Why so many covid 19 cases and deaths in LA County (Corona: schools, campus)

[CA4Now]

Los Angeles County health officials Saturday (11/7) announced more than 2,400 new COVID-19 cases, marking the third consecutive day with more than 2,000 confirmed infections and signaling that the disease is “widespread and increasing in L.A. County.”

County health officials cautioned residents to avoid crowds and the kind of street celebrations happening across the country in the wake of the presidential election, warning that such events “are places where it is very easy and very likely for COVID-19 to spread.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...o-avoid-crowds

[ut new]

How bout this one...

[looker009]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Los Angeles County health officials Saturday (11/7) announced more than 2,400 new COVID-19 cases, marking the third consecutive day with more than 2,000 confirmed infections and signaling that the disease is “widespread and increasing in L.A. County.”

County health officials cautioned residents to avoid crowds and the kind of street celebrations happening across the country in the wake of the presidential election, warning that such events “are places where it is very easy and very likely for COVID-19 to spread.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...o-avoid-crowds

Clearly public decided to ignore their advice.

[Coloradomom22]

I know cases have gone up, but how are the true Covid deaths and hospitalizations? If anyone remembers, at the start of all of this we shut down to "flatten the curve" so as to not overwhelm hospitals. And I say "true deaths" because I know of several people who have died due to not being able to get medical care for other things (my 70 year old uncle died of undiagnosed cancer, being one). At the start Covid was likened to an airborne Ebola but now we know most people survive and it seems like it's mutated to become less deadly. I know of one man, so immunocompromised he was given months to live years ago but was saved by some new medication, that got Covid. Turns out he only had a headache and loss of taste. So I wonder if all of this panic over "cases going up" is valid.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Coloradomom22

I say "true deaths" because I know of several people who have died due to not being able to get medical care for other things (my 70 year old uncle died of undiagnosed cancer, being one)..... I know of one man, so immunocompromised he was given months to live years ago but was saved by some new medication, that got Covid. Turns out he....

We can't really go by anecdotal evidence.

Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19):
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

[goodheathen]

Originally Posted by Coloradomom22

I know cases have gone up, but how are the true Covid deaths and hospitalizations? If anyone remembers, at the start of all of this we shut down to "flatten the curve" so as to not overwhelm hospitals. And I say "true deaths" because I know of several people who have died due to not being able to get medical care for other things (my 70 year old uncle died of undiagnosed cancer, being one). At the start Covid was likened to an airborne Ebola but now we know most people survive and it seems like it's mutated to become less deadly. I know of one man, so immunocompromised he was given months to live years ago but was saved by some new medication, that got Covid. Turns out he only had a headache and loss of taste. So I wonder if all of this panic over "cases going up" is valid.

"Panic" in general isn't valid. Concern is. Viral doses/load - how much people are getting in their systems - surely is lower than when few people were taking precautions - and that saves lives. "Seems" like mutated favorably, seems. Asking questions is okay. Casting doubt when ignorant of facts is unwelcome.

[CA4Now]

Desperately seeking to find a seemingly responsible way to hold dinner parties, some people have started to get tests for the coronavirus as a way to clear themselves to attend dinner parties without needing to wear masks or keep their distance.

That’s absolutely the wrong thing to do, according to Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County’s director of public health.

“That’s actually a false sense of security. It’s a false narrative,” Ferrer said.

“Your test result that you got Saturday morning was from Thursday when you got tested, and it said, ‘On Thursday, you were negative,’” Ferrer said. “It says nothing about whether you’re still negative on Saturday."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...his-a-disaster

[goodheathen]

The mayor allows a false sense of security, by doing little to crack down on private gatherings. At this point, he's the official face of "why so many covid 19 cases" and actually, to his credit, relatively few deaths per case.

[CA4Now]

For the vast majority of people sick with COVID-19 in L.A. County, officials cannot determine where they contracted the virus, he said. This mirrors national data showing that fewer than half of people with the virus know where they caught it.

“Very often, these reported places they’ve been, we have no knowledge of other people there being infected. So they don’t know and we don’t know where they got the infection,” said Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, L.A. County’s chief medical officer. “We certainly wish we had a good answer.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ontact-tracing

[goodheathen]

Confidence hereby not inspired in me. I think that's a quiet goal of the coming curfew. To find out how much of the spread is happening late at night in public.