L.A. County Public Health Covid-19 Report: 29 New Deaths & 527 New Confirmed Cases, With Daily Test Positivity Rate At 0.9% Deadline 4 hrs ago
On Saturday, the L.A. County Department of Public Health released new data on Covid-19, reporting 29 new deaths and 527 new positive cases.
While the Department’s data showed that hospitalizations continue to decrease, case numbers and deaths reported may reflect delays in weekend reporting.
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COVID-19 Daily Update:
New Deaths: 29 (23,626 to date)
Test results have now been made available to 6,292,000 individuals, with 18% of individuals testing positive. Today’s daily test positivity rate is 0.9% the lowest it has been since the beginning of the pandemic.
Half of eligible Californians at least partially vaccinated, state says Quick Take
More than half of Californians 18 and older have been at least partially vaccinated, according to CDC data. More than half of California adults have now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, a promising milestone that comes as the state is now inoculating as wide a swath of its residents as possible.
To date, 52.2% of Californians 18 and older have been at least partially vaccinated, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That level of coverage ranks 11th among all states, federal figures show, and is higher than the proportion of adults who have received a dose in other heavily populated states including Pennsylvania, 51.8%; New York, 51.3%; Texas, 45%; and Florida, 44.8%.
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Los Angeles County has made significant strides in administering COVID-19 vaccines in communities of color hardest hit by the pandemic, but those areas continue to lag far behind both wealthier neighborhoods and the county as a whole, according to a Times data analysis.
Some neighborhoods in South Los Angeles where the spread of the coronavirus was particularly devastating saw the biggest increase in how many of their residents had received at least one vaccine dose between March 1 and Monday, the data show. Other areas that saw major improvement include Thai Town in Hollywood, Lennox and Cudahy.
However, despite the gains, these areas are still seeing vaccine rates below the county average.
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Luke Bryan missed the first live performance this season on American Idol after being diagnosed with COVID-19, with Paula Abdul stepping in to fill his role as a judge.
And after the live episode took place on Monday, his fellow judges Katy Perry and Lionel Richie gave fans an update on the country star. He was texting us. He was blowing up our phones during the whole episode. Some of it we can t even say. Katy, 36, joked to Entertainment Tonight.
Candid: Luke Bryan missed the first live performance this season on American Idol after being diagnosed with COVID-19 , with Paula Abdul stepping in to fill his role as a judge. And after the live episode took place on Monday, his fellow judges Katy Perry and Lionel Richie gave fans an update on the country star; Katy on Monday s episode of American Idol