Asked on Thursday as he announced an indoor mask order if the county might consider re-implementing other health restrictions — such as capacity limits and physical distancing — L.A. Pu…
an indoor mask order if the county might consider re-implementing other health restrictions — such as capacity limits and physical distancing — L.A. Public Health Officer Muntu Davis said, “Everything is on the table if things continue to get worse.”
On Friday, things got worse. The county’s average daily rate of new cases, which was only one per 100,000 residents on June 15 when the state reopened, rose to 8.2 per 100,000. The fact that that was up a full point from just 24 hours earlier gives a sense of the trajectory. It’s just one example of what public health officials call the “alarming trends of increased community spread.”
Another of those alarming trends is the number of cases. Even as the number of tests fall, the number of cases is skyrocketing. On Tuesday, the 5-day average of new cases was 1,095. That number was an increase of more than 500% in just one month. New cases over the 48 hours from Wednesday through Friday went from 1,315 county confirmed infections to 1,902. That’s a 45% increase in two days. The last time daily cases were above 1,900 was early February.
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