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The county reinstated the mask mandate over the weekend, nearly a month after California Gov. Gavin Newsom waived many of the state's COVID-19 restrictions. Though roughly 52% of LA County residents have been vaccinated, it applies to all county residents regardless of vaccination status.

\"We're seeing that this transmission is so highly contagious that it will cost more in the long run if we have to see our hospitals being impacted, our ICU units, as well as our health care workers,\" Solis said Sunday.

Solis said the county is promoting programs aimed at \"lessening the hardships\" to receive a vaccine and to ease vaccine hesitancy.

\"We are going with groups on the ground to parks, to swimming pools, to swap meets -- anywhere you can think of where we are encouraging people to get vaccinated,\" Solis said.

\"I just want to caution people that we still have many youngsters under the age of 12, who are not eligible to get vaccinated. So we, as responsible adults, should be taking a proactive approach and making sure that we mask up and that we also get vaccinated as soon as possible,\" Solis also told Raddatz.

Solis added that she believes more California counties will introduce similar mask mandates in the near future.

\"I think that other counties and other jurisdictions are going to also follow suit in the coming days and let these numbers go in the different direction, but right now they continue to rise,\" she said.

On whether dropping COVID-19 restrictions was premature despite warnings of the delta variant, LA County Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda Solis tells @MarthaRaddatz: \"I'm not pleased that we have to go back to using the mask in this manner.\" https://t.co/L4q01sA9Xo pic.twitter.com/Mk76aQSUy1

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) July 18, 2021

Raddatz also asked about enforcement, citing a recent statement released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Office that said the department will not enforce the mask mandate since it \"is not backed by science.\"

\"How do you plan on enforcing this mask mandate?\" Raddatz asked.

\"Our public health department is typically the individuals that go out and do inspections, so I don't see where the sheriff really has to come in and weigh in on the manner that he might have thought,\" Solis said.

\"I'm not concerned about that. I think the public, overall, is smart enough to understand what is being said and how to protect themselves,\" she added.

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