https://abc7.com/la-county-public-health-covid-19-cases-in-los-angeles-mask-wearing-rules/12442687/
LA County health officials will 'strongly recommend' masks indoors if
COVID cases continue rising
Indoor mask wearing is currently only a matter of personal preference,
unless a location or business opts to require them.
City News Service
Friday, November 11, 2022 10:15AM
EMBED <>MORE VIDEOS
Los Angeles County is continuing to experience increases in COVID-19 >infection and hospitalization rates, the public health director said
Friday, warning that two newly emerging variants of the virus.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Los Angeles County is continuing to experience
increases in COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rates, the public
health director said Friday, warning that two newly emerging variants of
the virus are threatening to fuel a fall and winter surge in cases.
Barbara Ferrer said the county had an average of about 1,300 new COVID
cases per day last week, up from about 1,000 per day the previous week.
She said the daily average case numbers have been "slowly but steadily >increasing'' since the beginning of November.
The rate of infections is also rising, reaching a weekly average of 86
cases per 100,000 residents last week, up from 65 per 100,000 residents
two weeks ago, Ferrer said. If that average rises to 100 cases per
100,000 residents per week, the county will again "strongly recommend''
that people wear masks indoors. Indoor mask wearing is currently only a >matter of personal preference, unless an individual location or business
opts to require them.
WATCH NOW ABC7 Los Angeles 24x7 Streaming channel
Ferrer also noted a rise in the average daily number of COVID-related >hospital admissions, with the average rising to 77 last week from 65 the >previous week.
Virus-related deaths are averaging about seven per day, down from 10-12
per day in early November, but Ferrer said deaths are considered a
lagging indicator, meaning the numbers could rise in coming weeks in
response to the increases in infections and hospitalizations.
Health officials have been expressing concern about a possible winter
COVID surge, mirroring similar increases seen the past two years during
the winter months. They noted that cooler temperatures lead to more
people spending time indoors in more crowded, less-ventilated spaces -- >conditions that are ripe for virus spread.
Ferrer said two recently identified variants of the COVID virus -- BQ.1
and BQ.1.1 -- are beginning to spread more rapidly in the county, now >representing about 17% of all virus specimens that undergo special
sequencing to identify specific infection strains. That's more than
double the rate from mid-October.
Ferrer said federal health authorities believe the BQ variants are
likely to "increase rapidly'' in coming weeks and could soon represent
more than one-third of all infections.
"Many are predicting these strains, which are highly transmissible, are >likely to drive an increase in cases this fall and winter," she said.
She said the currently available "bivalent'' vaccine booster -- which is >engineered specifically to counter Omicron-based variants of the virus
-- are believed to be effective against the BQ variants. But she said
the rate of eligible residents receiving the new booster remains very
low, and health officials are working to increase their public outreach >efforts to encourage people to get the shot.
On Thursday, Los Angeles County reported 1,595 new COVID-19 infections
and eight additional deaths linked to the virus, bringing its cumulative >totals to 3,501,782 cases and 34,039 fatalities since the pandemic began.
Daily case numbers released by the county are an undercount of actual >infections, since many residents rely on at-home tests and do not report >those results to county health officials, according to the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health.
The seven-day average daily rate of people testing positive for the
virus was 5.8% as of Thursday.
The number of COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals
was 464 as of Thursday, down from 492 on Wednesday, according to state >figures.
Of those patients, 50 were being treated in intensive care units, up
from 43 a day earlier.
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://abc7.com/la-county-public-health-covid-19-cases-in-los-angeles-mask-wearing-rules/12442687/
LA County health officials will 'strongly recommend' masks indoors if
COVID cases continue rising
Indoor mask wearing is currently only a matter of personal preference,
unless a location or business opts to require them.
City News Service
Friday, November 11, 2022 10:15AM
EMBED <>MORE VIDEOS
Los Angeles County is continuing to experience increases in COVID-19
infection and hospitalization rates, the public health director said
Friday, warning that two newly emerging variants of the virus.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Los Angeles County is continuing to experience
increases in COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rates, the public
health director said Friday, warning that two newly emerging variants of
the virus are threatening to fuel a fall and winter surge in cases.
Barbara Ferrer said the county had an average of about 1,300 new COVID
cases per day last week, up from about 1,000 per day the previous week.
She said the daily average case numbers have been "slowly but steadily
increasing'' since the beginning of November.
The rate of infections is also rising, reaching a weekly average of 86
cases per 100,000 residents last week, up from 65 per 100,000 residents
two weeks ago, Ferrer said. If that average rises to 100 cases per
100,000 residents per week, the county will again "strongly recommend''
that people wear masks indoors. Indoor mask wearing is currently only a
matter of personal preference, unless an individual location or business
opts to require them.
WATCH NOW ABC7 Los Angeles 24x7 Streaming channel
Ferrer also noted a rise in the average daily number of COVID-related
hospital admissions, with the average rising to 77 last week from 65 the
previous week.
Virus-related deaths are averaging about seven per day, down from 10-12
per day in early November, but Ferrer said deaths are considered a
lagging indicator, meaning the numbers could rise in coming weeks in
response to the increases in infections and hospitalizations.
Health officials have been expressing concern about a possible winter
COVID surge, mirroring similar increases seen the past two years during
the winter months. They noted that cooler temperatures lead to more
people spending time indoors in more crowded, less-ventilated spaces --
conditions that are ripe for virus spread.
Ferrer said two recently identified variants of the COVID virus -- BQ.1
and BQ.1.1 -- are beginning to spread more rapidly in the county, now
representing about 17% of all virus specimens that undergo special
sequencing to identify specific infection strains. That's more than
double the rate from mid-October.
Ferrer said federal health authorities believe the BQ variants are
likely to "increase rapidly'' in coming weeks and could soon represent
more than one-third of all infections.
"Many are predicting these strains, which are highly transmissible, are
likely to drive an increase in cases this fall and winter," she said.
She said the currently available "bivalent'' vaccine booster -- which is
engineered specifically to counter Omicron-based variants of the virus
-- are believed to be effective against the BQ variants. But she said
the rate of eligible residents receiving the new booster remains very
low, and health officials are working to increase their public outreach
efforts to encourage people to get the shot.
On Thursday, Los Angeles County reported 1,595 new COVID-19 infections
and eight additional deaths linked to the virus, bringing its cumulative
totals to 3,501,782 cases and 34,039 fatalities since the pandemic began.
Daily case numbers released by the county are an undercount of actual
infections, since many residents rely on at-home tests and do not report
those results to county health officials, according to the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health.
The seven-day average daily rate of people testing positive for the
virus was 5.8% as of Thursday.
The number of COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals
was 464 as of Thursday, down from 492 on Wednesday, according to state
figures.
Of those patients, 50 were being treated in intensive care units, up
from 43 a day earlier.
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://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 ?
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 302 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 122:40:32 |
| Calls: | 6,769 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 12,299 |
| Messages: | 5,376,793 |
| Posted today: | 2 |