Data show that for the seven-day period that ended Monday, an average of 960 new cases were reported daily countywide, which pencils out to 67 cases a week for every 100,000 residents. That’s up 23% from the previous week.
Philadelphia has become the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after seeing a sharp increase in coronavirus infections.
Philadelphia had preexisting criteria in place that would trigger a return to a mask order when average new cases a day exceeded more than 100 and when cases have risen by more than 50% in the previous 10 days. On Monday, officials reported that the city of 1.58 million people was averaging 142 new cases a day, or 63 cases a week for every 100,000 residents.
So far, officials in L.A. County and the state have not indicated that conditions warrant the imposition of new measures or mandates — though, in both cases,Speaking with reporters last week, though, Ferrer said people should be concerned about the rise in the number of school outbreaks countywide. There were 14 new outbreaks in K-12 schools in L.A. County for the week that ended Thursday. For the previous week, there were four.
“I am hopeful … that given what we’ve seen and what we’re doing, we should be able to avoid a really big surge,” Ferrer said.As government agencies have cast off pandemic protections, many immunocompromised and disabled people have felt forgotten.
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