Los Angeles County is likely to receive 84,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in the first allotment from the next state, hopefully as early as next week, the county’s public health director Barbara Ferrer said Tuesday.
The county could receive second-phase doses in late December and some of those vaccines could be allocated to nursing home residents and staff, Ferrer said.
The goal is to vaccinate as many essential healthcare workers as possible, in hopes of completing the first phase of the county’s vaccination plan by the end of January, he said.
After the county receives a third allotment of its vaccines, it may begin to receive a weekly allotment of vaccines, Ferrer said.
With COVID-19 infections flowing to alarming levels, vaccine recovery is seen as an essential strategy for recovery, although it is clear that it will take months for many to gain admission. Priority is expected to be considered for older people, first responders, essential workers and people with preexisting conditions.
There were 34,490 new daily coronavirus cases reported in California on Monday, far more than the number of daily cases counted, according to data compiled by the Times.
The gap between the cases reported on Monday and the previous single-day record is so large – set Friday, when 22,369 cases were lengthened – that the difference of two figures, 12,121, would have been California’s highest before the recent surge.
This record-breaking report comes together when record officials said they expect to start seeing the results of travel and reunions for the Thanksgiving holiday. The numbers can also give an impression of a time when the calculation of daily infections as small as the size of a small town may be more common than the exception.
In the past week, there have been an average of 22,220 new coronavirus cases per day in California – an increase of 78% over the previous two weeks, according to the Times County-by-County of Infection.
