“It’s troubling to continue to see a slight uptick in cases and now, obviously, no decline in our hospitalizations,” said Los Angeles County Department of Public health Director Barbara Ferrer today
in Los Angeles and California for the first time in months. In Los Angeles on Thursday, Ferrer reported that test positivity had risen to 1.2% from a low of 0.7% on October 18. That may not seem like much, but it’s a 71% rise over 10 days in a measure that’s a 7-day average, which smooths out daily bumps. Today test positivity in L.A. was 1.6%. That’s more than double the recent low of 0.7%.The county’s 7-day cumulative transmission rate as estimated by the U.S.
Ferrer characterized the state of Covid-related hospitalizations as “no decline,” but the truth is the number of such hospitalizations has also slowly ticked up. Roughly 10 days ago, on October 24th, the number of Covid patients in L.A. hospitals was 617. As of November 1 there were 651 such hospitalizations. That’s a 5% increase.
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