Los Angeles County reported 4,860 new cases of additional deaths COVID-19 and 193 on Saturday, confirming nine new cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
The number of coronavirus patients in county hospitals was 4,607, with 28% of the people in intensive care units.
According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the province’s total numbers have been reduced to 1,143,422 cases and 17,955 deaths since the pandemic.
The latest cases of MIS-C bring the total number of children infected in the country to 75, including one death. MIS-C is an inflammatory condition associated with COVID-19 and symptoms include fever that does not go away, and inflamed body parts including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes or gastrointestinal organs.
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All 75 children with MIS-C in LA County were admitted to the hospital and 44% were treated in the ICU. Of the 75, 32% were under the age of 5, 39% were between 5 and 11 and 29% were between 12 and 20. Latino children are responsible for 76% of reported cases, the department said.
The daily number of new infections and the hospitalization rate have been steadily declining over the past month, but officials are warning the public to be wary of Sunday’s Super Bowl to avoid a repeat of last year’s World Series and NBA Finals, when events at pubs, restaurants and private homes were blamed for the increase in COVID-19 cases.
“Despite the fact that there is a decline, we are still experiencing a wide spread of communities in our country,” said Barbara Ferrer, director of public health. ‘The most dangerous thing people can do tomorrow for Super Bowl Sunday, given our high score, is to meet with other people who should not live with them to enjoy the game. Please do not attend or host parties that could turn Super Bowl Sunday into a super distributor. Rather enjoy the game at home with those who live near you, or connect virtually online with friends and family to avoid a new upsurge in cases. ‘
Meanwhile, provincial officials reported slow but steady progress with the vaccination of COVID-19 on Friday, but said less than 3% of the population had been fully vaccinated, and it would be difficult to prescribe the first doses next week.
At the five large-scale vaccination centers operating in the province, a limited number of first doses will be administered on Monday. The rest of the week’s appointments are only reserved for people who need their second dose of medicine, according to dr. Paul. Simon, chief scientific officer for the province’s health department.
Simon said the problem only applies to the country’s five mega-sites, but residents could experience problems elsewhere, as all providers are dealing with vaccine shortages.
“Unfortunately, the biggest problem we still face in our ability to vaccinate is the scarce supply and volatility in the amount of vaccine we receive from week to week,” Simon said. “It was a problem across the country and it makes planning challenging.”
According to Simon, the latest figures indicate that to date, more than 1.05 million vaccine doses have been administered in the country, including more than 104,000 seconds. This means that 2.6% of the country’s population of people aged 16 and over has been fully vaccinated so far. About 11% of the population aged 16 and over received at least one dose.
The slow progress of the vaccination program has led some residents to be creative in finding ways to manipulate the appointment system to gain access to the shots.
Some people who are not yet able to get the vaccine have lingered at the vaccination sites with the small chance that there should be leftover doses at the end of the day to avoid it. Ferrer said there were problems this week with people claiming to be caregivers of disabled children and showing up at a general, Xeroxed letter at vaccines identifying them as such.
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Simon outlined another way that some people try to get away with. According to Simon, people who received emails from the country to schedule an appointment for a second dose of the vaccine shared the unique web link included in the email with friends. The people “then plan an appointment with the first dose, although they cannot be vaccinated at present.”
“It is important for people to understand that these actions take away access to vaccination from people at high risk who are currently eligible for the vaccine,” Simon said. ‘When we identify these appointments, they are canceled. the public to be aware that persons who are not eligible and show up at one of our sites with one of these shared appointments will be turned down. ‘
He said he did not have figures on how many people tried to jump that way, but “it happened enough so that we noticed it very clearly.”
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“In some cases, it was done very deliberately – I think you can describe it as a fraud,” he said. ‘And in other cases, I think people have not necessarily seen it that way, just look at every opportunity to be vaccinated. ”
Simon said the country is trying to figure out a way to modify the computer system to make such appointments.
According to Simon, the country received 184,625 doses of vaccine this week, and Ferrer said earlier this week that the province expects a larger grant next week, possibly more than 200,000, but the size of the shipments week-to-week remains a mystery.
Simon expressed hope that supplies would continue to increase, and praised the pending construction of a vaccination site for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the state of Los Angeles, which will supplement the local availability of doses. The possible approval in the coming weeks of the single-dose vaccine Johnson & Johnson will also be a great blessing.