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With 39 people deceased, Los Angeles County recorded this Wednesday the number with the most deaths from COVID in almost four months .
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported that 41,513 residents tested positive for coronavirus.
COVID-19 Daily Update:
January 13, 2022
New Cases: 22,452 (two,086,581 to date)
New Deaths: 20 (27,912 to date)
Current Hospitalizations: 3,912 pic.twitter.com/9dpJkk57OP
— LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) January 13, 2022
For the fourth time in the last 6 days, the figure is exceeded in the county of the 40, daily infections.
It was the 22 September 2021 when the health authorities notified the death of 41 people due to complications with the coronavirus.
The officials health indicated that the rise in daily infections has not yet reached its peak in the county , so that the figure could increase in the following days.
Hospitalizations have also shown an upward trend. Currently 3 are reported, 912 people who need care in medical centers, compared to the 3,766 that were held on Tuesday.
However, a figure that worries the health sector is the rise in the number of patients who need care in intensive care units, which went from 513 from Tuesday to 536 this Wednesday, a trend that reflects the increase in more than 200 patients in the last 8 days.
The Director of Health Services of the county, Dr. Christina Ghaly, said that, despite the increase in the number of patients, infections due to the Omicron variant have been reflected differently in hospitalizations.
Last fall, with other strains of the SARS CoV-2 virus, close of the people infected by COVID ended up in intensive care units, a figure that is currently between 10% Y 15%, at least in the four hospitals that are operated by the county, according to Ghaly.
Since the pandemic began, Los Angeles County has confirmed 2,086,0590 positive cases of COVID, with 15,912 people who died from the disease.
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