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For: The Opinion
Sunday, October 6
COVID-19 hospitalizations on the rise in California and new cases in Los Angeles
Hospitalizations for COVID – 19 are increasing by California as variant spreads Ómicron, combining with a wave of the Delta variant that reflects that another increase in new cases of coronavirus is looming that could affect the state’s health system.
There were 3, 915 COVID- 19 in state hospitals through Saturday, according to State Department of Health data.
Some Southern California counties have experienced larger jumps, with an increase in hospitalizations of almost one 31% in Los Angeles County and approximately a 26% in county Riverside during the same period, according to the Los Angeles Times, which has its own count of cases and hospitalizations.
California had registered 49 cases of the Omicron variant as of Wednesday, although not all samples are sequenced to identify coronavirus variants.
That is much lower than the 184, 700 identified cases of the Delta variant, which remains dominant in the state, but health officials expect the number of cases to increase.
The Omicron variant of coronavirus is believed to be more contagious than the Delta variant and more easily evades immunity generated by vaccines or previous infections, although experts say the vaccines still offer protection against them. serious illness caused by COVID – 19 and death.
Most Omicron cases in California have been registered by the county Los Angeles with a total of 38, and where 3 new cases were reported on Saturday, 730 coronavirus , the highest single-day total in months and more than double the number of new cases reported on Wednesday.
Orange and Riverside counties reported their first recorded cases of the Omicron variant on Friday.
In Orange County, the variant was found to have infected a fully vaccinated man who had recently traveled outside of California and experienced mild illness said public health authorities.
“While things are definitely not going in the direction we want, we have more tools to help protect ourselves. this year than the ones we had at this time last year, but we need to use them urgently, ”said the health director of the county, Barbara Ferrer.
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