Weekly COVID-19 deaths in Los Angeles County are the highest since late March, when the county was emerging from the initial winter Omicron wave.
Drugs such as Paxlovid and molnupiravir are free and widely available, but officials say doctors are not prescribing them as much as they should.
L.A. County’s latest rate is still triple the 64 cases a week for every 100,000 residents that was reported in mid-October. to authorities. Nationally, there have been estimates that infection rates could be five times the level of what’s been reported.
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