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LA County health officials urge pediatric COVID shots ahead of holidays

by City News Service • December 9, 2021 3 Comments

Saying unvaccinated teens are nine times more likely to be infected with COVID-19, Los Angeles County health officials are pleading with parents to get their children inoculated ahead of the holiday season.

According to the county Department of Public Health, COVID cases among school-aged children dropped by 30% between late September and late November, but unvaccinated kids aged 12-17 were far more likely to be infected than their vaccinated counterparts.

During the final two weeks of November, two children between 5 and 11 were hospitalized due to COVID, along with eight kids aged 12-17 — all of them unvaccinated, the county reported. The county had six confirmed cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, in October and four in November. Overall, however, the county’s COVID numbers among children remain low, despite having more than 1.5 million children attending in-person school.

“Although several parts of the country are seeing large waves of pediatric infections and hospitalizations, our experience in L.A. County has been different, with transmission decreasing here over the past two months and relatively low numbers of pediatric hospitalizations,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement. “What we are continuing to see is that unvaccinated children are the ones getting severely ill with COVID infections and ending up in the hospital.

“Meanwhile, county schools remain a very safe place — and in fact, we think it’s because of the outstanding preventive work our school partners are doing that we are seeing so little severe illness in children,” Ferrer said. “As we’re headed into the winter holidays and children spend more time intermingling without schools’ protective layers of consistent mask-wearing and other control strategies, their risk of infection is going to increase. The best way to get children ready for the holidays is to get them vaccinated as soon as possible.”

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Filed Under: Health, Home, Los Angeles County

3 comments for "LA County health officials urge pediatric COVID shots ahead of holidays"

  1. Disgusting doctors are not doctors says

    December 10, 2021 at 4:44 pm

    Just don’t take your kids to Palmdale Regional hospital they kill people

    Reply
    • About says

      December 10, 2021 at 8:18 pm

      What proof do you have that they kill people? I have taken family and had friends there. Outstanding care. No one died.

      I call BS

      Reply
    • Tim Scott says

      December 11, 2021 at 9:25 pm

      It’s a hospital. More people die in hospitals than in grocery stores or pizza parlors. It’s the nature of the business. I have seen no evidence that Palmdale Regional is a bad hospital, and my own experiences with them have been good.

      Reply

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