LAC Recommends Not Traveling To Nevada When COVID-19 Case Count Rises

Health officials in Los Angeles County have essentially told residents not to visit states with coronavirus case spikes, like Florida, Nevada, Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana. Meanwhile, the Health Officer for Los Angeles County, Muntu Davis, has recommended reconsidering going to places with increasingly high coronavirus case rates, especially for unvaccinated people. Some of those places are the same as mentioned above, but there could be more locations.

The Southern Nevada Health District has told residents to use masks when in indoor public environments, which would impact Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Clark County, Mesquite, and Boulder City. This is because Nevada has the US’s highest coronavirus disease case surge.

Health officials stated in a recent media release that the SNHD recommends using masks when in jam-packed public places indoors for vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Groceries, large event venues, casinos and malls are some of those places. The specific reason for the recommendation is that anyone may come into contact with a person present there without full vaccination. Health officials described it as a measure to fully use the tools at their disposal to prevent the epidemic.

LAC has witnessed a spike in daily coronavirus case count, including over 1,000 COVID-19 positive cases on average over seven days. This made the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) say that every native, irrespective of their vaccination status, should use masks when in the said environments.

DPH also highlighted that all present hospitalizations in the facilities that the Los Angeles County government runs have emerged from unvaccinated people.

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services’ director Christina Ghaly said that no patient with Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine administration was admitted to DHS-operated hospitals. As for Ghaly, each COVID-19 patient admitted to the hospitals has not yet received full vaccination.

The statements from DPH came just before the CDC’s Director Rochelle Walensky’s comment on the US becoming an epidemic of the so-called unvaccinated. Walensky made the statement because people without vaccination are the source of almost every case of COVID-19 hospitalization and death in the nation.