15June 2020
After some concerning COVID-19 numbers in Los Angeles County recently, California Governor Gavin Newsom suggested today that the state has engaged the county over particular concerns about L.A.'s progress. Detailing at length the ways in which the state as a whole is doing well, Newsom stated various areas have different requirements,. “One size does not fit all.”
Apropos of that, California currently has “13 counties where we have targeted engagement” due to the fact that there are concerns about development there.
This becomes part of the state's three-step strategy for making sure counties keep their coronavirus mitigation dedications. Step One:”52 of 58 counties have actually put out self-attestations, “stated Newsom, specifying that their COVID-19 data was at appropriate levels.
For those counties who confirm but can not keep the designated coronavirus numbers, the state will action in to help with “targeted engagement” (Step 2). That means the state will deal with the county on the particular areas that are outdoors acceptable levels.
Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Dr. Mark Ghaly got more specific about those counties being engaged.
He showed a chart, which included Los Angeles County and showed that “these are counties where we had some concern about the information.”
On that chart, the “case rate per 100,000” in Los Angeles County was 162.5. A minimum of 6 other counties had uncomfortable case rate numbers, also.
The state's tracking requirements say, “a county is flagged for (having) elevated illness transmission” if the case rate per 100,000 is greater than 100. That implies Los Angeles County, with a case rate of 162 per 100,000, subject to “targeted engagement” from the state.
One day after the state crossed the grim milestones of 5,000 confirmed deaths and 150,000 recognized cases, Newsom reminded that recovery from the pandemic will not be a straight line and might require changes to procedures and constraints (Step 3 in the state's mitigation procedure).
“We are utilizing a dimmer switch, not an on/off switch,” said Newsom.
The governor went on to cite, success after success in the state's action and planning, including capability in terms of hospitals, capacity in terms of screening and capacity in terms of PPE.
He stated testing has increased and total numbers of positivity have actually increased too, however the positivity rate has boiled down.
Newsom stated the R rate has actually “remained stable” over the past few weeks. Healthcare facility rates as well. The ICU numbers “remain stable.”
Increase in hospitalization rate of.4% the other day, however a decrease of 3.3% the day before that.
He stated “we have capacity in our ICU system to resolve the requirements of COVID patients.” Over 11 thousand ventilators are available.
“We have a state that is holding strong. The stability stays,” he stated, “But we understand those numbers remain in the aggregate,” and certain locations will require special attention.
“We are not out of the woods,” stated Newsom
This comes as Los Angeles County has recorded three of the highest spikes in brand-new cases considering that the start of the pandemic.
There were 1633 new cases in L.A. county since Friday, according to the health department. That's the third-highest one day overall considering that the break out started, according the L.A. county coronavirus control panel. Ferrer stated that Friday's number included 500 delayed cases from one lab.
Lab delays have actually happened almost each week during the pandemic. Including postponed numbers into the day-to-day overall has actually been commonplace for the county health department which implies that, while not all the times have postponed numbers, enough do for these record highs to appear substantial.
Friday's number also did not include new cases from Pasadena and Long Beach, which have their own health departments. On Thursday, their integrated total of new cases was 84.
The brand-new information brings the overall validated cases in L.A. County to 70,475.
On Thursday, the county Department of Public Health reported 1,857 brand-new confirmed coronavirus cases. It was the biggest single-day number of new cases announced by the county throughout the pandemic, but health authorities stated, again, roughly 600 of those cases were the result of a stockpile in the reporting of test outcomes. Long Beach and Pasadena, which have their own health departments, combined to validate an extra 84 cases. That provided the county 1,941 brand-new validated cases total on Thursday.
The increasing numbers come about 2 weeks after the region's stay-at-home order was modified, and after recent large events at demonstrations.