County Announces 14 New COVID-19 Deaths on Sunday

County health officials confirmed 14 new deaths and 940 new cases of the Coronavirus on Sunday

To date, health officials have identified 44,988 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of LA County, and a total of 2,104 deaths.

“For the people who are mourning a loved one who has passed away from COVID-19, we think of you every day and we wish you healing and peace,” said Barbara Ferrer. “Together, the LA County Community has made progress in slowing the spread of COVID-19, as demonstrated in the decreasing numbers of daily hospitalizations and deaths.  Please remember, the job we continue to do to protect each other will affect how many new cases, new hospitalizations and new deaths we will see several weeks from now.”

LA County is in stage two of the five-stage Roadmap to Recovery and until the final stage five is reached, Health Officer Orders and directives will continue to ensure that we slow spread of COVID-19 to prevent an overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases at healthcare facilities. The Health Officer Order, COVID-19 Surveillance Interactive Dashboard, Roadmap to Recovery, Recovery Dashboard, and additional things you can do to protect yourself, your family and your community are on the Public Health website.

Ten people who died were over the age of 65 years old and two people who died were between the ages of 41 to 65 years old. Nine people had underlying health conditions including eight people over the age of 65 years old and one person between the ages of 41 to 65 years old.

Ninety-three percent of people who died had underlying health conditions. Of those who died, information about race and ethnicity is available for 1,941 people (99 percent of the cases reported by Public Health) 40 percent of deaths occurred among Latino/Latinx residents, 29 percent among White residents, 17 percent among Asian residents, 12 percent among African American residents, 1 percent among Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander residents and 1 percent among residents identifying with other races.

As of today, 6,177 people who tested positive for COVID-19 (14 percent of positive cases) have been hospitalized at some point during their illness. There are 1,490 people who are currently hospitalized, 28 percent of these people are in the ICU and 19 percent are on ventilators. Testing capacity continues to increase in LA County, with testing results available for nearly 465,000 individuals and 8 percent of people testing positive.

The best protection against COVID-19 continues to be to wash your hands frequently, avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands, self-isolate if you are sick, and to practice physical distancing and wear a clean face covering when in contact with others from outside your household. People who have underlying health conditions remain at much greater risk for serious illness from COVID-19, so it will continue to be very important for the County’s vulnerable residents to stay at home as much as possible, to have groceries and medicine delivered, and to call their providers immediately if they have even mild symptoms.