-so-high vaccination rates, the
    most important thing you as a person are going to need to do is get
    yourself vaccinated, the people you love vaccinated, and then be
    sensible about precautions around intermingling while transmission rates >>> remain relatively high across the county," Ferrer said.

    Of the 10 communities that had the highest rate of new cases, seven had
    vaccination rates that exceed the countywide rate, according to Ferrer.
    She insisted, however, the numbers don't mean vaccines aren't effective. >>>
    "If you're not vaccinated, you've got a much higher risk of ending up
    infected, ending up in the hospital and tragically passing away. That's
    crystal clear and it hasn't really changed for months now," Ferrer said
    during a media briefing.

    She said current figures show unvaccinated people are nine times more
    likely than vaccinated people to get infected, and 67 times more likely
    to be hospitalized.

    Communities such as Lancaster, Palmdale, Studio City and Santa Clarita
    were among the 10 Los Angeles County areas that had the highest rates of >>> new COVID-19 infections during a two-week period that ended Nov. 6, even >>> though most of the areas that made the list have above-average
    vaccination rates, the county's health director said Thursday.

    The top two communities on the list with the highest new case rates --
    Lancaster and Palmdale -- have below-average rates of fully vaccinated
    residents, at 58% and 66%, respectively. But Studio City, with the
    third- highest new case rate, has a 79% vaccination rate, and Santa
    Clarita, placing fourth on the list, has a 75% vaccine rate.

    The countywide number of fully vaccinated residents is 73%.

    Of the other communities on the top 10 list of highest new-case rates,
    only Willowbrook, at 62%, falls below the countywide vaccination rate.

    "Some of our communities that have right now these higher case rates are >>> in fact communities that have really decent coverage in terms of
    vaccination ... and they still have a problem with high case rates,"
    Ferrer said.

    She said a variety of factors could be at play in different communities, >>> among them the possibility that some areas had large numbers of people
    who were never previously infected with COVID-19 and remain
    unvaccinated, leading to higher current infection numbers.

    "That certainly is possible, although we have to look at more data to
    draw that conclusion," Ferrer said.

    The county reported another 26 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, raising the
    overall virus-related death toll to 26,949. Another 1,088 cases were
    reported, giving the county a cumulative pandemic total of 1,515,324.

    The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus
    in the county was 1.1% as of Thursday.

    According to state figures, there were 611 COVID-positive patients being >>> treated in county hospitals as of Thursday, down from 616 on Wednesday.
    Of those hospitalized, 148 were in intensive care, down from 155.

    Ferrer said 82% of county residents aged 12 and over have received at
    least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of the
    county's overall population of 10.3 million people, 71% have received at >>> least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.

    She said the number of people who received a first dose of vaccine in
    the past week jumped up sharply, due primarily to the expansion of
    vaccine availability to include children aged 5-11.

    Black residents continue to have the lowest vaccination rates, at 54%,
    followed by Latina/o residents at 59%, whites at 72% and Asians at 80%.

    Of the roughly 5.99 million residents who were fully vaccinated as of
    Nov. 16, 75,249 have subsequently tested positive for the virus, for a
    rate of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528 have
    been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.042%, and 422 have died, a rate of
    0.007%.

    Ferrer noted that the county has not seen a spike in COVID infections
    following Halloween, unlike the situation last year when cases began
    rising sharply. She said she is hopeful that residents will continue to
    exercise caution over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

    "We will need to take a cautionary note from what we're currently seeing >>> in other parts of the United States and in other parts of the world
    right now," Ferrer said. "In the Mountain West and throughout Europe,
    cases are rising and hospitals are once more flooded with COVID cases,
    almost all of them among unvaccinated people. These trends remind us
    that the virus is much more easily transmitted when people are indoors
    and intermingling without protection from vaccines and other mitigation
    measures."

    City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin

    The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
    the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
    finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
    among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
    asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
    15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
    doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
    best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
    mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
    Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
    COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.

    Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
    and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

    So how are you ?

    I am wonderfully hungry!


    While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
    8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
    COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
    7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
    give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
    that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
    http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
    the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

    Laus DEO !

    Suggested further reading: https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

    Shorter link:
    http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

    Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
    diabetics and other heart disease patients:

    http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
    glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
    hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
    thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart

    ...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

    HeartDoc Andrew <><
    --
    Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
    Cardiologist with an http://HeartMDPhD.com/EternalMedicalLicense
    2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President: http://HeartMDPhD.com/WonderfullyHungryPresident
    and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
    http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewCare
    which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis

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