New daily cases are doubling every two days in L.A. County, with more than 70% of cases among adults younger than 50. Hospitalizations remain lower than in previous surges.
Rates among the youngest adults — those 18 to 29 — are more than eight times higher than they were one month ago. And among adults in their 30s and 40s, cases are six times as high.
Coronavirus case rates are rising among people of all vaccination statuses, but unvaccinated people are still theto test positive. For the week that ended Dec. 18, 375 of every 100,000 unvaccinated L.A. County residents tested positive. The rate for those who are vaccinated but have not gotten a booster shot was 173 per 100,000. The rate among boosted residents was 65 per 100,000.
It’s also likely that disease severity is lower overall because so many people have been vaccinated. During last winter’s surge, very few people had been vaccinated because of limited supply. COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen most dramatically in the last month in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, where the tallies have roughly doubled, and they have increased notably in the Greater Sacramento area, where the rate is up about 30%.For every 100,000 residents, Southern California is reporting 16 hospitalized COVID-19 patients; the Greater Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley areas, 14; rural Northern California, 12; and the Bay Area, 7.
Recent data in L.A. County have shown an increase in healthcare workers being infected with the coronavirus, which is expected to “create stress at our healthcare systems,” Ferrer said.have “now seen the highest increase in hospitalizations over the past two weeks” compared with other age groups, Ferrer said. In Orange County, 87% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
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