The latest coronavirus outbreak in Los Angeles County infects a new person every six seconds, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Sunday. And it’s accelerating exactly where people are less likely to be on guard: in particular.
Garcetti said on the CBS program “Face the Nation” that despite what California has done to limit the spread of the virus in public, including high compliance with masks and strict restrictions imposed on companies, a large number of new cases still remain. was being detected including a recent average of 14,000 a day in the county.
“This is something that is really spreading at home,” said Garcetti, adding: “It is a message for all of America: we may not all have the same density as LA, but what is happening in LA can and will come in many communities in America. “
There are more than twice as many patients with Covid-19 in California hospitals as there was a month ago, and many intensive care units in the state are full. At least four people in the state were found to be infected with the new most transmissible variant of the virus first identified in Britain.
And at the rate at which immunization is going so far, the new vaccines offer little hope of quickly controlling the increase, said the mayor. “We are at a pace now to deliver vaccines in LA in five years, instead of more than half a year,” he said.
Garcetti criticized the Trump administration for failing to plan ahead, training more medical personnel to administer the vaccine, and for allowing state and local governments to carry out a huge inoculation campaign without providing the resources needed to do it.
“The federal government cannot tell local and state governments to do something and not to help us,” he said.