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Volume 21 Issue 222
08.05.22
New COVID-19 vaccine options on the horizon
New cap on rent controlled increases to go before voters MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
After months of discussion, debate, dissension, demonization and at least one debacle, Council has finally settled on a ballot measure to reduce rents for rent controlled units. Annual increases in rent controlled units are currently defined as a percentage of inflation limited to a maximum of 6% or $140. Voters will be asked to cut that in half setting a new annual cap at 3% SEE RENT PAGE 7
US declares public health emergency over monkeypox outbreak Courtesy image
CASES: The county avoided a mask mandate when cases declined and is now expanding vaccine options. EMILY SAWICKI SMDP Staff Writer
Data indicated Los Angeles County was past the peak of the current COVID-19 wave as of Thursday, Aug. 4, despite metrics officially keeping the County in the “high” transmission tier for the third consecutive week, according to the latest information from LA County. “The preliminary data that CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] posted a short while
ago for today calculates the hospital admission rate at 10.1 [new hospital admissions per 100,000 residents], keeping LA County in the high community level,” LA County Department of Public Health (DPH) Director Barbara Ferrer said during her Thursday, Aug. 4, COVID media briefing. “While this is disappointing given that the County and CDC calculated hospital admission rate has been at or below 10 for the last few days, we do remain hopeful that this number can be adjusted soon so that the
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County will officially be moved into the medium community level.” Other numbers have fallen dramatically in the last couple of weeks since peaking in mid-July, including the seven-day average for daily cases, seven-day average percent of emergency department encounters classified as coronavirusrelated and new worksite cluster reports. At the weekly DPH briefing, Ferrer formally acknowledged the development of new vaccine formulas specially designed to
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combat the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub-variants of the virus, which are the dominant strains of the virus and are less responsive to current vaccines than previous variants. “At the end of June, the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] formally requested that vaccine manufacturers prepare an mRNA vaccine booster that includes ingredients targeting the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron. These boosters would be created using the
The federal government declared a public health emergency Thursday to bolster the response to the monkeypoxoutbreak that has infected more than 6,600 Americans. The announcement will free up money and other resources to fight the virus, which may cause fever, body aches, chills, fatigue and pimple-like bumps on many parts of the body. “We are prepared to take our response to the next level in
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