Los Angeles paramedics administer oxygen to a potential patient on the sidewalk before transporting him to a hospital in Hawthorne, Calif., on Dec. 29, 2020.
One person is infected every 6 seconds and one person dies every 10 minutes, Mayor Of Los Angeles Jassid said On Thursday. health officials recently ordered travelers entering Los Angeles from outside Southern California to be quarantined for 10 days. However by the expert criticism, light policy but no law enforcement, the effect is limited.
Los Angeles County, with a population of about 10 million, is the worst-hit area of COVID-19 (Wuhan Pneumonia) in the US. According to the epidemic data released on April 4, 9,142 people were infected with COVID-19 and 77 died in one day, totaling 820,000 people infected with COVID-19 and 10,000 died.
On Dec. 30, in response to the Christmas and New Year’s holiday season, the Los Angeles County Department of Health issued a mandatory quarantine for all travelers entering the city for 10 days, during which time they must not leave their homes or buy food or send it out.
But this “injunction”, which literally means to enforce the law, lacks effective law enforcement and relies on voluntary cooperation. The only way to do so is to post notices in prominent places at airports, railway stations and other transportation transfer stations, appealing to the public to cooperate.
Home quarantine orders have failed to stop the spread of the disease
More than nine months after the outbreak in March last year, the 10-day quarantine order issued by the California government to the county government, and the mask order issued by the Los Angeles County recently, seems to have failed to stop the spread of the epidemic. Instead, it doubled in the fall.
The Northern California Bay Area is also subject to entry quarantine measures, with fines and detention penalties, but officials say the focus is on educating people rather than imposing penalties, cNA quoted the Los Angeles Times as saying.
“It’s a good policy, but I’m afraid it may not work,” Peter Chin-Hong, a public health expert at the University of California, San Francisco, said on radio Monday of the Los Angeles county quarantine measure.
In The case of San Francisco, for example, he described law enforcement as difficult, the number of people willing to comply was limited, and holidays were still heavily traveled. “I’m worried that this measure, once again, might look promising, but nobody did it,” he said.
Anne Rimoin, a professor of public health at THE University of California, Los Angeles, was asked in a separate radio interview Monday how effective the County’s quarantine system, which relies on the cooperation of public conscience, is.
“I know it’s hard, everyone is tired, but I can’t let up now,” she said.
Remon emphasized the seriousness of the outbreak, noting that back in August, one in 800 people in Los Angeles had the virus. By Thanksgiving eve at the end of November, one in 145 people had the disease. Now the situation has deteriorated to one in 60.
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