L.A. County sees over 2,000 new COVID cases daily due to Delta variant
Los Angeles County health officials reported 2,089 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, with hospitalizations rising as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to spread.
On Saturday, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer warned that the Delta variant was “one of the most aggressive and infectious respiratory diseases known and currently makes up over 80% of sequenced cases in L.A. County.” Despite the recent jump in hospitalizations, L.A. remains in far better shape than during the fall and winter surge, when an average of about 15,000 new cases were being reported every day and more than 8,000 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized at times.California will never see numbers on that scale again, given that more than half of Californians are fully vaccinated.cases among vaccinated people have been seen, the rates continue to be much worse among unvaccinated people.
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