The county also reported 17 new virus-related fatalities on Friday, Feb. 17, bringing the death toll toll to 35,545.
Los Angeles County health officials reported another 1,096 COVID-19 cases on Friday, Feb. 17, while again urging folks to get the vaccine booster shot — which, they say, provides strong protection for older residents against severe illness from an infection.
The new cases gave the county a cumulative total from throughout the pandemic of 3,694,317. The daily case numbers released by the county are undercounts of actual virus activity, though, because of people who use at-home tests and don’t report the results, and others who don’t test at all.There were 687 COVID-19-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals as of Friday, down from 699 on Thursday, according to state figures.
Touting the benefits of the latest COVID-19 vaccine, county health officials said on Friday that older residents inoculated with the bivalent booster shot are dramatically less likely to be hospitalized or die if they are infected with the virus. Unvaccinated adults who are at least 80 years old were more than three times as likely to be hospitalized and more than 5 1/2 times as likely to die than those who had received the bivalent booster, the county said. For people 65 to 79 years old, unvaccinated people were 12 times more likely to be hospitalized than those with the latest booster shot, and nearly 16 times more likely to die, according to the Department of Public Health.
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