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Soumya

@skarlamangla

12 Jan

LA County is reporting 288 new deaths from COVID today as well as and 11,994 new cases. Our deaths are really high -- the consequence of the Thanksgiving surge -- and our cases are climbing, linked to a holiday surge.

in case you're thinking that these deaths are only among the elderly:

61 of the 288 deaths reported today were people between the ages of 50 and 64
17 were between 30 and 49
2 were between 18 and 29

LA County public health director Barbara Ferrer: "Please do not underestimate this virus or let your drive to interact in person with friends outweigh following the safety measures that are put in place to save lives."

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Soumya

@skarlamangla

12 Jan

COVID isn't just hitting LA County. Ventura County had the third-highest rate of coronavirus cases last week of all the state's counties. By comparison, L.A. County ranked fourth.

latimes.com/california/sto…

the quotes in this story are brutal:

“I’m tired of having to talk to family members to tell them that their family member has passed away from this disease,” Dr. Mark Lepore, intensive care unit physician at Ventura County Medical Center, said last week.

“When we look at COVID data, what we see is off-the-chart increases,” said Santa Barbara public health director. “And when I say off the chart, I literally mean off the charts. This week, our numbers increased by so much that we had to adjust the axes ... of the charts and maps.”

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Soumya

@skarlamangla

12 Jan

today officials warned that there are COVID outbreaks *everywhere* in LA and that anytime you leave your house you're in danger. indeed, there are currently 538 open outbreaks at businesses in LA County, the most ever reported

There are 6 open outbreaks at Whole Foods across LA County -- in Sherman Oaks, Westwood, downtown LA etc. In total, 92 staff members have been infected.

outbreaks, defined as 3+ linked cases, remain open until it has been more than 2 weeks since the last case was reported

14 Target locations across LA County currently have ongoing COVID outbreaks -- a total of 323 staff have been infected. 6 outbreaks at Sprouts stores, a total of 63 staff. Nine Home Depot locations with outbreaks, with 236 staff testing positive

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Soumya

@skarlamangla

11 Jan

This is when you'll likely get your COVID vaccine in LA:

--currently, we're vaccinating phase 1a, which includes health care workers & residents of skilled nursing facilities

--in early February, we're supposed to start phase1b, which is people over 65+ as well as teachers, childcare workers, grocery store workers, farm and food manufacturing workers as well as the incarcerated and homeless

--in late March, LA officials expect to begin phase 1c, which includes people over 50, people with underlying health conditions as well as people who work in water, defense, energy, government operations and communications

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Soumya

@skarlamangla

11 Jan

when it comes to vaccine rollout, California is far behind. we're ranked 42nd nationwide, meaning the the vast majority of states have vaccinated a higher percentage of their population than we have

California has vaxxed 1.5% of its population, compared to 4.9% in West Virginia

California has given the shot to more people than anywhere else -- 2.3 million doses administered so far. this is far above the next highest (Texas, with 1.8 million doses), but is a very low fraction of our population. Texas is 2.1%, compared to our 1.5%

this is why in California we're just watching as other states start vaccinating teachers, people over 65+, other essential workers and we're still trying to make our way through health care workers. proportionally, we're behind

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Soumya

@skarlamangla

8 Jan

since everyone in LA just learned about false negatives ... spoiler alert: they exist for every test!

whatever COVID test you use, it's measuring the amount of virus in whatever place was swabbed -- your cheek, lower nose, upper nose, throat etc -- but sometimes there isn't enough virus at that very moment to show up on a test, even though you are infected

as the virus replicates, it eventually will reach a level where it shows up on a test. but that doesn't mean that up until that point that you haven't been infecting other people, even if you have negative test results in hand

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