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As of Tuesday, 81% of county residents aged 12 and over have received at least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of the county's overall 10.3 million population, 70% have received at least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.
Ferrer said the county has seen a sharp rise in recent weeks of unvaccinated people who wind up infected and hospitalized, while the pace among vaccinated residents has remained mostly flat. Figures show unvaccinated residents are now seven times more likely to become infected with COVID than their vaccinated counterparts, and 44 times more likely to be hospitalized. The risk of death is 60 times higher among the unvaccinated, Ferrer said.
Of the more than 5.9 million fully vaccinated people in the county, 72,163 have subsequently tested positive, for a rate of 1.22%, Ferrer said. A total of 2,424 vaccinated people have been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.041%, and 396 have died, a rate of 0.007%.
The county reported 25 additional COVID-19 deaths on Friday, giving the county an overall virus death toll of 26,838. Another 1,344 cases were confirmed, raising the cumulative total from throughout the pandemic to 1,509,073.
The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus remains low, at 0.98% as of Friday. The county's cumulative seven-day case rate, as estimated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has risen to 98 cases per 100,000 residents. That number was in the mid-70s two weeks ago.
At 98 cases per 100,000 residents, the county is on the verge of being downgraded out of the CDC's ``substantial'' transmission category to the ``widespread'' category.
According to state figures, there were 605 COVID-positive patients in county hospitals as of Friday. Of the people hospitalized, 164 were in intensive care, the same number as Tuesday.
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