Why so many covid 19 cases and deaths in LA County (Los Angeles: gated, stadiums)

[skyway31]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

"While COVID-19 deaths are rarer among youth than among adults, they do happen. Los Angeles County on Friday reported its 12th COVID-19 death in a person under age 18.

“COVID-19 is here to stay, but we have learned methods and gained tools to decrease its impact on our health and wellbeing,” the state Department of Public Health wrote in its latest guidance for schools. “California’s schools can manage this disease in sustainable and adaptive manners.”

L.A. County reports 12th pediatric COVID death. How to keep kids safe as school begins:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...schools-resume

Most if not all of the "pediatric deaths" are kids who unfortunately had other severe health issues and did not die because of Covid.

[JohnG72]

Originally Posted by James Austen

Yes they do.

Not for stopping or even slowing spread of infection.

[JohnG72]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

"While COVID-19 deaths are rarer among youth than among adults, they do happen. Los Angeles County on Friday reported its 12th COVID-19 death in a person under age 18.

“COVID-19 is here to stay, but we have learned methods and gained tools to decrease its impact on our health and wellbeing,” the state Department of Public Health wrote in its latest guidance for schools. “California’s schools can manage this disease in sustainable and adaptive manners.”

L.A. County reports 12th pediatric COVID death. How to keep kids safe as school begins:
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...schools-resume

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c...ekly/index.htm

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Pneumonia is more deadly to kids.

Kids 0-17 are ~.15% of Covid deaths.

LA County officials are hysterical.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by JohnG72

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c...ekly/index.htm

Pneumonia is more deadly to kids.

Look at why, though. And this thread's topic is about why there are so many COVID-19 cases in L.A. County, not about why pneumonia can be deadly in children.

When reviewing the causes of pneumonia, respiratory viruses, bacteria, and fungi are listed by the CDC. In addition, vaccines are known lines of defense against respiratory diseases and a vital tool in pneumonia prevention.

In the U.S. common causes of viral pneumonia are influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. And a common cause of bacterial pneumonia is Streptococcus pneumoniae.

While COVID-19 vaccinations have recently been expanded for children, RSV vaccines remain in clinical studies.

https://www.precisionvaccinations.co...id-19-children

[CA4Now]

"Whatever the numbers, scientists are increasingly curious about how and why COVID hits some people hard but seems to skip others. So I called up Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, who has spearheaded the county’s pandemic response and has been vilified for her caution-first approach. I thought I was special, someone worthy of a case study.

“I’m not really that surprised,” Ferrer told me over the phone. “There’s still a couple of million people in L.A. County who haven’t contracted it yet. There are people who have even been asymptomatic, and that could’ve been you.”

“I can tell you what you’ve done — you’ve been wearing a mask, and a good one,” she said. “We’ve been in such a fight about the mask, but most of the people who have told me they haven’t received COVID tell me they’ve been wearing a mask.

“You’ve had the good fortune that you haven’t been in a place, or went to a gathering where there was someone who was very infectious,” Ferrer continued....

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ovid-free-club

[JohnG72]

And that is nonsense as well backed by zero data or study.

Science and medicine actually doesn’t know why some people get it and some don’t…at least not yet.

More hysterics from scary Sherry.

[CA4Now]

Great news for L.A. County residents.

Los Angeles County officially moved out of the high COVID-19 community level Thursday as one top state health official expressed hope that California is at the end of the pandemic’s latest wave.

For the seven-day period that ended Thursday, L.A. County has reported an average of about 3,800 new coronavirus cases per day — down 23% from the prior week, according to a Times analysis of county data.

The number of coronavirus-positive intensive care unit patients also has begun to fall. There were 125 as of Wednesday, down 15% from the summer’s July 27 peak.

And weekly COVID-19 deaths may be starting to flatten or drop. L.A. County reported 96 COVID-19 deaths for the week that ended Thursday, down from a summer peak of 122 for the weekly period that ended Saturday.

LA County Daily COVID-19 Data - LA County Department of Public Health

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ommunity-level

[CA4Now]

"As of Friday (8/26), Los Angeles County was recording about 3,000 coronavirus cases a day for the prior seven-day period — less than half the summer peak of nearly 6,900 cases per day, though still far above the springtime low of about 600 cases a day.

On a per capita basis, L.A. County is reporting 206 coronavirus cases a week for every 100,000 residents.

Coronavirus-positive hospitalizations are trending lower. As of Thursday, there were 827 coronavirus-positive hospital patients in L.A. County’s 92 hospitals, a 12% decrease over the prior seven days

L.A. County reported 96 COVID-19 deaths for the seven-day period that ended Friday, 16% higher than the prior week’s count of 83. The peak weekly tally for the summer was between July 31 and Aug. 6, when L.A. County reported 122 COVID-19 deaths.

More than 33,000 cumulative COVID-19 deaths have been reported in L.A. County since the pandemic began, including roughly 1,500 over the last five months. Prior to the pandemic, about 1,500 Angelenos typically died from the flu over the course of an entire year."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...-mild-symptoms

[goodheathen]

Originally Posted by mainecoon1

Complete nonsense garbage and the usual pseudo-science.
I never wore a mask and I don't ever get colds/flus/sniffles.
In LA, air is quite polluted and this pollution makes most people more vulnerable to respiratory illness. Some manage to resist it but many get bronchitis and nasty flu/colds just from constant pollution exposure. This pollution is a lot more dangerous than any flu infection in itself, and can cause long term damage such as asthma. Masks only worsen this situation cuffing off air and making one breathe in more chemicals, CO2, re-breathe bacteria, etc. One exception might be a person walking along a busy road, then a mask can protect from dust laden with chemicals, sort of choosing the lesser evil.
Wearing a mask in a hot weather outside though...probably the leading cause of death right there.
Expect a lot of respiratory illness down the road from wearing masks. They prevent maintenance of local immunity in respiratory tract.

Ridiculous post. Only 2 or 3 sentences therein are scientifically credible.

[goodheathen]

Hospitalizations just went up a bit. I suspect spread from students as the reason.