Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda L. Solis said Sunday that restoring the mask mandate is 'not punishment, but prevention' as the county responds to the alarming spike in COVID-19 cases and the highly transmissible delta variant.
"We're seeing that this transmission is so highly contagious that it will cost more in the long run if we have to see our hospitals being impacted, our ICU units, as well as our health care workers," Solis said Sunday.
Solis said the county is promoting programs aimed at"lessening the hardships" to receive a vaccine and to ease vaccine hesitancy. "We are going with groups on the ground to parks, to swimming pools, to swap meets -- anywhere you can think of where we are encouraging people to get vaccinated," Solis said.
"I just want to caution people that we still have many youngsters under the age of 12, who are not eligible to get vaccinated. So we, as responsible adults, should be taking a proactive approach and making sure that we mask up and that we also get vaccinated as soon as possible," Solis also told Raddatz.Solis added that she believes more California counties will introduce similar mask mandates in the near future.
"I think that other counties and other jurisdictions are going to also follow suit in the coming days and let these numbers go in the different direction, but right now they continue to rise," she said.
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