Updated with latest: Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Tuesday that the county will be releasing an updated tally of Covid-19 Delta variant cases this week, “and I am positive that we will see a significant increase in specimens that are testing positive for the Delta variant.”
“Because we, like all other places in the United States and in fact other places in the world where they’re seeing the Delta variant, it does in fact proliferate very quickly,” noted Ferrer. “It is the most infectious variant that has been identified to date here in California, and that means that for those people who are unvaccinated it is going to pose a big risk because it spreads so easily.”
Indeed, California numbers last week revealed the variant had grown by 40% week-over-week. More on that below.
Thus far, existing vaccines appear to provide strong protection against the Delta variant.
“Because we, like all other places in the United States and in fact other places in the world where they’re seeing the Delta variant, it does in fact proliferate very quickly,” noted Ferrer. “It is the most infectious variant that has been identified to date here in California, and that means that for those people who are unvaccinated it is going to pose a big risk because it spreads so easily.”
Indeed, California numbers last week revealed the variant had grown by 40% week-over-week. More on that below.
Thus far, existing vaccines appear to provide strong protection against the Delta variant.
- 6/22/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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