COVID-19 hospitalizations at Providence Little Company rose with reopening of bars, restaurants
After declining for two months, COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the increase at Providence Little Company of Mary in Torrance. Chart courtesy of PLCOM In mid-April, the number of COVID-19 patients at Providence Little Company of Mary peaked at 83. The following month, while the Shelter At Home order was in place, the patient census dropped to 19. By Last week, that number had doubled to 38. The doubling of Providence Little Company’s COVID-19 patients coincided with the near doubling of COVID-19 cases statewide, from 130,000 on June 12 to 230,000 on July 1. On June 12, hoping the pandemic was under control, Governor Gavin Newsom allowed bars and restaurants to reopen. On July 1, he reclosed the bars and restricted restaurants to serving outside and to serving to go orders. “In a virus with a 14 day incubation period, this could have been predicted, that the cases would increase within two weeks of reopening the bars,” Dr. Anita Sircar said last Wednesday, July 1, during a Zoom update on the pandemic, hosted by Providence Little Company of Mary. Sircar is an infectious disease specialist at the hospital. “This is still very much a pandemic. Nothing is set in stone and it hasn’t…
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