Fox News' Bill Melugin wrote on Twitter, "NEW: One of LA County’s largest hospitals, @LACUSCMedCenter, announces they have only 5 patients being treated *for* COVID & none are severe. @lapublichealth will announce decision on a new mask mandate today, & their chief of comms @Morrow_Brett has gone private on Twitter."
According to Fox News, the LAC+USC Medical Center's Covid numbers are up from three patients treated last week.
The LA County Department of Public Health declared on July 14 that they would probably reimpose mask mandates for indoor spaces beginning Friday, July 29 because LA County had reached a "high" level of COVID-19 infections, despite the death rate staying low. LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told reporters throughout a briefing Thursday, "we have a ton of transmission right now" and backed the measure.
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On July 25, chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Kathryn Barger, declared that she will counter any mask mandates that LA's Public Health Department intends to reinstate.
She was followed by the Beverly Hills City Council who voted on Monday not to enforce the rule, were it to be implemented.
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Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse announced she and her colleagues felt they had to lead the way and "support the power of choice." Bosse went on, "This is a united City Council and community that cares about health. We are not where we were in 2020, and now we must move forward as a community and be part of the solution."
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl backs the mask mandate and on Tuesday announced anti-maskers are "snowflake weepies" throughout a virtual Board of Supervisors meeting with the county's public health director Ferrer.
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"I don't hear them writing me about shoes," Kuehl stated, "which are actually more oppressive to your feet than wearing a mask on your face but we do that really for health."
As the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 spread across the nation, LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced reporters during a briefing about two weeks ago, "we have a ton of transmission right now." throughout to the CDC, the BA.5 subvariant accounts for a 65 percent majority of new COVID cases in the United States.
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She endorsed reinstituting masks by continuing, "The best way to manage the uncertainty and to reduce morbidity and mortality is to remain open to using both the sophisticated tools we now have our tests, our vaccines, our therapeutics and the nonpharmaceutical strategies, masking, ventilation, and distancing to layer on protections to respond to the conditions at hand."
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