LA LA County records nearly 13,000 new COVID cases since Saturday
The number of COVID-positive patients in county hospitals, meanwhile, rose to 593, up from 574 a day earlier. The number of those patients being treated in intensive care was 62, down from 70 on Sunday.
Health officials have noted that many of the COVID-positive patients were admitted to hospitals for a reason other than the virus, and many only realized they were infected when they were tested upon admission.
“The concern with the rapidity of emerging highly infectious variants is that for each new variant, we need to reassess how much the new strain evades vaccine protection, causes severe illness, and avoids detection with current tests,” Ferrer said in a statement Monday. “And to be dominant, the new strains are likely to be even more infectious than the previous strains.
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