Public health officials in Los Angeles County are concerned that they are not receiving enough doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, as the need to administer second doses is reducing the number available for first doses.

An additional 6,492 COVID-19 cases were reported in Los Angeles County on Wednesday, along with 262 deaths, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH).

The new cases reported today bring the county’s cumulative total to 1,038,092 positive cases of COVID-19 and 14,384 deaths since March 2020, according to the department.

As of Wednesday, over 307,000 total first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered across Los Angeles County. However, only over 87,000 second doses have been administered during the same time.

“We just are not receiving enough vaccine doses to move as quickly as we and you would like to,” Ferrer said.

Los Angeles County has been allocated 143,900 doses of the vaccine for the next week. However, the county needs 106,000 of those to administer second doses, leaving only 37,900 available countywide to administer as first doses, according to Ferrer.

As of Wednesday, there were 7,253 people hospitalized with COVID-19, 23 percent of which were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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Testing results are available for over 5,282,000 people, with 19 percent of people testing positive.

“While it’s too soon to tell if we’re actually seeing a significant decline in the surge, especially because testing sites were closed for the holiday weekend and there was slightly less testing capacity, with the conversion of Dodger Stadium to a vaccination location, we are very hopeful that the actions taken by many are starting to work,” Ferrer said.

According to California health officials, the Southern California Region has 0.0% staffed adult ICU capacity remaining as of Monday.

Health officials say that at its current rate, one person in Los Angeles County dies of COVID-19 every eight minutes.

For those who have just returned from a trip outside of Los Angeles County, they must quarantine in place for 10 days and monitor for symptoms for 14 days. Testing is suggested if experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or if one is possibly exposed to someone who was positive.

On Tuesday, 130 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 21,573 cumulative cases having been reported in the valley since March of 2020, according to the LADPH. These cases include:

• 16,096 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+104)
• 38 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
• 650 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country (+7)
• 3,307 in Castaic* (+10)
• 59 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
• 109 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
• 26 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
• 870 in Stevenson Ranch (+6)
• 145 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia (+2)
• 248 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde (+3)
• 13 in unincorporated Sand Canyon
• 12 in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon

In nearby Acton, there have been 370 cumulative cases (+1), as well as 190 cases in Agua Dulce.

*As of Saturday, Jan. 16, public health officials have recorded 1,956 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,425 at the North County Correctional Facility. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.

There were 95 COVID-19 patients in Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital as of Wednesday, Jan. 20, while 911 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March 2020, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

Seven additional deaths were reported Monday, with a total of 103 coronavirus deaths at the hospital, with at least 153 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley since March 2020.

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