Covid 19 Cases in Los Angeles — 4/18/22)
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/data/index.htm
We are down to less than 500 new cases a day; our positivity rate is 1.2%; deaths are down to less than 8 a day for the last week and fewer than 500 people are hospitalized in a county of over 10 million.
2.1 million people have been fully vaccinated and 6 million shots have been given. 70% of seniors have received at least one shot and 37% of persons 16 and older. Whites and Asians are more frequently vaccinated than Latinos and African Americans. Women are showing much higher rates of vaccinations than men. Vaccination rates are much higher in the affluent than in the poorer communities who have been much harder hit by Covid 19.
The mortality rates are three times as high for Latinos as they are for non-Hispanic whites. There are very wide discrepancies between the impacts of Covid 19 by race and income status in our county.
Schools are reopening. Attendance in person is now very high in the affluent areas (80-90%) and much lower in the poorer communities, which were hardest hit by Covid – less than 50%.
As the conditions are improving, the county has moved from the “substantial risk” to the “moderate risk” category so that many more restaurants, retail businesses, entities and institutions are opening.
People are still wearing their masks in stores, and to my observation, social distancing is still being complied with, except by the young adults who cluster in large numbers without masks.
Prepared by: Lucien Wulsin
Dated: 4/18/21