Los Angeles County surpassed a cumulative total of 800,000 COVID-19 cases on Saturday in the wake of the holiday season.
An additional 15,701 COVID-19 cases were reported in Los Angeles County on Saturday, along with 138 deaths, according to officials with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH).
This brings the county’s cumulative total to 806,210 positive cases of COVID-19 and 10,682 deaths since March.
Public Health confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in L.A. County on January 26, 2020. Ten months later, on November 30, L.A. County reached 400,000 COVID-19 cases.
“In just over a month, we confirmed an additional 400,000 cases. This is the fastest acceleration of new cases than at any other time during the pandemic,” reads Saturday’s press release.
As of Saturday, there were 7,627 people hospitalized with COVID-19, 21% of which were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
“The strategy for stopping the surge is fairly straightforward. When people stay away from other people, the virus cannot spread as it is doing now. The more we stay home and the more we avoid in-person activities with other people we don’t live with, the more we reduce the spread of the virus,” said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of public health. “While health officer orders create the framework for protecting each other, it is our actions that stop people from being hospitalized and dying. When we follow the public health safety directives with intention, we avoid getting and transmitting COVID-19; this is how we stop the surge.”
Testing results are available for nearly 4,760,000 individuals with 16% of people testing positive.
According to California health officials, the Southern California Region has 0.0% staffed adult ICU capacity remaining as of Saturday.
Health officials say that at its current rate, one person in Los Angeles County dies of COVID-19 every 10 minutes.
On Saturday, 324 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Santa Clarita Valley, with 17,049 cumulative cases having been reported in the valley since March of 2020, according to the LADPH. These cases include:
- 12,394 in the City of Santa Clarita* (+264)
- 514 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country (+9)
- 2,986in Castaic* (+31)
- 91 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus (+1)
- 637 in Stevenson Ranch (+11)
- 105 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
- 194 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde (+6)
- 57 in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- 26 in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- 27 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country (1)
- 10 in unincorporated Sand Canyon
- Eight in San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon (+1)
In nearby Acton, there have been 279 cumulative cases (+8), as well as 139 cases in Agua Dulce (+2).
*As of Friday, Jan. 1, public health officials have recorded 1,956 cumulative cases have been reported at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, including 1,425 at the North County Correctional Facility. Those cases are distributed between both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
As of Saturday, Jan. 2, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital had conducted 15,514 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 2,570 had tested positive, and seven tests were still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
There were 98 patients in the hospital as of Saturday, Jan. 2, while 705 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March 2020, according to Moody.
One additional death was reported Saturday, with a total of 73 coronavirus deaths at the hospital, with at least 123 COVID-19 deaths reported across the Santa Clarita Valley since March 2020.
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Ed. Note: These numbers are subject to change based on further investigation by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
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