COVID-19 Now Mostly Striking Those Below 41 Years Of Age In Los Angeles County

MALIBU CASE COUNT: 71

SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS: 69

Fifty-three percent of the new COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County tested this weekend occurred in people under the age of 41 years old.

Today, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed 11 new deaths and 2,848 new cases of COVID-19.

Public Health confirms the highest number of new hospitalizations reported in a day with 2,216 people currently hospitalized, surpassing the 2,193 hospitalizations seen on July 15.

Of the 2,216 confirmed COVID-19 cases currently hospitalized, 26% of these people are confirmed cases in the ICU and 19% are confirmed cases on ventilators. This is the fifth consecutive day of hospitalization over 2,100 confirmed cases and the first time hospitalizations have reached over 2,200.

Testing results are available for over 1,515,000 individuals with 10% of all people testing positive. The cumulative positivity rate has increased from 9% to 10%.

The majority of all cases have occurred in people under the age of 41 years old with over 52% or 77,000 people younger than 41 years old infected with COVID-19.

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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti does not control Malibu.

But Garcetti has a nationwide stage …. as elected mayor of a city larger than 30 states.

Garcetti was on C-N-N yestyerday … said L A County is on the brink of another stay at home order.

On Sunday … the mayor said L.A. opened too quickly and again warned that the city was close to imposing some type of new stay-at-home order.

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“well I think we are on the brink of that but as I’ve told people of last week … mayors often have no control over what opens up and doesn’t that’s either the state or county level but I do agree that those things happened too quickly.

L A County’s Department of Public Health has hinted that it may implement another stay at home order.

Garcetti says he hopes it doesn’t go that far.

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“I think we have to be surgical rather than a cleaver that would just shut everything down. B

“But where we need more reagents we’re getting instead secret agents coming into cities like Portland that we’re talking about.

“Or where we need help on rents we are getting rants from the Rose Garden.

“We need national leadership and this is the last chance for the president to prove that he cares about the people of this country and to step up and do something.”

L-A Mayor Eric Garcetti.

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