Opinion: Bringing back a mask mandate in Los Angeles County is unjustified
, which reports that since March only 40% of COVID-positive hospitalizations in the county have actually been caused by COVID. If only true COVID hospitalizations are counted to accurately reflect the virus’s impact, the county easily drops out of the “High” tier.
According to Los Angeles County Department of Health Services hospital officials, even the 40% number is a large overestimate. In a remarkablefrom the day of Dr. Ferrer’s mandate announcement, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brad Spellberg said of COVID admissions at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, “90% of the time it is not due to COVID. Only 10% of our COVID-positive admissions are due to COVID. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to the ICU it is not for pneumonia.
Hospital epidemiologist Dr. Paul Holtom summarized the situation this way: “As of this morning, we have no one in the hospital who had pulmonary disease due to COVID … Certainly, there’s no reason from a hospitalization-due-to-COVID perspective to be worried at this point.” The problem is not limited to just L.A. County: San Diego Unified School District is re-instituting restrictions based on the same flawed Community Levels metric. In contrast, other counties that are also technically in the “High” tier understand the data and are not even considering mandates. Marin County, for example, separates COVID-positive hospitalizations by cause to avoid confusion.
The case for new mandates is further undermined by the growing scientific literature showing mask mandates to be ineffective. In the pandemic turmoil of 2020,
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