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Pasadena, Long Beach health officials say no to indoor mask mandate proposal losangeles
BY CBSLA STAFF

JULY 26, 2022 / 3:31 PM / CBS LOS ANGELES



Los Angeles County's health director said Tuesday COVID-19 case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths continue to show signs of stabilizing
locally, which means the county might pause plans to reimpose a
universal indoor mask-wearing mandate later this week.

Tuesday evening the City of Long Beach and Pasadena, which both have
health departments separate from the LA County Department of Health,
said there would not be enforcement of a mask mandate if it were to come
back.

"Pasadena Public Health Department has determined that jurisdictional
COVID-19 confirmed case rates have declined for about 10 days, and local hospitalization metrics have not continued to increase during that
time," health officials from Pasadena released in a statement. "The City
of Pasadena health officer will not be issuing a general indoor mask
mandate at this time."

Health officials with the City of Long Beach released a similar
statement, saying, in part:

Despite rising cases, hospitalizations among Long Beach residents remain stable, area hospitals have adequate capacity and fatalities remain low. Therefore, regarding masking, the City of Long Beach will continue to
align with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), which
strongly urges, but does not require, masking in most circumstances.


Speaking to the Board of Supervisors, Public Health Director Barbara
Ferrer said she was "relieved" to report a continued drop in the average
daily number of new infections being reported, with the past seven days
seeing roughly 6,100 new cases daily, down from 6,700 the previous week.

The change of plans comes after the Beverly Hills City Council Monday
night unanimously voted not to uphold the mandate, should it be imposed
again.

Ferrar also noted a stabilization in virus-related hospitalizations and
deaths, with an average of 14 fatalities per day being reported -- a
number that she stressed remains too high.

But she said that, given the steady declines that have been recorded in
virus metrics over the past week and a half, "We may be positioned to
pause the implementation of universal masking." Such a determination
will not be made until Thursday, when updated hospital admission rates
are released.


Ferrer said earlier a new indoor mask mandate would be imposed on Friday
if the county remains in the "high" virus activity category -- with a
new daily virus-related hospital admission rate higher than 10 per
100,000 residents. That number as of last Thursday was 11.7 per 100,000.

Ferrer said Tuesday that if the county is at least approaching the 10
per 100,000 residents level by Thursday, it would "trigger a
reassessment on the need to reimplement an indoor masking mandate."

She stressed during her presentation, however, that transmission of
COVID-19 remains high across the county, and the virus is still a
leading cause of death, killing more people in the first six months of
the year than drug overdoses, the flu and traffic crashes combined.

But the idea of a renewed indoor masking mandate has generated
opposition, including from the Los Angeles County Business Federation
last week and on Monday from county Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who said
she believes in the effectiveness of masks, but not of mask mandates.
Barger repeated Tuesday that she does not believe there is any
"empirical data" proving that a mask mandate will be more effective than
what the county does now -- which is strongly recommend masks.

"I am adamantly opposed to mandating the masking, because I truly do
believe it's going to have the opposite effect," Barger said.

Barger earned some support Tuesday from Supervisor Janice Hahn, who said
she fears imposing a universal mandate "will be very divisive for L.A.
County."

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Michael Ejercito wrote:

http://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/proposed-indoor-mask-mandate-could-be-paused-la-health-officials-say/

Pasadena, Long Beach health officials say no to indoor mask mandate proposal >losangeles
BY CBSLA STAFF

JULY 26, 2022 / 3:31 PM / CBS LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles County's health director said Tuesday COVID-19 case numbers, >hospitalizations and deaths continue to show signs of stabilizing
locally, which means the county might pause plans to reimpose a
universal indoor mask-wearing mandate later this week.

Tuesday evening the City of Long Beach and Pasadena, which both have
health departments separate from the LA County Department of Health,
said there would not be enforcement of a mask mandate if it were to come >back.

"Pasadena Public Health Department has determined that jurisdictional >COVID-19 confirmed case rates have declined for about 10 days, and local >hospitalization metrics have not continued to increase during that
time," health officials from Pasadena released in a statement. "The City
of Pasadena health officer will not be issuing a general indoor mask
mandate at this time."

Health officials with the City of Long Beach released a similar
statement, saying, in part:

Despite rising cases, hospitalizations among Long Beach residents remain >stable, area hospitals have adequate capacity and fatalities remain low. >Therefore, regarding masking, the City of Long Beach will continue to
align with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), which
strongly urges, but does not require, masking in most circumstances.

Speaking to the Board of Supervisors, Public Health Director Barbara
Ferrer said she was "relieved" to report a continued drop in the average >daily number of new infections being reported, with the past seven days >seeing roughly 6,100 new cases daily, down from 6,700 the previous week.

The change of plans comes after the Beverly Hills City Council Monday
night unanimously voted not to uphold the mandate, should it be imposed >again.

Ferrar also noted a stabilization in virus-related hospitalizations and >deaths, with an average of 14 fatalities per day being reported -- a
number that she stressed remains too high.

But she said that, given the steady declines that have been recorded in
virus metrics over the past week and a half, "We may be positioned to
pause the implementation of universal masking." Such a determination
will not be made until Thursday, when updated hospital admission rates
are released.

Ferrer said earlier a new indoor mask mandate would be imposed on Friday
if the county remains in the "high" virus activity category -- with a
new daily virus-related hospital admission rate higher than 10 per
100,000 residents. That number as of last Thursday was 11.7 per 100,000.

Ferrer said Tuesday that if the county is at least approaching the 10
per 100,000 residents level by Thursday, it would "trigger a
reassessment on the need to reimplement an indoor masking mandate."

She stressed during her presentation, however, that transmission of
COVID-19 remains high across the county, and the virus is still a
leading cause of death, killing more people in the first six months of
the year than drug overdoses, the flu and traffic crashes combined.

But the idea of a renewed indoor masking mandate has generated
opposition, including from the Los Angeles County Business Federation
last week and on Monday from county Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who said
she believes in the effectiveness of masks, but not of mask mandates.
Barger repeated Tuesday that she does not believe there is any
"empirical data" proving that a mask mandate will be more effective than
what the county does now -- which is strongly recommend masks.

"I am adamantly opposed to mandating the masking, because I truly do
believe it's going to have the opposite effect," Barger said.

Barger earned some support Tuesday from Supervisor Janice Hahn, who said
she fears imposing a universal mandate "will be very divisive for L.A. >County."

The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in California & 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://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (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 Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.

Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

So how are you ?









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