Headline Roundup • July 15th, 2021
Los Angeles County Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Los Angeles County announced Thursday it will reinstate an indoor mask mandate for residents regardless of their COVID-19 vaccination status. The manate will go into effect on Sunday. This comes after the county suggested two weeks ago that both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents wear masks amid the spread of the Delta variant. “We’re not where we need to be for the millions at risk of infection here in Los Angeles County, and waiting to do something will be too late given what we’re seeing now,” county health officer Dr. Muntu Davis said Thursday. The Los Angeles Times (Lean Left bias) reported an average of 1,077 new cases each day in the past week, a 261% increase from the daily average two weeks ago. Davis said he expects the mandate to remain until the county sees improvements in case transmissions.
Coverage from the left and center tended to highlight rising COVID-19 case numbers in the county, and speculate whether other regions with surging case numbers would follow suit. Some voices on the right criticized the decision, calling it a "fear-driven" attempt to encourage more residents to get vaccinated.
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Associated Press
A rapid and sustained increase in COVID-19 cases in the nation’s largest county requires restoring an indoor mask mandate even when people are vaccinated, Los Angeles County’s public health officer said Thursday.
Dr. Muntu Davis said at a virtual press conference that a public health order requiring masks indoors will go into effect Saturday.
“This is an all-hands-on-deck moment,” he said.
Davis didn’t fully detail what he said would be some exceptions but said for example, people could still go out to eat and take off their masks only while...
Los Angeles Times
Faced with a distressing rise in coronavirus cases, Los Angeles County will again require residents to wear masks in indoor public spaces — regardless of their vaccination status.
The new order, which comes a little more than two weeks after the county recommended the same protocols as a precaution, will go into effect at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, according to the county’s health officer, Dr. Muntu Davis.
Some exceptions will apply, Davis said, but the order will be similar to the requirements that were in place prior to California’s June 15 reopening.
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ZeroHedge
Never wanting to be outdone on the virtue-signaling scales of social justice, it would appear that LA County's infamous Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer (read all about her non-medical background here) has turned the dial to 11.
KNX1070's Claudia Peschiutta reports that LA County has decided to reinstate the indoor mask mandate - regardless of vaccination status - following a rise in COVID cases.
As far as we can tell, this would make LA County the first to reverse (so Brave), despite the "science" from the CDC saying that vaccinated people are...
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