Coronavirus spreads in Los Angeles’ homeless community
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus spreads in Los Angeles’ homeless community

LA Times  

Outreach nurse Kenya Smith, right, leaves food for Davis Soto, who is homeless, last month in Los Angeles. There are nine confirmed cases of coronavirus among Los Angeles’ homeless population, said Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, at her Thursday media briefing. Ferrer said it was challenging to know exactly where in the county these homeless people had been, but so far there had been no clustering of cases. ” Ferrer said public health staff quarantined 22 homeless people from a shelter in their own rooms at another facility. As the city has moved homeless people off the streets, county officials have been working to secure thousands of beds both for shelters and for isolation or quarantine.

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Hepatitis A spreading among Los Angeles homeless population, health officials say
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Hepatitis A spreading among Los Angeles homeless population, health officials say

LA Times  

A homeless woman washes up at a fire hydrant near her encampment along south Lemon Street in downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating an outbreak of the highly contagious liver disease hepatitis A among its homeless population. Health officials said five cases of hepatitis A have been reported since mid-March among people experiencing …

‘The pandemic isn’t over.’ Coronavirus cases in L.A. County keep rising
1 year, 4 months ago

‘The pandemic isn’t over.’ Coronavirus cases in L.A. County keep rising

LA Times  

Experts say travel, the back-to-school season and new Omicron subvariants are the likely reasons why coronavirus cases are continuing to rise locally and across the nation. New outbreaks have been reported in Los Angeles County’s nursing homes, and one Hollywood studio temporarily imposed a mask mandate after several employees were infected. “While hospitalizations are increasing, the current levels are still …

California COVID-19 rules ease as emergency declarations end. Here’s what’s changed
1 year, 9 months ago

California COVID-19 rules ease as emergency declarations end. Here’s what’s changed

LA Times  

Shoppers, some wearing masks, make their way along Santee Alley in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 2022. “With the rescinding of many emergency orders these past weeks, there are questions about which sensible protections remain important to consider,” said L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “Given the differing risks both by setting and by individual characteristics, the goals of …

Dangerous weeks ahead in L.A. County as coronavirus suddenly surges. Here is why
2 years, 1 month ago

Dangerous weeks ahead in L.A. County as coronavirus suddenly surges. Here is why

LA Times  

Commuters, some with face masks and some without, walk through Los Angeles Union Station on Tuesday. “People came back from Thanksgiving and pretty quickly were testing positive,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. Dr. Sara Cody, the county’s public health director, warned that this winter is shaping up to be “extraordinarily difficult,” pointing to sewage data suggesting coronavirus levels …

Coronavirus cases soar at L.A. County workplaces, complicating back-to-office push
2 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus cases soar at L.A. County workplaces, complicating back-to-office push

LA Times  

Workplaces throughout Los Angeles County are being hit hard by the latest coronavirus wave, with the number of reported case clusters nearly quadrupling since early May. The “clusters and outbreaks are disruptive and hazardous, particularly as many more outbreaks now involve 20 or more workers,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said this week. “We’re now recording the highest …

Stunning spread of COVID subvariants brings high-risk summer to California
2 years, 5 months ago

Stunning spread of COVID subvariants brings high-risk summer to California

LA Times  

Three men wear masks while walking through Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Although hospitals in L.A. County are not overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, Ferrer has said reinstating a universal mask mandate should hospitalizations continue to rise is prudent. “The time to slow transmission is actually when you start seeing indicators that you’re having more utilization at your hospitals.” Ferrer …

California’s new coronavirus wave is disrupting lives, even with less severe illness
2 years, 7 months ago

California’s new coronavirus wave is disrupting lives, even with less severe illness

LA Times  

A new surge of coronavirus cases is taking shape, as California slogs into a third pandemic summer with far fewer hospitalizations and deaths but still significant disruptions. “If we continue on the current trajectory, we could find that cases and hospitalizations end up exerting stress on our healthcare system within just a few weeks,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director …

Wealthy L.A. County communities seeing fastest rise in coronavirus cases
2 years, 7 months ago

Wealthy L.A. County communities seeing fastest rise in coronavirus cases

LA Times  

Members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West strike at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday in Los Angeles. There are “slightly higher case rates in communities with less poverty at this time,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said at a briefing Thursday. For the first time since the winter Omicron surge faded, the coronavirus case rate …

