Los Angeles County is seeing an uptick in COVID-19-related hospitalizations, with the number of patients nearly doubling over the last two weeks, health officials said.
Officials noted a ninefold increase in cases in adults between ages 18 and 29 years old over the last month.
"Almost everyone hospitalized with COVID-19 in LA County is unvaccinated; in the month of June, 92% of those hospitalized with COVID-19 were unvaccinated," the news release stated."Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 97% of patients who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since January have not been vaccinated.
"During the winter surge last year, when case rates were increasing four- or five-fold over the course of a month, we saw hospitalizations multiplying in direct proportion to case rates," Barbara Ferrer, LA County's director of Public Health, said in the news release."Today, even though our case rates have increased by up to nin times, hospitalization rates are, at most, doubling. Having half our county population vaccinated is largely responsible for this positive trend.
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