Fears over COVID-19 variant grow as L.A. County mulls closing malls, gyms

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L.A. County races to vaccinate as many people as possible against the coronavirus before a strain thought to be even more contagious takes hold.

Dodger Stadium and other mass vaccination sites will be key in California’s effort to accelerate its COVID-19 vaccination rate.The B.1.1.7 variant accounted for 20% of new infections in southeastern England in November.

“That would all suggest that there is much wider spread transmission of this variant than we’re detecting right now,” Rutherford said at a campus town hall meeting last week.early suspicions: The variant is a super-spreader, capable of turbocharging the pandemic and muscling less transmissible strains of the virus into oblivion.

“We’re losing the race with coronavirus — it’s infecting people much faster than we can get vaccine into people’s arms, and it’s overcoming our social distancing,” said University of Florida biologistAdvertisement“I will support what [the Department of] Public Health recommends and our public health professionals recommend,” Garcetti said Thursday night.

 

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