Los Angeles County logged another 1,502 COVID-19 infections Thursday on Thursday, Jan. 19, and 31 more virus-related deaths. The new cases lifted the county’s overall total from throughout the pandemic to 3,665,365.
Health officials have stressed that the official number of cases is an undercount, due to the large number of people who rely on at-home tests without reporting the results to the county. Other people don’t test at all, despite being possibly infected, officials said.
The 31 new deaths gave the county a cumulative virus-related death toll of 35,079. According to state figures, there were 918 958 COVID-positive patients in county hospitals as of Thursday, down from 958 Wednesday and continuing a downward trend from the past week. Of those patients, 92 were being treated in intensive care units, down from 104 a day earlier.
The seven-day average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus was 5.7% as of Thursday, also continuing a gradual decline.
Thanks to the declining hospitalization numbers, Los Angeles County moved out of the federal government’s “medium” COVID activity level and into the “low” category.
Masks are still required indoors at health-care and congregate-care facilities, for anyone exposed to the virus in the past 10 days, and at businesses where they are required by the owner. Otherwise, they are only strongly recommended at indoor settings.
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jo says
so what, no one cares..except the karens.
Tim Scott says
People dying, you don’t care, and since you know how scummy that is you presume to say that no one does. Then since you know you are wrong about no one caring you mock the people who do.
Let me guess, you are in the republican death cult.
East Palmdale's Most Maggot Infested MAGAt says
“republican death cult”??? Wow Tim, that’s an outrageous accusation. A little overboard, don’t you think? And unnecessarily divisive.
Tim Scott says
Who is complaining about how restaurants won’t let them hold group viewings of cops killing people while they dine? Republicans.
Who is complaining about how they can’t find a venue for their “public speaker”: a high school dropout who has only one accomplishment in life, he killed some people and beat the murder charges? Republicans.
Which governors were celebrated at CPAC for their “great success” at keeping Biden from meeting COVID goals? Republicans.
Who slobbers over every salacious detail in every crime story to maintain their absurdly overblown “criminal behind every bush” fantasies? Republicans.
The death cult doesn’t include all Republicans, but you sure welcome the death cultists into your ‘big tent.’ Just like you welcome the racists and religious bigots, the opponents of education, the liars and charlatans…basically anyone who will help you keep the flow of wealth concentrating into fewer and fewer hands no matter how disgusting their positions might be.
East Palmdale's Most Licentious Reprobate says
You’re logic is compelling, as always. Now I’ll tease my wife for belonging to a “death cult”, lol.