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L A County sees over 2,000 new COVID cases daily due to Delta variant
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L A County sees over 2,000 new COVID cases daily due to Delta
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Los Angeles County reported 3,058 new coronavirus cases Friday, as a troubling surge of the Delta variant continued to worsen and officials urged people to take precautions.
New infections have exceeded 2,500 each of the past three days, levels the county has not seen since the winter surge in February. Officials said Friday the positivity rate was 5.2%, up from 4% last Friday.
This surge is predominantly hitting people who have not been vaccinated. But with the highly infectious Delta variant racing through the region, additional measures such as wearing masks inside crowded public places can further armor everyone against transmission.
Hospitalizations are also rising, with the number hitting 655 on Friday. The previous Friday that number stood at 452. Despite this, L.A. remains in far better shape than during the fall-and-winter surge, when an average of about 15,000 new cases were being reported every day and more than 8,000 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized at ti
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Long Beach recorded 105 cases and one new death at the end of a week that has seen steadily increasing indicators of the virus’ spread: The percentage of people who tested positive for the virus was 8.6% on Friday, up from a low of 0.4% on June 11. And the case rate per 100,000 residents is now 18.6, up from a low of 1 on June 6.
Both of those numbers are high enough to put Long Beach into the “purple” tier meaning the virus is widespread of the state’s former system for determining when and how certain businesses could reopen. In that tier, nearly every type of business had strict capacity limits in place and many were forbidden from operating indoors.
Ready for their shot as the Delta variant surges, vaccine procrastinators answer the question: Why the long wait?
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