BREAKING—With #COVID19 cases and hospitalizations surging, Los Angeles will now *require* indoor mask again, **regardless of vaccination status**. @CountyofLA’s mandate is what needs to be done to slow #DeltaVariant—where is our @CDCgov? @CDCDirector—please rules update ASAP.
2) Los Angeles County's been posting more than 1,000 new cases a day for nearly a week now.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers transmission in LA and in Riverside and San Diego counties as "substantial."
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3) Statewide in CA, the average percentage of people testing positive has tripled in a little more than three weeks. And increases are speeding up. In LA County, about 61 % of residents 16 and older are fully vaccinated, but millions more have yet to get jabbed.
4) CDC knows how bad #DeltaVariant is becoming. Just 6 weeks ago it was just a trickled in the US. Now it’s a torrential downpour of Delta nationwide.
5) We don’t want to see what’s happening to children in Mississippi repeated nationwide. Please both #vaccinate and #MaskUp
6) Not just mask & vax, but we also urgently need to shield the elderly and immunocompromised and chronic illness patients— even if they are vaccinated. We have seen too many breakthrough cases in the elderly in UK (the #DeltaVariant 2-dose vaxxed hospitalizations in 🇬🇧 are real)
7) Let’s travel back in time to early June when I was warning #DeltaVariant is going to takeover the US and become dominant.
@WHO warned Delta was a VOC in early May! CDC didn’t declare #Delta a ‘variant of concern’ VOC until June 15th—a full week after my US Delta warning.
8) @CDCgov made a GRAVE MISTAKE. And I’m sticking to my May 19th statement damnit!
9) “despite every effort to follow CDC COVID protocols…” …pssst… maybe the @CDCgov’s protocols weren’t stringent enough… (cough, lack of indoor mask rules, cough)
10) Businesses and local govts need to take action into their own hands if CDC refuses to act in the face of #DeltaVariant surging nationwide (and worldwide). Part 3 of my interview from back in May 2021 when CDC first announce its ghastly “no mask needed” rule.
11) L.A. County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis is solid! Worthy to be a CDC Director someday:
“We’re not where we need to be for the millions at risk of infection here in LA County, and waiting to do something will be too late, given what we’re seeing” ktla.com/news/local-new…
12) The county recorded 1,537 new coronavirus cases Thursday — a 83% increase over the last week.
“Masking indoors must again become a normal practice by all, regardless of vaccination status, so they can stop the trends and level of transmission we’re currently seeing,”
13) It’s unclear how long the new mask requirements will remain in effect. “We expect to keep this order in place until we begin to see improvements,” Davis said.
14) join #ThanksForMasking challenge.
I mask to protect my community.
➡️@mehdirhasan @MollyJongFast @WajahatAli — will you join us for #WorldMaskWeek?
Post a selfie in your mask + share why you still mask up—tag friends to join #ThanksForMasking challenge. HT @PandemicAction.
15) folks, even a small India news outlet knew and warned in June that the #DeltaVariant was going to cause a surge in the US July - let that sink in. But here, people acted like no pandemic. google.com/amp/s/odishatv…
16) Dear @lapublichealth - mad respect to your team for your leadership to protect vulnerable people during the #DeltaVariant pandemic surge.
17) Heads up… #DeltaVariant spreading even in states with high vaccination rates - not because vaccines don’t protect, they do— but that Delta is so contagious it will keep spreading through unvaccinated (and some vaccinated) until double vaccinations much much higher. See 🧵
UPDATE— former Surgeon General @JeromeAdamsMD has come out in support of masks and even if vaccinated. Thank you sir.
19) Hell yes— “both vax it *AND* mask it” is right. The CDC is wrong and needs to change direction ASAP.
20) Current @Surgeon_General Vivek is also advising to mask indoors!!!
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