• Re: Mystery Emerges Among COVID-19 Patterns In Los Angeles County

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    This isn't looking good at all.

    "Mystery Emerges Among COVID-19 Patterns In Los Angeles County"

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    "Officials are trying to understand why some of LA's highest
    coronavirus case rates are currently in communities with high
    vaccination rates.
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    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are
    also communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are
    also communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
    (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
    LOS ANGELES, CA — While unvaccinated people continue to become
    infected, hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at
    dramatically
    higher rates, a peculiar pattern is developing in Los Angeles
    County
    that has health officials puzzling for an explanation.

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    During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
    County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are
    also communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
    Authorities aren't quite sure why that would be. Differences in
    behavior or waning immunity from vaccines may be factors. People
    in
    those communities may also have lower levels of natural immunity
    due
    to historically low levels of coronavirus exposure.

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    Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said
    authorities
    are trying to examine what factors are in play in individual
    communities that have above-average vaccination rates but still
    had
    among the highest new-case rates. One common denominator appears
    to
    be age. Younger people are driving this pandemic, Ferrer said.

    The median age of people becoming infected ranges from 26 to 36,
    meaning young people are driving the numbers. More than half of
    the
    county's confirmed COVID-19 cases to date have been among people
    18
    to 49-year-old, according to county health officials.

    "I will say the one thing that does jump out -- the average ages
    were
    very low in all these communities," she said. "This is,
    essentially,
    in the communities with the highest rates, this is a pandemic that
    is
    in fact fueled by younger people."

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    Given the young median age of infected people, "we know that
    intermingling both socially and at work sites is contributing,"
    she
    said.

    "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.

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    Of the 10 communities that had the highest rate of new cases,
    seven
    had vaccination rates that exceed the countywide rate, according
    to
    Ferrer. She insisted, however, the numbers don't mean vaccines
    aren't
    effective.

    "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.

    She said current figures show unvaccinated people are nine times
    more
    likely than vaccinated people to get infected, and 67 times more
    likely to be hospitalized.

    Communities such as Lancaster, Palmdale, Studio City and Santa
    Clarita were among the 10 Los Angeles County areas that had the
    highest rates of new COVID-19 infections during a two-week period
    that ended Nov. 6, even though most of the areas that made the
    list
    have above-average vaccination rates, the county's health director
    said Thursday.

    The top two communities on the list with the highest new case
    rates
    -- Lancaster and Palmdale -- have below-average rates of fully
    vaccinated residents, at 58% and 66%, respectively. But Studio
    City,
    with the third- highest new case rate, has a 79% vaccination rate,
    and Santa Clarita, placing fourth on the list, has a 75% vaccine
    rate.

    The countywide number of fully vaccinated residents is 73%.

    Of the other communities on the top 10 list of highest new-case
    rates, only Willowbrook, at 62%, falls below the countywide
    vaccination rate.

    "Some of our communities that have right now these higher case
    rates
    are in fact communities that have really decent coverage in terms
    of
    vaccination ... and they still have a problem with high case
    rates,"
    Ferrer said.

    She said a variety of factors could be at play in different
    communities, among them the possibility that some areas had large
    numbers of people who were never previously infected with COVID-19
    and remain unvaccinated, leading to higher current infection
    numbers.

    "That certainly is possible, although we have to look at more data
    to
    draw that conclusion," Ferrer said.

    The county reported another 26 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday,
    raising
    the overall virus-related death toll to 26,949. Another 1,088
    cases
    were reported, giving the county a cumulative pandemic total of
    1,515,324.

    The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the
    virus in the county was 1.1% as of Thursday.

    According to state figures, there were 611 COVID-positive patients
    being treated in county hospitals as of Thursday, down from 616 on
    Wednesday. Of those hospitalized, 148 were in intensive care, down
    from 155.

    Ferrer said 82% of county residents aged 12 and over have received
    at
    least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of
    the
    county's overall population of 10.3 million people, 71% have
    received
    at least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.

    She said the number of people who received a first dose of vaccine
    in
    the past week jumped up sharply, due primarily to the expansion of
    vaccine availability to include children aged 5-11.

    Black residents continue to have the lowest vaccination rates, at
    54%, followed by Latina/o residents at 59%, whites at 72% and
    Asians
    at 80%.

    Of the roughly 5.99 million residents who were fully vaccinated as
    of
    Nov. 16, 75,249 have subsequently tested positive for the virus,
    for
    a rate of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528
    have been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.042%, and 422 have died, a
    rate of 0.007%.

    Ferrer noted that the county has not seen a spike in COVID
    infections
    following Halloween, unlike the situation last year when cases
    began
    rising sharply. She said she is hopeful that residents will
    continue
    to exercise caution over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

    "We will need to take a cautionary note from what we're currently
    seeing in other parts of the United States and in other parts of
    the
    world right now," Ferrer said. "In the Mountain West and
    throughout
    Europe, cases are rising and hospitals are once more flooded with
    COVID cases, almost all of them among unvaccinated people. These
    trends remind us that the virus is much more easily transmitted
    when
    people are indoors and intermingling without protection from
    vaccines
    and other mitigation measures."

    City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin

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