Los Angeles County may re-introduce its masks mandate, well being officers mentioned Thursday.
Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer mentioned required masking indoors may come again if the county reaches the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) excessive transmission charges and hospital mattress occupancy classes.
“If both hospitalization indicators, new COVID-19 admissions and the proportion of staffed in-patient beds occupied by COVID patients, surpass the threshold for high, LA County will return to universal indoor masking,” she mentioned.
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A person will get a haircut as folks nonetheless put on their masks, amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Los Angeles in February. Los Angeles County well being officers on Thursday mentioned they might reimpose the mandate if COVID transmission climbs.
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As of Thursday, the county’s group transmission degree was at medium, with a charge of 165.3 instances per 100,000 folks, Fox Los Angeles
For a county to achieve the excessive transmission class, the brink kicks in as soon as it reaches greater than 10 new COVID-19 hospitalizations per 100,000 folks if the county sees greater than 200 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 folks, in response to the CDC.
Indoor masking within the county stays optionally available.
On Thursday, the county reported 4,493 new COVID-19 instances and 14 new deaths.
The county lifted indoor masking for public transit in September
