Why so many covid 19 cases and deaths in LA County (activity, teach)

[CA4Now]

For perspective: "In 2022 so far, L.A. County has reported 4,390 deaths from COVID-19. There were nearly 12,000 COVID-associated deaths in 2020 and 14,500 in 2021.

By contrast, in the pre-pandemic era, about 1,500 residents in the county each year died from the flu, more than 2,000 from accidental drug overdoses and nearly 900 from motor vehicle accidents."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...als-less-taxed

[JohnG72]

Originally Posted by Finper

As long as Barbara’s asking and not ordering…….which I don’t see happening. Where’s Gavin on this? I’m surprised he’s not locking down Ca again..but it is a election year

I forget the guys name but he’s the head of County USC and he said that most of the hospitalizations are NOT due to Covid and rather are people who are hospitalized for other things and then contract Covid.

In short, the county is improperly attributing hospitalizations and the fake doctor Scary Sherry yet again decided to go on the masking warpath.

Rather the truth is the Covid strains get weaker as time goes on, as expected. That’s why you hear the media go bonkers about the spread and number of cases, but little message about if people are actively getting severely sick.

[goodheathen]

Originally Posted by JohnG72

I forget the guys name but he’s the head of County USC and he said that most of the hospitalizations are NOT due to Covid and rather are people who are hospitalized for other things and then contract Covid.

In short, the county is improperly attributing hospitalizations and the fake doctor Scary Sherry yet again decided to go on the masking warpath.

Rather the truth is the Covid strains get weaker as time goes on, as expected. That’s why you hear the media go bonkers about the spread and number of cases, but little message about if people are actively getting severely sick.

Subvariants aren't weakening, and there is no evidence that subvariants generally weaken.

Also, people who are already hospitalized and get the virus are at much higher risk than normal people outside the hospital.

Take things seriously.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by JohnG72

I forget the guys name but he’s the head of County USC and he said that most of the hospitalizations are NOT due to Covid and rather are people who are hospitalized for other things and then contract Covid.

"...This double-edged reality — where the risk of severe illness for every case may be lower, yet there are considerable numbers of deaths — is causing confusion as the pandemic stretches into its third summer.

The latest kerfuffle stems from the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the largest of four county-run public hospitals. During an internal town hall Wednesday, which was posted online, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brad Spellberg noted that while coronavirus-positive cases have risen, “this isn’t because we’re seeing a ton of people with symptomatic disease getting admitted.”

Spellberg said around 90% of the hospital’s coronavirus-positive patients were admitted for other issues.

“Virtually none of them go to the ICU — and when they do go to the ICU, it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated,” he said, citing other issues such as electrolyte abnormalities.

Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Holtom chimed in that, as of Wednesday, “we have no one in the hospital who had pulmonary disease due to COVID.”

As video from the town hall spread online, some highlighted the pair’s remarks to repudiate the concept of a masking order — or to argue that dangers associated with the current coronavirus wave are overstated or unfounded.

But in a statement to The Times on Monday, the L.A. County Department of Health Services, which has oversight of County-USC, said the pandemic “remains a very serious public health threat that we must continue to fight with every tool available, including vaccines, masking, social distancing, and treatment.

“To use our weekly internal town hall to suggest such measures are unnecessary is fundamentally contrary to our position as a medical center,” the statement continued."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...als-less-taxed

Originally Posted by JohnG72

In short, the county is improperly attributing hospitalizations and the fake doctor Scary Sherry yet again decided to go on the masking warpath.

No evidence of that.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by JohnG72

Covid strains get weaker as time goes on, as expected.

Per Dr. Eric J. Topol: https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/

"The rise of the BA.5 variant is an outgrowth of accelerated evolution of the virus. The transition from Omicron BA.1, first picked up spreading in late November 2021, to BA.5 now, with many other Omicron subvariants in between, is quite rapid and unlike the first year of the pandemic when there were no substantive new versions of the virus seen. BA. 5 puts the nail in the coffin of the myth that the virus will evolve into a milder form and fade away."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...a5-coronavirus

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by JohnG72

I forget the guys name but he’s the head of County USC and he said that most of the hospitalizations are NOT due to Covid and rather are people who are hospitalized for other things and then contract Covid.

In short, the county is improperly attributing hospitalizations and the fake doctor Scary Sherry yet again decided to go on the masking warpath.

Rather the truth is the Covid strains get weaker as time goes on, as expected. That’s why you hear the media go bonkers about the spread and number of cases, but little message about if people are actively getting severely sick.

Dr. Brad Spellberg, Board Certified MD, unlike Barbs Ferrer, non-MD liar.

Graph @ 1 min. in the video says it all -- Ferrer is a dirty stinking liar liar, pants on fire. Non-scrubs pants, of course, since she's not an actual MD. She's not even a legitimate scientist. She's a political hack, and a fraud.

She needs to be fired for spreading disinformation. And never work for the state again.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQSaFbCjdz4

[Finper]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

"...This double-edged reality — where the risk of severe illness for every case may be lower, yet there are considerable numbers of deaths — is causing confusion as the pandemic stretches into its third summer.

The latest kerfuffle stems from the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the largest of four county-run public hospitals. During an internal town hall Wednesday, which was posted online, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brad Spellberg noted that while coronavirus-positive cases have risen, “this isn’t because we’re seeing a ton of people with symptomatic disease getting admitted.”

Spellberg said around 90% of the hospital’s coronavirus-positive patients were admitted for other issues.

“Virtually none of them go to the ICU — and when they do go to the ICU, it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated,” he said, citing other issues such as electrolyte abnormalities.

Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Holtom chimed in that, as of Wednesday, “we have no one in the hospital who had pulmonary disease due to COVID.”

As video from the town hall spread online, some highlighted the pair’s remarks to repudiate the concept of a masking order — or to argue that dangers associated with the current coronavirus wave are overstated or unfounded.

But in a statement to The Times on Monday, the L.A. County Department of Health Services, which has oversight of County-USC, said the pandemic “remains a very serious public health threat that we must continue to fight with every tool available, including vaccines, masking, social distancing, and treatment.

“To use our weekly internal town hall to suggest such measures are unnecessary is fundamentally contrary to our position as a medical center,” the statement continued."

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...als-less-taxed



No evidence of that.

You just posted a entire article of evidence. Barbara is a fraud conwoman and a threat to LA

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Finper

You just posted a entire article of evidence.

Nope. I just put it in context. One had to read the entire article.

[goodheathen]

I think the county quietly is very concerned about employee absenteeism caused by infection. Was a concern a year ago in getting police and firefighters vaccinated, county shelters currently are understaffed due to infection, spread in hospitals to patients and employees is high, and many teachers got sick during the winter. I think the county would rather not discuss some of that (lowers reputations) and surely knows that "Mask so that people don't miss work" would be ridiculed by the selfish, short-sighted public.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

From my Nextdoor feed, posted by the one and only Dr. Houman Hemmati, Board Certified MD:

"Last week, we forced LA County Department of Health Services (not public health which issues mandates) to issue this press release ADMITTING they have NO SICK COVID patients in LA COunty USC (sickest poorest patients!) and haven't for MONTHS because vaccinations are working (and virus weaker too)."

So then, Dr. Hemmati states that the virus is getting weaker. So, to whomever stated that there's no evidence that 'Vid 19 is getting weaker, there's the word from a board certified MD. So let's all just calm down, put away the masks, and get back to life. And forget Barbs Ferrer, non-MD political hack.

Amen!