“The very high numbers I will report today are, sadly, not a surprise,” said Los Angeles Public Health Chief Science Officer Dr.
Paul Simon on Friday.Those numbers come two weeks to the day after Christmas. A surge in infections two weeks after Christmas was the prediction, over and over again, from health officials trying to help L.A.
avoid a new surge.“This very clearly is the latest surge for the winter holidays and New Year’s,” said Simon. “And it’s likely to continue over the next week or two.
We do expect these numbers continue to be high over the next couple weeks.”Health officials have noted that there was a fall surge and a Thanksgiving surge on top of that.
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