LOS ANGELES—As the winter Omicron surge subsides, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health updated the mask compliance requirement for the post-surge period while a new state bill was introduced on Feb. 4 to grant schools access to students’ COVID-19 vaccination records.
On Feb. 4, Los Angeles County reported 15,427 new COVID-19 cases and 85 new deaths. For the seven days before Feb. 3, the daily average number of hospitalizations has dropped to 3,233—for the first time below 3,500 in the past few weeks.
