President Biden’s COVID-19 coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha , appeared on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, July 17, to voice his support for Los Angeles County bringing back its universal mask mandate on July 29 .
Jha explained, “My view on this has been very clear, which is local jurisdictions, cities, counties, states should make decisions about mask mandates because communities are different and their patterns of transmission are different.” Los Angeles County has seen an uptick in coronavirus cases that public health officials say is due to the BA.5 variant of the omicron strain. According to a map created by the CDC, 38 counties in California are in a “high” level of COVID presence, a designation that means there are 200 cases or more for every 100,000 people. Interestingly, a “medium” level of COVID presence is also designated at 200 cases for every 100,000 people, according to the CDC . […]
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