Los Angeles County’s top health official on Thursday signaled that the county may impose its COVID-19-related mask mandate in the coming weeks.
“If both hospitalization indicators, new COVID-19 admissions and the proportion of staffed in-patient beds occupied by COVID patients, surpass the threshold for high, LA County will return to universal indoor masking,” LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a Thursday news conference.
Ferrer added that mask requirements will return if Los Angeles County has daily average hospital admissions rate of 10 people per 100,000 or if more than 10 percent of staffed inpatient beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Health Department reported 4,493 new COVID-19 cases and 14 additional deaths….