Countywide, 70.7 percent of residents age 12 and older are fully vaccinated, but public health outreach continues as pockets of communities with lower vaccination rates remain.
Most major sports leagues are struggling to vaccinate enough of their players to protect the clubhouse and locker room, and few stars are pitching vaccination to teammates or fans.
Los Angeles County is drawing particular concern as the more infectious Delta variant spreads throughout the state, but Californians in any community with large pockets of unvaccinated people face higher risks of infection and serious Covid complications, experts say.
As vaccination rates rise across the state, the overall numbers of covid cases and deaths have plunged. But health officials are still reporting nearly 1,000 new cases and more than two dozen deaths a day.