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Wave Of Post-Thanksgiving Covid Cases Hits Los Angeles As Experts Worry About December Holidays, Winter Surge

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Exactly two weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday gatherings of family and friends, Los Angeles County is seeing a resulting increase in Covid-19 cases, according to Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer.

She also called the trend a possible start of yet another winter surge of infections.Ferrer said the increase was visible by December 1, when the county’s 7-day average daily number of new cases topped 1,000 — a 19% increase from the previous week.

She also noted a resulting increase in hospitalizations, with the daily number of Covid patients topping 600 for the first time in weeks.Those trends have continued is subsequent days, with 1,718 new infections recorded today.

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