From: David White <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 11:05:08 PM
To: David White <[email protected]>
Cc: Susan Cline <[email protected]>; Lindsay B. Call <[email protected]>; Joseph Lawrence <[email protected]>
Subject: Response to Question Regarding Item 4 -- Vaccine Mandate Dear Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and City Council,
On Friday, we received an email Lyn Greenberg asking for information in which the staff report regarding the vaccine mandate was based. The following is some additional information for your consideration, and I want to acknowledge Lindsay for pulling this together.
All data used to analyze LA County’s current situation and case/hospitalization/vaccination impacts on regional jurisdiction vaccination policy are publicly available at the websites below:
• LA County COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard
• LA County Vaccination Data Dashboard
• CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report – “SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Hospitalization Among Adults Aged +18 Years, by Vaccination Status, Before and During SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Predominance – Los Angeles, California, November 7, 2021 – January 7, 2022 In the staff presentation tomorrow night, we will include where data was obtained.
Data for City of Pasadena and City of Long Beach are represented in LA County’s Vaccination Dashboard but not LA County’s COVID Surveillance Dashboard. The following links can provide more information on Long Beach and Pasadena:
• Long Beach Health & Human Services COVID-19 Orders
• Long Beach COVID-19 Data Dashboard
• Pasadena Public Health Department COVID-19 Orders
• Pasadena COVID-19 Data Dashboard
Historically, we have found that Pasadena and Long Beach closely align with LA County Department of Public Health.
We have attempted to obtain peer-reviewed studies showing the impacts of hyper-local vaccination requirements (i.e., West Hollywood and Culver City), both on vaccination rates and cases/hospitalizations. There are minimal resources on this topic and some challenges with the scientific analysis related to the timing of policy implementation in the US and rise of the Omicron variant. In addition to reaching out to our local hospitals and LA County Department of Public Health, we have reached out to business and code enforcement leaders in jurisdictions that have these mandates to determine their effect and ability to enforce the regulations. Information obtained from these sources has been more anecdotal.
Please let us know if you have any additional questions.
David White
City Manager
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