After a week of rising Covid cases in Los Angeles, the county’s daily count of new infections hit a high not seen in nearly a year. On Christmas Eve the region reported 9,988 new cases. The l…
, which it is rapidly replacing. That is good news, because it likely means fewer deaths in this fifth wave of the virus vs. other waves. The big unknown in that equation is whether, even with a reduced percentage of patients hospitalized, the rapid rise and overall number of infections will still overwhelm hospitals.
While hospitalizations in Los Angeles County have remained fairly steady in the past week even as cases have skyrocketed, the last two days have seen an increase of 7%, from 749 patients with Covid to 801. That’s nothing like the 300% jump in new infections this week, but hospitalizations are a lagging indicator, often only spiking weeks after cases due to the incubation period of the virus.
Ferrer pointed to the “staggeringly fast rise” of cases in the U.K. and elsewhere “and the healthcare system strain that has followed” as a warning.
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