Despite coronavirus uptick, there’s hope L.A. County can avoid another surge
2 years, 8 months ago

Despite coronavirus uptick, there’s hope L.A. County can avoid another surge

LA Times  

Despite a recent rise in coronavirus cases, Los Angeles County’s public health director said this week she remained hopeful the region could avoid another major spike by taking sensible precautions. Ferrer said L.A. County would require masks again if the region’s coronavirus-positive hospitalizations numbers hit a threshold set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Our hope is …

Coronavirus cases are spiking elsewhere. Will L.A. County be hit hard or be spared?
2 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus cases are spiking elsewhere. Will L.A. County be hit hard or be spared?

LA Times  

After dramatic declines in coronavirus cases, Los Angeles County has hit another plateau this week that comes amid the spread of the highly infectious BA.2 Omicron subvariant. L.A. County’s public health director said the best way to prepare for the coming weeks is to get up to date on vaccinations and booster shots and to wear masks in indoor public …

Optimism at L.A. County’s nursing homes as coronavirus surge declines
2 years, 11 months ago

Optimism at L.A. County’s nursing homes as coronavirus surge declines

LA Times  

“The extraordinarily high case rate has not caused a similar high increase in deaths among residents compared to our previous surges. We attribute these lower numbers to very high vaccination rates amongst nursing home residents,” said L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. Los Angeles County’s nursing homes have observed an extraordinary increase in coronavirus case rates during the Omicron …

You tested positive for COVID. You have roommates. L.A. County may be able to help
3 years ago

You tested positive for COVID. You have roommates. L.A. County may be able to help

LA Times  

If you get sick with COVID-19 this winter, you might be especially worried about infecting others if you share space with elderly relatives or live in a crowded apartment to save money. Nurses who handle phone calls “have been trained to have that discussion,” said Heidi Behforouz, chief medical officer for the Housing for Health division at the L.A. County …

What sways homeless people to get COVID-19 shots? It could be other homeless people
3 years, 2 months ago

What sways homeless people to get COVID-19 shots? It could be other homeless people

LA Times  

It was a familiar voice that coaxed Kimberly Conti to step out, barefoot, from the back of the hulking former bookmobile parked in an industrial corner of Lincoln Heights. “It means more to have someone they’ve lived with and spent time with say, ‘I got mine, and it wasn’t a big deal.’” A team from L.A. County Health Services works …

COVID-19 got this medical team into homeless camps. What about after the pandemic?
3 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19 got this medical team into homeless camps. What about after the pandemic?

LA Times  

Inside the white van parked in the concrete bed of La Canada Verde Creek, Wendy Ruvalcaba rooted in her bag for her phone as it chimed. Dr. Absalon Galat of the L.A. County Department of Health Services street medicine team drives a van on the concrete bed of La Canada Verde Creek during a visit to homeless encampments. “That makes …

L.A. wanted the Venice homeless shelter open at full capacity. Now it has a COVID outbreak
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. wanted the Venice homeless shelter open at full capacity. Now it has a COVID outbreak

LA Times  

At a city-funded homeless shelter in Venice, 37 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks — the largest current outbreak in a homeless facility in Los Angeles. “There was a strong recommendation from the city that we ‘recompress,’” said Jennifer Hark-Dietz, deputy chief executive officer and executive director of PATH, a statewide homeless housing and services agency, …

Hospitalizations increasing as L.A. County reports more than 2,000 new coronavirus cases
3 years, 5 months ago

Hospitalizations increasing as L.A. County reports more than 2,000 new coronavirus cases

LA Times  

Marco Figueroa, 42, gets a dose of Pfizer vaccine from nurse Jonica Portillo at the Pico Union Project in Los Angeles. Los Angeles County health officials reported 2,089 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, with hospitalizations rising as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to spread. On Saturday, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer warned that the Delta variant was …

Column: Why not use pandemic-emptied buildings as homeless shelters? One woman is trying
3 years, 10 months ago

Column: Why not use pandemic-emptied buildings as homeless shelters? One woman is trying

LA Times  

Rose Rios, right, hugs Donald Shields in 2018. Looking around at what she sees as a glut of buildings emptied by the COVID-19 pandemic, and considering the skyrocketing need for housing in an economy that’s pushing people into homelessness, Rios is telling everyone who will listen that she plans to buy a vacant building in South L.A. and turn it …

