Los Angeles schools to require kids to get coronavirus vaccine
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Since the beginning of the 코로나 바이러스 감염병 세계적 유행, an estimated 1 에 3 people in Los Angeles has been infected with COVID-19, according to a report released this week by Los Angeles County Health Services.
그만큼 1 에 3 estimate means roughly 3 million of the county’s 10 million residents have been infected with COVID-19 — more than triple the number that has been confirmed through testing.
추가로, the report also estimated 그 1 에 115 people in the county is currently infectious with the novel virus, an increase from 1 에 125 a week prior.
“Your infection could lead to dozens of other infections in just a matter of a few days, and someone along that path of transmission could very well die from COVID-19,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer recently said, per the 로스 앤젤레스 타임즈. “These are just not normal times, and so we can’t go out and just continue to act like nothing is going on.”
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The news comes a week after health officials said that a person is dying every eight minutes from COVID-19.
전체적으로, Los Angeles County has seen nearly 13,000 대유행 시작 이후 사망, with emergency services recently being directed to ration oxygen supplies, and paramedics advised to avoid bringing patients who have little chance of resuscitation to hospitals. In the past week alone, the county has seen some 15,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day.
Roger Lewis, the director of COVID-19 hospital demand modeling for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, told the newspaper that an estimated 75% of the county will need to be vaccinated against the virus to achieve herd immunity.
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이번달 초, 캘리포니아 정부. 개빈 뉴섬 said that the COVID-19 vaccine administration process in the state is going “too slowly,” with slow vaccine rollout being an ongoing issue in most other states as well.
“We are working aggressively to accelerate our pace,” Newsom said at the time when just 1% of the state’s total population had received the first dose. “You’re going to start seeing more rapid distribution of this vaccine, I can assure you that now.”
The news comes as the nation surpassed the 11 million mark in terms of COVID-19 shots administered — still far less than half the doses distributed, 하나, and days after the Trump administration urged states to open coronavirus vaccine distribution to wider groups, including those 65 and older, in an effort to speed such efforts.
Fox News’ Alexandria Hein contributed to this report.
