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Wendy Ibarra has her temperature checked before receiving her second vaccination dose, next to a sign promoting free amusement park tickets for those receiving their first dose, at a vaccination clinic in South Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA — New coronavirus cases continued to skyrocket across Los Angeles County Thursday, driven, in part, by the spread of the contagious Delta variant. Los Angeles County reported more than 800 new cases, more than double what it was a week ago.
Largely because of the trend in Los Angeles, the state is seeing climbing coronavirus cases for the first time in months. Gov. Gavin Newsom called it a wake-up call to the unvaccinated Wednesday because they account for more than 99 percent of coronavirus deaths in Los Angeles County. At the same time, new research sheds light on how the Delta variant evades the immune system.