By City News Service
May 4, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - With only about 40% of the Los Angeles Police Department fully vaccinated, Chief Michel Moore told the city s Police Commission today that the vaccination effort has “slowed dramatically, with only six additional employees receiving a first dose in the last week.
Just over 50% of the department, or 6,272 employees, have received a first dose of the vaccine and 40% are fully vaccinated, Moore said. An additional 118 police personnel received their second dose in the last week.
Los Angeles County is experiencing a similar slowdown in vaccinations overall, which L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer called “very worrisome last week.
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Even as Oregon and Washington face new COVID-19 surges, there is growing optimism that California remains in recovery mode as coronavirus cases continued to fall dramatically along with related deaths.
California has continued to do better than any state, with the lowest per capita coronavirus case rate in the nation over the last week. Texas has double California’s rate; New York, quadruple; and Florida has nearly five times California’s case rate. Michigan still has the nation’s highest rate, 252 cases per 100,000 residents nearly eight times California’s rate of 33 cases per 100,000 residents (the national figure is 102 cases per 100,000 residents over the past week).
Los Angeles County’s continually declining COVID-19 metrics have met the threshold to move into the least-restrictive, yellow tier this week, allowing for more business reopenings starting Thursday.
California Department of Public Health officials released updated metrics Tuesday for the state’s blueprint for reopening, and as L.A. County has met all of the requirements for the yellow tier for two straight weeks, it has been given the green light to transition into the lower tier.
The county’s seven-day average test positivity rate is 0.7%, while its seven-day average case rate is 3.0 per 100,000 residents per day, and its adjusted case rate is 1.6 per 100,000, which is adjusted depending on the county’s testing volume, based on results from the week ending April 24.
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It s official: Los Angeles County is now eligible to advance into the state s least restrictive reopening tier.
The move to the yellow tier was confirmed this morning by California health officials, though the threshold to meet that phase was relaxed a few months ago.
Counties originally had to post an adjusted case rate of one case for every 100,000 residents.
Now, that benchmark is two new cases for every 100,000 people, which L.A. County has met, and maintained, in recent weeks. BTW, counties must hit metrics in these three areas to advance: case rate, positivity rate and health equity metric
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Los Angeles County officially qualified Tuesday to move into the yellow tier of the state s blueprint for reopenings. County health officials plan to issue an order regulating wider reopenings Wednesday. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA Once the epicenter of the nation s coronavirus outbreak, Los Angeles is now the first Southern California County to qualify for the state s least restrictive tier for reopenings thanks to plummeting COVID-19 rates. Notably, that means a reawakening of LA s famed nightlife after a year of pandemic closures.
Los Angeles County officially qualified Tuesday to move into the yellow tier of the state s blueprint for reopenings. County health officials plan to issue an order regulating wider reopenings Wednesday, and long-shuttered businesses can open their doors as early as Thursday.