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Percentage Of Covid-19 Deaths In L.A. ICUs Has Doubled Since October; “Serious” Vaccine Supply Problem - Deadline
Jan 21, 2021 1 min, 44 secs
Officials long have warned about an exponentially increasing number of deaths should hospitals become overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases and patients no longer can receive the same high standard of care.

3, about 23% of people hospitalized due to Covid-19 have died — up from 12% in September and October.

Ferrer reported 6,492 new cases on Wednesday, the lowest total in weeks, although she said the number may be low due to reporting lags and lack of testing availability over the holiday weekend.

Ferrer said the county was averaging more than 15,000 new daily cases on Jan.

The number of people hospitalized averaged more than 8,000 on Jan.

As of Wednesday, there were 7,263 people hospitalized in the county, according to state figures, including 1,692 in intensive care.

“With high numbers of daily cases, hundreds more people will require hospitalizations every week.”.

The number of those samples analyzed, it should be noted, is vastly smaller than the total number of daily Covid-19 tests in the state.

Ferrer continued to urge patience among people trying to make appointments for COVID-19 vaccines, acknowledging website issues that crashed the system for several hours Tuesday after the county announced that people aged 65 and over can be vaccinated.

Appointments beyond this week remain murky, given dramatic shortages in the county’s supply of vaccine doses.

Ferrer said Wednesday the county now expects to receive about 143,900 more doses of the vaccines next week.

However, since people need to receive two doses of the medication, spaced three to four weeks apart, the bulk of the vaccine coming next week will be used to administer second doses to people who have already received the first shot.

Ferrer also said that, with seniors included, the number of county residents now authorized to receive the vaccine is 4 million.

She said that as of the end of last week, the county had received 685,000 doses, with 307,000 used so far for first doses and 87,000 for second doses.

Ferrer noted that about 30,000 doses of Moderna vaccine the county has received have been taken out of circulation on orders of the state, following allergic reactions suffered by a half-dozen people in San Diego.

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