The figures of infections by COVID – 19 are on the rise not only in Los Angeles County or California, but also in other United States entities, such as Nevada, Florida or Louisiana.
Faced with this rebound in the disease, Los Angeles County health authorities advised residents to reconsider their travel to other parts of the country or, if transfers cannot be postponed, to take strict precautionary measures to avoid contagion .
“I would like to recommend, especially to people who have not yet been vaccinated, to reconsider traveling to places where COVID case rates – 19 are getting higher in the last 7 days, like Nevada, our neighbor, or Missouri, Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana and others, ”said Dr. Muntu Davis in his briefing before the Board of Supervisors.
COVID cases – 19 registered a rebound in the last week , especially with cases of the new Delta variant of the coronavirus, which has a higher transmission rate and has mainly affected the population of young residents who have not yet been vaccinated.
In the country, there are states that present increasingly high levels of new cases of coronavirus, with figures that are 4 to 7 times more than in California .
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC for its ) have Nevada, Missouri, Florida, Arkanas and Louisiana as the states that have high rates of community contagion, the worst of the four levels on the CDC scale .
For each 100,000 population, the case rate in Arkansas is 227. 1; from 183. 8 in Missouri; in Florida it is 168. 8; in Nevada it is 145. 8, and in Louisiana it is 136. 1.
California is considered among the states with a “moderate” community transmission , with a weekly rate of 34. 9. Los Angeles has the highest weekly rate in Los Angeles, with 59. 2 new cases For each 100,000 residents, considered “substantial”, the second highest on the CDC scale.
San Diego, Riverside and Sacramento are in the same category as Los Angeles, when registering weekly rates of 58. 6, 50 .3 and 92. 5, respectively.
As of Thursday morning, two rural northern California counties, Siskiyou and Lake, had “high” rates in terms of the number of community transmission .
Among the California counties with “substantial” transmission are Imperial, located east of San Diego; Stanislaus and San Benito, in the center of the state; Sonoma, Solano, San Mateo, Napa, Nevada, El Dorado and Amador, in the Sacramento and Bay Area regions; as well as Sutter, Yuba, Butte, Lassen, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte.
Clark County, Nevada, where the city of Las Vegas is located, has a rate of 204 new infections for each 100, 000 residents, three times more than in Los Angeles.
In Florida, Miami-Dade County has a weekly infection rate of 160. 9, while Orange, where the Disney World amusement park is located, has a number of 135. 1 new patients per week.