COVID booster shot rate lower in hard-hit areas, LA County officials say

More than 1 cardinal booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine person been administered successful Los Angeles County, but wellness officials said connected Monday, Nov., 22, that residents successful neighborhoods hard deed by the microorganism person a little complaint of receiving the further doses.

According to the region Department of Public Health, determination are astir 4.8 cardinal region residents eligible for booster shots, but lone astir 6.9% of those successful hard-hit, high-need areas received booster shots arsenic of Nov. 17. That compares with 12.6% successful different areas.

“Since boosters archetypal became disposable to selected adults successful precocious September, we’ve seen uptake patterns suggesting that radical successful the hardest-hit neighborhoods are not getting booster shots arsenic often arsenic those successful different L.A County neighborhoods,” region Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said successful a statement. “With the CDC present recommending boosters to each adults 18 and older, and with mounting information showing that vaccine efficacy is waning implicit clip and that boosters trim the hazard of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths among adults of each ages, it’s important that each eligible adults 18 years and older get their COVID-19 booster doses.”

According to the county, 98% of skilled nursing installation residents had either received a booster dose oregon had 1 scheduled by the extremity of past week.

The region connected Monday reported different 9 COVID-19 deaths, raising the region virus-related decease toll to 27,017. Another 733 caller cases were besides reported Monday, giving the region a cumulative full from passim the pandemic of 1,520,504.

Case and decease numbers thin to beryllium little connected Mondays owed to delays successful reporting from the weekend.

According to authorities figures, determination were 558 COVID-19-positive patients successful region hospitals arsenic of Monday, down from 569 connected Sunday. Of those patients, 156 were successful intensive care, up somewhat from 152 connected Sunday.

The rolling mean regular complaint of radical investigating affirmative for the microorganism was 0.9% arsenic of Monday.

Ferrer said past week 82% of region residents aged 12 and implicit person received astatine slightest 1 dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are afloat vaccinated. Of the county’s wide colonisation of 10.3 cardinal people, 71% person received astatine slightest 1 dose, and 63% are afloat vaccinated.

Black residents proceed to person the lowest vaccination rates, astatine 54%, followed by Latina/o residents astatine 59%, whites astatine 72% and Asians astatine 80%.

Of the astir 5.99 cardinal residents who were afloat vaccinated arsenic of Nov. 16, 75,249 person subsequently tested affirmative for the virus, for a complaint of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528 person been hospitalized, for a complaint of 0.042%, and 422 person died, a complaint of 0.007%.