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The fig of coronavirus patients successful Los Angeles County hospitals spiked for the 2nd consecutive time connected Sunday, Oct. 31, expanding to 672 from 659 connected Saturday and 630 connected Friday, according to authorities figures.
Of those patients, 162 were being treated successful intensive care, down from 172 the erstwhile day.
The latest numbers travel arsenic the region reported 1,118 caller cases of COVID-19 and 11 further deaths, bringing its cumulative totals to 1,493,170 cases and 26,637 deaths since the pandemic began, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
The fig of cases and deaths apt bespeak reporting delays implicit the weekend.
About 90% of each the section deaths associated with COVID-19 were radical with underlying wellness conditions, according to the county’s wellness department. The astir communal conditions are hypertension, diabetes and bosom disease.
The mean regular complaint of radical investigating affirmative for the microorganism was 1.1% arsenic of Friday.
“As we proceed to acquisition important transmission crossed the county, it is important that those who are infected, adjacent if they person nary symptoms, isolate from others for astatine slightest 10 days to halt spreading the microorganism to others,” region Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Friday. “And everyone who is simply a adjacent interaction to an infected idiosyncratic and is not vaccinated needs to quarantine and not enactment successful activities with others.
“This means not hosting oregon attending parties, going to enactment oregon schoolhouse oregon buying astatine stores. Breaking the concatenation of transmission requires that those infected oregon exposed bash their portion by staying distant from others.”
On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the usage of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for children aged 5 to 11. The contented volition present determination to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee, past to the CDC manager for last approval, which could travel arsenic aboriginal arsenic Tuesday oregon Wednesday.
The pediatric shots would beryllium offered nether an exigency usage authorization, the aforesaid authorization fixed to the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines and to the Pfizer vaccine for radical aged 12-15. Pfizer’s vaccine has afloat national support for radical aged 16 and up.
Ferrer said Thursday the region volition person astir 150,000 doses of the pediatric Pfizer vaccine connected manus to statesman administering the shots aft they are approved.
According to Ferrer, determination person been much than 79,000 COVID cases during the pandemic among children aged 5-11 successful the county, and 1 fatality. About 37,000 cases person occurred successful kids up to property 4, besides with 1 death, and much than 89,000 cases successful those aged 12-17, with 5 deaths.
“Infection trends successful children travel corruption trends successful adults, and aft a caller driblet successful pediatric lawsuit numbers, we’re present seeing a tiny plateau among lawsuit numbers,” Ferrer said. “Over the week ending Oct. 10, 12% of L.A. County cases were successful children aged 5-11, and children successful this property radical comprise 9% of the county’s population.”
In Los Angeles County, 80% of residents aged 12 and older person received astatine slightest 1 dose of vaccine, portion 72% are afloat vaccinated, Ferrer said. Among the county’s wide colonisation of 10.3 cardinal people, including those nether property 12 who aren’t yet eligible for the shots, 69% person received astatine slightest 1 dose, and 61% are afloat vaccinated.
Black residents proceed to person the lowest vaccination rates, with conscionable 56% having received astatine slightest 1 dose. That compares with 64% of Latino/a residents, 74% of achromatic residents and 83% of Asians.
Younger Black residents person peculiarly debased vaccination rates, with the youngest property radical astatine 43% with astatine slightest 1 dose.
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