Latest Guides

Community News

Pasadena Urged to Keep Thanksgiving Celebrations Limited to Immediate Household Amid ‘Dramatic’ Viral Surge

L.A. County sees the largest number of cases ever at 6,124

Published on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 | 6:01 am
 

Pasadena health officials joined federal authorities in advising people to keep Thanksgiving celebrations confined to their immediate households as the city saw 31 new infections and one new death on Monday.

The new statistics raised Pasadena’s total infections to 3,405, and total deaths to 132, according to city data.

The new fatality occurred on Friday, said city spokeswoman Lisa Derderian. It involved a man in his late-70s who was believed to have acquired the novel coronavirus through household contact.

With the pandemic spiking throughout the region, state and nation, both the Pasadena Health Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are urging the public not to meet with people who live outside of their immediate households to celebrate Thanksgiving Thursday.

“We’re seeing a dramatic increase in cases and hospital admissions and that’s a concern,” Derderian said. “Please stay in your immediate household with the ones you live with this Thanksgiving so you can celebrate for many years to come with many generations.”

The CDC issued a similar advisory last Thursday, as more than 1 million new infections were documented nationwide over the prior week.

“As cases continue to increase rapidly across the United States, the safest way to celebrate Thanksgiving is to celebrate at home with the people you live with,” according to the CDC statement. “Gatherings with family and friends who do not live with you can increase the chances of getting or spreading COVID-19 or the flu.”

Over the past week, Pasadena has recorded an average of 43.7 new COVID-19 infections daily.

Officials at Huntington Hospital reported treating 32 COVID-19 patients on Monday.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced 6,124 newly detected infections on Monday, representing the largest number of new cases reported in a single day to date. About 1,500 of the cases were described as backlog from over the weekend.

Eight additional deaths were reported in the county.

All told, L.A. County has documented 370,636 cases of COVID-19 and 7,446 fatalities, the agency said in a written statement.

“The County is experiencing a steeper increase in daily cases of COVID-19 than seen during the summer surge in June and July,” according to the statement. “From June 20 through July 3, average daily cases increased 43 percent. From Oct, 31 through Nov. 13, the average daily cases have increased 108 percent. Public Health is not confident these numbers will decrease this week since new case numbers reflect actions people were taking a couple of weeks ago.”

Hospitalizations across the county continued to spike, as well, with 1,473 patients being treated for COVID-19 on Monday, officials said. Twenty-seven percent of them were being treated in intensive care units.

“This is a 73 percent increase from November 7 when the daily number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 was 849,” the county statement said.

“If the five-day average of cases is 4,500 or more or hospitalizations are more than 2,000 per day, a Targeted Safer at Home Order with additional safety modifications will be issued,” according to the county statement. “Given that our five-day average case rate is now over 4,500, Public Health will be working with the Board of Supervisors to determine additional safety modifications.”

Outbreaks at workplaces have been surging at “alarming levels,” the statement said.

“The data emphasizes some of the ripple effects we are seeing as COVID-19 cases across the county are surging. At the end of the day, more people are becoming infected at their jobs and this results in more transmission back in the community,” said L.A. County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer.

“As we have asked so many times over the past months, we hope you will be able to dig deep and find a way to make the changes required with the new safety modifications,” Ferrer said. “We are fortunate that there is now a very bright light at the end of this long tunnel with the promising news about effective vaccines and we know we will be in a different place next year. This year though, we need to continue to ask all individuals and businesses to own their part in slowing the spread of COVID-19 so that we can stop the surge in cases and ultimately get back to our recovery.”

State health officials reported 8,337 new COVID-19 infections and 50 additional deaths on Monday.

Authorities have documented 1,110,370 cases of the virus and 18,726 deaths statewide since the start of the pandemic.

The statewide positivity rate over the prior 14 days had reached 5.5 percent, representing a 1.7 percent increase from two weeks before, according to the California Department of Public Health.

As of Monday, L.A. County accounted for 33 percent of California’s total COVID-19 infections and 40 percent of the state’s fatalities.

Get our daily Pasadena newspaper in your email box. Free.

Get all the latest Pasadena news, more than 10 fresh stories daily, 7 days a week at 7 a.m.

Make a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

 

 

 

buy ivermectin online
buy modafinil online
buy clomid online
buy ivermectin online