buying surgical or high-tech N95 masks<\/a> that are desperately needed by health-care providers, but can instead use items such as scarves, bandannas or fabric.<\/p>\n“Please don’t go out and try to get N95s. We need to protect that supply for our health care providers,” Ferrer said.<\/p>\n
She said people may benefit by wearing a “homemade” mask.<\/p>\n
“What they do is they can prevent droplets from coming out of our mouths and potentially infecting others,” she said. “Remember this is a disease that’s spread with respiratory droplets. Sometimes when you talk, some droplets can come out. If you wear that mask, especially now that we know you could be spreading even if you have no symptoms, you would reduce the number of droplets carrying a virus, potentially, from getting onto somebody else.<\/p>\n
“But wearing a mask is not a shield, and it doesn’t replace our request that you stay at home, that you always are practicing social distancing, that you’re using handwashing as your major means to make sure you’re not infecting yourself after touching something or someone who may be infected, and that you’re self-isolating and self-quarantined when it’s appropriate.<\/p>\n
“It’s just another tool that we can add to our list of tools that are available to help us to prevent infecting others and help others from (infecting) us.”<\/p>\n
She said 79% of the county’s cases are people between the ages of 18 and 65.<\/p>\n
County fire Chief Daryl Osby announced Tuesday that 10 members of his agency have tested positive for the coronavirus. Seven of them have recovered, but three more are in isolation, he said.<\/p>\n
Sheriff Alex Villanueva said seven members of his department have tested positive, and more than 100 others are under quarantine.<\/p>\n
Additionally, there are 29 Los Angeles Police Department officers and five department civilian personnel who have contracted the coronavirus, one of whom is in critical condition, Chief Michel Moore told the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The others are recovering at home. The majority of the cases have been identified in officers working out of the LAPD’s downtown and central locations, Moore said.<\/p>\n
Ferrer said Los Angeles County is still seeing a roughly 1.8% mortality rate, meaning that of everyone who has tested positive for coronavirus in the county, 1.8% have died. Ferrer said last week the mortality rate in New York is about 1.4%<\/p>\n
In addition to the five homeless people who have tested positive for coronavirus, two people who work in homeless facilities have also tested positive.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday, more than 21,000 people in the county have been tested for the virus, with about 12% of them turning out to be positive for the illness.<\/p>\n
Ferrer stressed that the availability of testing, while expanding, remains limited, meaning it should be restricted to people who are referred by physicians or are showing symptoms of the illness.<\/p>\n
County officials said hospitals across the area are making plans for an anticipated surge in cases in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
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