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Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the U.S., will once again require people to wear masks indoors – regardless of vaccination status – due to a recent surge in new COVID-19 cases.
The startling change, announced exactly a month after California became one of the last in the country to reopen and drop coronavirus mandates, aims to stunt an uptick in new cases combined with the spread of the highly infectious delta variant. It will go into effect at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment, the county‘s health officer, Dr. Muntu Davis, said during a Thursday afternoon press briefing.
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Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the U.S., will once again require people to wear masks indoors – regardless of vaccination status – due to a recent surge in new COVID-19 cases.
The startling change, announced exactly a month after California became one of the last in the country to reopen and drop coronavirus mandates, aims to stunt an uptick in new cases combined with the spread of the highly infectious delta variant. It will go into effect at 11:59 p.m. Saturday.
A political “schism” over getting vaccinated against coronavirus is putting Americans’ health at risk, particularly as cases of the delta variant are surging around the country, the nation’s top infectious disease expert said on Sunday.
The country needs to “just put politics aside” to beat the deadly virus, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC’s “This Week.”
A dramatic political gap was exposed in a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll that showed 93% of Democrats said they were vaccinated or planned to get jabbed, but only just 49% of Republicans said the same.
In a Thursday interview with the Springfield News-Leader, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and president s chief medical advisor cited the state s lagging vaccination rate as a key indicator for the Delta virus variant s surge. It s like the sun coming up in the morning and setting at night, Fauci said. If you have a low level of vaccination, which certain sections of the state of Missouri have, you are going to see an increase in infections, which ultimately might lead to an increase in hospitalizations.
Dealing with COVID vaccine hesitancy
The fight against vaccine hesitancy and fear, Fauci said, is a complicated one with people in Missouri and throughout the U.S. pointing toward several factors dissuading them. He urged their families and peers to exercise patience, empathy and accuracy while encouraging those resisting vaccination to get their shot.
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