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SLO County Residents: Get Your COVID-19 Vaccine
If what’s happening in Los Angeles County is any indication, SLO County is in for more trouble.
COVID-19 test positivity increased by 700% in one month. One month! Because of the Delta variant, which is more contagious than the variants we’ve seen pass through our state, L.A. County recorded thousands of new coronavirus cases that are primarily found in unvaccinated people. To curb the meteoric rise in cases, the county is now imposing mask mandate for indoors for vaccinated and unvaccinated residents.
And sure, our current numbers in SLO County pale in comparison. But consider the following.
Two weeks ago, we recorded 35 cases for an entire week. Not terrible. It’s rather expected. But last week, we saw 70 new cases in one week. That’s 200% test positivity in two weeks and we got two more weeks to go. And sure, we have a far smaller county population than L.A. But if we look at the current trajectory of cases in proportion to our population where only half of us are fully vaccinated (49.9% to be exact), then we’re looking at a big problem for unvaccinated residents. As our case positivity weekly moving average increases and our county hesitates to implement any restrictive measures — for understandable reasons since we all want to return to a semblance of normalcy — we could be ground zero for a massive…
