Even as the winter Omicron surge flattens, Los Angeles County health officials are urging the public to continue avoiding nonessential gatherings.
Even as the winter Omicron surge flattens, Los Angeles County health officials are urging the public to continue avoiding nonessential gatherings, saying coronavirus transmission remains at one of the highest levels ever seen in the two-year-old pandemic’s history.
Hospitalizations are also still rising. The overall number of coronavirus-positive patients in the hospital in California climbed 19% in the last week, to 15,393; and 2,467 of them are in intensive care units, a figure that climbed 26% in the last seven days. “Fortunately, for the vast majority of our cases in the city, cases have been mild — because people were fully vaccinated with the first series, and many people were up-to-date on their vaccinations with regards to the boosters,” Colfax said.But unlike Southern California, where crowded emergency rooms have been straining to keep up with demand and some ER patients are waiting days to get a bed elsewhere in the hospital, San Francisco’s hospitals appear to be well equipped to handle demand.
“And while it is certainly possible and plausible that we will be dealing with other variants in the future, hopefully, we will be able to situate COVID among the many other infectious diseases and health conditions we have to contend with — smartly, by not letting them upend our lives,” Colfax said.
Ferrer suggested it was not yet time to stop being worried about new coronavirus infections, given that L.A. County’s hospitals remain “under enormous strain.” Developments that would help the region include a plentiful supply of anti-COVID drugs that are just becoming available, but remain in sharply limited supply for now, and fixing the problems with access to coronavirus testing.“I, too, have heard from so many people, like, ‘Oh, Omicron: so mild. No need to worry.
“People who got infected with Delta, it turns out, have high reinfection rates with Omicron,” Ferrer said.
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