CORONAVIRUS Worsening In Los. Angeles California, U.S.A.
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Los. Angeles State Health officials reported a massive increase in coronavirus at workplaces as the region enters what officials have called an “ALARMING AND DANGEROUS PHASE” of the pandemic.
While the state is seeing outbreaks of different variety of workplaces with the highest sectors of numbers are food processing and distribution facilities, including manufacturing facilities meatpacking plants, garment factories and wholesale warehouses.
Los Angeles State Health Officer Muntu Davis said “The locations are not enforcing physical distancing among employees or implementing infection control procedures, including the proper use of face coverings and frequent sanitation”.
“We’re not seeing the compliance that we need with the public health directives being in place to keep people’s health and livelihoods safe,” he said. “Our paramount concern is for the safety of all employees and their families.”
State inspectors have responded more than 3,000 workforce complaints every month since May this year or for the past several months. So far, the state has completed 52 outbreak investigations at Restaurant, Grocery Stores and Food Manufacturing Company.
Inspectors have sometimes discovered a lack of physical distancing employees not wearing face mask properly, improper sanitation and employees who are close contacts with a person who has tested positive for CORONA VIRUS.
Los Angeles state Health Officer Muntu Davis said “The worst outbreak at a workplace locally occurred at Los Angeles Aparelle with more than 300 of the company’s nearly 2,300 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 and four have died,”
“We rely on the many, many people who make our goods, ship those goods and make and prepare our food among other critical functions,”
“Those folks need to be safe and healthy at work. Business owners and operators need to adhere to the mandatory health officer orders so that our schools can reopen and we can get more people back to making a living.”
Los Angeles state Health Officer Muntu Davis said “Unfortunately, a lot of disproportionality can be traced to the fact that a significant number of essential workers are low income or are people of color,”
“Oftentimes, people who are low income cannot stay home to work, and early in the pandemic, there were few protections offered at many worksites. There were no requirements for masking and for physical distancing.”
“What this means for us is that we need to continue to take steps to protect our healthcare infrastructure so that hospitals are able to manage the growing number of people that need inpatient care,”
“That’s why our public health directives like staying at home, avoiding close contact with people you don’t live with and wearing cloth face coverings is so critical.”
Barbara Ferrer of Public Director said “The shift from declining rates to increasing rates happened very rapidly, and we now see a three-day average of over 2,000 people hospitalized on a given day, which is more people hospitalized each day for COVID-19 than at any other point during the pandemic,”
While the mortality rate is currently stable in Los Angeles County, the increase in hospitalizations will probably result in increased deaths in the coming days and weeks, Ferrer said.
Official Wrote In A Memo By The L.A State Department “If the trajectory continues, the number of ICU beds our most limited resource is likely to become inadequate in the near future,”
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said that it first shut down operations at the garment manufacturer June 27 after inspectors found “flagrant violations” of public health infection control orders and said the company failed to cooperate with an investigation of a reported coronavirus outbreak.
News of the increased spread at workplaces comes as the number of patients hospitalized in the county with confirmed coronavirus infections reached new heights this week. younger people, between the ages of 12 to 40 Y/O, are also being hospitalized at a significantly higher rate than in previous months, which had been declining since early May, and began ticking up in mid-June and have continued their rise in July. Records show that hospitalizations of patients with confirmed coronavirus infections have jumped roughly 31% over the past months.
Higher mortality rates among Black communities and Latino residents in Los Angeles States have become a key concern for Public health officials as hospitalization rates continue to climb. Deaths among Latino residents make up 60% last month of the fatalities that have occurred outside of skilled nursing facilities in the state.
Experts say deaths are a lagging indicator of coronavirus spread and probably reflect exposures to the virus that occurred a month earlier.
The state’s increasing hospitalization rate also mirrors trends in other areas across Southern California, and across the state as a whole. As of Thursday, more than 6,700 patients who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 were being hospitalized in California.
Earlier this month, L.A. County officials projected the possibility of running out of hospital beds in three weeks, with the number of ICU beds possibly being exhausted sometime in July.
