BY THE NUMBERS
February 4, 2021
Numbers in Los Angeles County (Source: Los Angeles Times)
- Over the last seven days, 37,602 new Covid cases were reported in Los Angeles County.
Covid spread per 100,000 residents by neighborhood since the beginning of the pandemic:
- Beverlywood: There have been 5,800 cases per 100,000 residents.
- Crestview (Pico-Robertson area): There have been 7,609 cases per 100,000 residents.
- Hancock Park: There have been 5,352 cases per 100,000 residents.
- Westwood: There have been 4,110 cases per 100,000 residents.
- Valley Village: There have been 7,189 cases per 100,000 residents.
- Brentwood: There have been 4,180 cases per 100,000 residents.
Vaccination information:
- As of Feb. 4, 952,634 vaccines have been administered in Los Angeles County. SOURCE(Source: Los Angeles Times)
- 54 out of 136, or 39.7% percent, of Shalhevet students and faculty members surveyed had received either one or both doses of the vaccine as of Jan 27. (Source: Boiling Point Covid Tracker Jan. 26-27)
- Over the next three weeks, California is expecting to receive more than 30 million more doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. (Source: press briefing by the White House on Jan. 27)
- Extreme allergic reactions to the COVID vaccine — the most serious vaccine side effect reported so far — are rare, with only 6.2 cases per 1 million people given the Pfizer vaccine and 2.1 cases per 1 million doses given of the Moderna vaccine.
In contrast, the risk of death from catching COVID-19 is much higher: approximately 16,500 for every 1 million people diagnosed will die. (Source: press briefing by the White House on Jan. 27)
Hospitalizations:
- Today there are 5,165 COVID patients currently in LA County hospitals with 1,415 of them being in the ICU (intensive care unit). This is a 28.2% decrease from two weeks ago. Source (Source: LA County Daily Covid-19 Data)
- Many of these hospitals remain at or above their maximum ICU capacity, with Cedars Sinai being the most overcrowded hospital in the county at a 127% occupancy. (Source: Los Angeles Times)
- Due to overflow, some LA County hospitals are treating COVID-19 patients in hospital gift shops and conference rooms. (Source: abc7 Eyewitness News)
Variants: (Sources: CDC and press briefing by the White House on Feb. 1)
Three main coronavirus variants– mutated COVID-19 strains– have now been detected in the US: B117 (British variant), P1 (Brazilian variant), and B1351 (South African variant). Some of these variants are thought to be more contagious and possibly more deadly.
- So far, 113 cases of the B117 and zero cases of B1351 have been identified in the state of California.