Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations have dropped by 77% and 44% over the past month, respectively, said LA County Health Officials on Monday.
That’s great news for the country’s hardest-hit region. The question remains, however, if new variants of the virus will create another surge.LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said on Monday that, “We are going to be reporting later today that we now have 5 cases associated with the UK variant.” That’s not many, but the amount of genomic testing in the county to identify new variants is exceedingly small compared to the number of Covid tests being delivered.“There’s no way that we don’t have a fair amount of [that] variant circulating here,” said Ferrer.
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