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L.A. County Aims To Vaccinate Older Residents By February

Public health officials expect Los Angeles County to be able to begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine to residents aged 65 and older by early February.

An additional 15,051 COVID-19 cases were reported in Los Angeles County on Friday, along with 258 deaths, according to Dr. Paul Simon, science officer for the  L.A. County Department of Public Health. 

Simon stated that a major roadblock in the process of rolling out the vaccine to county residents was “a lack of adequate access to vaccines.”

“The arrival of doses is somewhat hard to predict, we have not really known how much of the vaccine we will get week to week,” Simon said. “We suffer when we have stretches where we have very little, but on the other hand having a bolus is an issue as well… what we want is a steady predictable increase (in vaccine doses).”

This brings the county’s cumulative total to 989,928 positive cases of COVID-19 and 13,489 deaths since March 2020, according to the department. 

Simon stated that it was likely that Los Angeles County would reach at least 1 million cumulative COVID-19 cases by Saturday.

As of Friday, there were 7,715 people hospitalized with COVID-19, at least 20 percent of which were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Testing results are available for over 5,154,000 individuals with 18 percent of people testing positive.

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

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

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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 Friday, 259 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 20,572 cumulative cases having been reported in the valley since March of 2020, according to the LADPH. These cases include:

  • 15,282 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+210)
  • 625 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country (+10)
  • 3,237 in Castaic* (+26)
  • 103 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus (+1)
  • 813 in Stevenson Ranch (+6)
  • 138 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia (+1)
  • 234 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde (+4)
  • 57 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
  • 34 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
  • 26 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
  • 11 in unincorporated Sand Canyon (+1)
  • 12 in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon

In nearby Acton, there have been 350 cumulative cases (+8), as well as 178 (+2) cases in Agua Dulce.

*As of Wednesday, Jan. 13, 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.

As of Monday, Jan. 11 Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital had conducted 16,230 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 2,921 had tested positive, and three tests were still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.

There were 98 COVID-19 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, Jan. 13, while 840 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March 2020, according to Moody.

Two additional deaths were reported Wednesday, with a total of 96 coronavirus deaths at the hospital, with at least 146 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley since March 2020.

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Ed. Note: These numbers are subject to change based on further investigation by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.


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L.A. County Aims To Vaccinate Older Residents By February

3 comments

  1. Will santa clarita senior center be a vaccination site. If so can we make appointments now?

  2. Where is the dot map showing the areas of outbreaks?! Please tell the facts/truths to help families stay away from bad areas, even if they’re all masking, distancing and not crowding! Stop the cover-up to keep families safe!

  3. learn how to use google Ricardo. Is KHTS really the only place you get your news??

    this took about two seconds to figure out:

    http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/locations.htm#top-25

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