LA County Indoor Mask Mandate Could Come Back This Week

If it feels like a lot more people you know have been catching COVID-19 recently, it’s not just your imagination. Cases are on the rise again fueled by highly contagious omicron subvariants.

Boosters don’t seem to be preventing most people from getting sick multiple times. And, this week, LA County is poised to bring back the indoor mask mandate.

“It’s very likely that it’s going to happen and if not by the end of this week perhaps next week or sometime before the end of the year,” Alice Benjamin

“Rates are up and it’s not just infection rates but it’s the COVID positive hospitalization rates which have triggered this,” Benjamin said.

LA County has also seen a steady increase in the number of related deaths.
“Just at the end of last week we were seeing 100 deaths a weeks from COVID and just a month ago it was at 50,” Benjamin said. “This mask mandate might be a very good idea.”