The county announced a total of 5,100 hospitalizations, along with 96 new deaths and 16,504 additional cases of COVID-19. Four additional cases of coronavirus-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, known as MIS-C, were also reported.
Of the people currently hospitalized, 20% of them are in the ICU.
“Since Monday, LA County has reported more than 71,000 new COVID-19 cases; an acceleration of cases never seen in our community,” the LA County Department of Public Health said. “As the number of cases continues to increase, so will the total number of individuals who become seriously ill or die.”
Health officials say the current rate of hospitalizations is accelerating at an “alarming rate.”
Meanwhile, the four new cases of MIS-C bring the total number of cases in Los Angeles County to 49. The 49 children diagnosed with the rare disease were hospitalized. Last week, the county confirmed that one child died due to MIS-C, the first such death in the county.
In late October, Los Angeles County health officials reported a total of 43 locally known cases.
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