The pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in Los Angeles County is so slow that there's a risk of a 'cycle of repeated surges every few months,' Los Angeles County's public health director warns.
Health advisors debate whether to recommend booster shots of the Pfizer COVID vaccine, a question that’s divided scientists.suggested that if everyone in L.A. County had been vaccinated this summer, instead of the more than 900 deaths recorded between June 1 and Sept. 1, the county would have reported 80 deaths instead. By contrast, if no one were vaccinated, the model suggested that 13,000 deaths would have occurred in that time.
Vaccination provides significant protection against infection, hospitalization and death. Of the hundreds of people admitted to L.A. County’s public hospital system since June 15 for a diagnosis primarily linked to COVID-19, 93% have been unvaccinated. But the ongoing surge also has threatened fully vaccinated people, including those with weak immune systems who, even if inoculated, do not produce a strong immune response to a coronavirus infection.
L.A. County’s public hospital system recently reported its first death of a patient who had been fully vaccinated. The patient was 67 and was on medications that suppressed the immune system due to a serious underlying medical condition.“I would also ask for everyone who remains unvaccinated to recognize the part that their decision plays in maintaining circulation of the virus among our communities and putting patients such as this at risk,” said Dr. Christina Ghaly, L.A.
Health experts have suggested vaccine requirements to enter public settings or as a condition of employment be implemented in order to move the U.S. past the worst pandemic the globe has seen in a century.
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