Los Angeles reached another grim milestone as the county surpassed 7,000 coronavirus-related hospitalizations for the first time, officials confirmed on Tuesday.There are 7,181 people are currently hospitalized for the infectious disease.
Los Angeles Public Health officials also stated that the latest hospitalization numbers reflect nearly an 1,000% increase from Oct.
29, when the county experienced 750 Covid-19 hospitalizations.20% of the patients currently hospitalized for Covid-19 are being treated in the ICU.Officials also confirmed 12,979 new cases and 227 deaths.
The latest death count reflects a number of deaths from the backlog associated with a Spectrum outage and holiday delays.L.A.
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