The status of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County is looking good on many fronts, except for one which is troubling health officials.
Since last week, the 7-day average of new cases dropped 11%, while daily hospital admissions decreased from nearly 100 daily new patients to now 76 per day. But the one metric that remains relatively unchanged is the number of residents dying per day. Since midsummer, deaths have hovered between 11 to 14 per day.
Ferrer said an important part of keeping transmission down is to get booster shots. And the latest data shows the dominant virus circulating is still the Omicron subvariant BA.5, which is included in the updated boosters. Ferrer is urging everyone to get a flu shot and a COVID booster before the holidays begin.Since the third week in August, reported daily cases of monkeypox have dropped from 41 daily cases to now about 12 cases per day.
"The CDC concluded that unvaccinated people have 14 times the risk of the monkeypox disease compared to people who were vaccinated with one dose of the JYNNEOS vaccine," said Singhal.
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