Los Angeles County reported 102 new COVID deaths Thursday, the highest number recorded in a single day since March 10, 2021, and more than double the 45 fatalities reported one week ago.
More than 90% of the deaths reported Thursday were among residents who contracted the virus after Christmas Eve, indicating a high likelihood they were infected with the omicron variant, the department said.Registered nurse Akiko Gordon works in the ICU with a covid-19 positive patient at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, on Dec. 31, 2021 in Los Angeles.
COVID hospitalizations are also on the rise, with 4,814 recorded Thursday, a figure not seen since Feb. 2, 2021. Of those patients, nearly one-third are in intensive care units, an increase from the week before.
He continued,"And then you have this third piece of people coming in for a stroke or heart attack or something and then they test positive. But, because of the staffing crisis, the hospital is unable to see as many people as it typically would." "It limits where people can be housed, what room they can be in, it limits some staffing, it changes the kind of medical and doctor interventions because people still have to practice infection control for an airborne pathogen," Klausner explained.Meanwhile, the seven-day rolling average of COVID-19 cases sits at 33,000.
Klausner said until LA County and California come out of this wave, people with COVID symptoms should get tested and, if they do test positive, seek early treatment.A woman receives help with a nasal swab at an express Covid-19 mobile testing site in Paramount, a city in Los Angeles County, Calif., on Jan. 12, 2022.
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