“We are acutely aware that the pandemic is not over,” public health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a Thursday statement.
With Los Angeles County’s local emergency declarations on COVID-19 set to end on the final day of March, the county health department on Thursday, Feb. 2, reminded residents the virus remains a concern — urging folks to continue taking precautions.
Ferrer’s comments came two days after the L.A. County Board of Supervisors agreed to end the county’s local COVID-19 emergency declarations at the end of March — while also warning that the move does not mean the virus no longer poses a threat. Long Beach has also ended it’s health emergency. Pasadena’s emergency is set to end on Sunday, March 5.
For the 30-day period ending Feb. 14, vaccinated people in L.A. County who had not received the bivalent booster were 1.5 times more likely to be hospitalized than were people who received the updated bivalent booster. As for the current COVID-19 metrics, L.A. County remained in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “low” community level for the seventh straight week.
The health department also said that the seven-day average of staffed inpatient hospital beds was at 3.8% for COVID-19 patients, down a hair from the previous week’s 3.9%.
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