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Sports celebrations with large groups are being discouraged by public health officials as the Los Angeles Dodgers seek a World Series title after a three-decade drought.
This last week, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health observed many instances of customers at restaurants not following the required infection control protocols while watching sporting events such as the World Series on television.
Public Health urges restaurants, breweries, and wineries that show sporting events on televisions to strictly adhere to public health protocols and directives to prevent increases of COVID-19. This includes not allowing customers to congregate in any areas or around televisions, ensuring guests are seated at a table, and keeping at least six feet of physical distance between tables.
Employees should always be wearing appropriate face coverings, and customers should use a face covering when they are not eating or drinking, according to public health.
“We continue to warn about the dangers of gatherings and public celebrations because these events create many opportunities for COVID-19 transmission. We encourage all fans to watch and celebrate the World Series safely at home with members of your household and not in gatherings of any size, especially where people are cheering, yelling, and congregating in close distance without face coverings,” said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of public health. Those situations increase the possibility for the virus to spread, putting you and your loved ones at risk. Please take the necessary steps to protect each other and keep our County from stalling in our recovery.”
An additional 58 coronavirus cases have been reported in the Santa Clarita Valley on Tuesday as part of the 1,586 reported cases across Los Angeles County, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health.
The department noted that because of differences in test processing times and reporting lags, the new cases announced daily are likely collected over several days and sometimes include backlogs of test results.
“These issues have been addressed and we continue to improve our reporting systems. Public Health anticipates receiving additional backlog test results over the next few days,” reads a statement issued by the department on Thursday when the backlog first started to present itself in the daily count.
Since the beginning of October, cases have increased from around 940 new cases per day to, as of last week, almost 1,200 new cases per day. This increase, while not as steep as seen in July, is cause for concern, according to health officials.
The countywide total now stands at 302,077 cases with the Santa Clarita Valley total now 7,057, according to the department.
29 additional deaths were reported Tuesday, bringing the cumulative total in L.A. County to 7,027 deaths, according to public health.
Over 3,046,000 tests have been conducted as of Tuesday, with about 9 percent of those tests returning positive.
Although Los Angeles County met the State’s metric thresholds for Tier 2 last month, L.A. County remains in Tier 1 due to the current adjusted daily case rate of 7.6 cases per 100,000 residents.
Per the State guidelines, to move to Tier 2, the County’s case rate needs to be 7 or fewer new cases a day per 100,000 residents for two consecutive weeks. The County’s test positivity rate is 3.4 percent which places the County in Tier 3 for this metric, according to public health.
There are 747 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Tuesday, 27 percent of which are in the ICU.
As of Tuesday, a total of 7,057 cumulative cases of COVID-19 since testing began in March. These include:
- 4,269 in the City of Santa Clarita*
- 174 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
- 2,171 in Castaic*
- 38 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 196 in Stevenson Ranch
- 52 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
- 103 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- 26 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- 10 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- 11 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
- Seven in unincorporated Sand Canyon
Additionally, 83 cumulative cases were confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 32 in Agua Dulce.
As of Monday, Oct. 26, officials had recorded 1,876 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 512 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
An analysis of available data indicates that as of Monday, Oct. 26, approximately 26.8 percent of all cumulative cases in and around the Santa Clarita Valley can be attributed to the inmate population at the North County Correctional Facility and the Pitchess Detention Center.
As of Wednesday, Oct. 21, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 9,693 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 997 have tested positive, and 44 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
There are 12 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, while 290 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody.
One additional death at Henry Mayo was reported Tuesday, with a total of 30 COVID-19 deaths having been reported at Henry Mayo, bringing Santa Clarita Valley’s total to at least 73, according to public health officials.
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Ed. Note: Upon further investigation, 123 cases and two deaths reported earlier were not L.A. County residents.
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Even the people preaching social distancing and masks, don’t follow the suggested guidelines. Tired of the double standard with people. All talk and the rules don’t apply to them.
Covid is never going away, lockdowns do not work. What we have done over the last 11 months has not only had unintended consequences that we will see for years to come such as having more deaths due to overdoses than Covid in most areas but has caused economic devastation, increased alcohol, and drug abuse, and increased domestic abuse. Santa Clarita was ranked 17th in the country of hardest-hit cities. Take precautions, protect the vulnerable, and let the other 99.99% of people go on with their lives. Please stop this nonsense, follow the science. We are just prolonging Covid and lengthening the time to reach herd immunity. For our kids, for our futures please stop the nonsense.
I have a feeling we’ll have a lot less nonsense after November 3rd
You got THAT right!, ?
Herd immunity would take something 300 million being infected, with a 3% mortality rate. This means something like 9 million people would die in the US alone. Does that sound like something we should strive to achieve?
That is completely inaccurate, the mortality rate is based on the number of people who get and die, how many people had Covid and were never tested? If you are under 50 you have a 99.99% survival rate. If you are healthy and over 50 you have the same 99.99% mortality rate. The main comorbidity is obesity and diabetes and even then you have an over 95% survival rate. Please just stop the nonsense.