“This is a pandemic that is in fact fueled by younger people,” said Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer today as she unveiled a list of the L.A. County 10 communities curr…
Lancaster, Palmdale, Studio City and Santa Clarita were among the areas with the highest rates of new Covid infections during the two-week period that ended Nov. 6, even though most of those areas have above-average vaccination rates.
Given the young median age of infected people, “we know that intermingling both socially and at work sites is contributing,” she said. She shared a bar chart indicated that, while the least likely population to be hospitalized was those between 12 and 17 years old who are vaccinated, the population most likely to be hospitalized were those in the same age range who are not vaccinated.
“If you’re not vaccinated, you’ve got a much higher risk of ending up infected, ending up in the hospital and tragically passing away. That’s crystal clear and it hasn’t really changed for months now,” Ferrer said during a media briefing. “Whoever you are and wherever you live, whether you live in a community with a high vaccination rate or with not-so-high vaccination rates, the most important thing you as a person are going to need to do is get yourself vaccinated, the people you love vaccinated, and then be sensible about precautions around intermingling while transmission rates remain relatively high across the county,” Ferrer said.