1 million county residents fully vaccinated

Los Angeles County surpasses the threshold of one million fully-vaccinated residents this week as vaccination efforts ramp up across the county, Public Health officials announced Friday.

After the emergency authorization of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, vaccination rates increased across the county, with a million residents now being fully vaccinated and 3.2 million doses being administered.

“We have some delayed reporting of vaccine numbers this week,” Paul Simon, chief science officer with Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, said during a press conference Friday. “So, we can anticipate these vaccine numbers to be higher.”

The county is expected to receive 280,000 vaccine doses next week, with 6,000 being from Johnson & Johnson. Simon said the county is expecting an increase of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine by the end of March as county officials aim to have enough supply to vaccinate one million people each week.

“We have the (work) force to administer these vaccines. We just need the supply to meet our demands,” Simon said.

Public Health officials also released the following updated COVID-19 statistics Friday:

▪ Countywide COVID-19 cases reported in the past 24 hours: 756

▪ Total COVID-19 cases in L.A. County: 1,213,288

▪ New deaths related to COVID-19 reported in the past 24 hours: 60

▪ Total COVID-19 deaths in L.A. County: 22,722

▪ Hospitalizations countywide: 861, 26% of whom are in the ICU

▪ Hospitalizations at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital as of March 17: 8, with 1,176 discharged since the onset of the pandemic

▪ COVID-19 cases reported in the Santa Clarita Valley in the past 24 hours: 26

▪ Total COVID-19 cases in the SCV: 18,869

▪ Total COVID-19 deaths in the SCV: 282

The number of SCV cases, including all area health care providers’ daily figures and those at Pitchess Detention Center, broken down into region, are as follows:

▪ City of Santa Clarita: 19,711

▪ Unincorporated — Acton: 458

▪ Unincorporated — Agua Dulce: 261

▪ Unincorporated — Bouquet Canyon: 47

▪ Unincorporated — Canyon Country: 812

▪ Unincorporated — Castaic: 3,658 (majority of Castaic cases come from Pitchess Detention Center; exact number unavailable)

▪ Unincorporated — Lake Hughes: 41

▪ Unincorporated — Newhall: 67

▪ Unincorporated — Placerita Canyon: 1

▪ Unincorporated — San Francisquito Canyon/Bouquet Canyon: 15

▪ Unincorporated — Sand Canyon: 17

▪ Unincorporated — Saugus: 132

▪ Unincorporated — Saugus/Canyon Country: 39

▪ Unincorporated — Stevenson Ranch: 1,099

▪ Unincorporated — Val Verde: 326

▪ Unincorporated — Valencia: 185