{"id":106973,"date":"2022-02-28T20:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T04:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=106973"},"modified":"2022-02-28T20:28:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T04:28:33","slug":"la-countys-covid-hospitalizations-fall-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/02\/28\/la-countys-covid-hospitalizations-fall-again\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County&#8217;s COVID hospitalizations fall again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/empty-bed-in-hospital-COVID.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105663\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/empty-bed-in-hospital-COVID.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"918\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/empty-bed-in-hospital-COVID.jpg 918w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/empty-bed-in-hospital-COVID-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/empty-bed-in-hospital-COVID-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of COVID-19-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals continued its downward trajectory Monday, continuing to lessen the virus&#8217; impact on the local health care system.<\/p>\n<p>According to state figures, there were 916 COVID-positive patients hospitalized locally, down from 975 on Sunday. Of those patients, 182 are in intensive care, down from 188 the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>The county&#8217;s number of hospitalized COVID patients has been as high as 8,098 and as low as 213 during the two-year pandemic. It quickly shot up to over 4,800 in January amid a winter surge in cases fueled by the Omicron variant, and has been steadily declining since then. The number fell below 1,000 on Sunday for the first time since December.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have said some patients enter the hospital for other reasons and discover they have COVID after a mandated test.<\/p>\n<p>The county reported another 67 COVID-19 deaths on Monday, raising the overall death toll from the virus to 30,716. The county also reported a total of 2,833 new COVID cases from the past two days, raising the cumulative pandemic total to 2,796,560.\u00a0The rolling average daily rate of people testing for the virus was 1.1% as of Monday, down from 1.4% on Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the state&#8217;s indoor mask- wearing mandate in schools will end at 11:59 p.m. March 11. Los Angeles County will align with the state and also lift the school masking rule.<\/p>\n<p>The state on Tuesday will lift its overall indoor mask-wearing mandate for unvaccinated people in most settings. Los Angeles County, however, still has a mandate in place.\u00a0The county on Friday relaxed its mandate, allowing people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 to remove face coverings indoors at establishments that verify patrons&#8217; vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p>The change took effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday. Hours later, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced amended COVID guidelines that dropped its recommendation for indoor mask-wearing in much of the country &#8211; &#8211; but not in L.A. County.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of COVID-19-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals continued its downward trajectory Monday, continuing to lessen the virus&#8217; impact on the local health care system. According to state figures, there were 916 COVID-positive patients hospitalized locally, down from 975 on Sunday. Of those patients, 182 are in intensive care, down from 188 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":105663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,15,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106974,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106973\/revisions\/106974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}