The county still needs to be prepared for worst-case scenarios, officials said.
But with those guardrails removed, how will health officials detect signs of potential surges?
But while preparedness is always important, based on current trends, Ferrer doesn’t anticipate returning to universal masking indoors anytime soon.According to the latest available data, L.A. County’s report card remains in solid shape across all seven of the tracked metrics.The percentage of collected coronavirus specimens that are a new variant of concern. The goal is to have fewer than 5%; there are currently no new variants of concern, as defined by the World Health Organization.
If there are alerts in two or more areas that reach a moderate or high level of concern, “we’ll conduct an in-depth review of contributing factors and consider changes to community-prevention strategies,” Ferrer said.Ferrer said in a recent interview the county’s decision towas not based on political pressure, though she acknowledged there had been a loud group of people pushing for its end.
“I obviously want everybody to keep a mask on,” Ferrer said in the interview. “I’m very clear about what I think is the safest way to get through the next few weeks, and that is to go ahead and keep a mask on.” To get to a moderate coronavirus transmission level, the rate will need to dip below 50 cases a week for every 100,000 residents; for low transmission level it needs to be below 10.
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