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    COVID-19 still a leading cause of death in LA County, even amid ‘milder’ omicron surge

    LOS ANGELES — The coronavirus continues to play an outsized role in the mortality rate in Los Angeles County, new data from the Department of Public Health show. According to an analysis from the county health department, COVID-19 was the second-leading cause of death in the first six months of 2022, illustrating the outsized effect the pandemic has had on mortality rates despite widespread ...
    by Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money and Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times Nov 08, 2022 5 minutes
    Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner workers prepare to move the gurney carrying the lifeless body of Judy Bounthong, 58, an ob-gyn tech who died of coronavirus complications, at the Days Inn by Wyndham, in West Covina, California, on Oct. 13, 2020.

    LOS ANGELES — The coronavirus continues to play an outsized role in the mortality rate in Los Angeles County, new data from the Department of Public Health show.

    According to an analysis from the county health department, COVID-19 was the second-leading cause of death in the first six months of 2022, illustrating the outsized effect the pandemic has had on mortality rates despite widespread availability of vaccines and the arguably less-severe omicron strain.

    By contrast, COVID-19 was the leading cause of death in the nation’s most populous county in the first six months of 2021, a span that includes the deadliest surge of the 21/2-year pandemic. And for the comparable period in 2020, COVID-19 was the second leading cause of death, even though the coronavirus did not begin to spread widely until March.

    From January through June of this year, the COVID-19 mortality rate of 30.1 deaths

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