1 in 3 L.A. County residents have been infected by coronavirus since pandemic began, new estimate shows
3 years, 11 months ago

1 in 3 L.A. County residents have been infected by coronavirus since pandemic began, new estimate shows

LA Times  

Motorists line up to take a coronavirus test in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium on Jan. 4. Even if half of L.A. County’s population were immune, “and yet we decide to just pretend that we don’t have to take precautions, we will still have a very, very devastating pandemic.” L.A. County averaged more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases a …

Thousands of L.A. healthcare workers sickened by coronavirus, worsening crisis in hospitals
4 years ago

Thousands of L.A. healthcare workers sickened by coronavirus, worsening crisis in hospitals

LA Times  

Outbreaks among healthcare workers have hospitals stretched thin. “We’re going to continue to work with organizations across the county to ensure that healthcare workers at every location are protected,” L.A. County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said this week. Since the pandemic began, 28,448 healthcare workers and first responders have tested positive for the coronavirus in L.A. County, …

January 5, 2021 coronavirus news
4 years ago

January 5, 2021 coronavirus news

CNN  

Overflowing hospital morgues, increased 911 wait times, beds only opening when patients die. The surge of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations is pushing hospitals in Los Angeles County to the “brink of catastrophe,” a top health official there said. “Hospitals are declaring internal disasters and having to open church gyms to serve as hospital units,” Supervisor Hilda Solis said, calling …

New, potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus spreads in California
4 years ago

New, potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus spreads in California

LA Times  

A health department worker fills out a vaccination card before administering the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to emergency medical workers and healthcare personnel at the Chester County Government Services Center in West Chester, Pa., on Dec. 29. Officials in San Diego County on Tuesday reported a cumulative total of 32 cases of the new, potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus …

Editorial: COVID is surging among homeless people. L.A. needs to do something about it.
4 years ago

Editorial: COVID is surging among homeless people. L.A. needs to do something about it.

LA Times  

Los Angeles Police Sgt. For months during the pandemic, homeless people in Los Angeles seemed less susceptible to contracting COVID-19 — a combination of being spurned by others and living by themselves in tents on sidewalks. It also helped that the city and county provided up to 4,000 motel and hotel beds to particularly vulnerable homeless people through a program …

New, more infectious strain of coronavirus worries California
4 years ago

New, more infectious strain of coronavirus worries California

LA Times  

California state officials expressed deep concern about a new, more infectious strain of the coronavirus detected in Europe and South Africa, which led government officials to renew lockdown measures across much of England. “They should.” By Sunday, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Ireland and Bulgaria all said they would ban incoming flights from the U.K. Prime Minister Boris …

Seventeen new cases linked to Adelaide northern suburbs coronavirus cluster
4 years, 1 month ago

Seventeen new cases linked to Adelaide northern suburbs coronavirus cluster

ABC  

Seventeen coronavirus cases have now been linked to a cluster in Adelaide's northern suburbs, South Australia's Chief Public Health Officer says. SA Health yesterday said an 80-year-old woman tested positive after being treated at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in the city's north. It said people did not need to self-quarantine but should get tested if they had any symptoms of …

Photos: Gov. Newsom announces new stay-at-home order as COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record
4 years, 1 month ago

Photos: Gov. Newsom announces new stay-at-home order as COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom issued a statewide order setting new restrictions tied to regional strains on critical care services as COVID-19 cases continued to rise. Registered Nurse Cianna Christopher, center, joins other medical professionals Nov. 30 at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks to raise concerns over “lack of COVID-19 testing for patients and staff, continued insufficient PPE and dangerous …

Coronavirus spike in L.A. County brings new alarms
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus spike in L.A. County brings new alarms

LA Times  

LAPD officers on horseback move in to disperse the crowds in downtown Los Angeles after the Dodgers win the World Series. “The high numbers of daily cases are very concerning because, as we have seen in the past, increases in cases lead to increases in hospitalizations and deaths,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement. In …

Have L.A.’s homeless people dodged a COVID-19 catastrophe?
4 years, 4 months ago

Have L.A.’s homeless people dodged a COVID-19 catastrophe?

LA Times  

When the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, advocates predicted that a “time bomb” was about to go off in the homeless community. But most of those infected had no symptoms: In Boston, where every shelter resident was tested, the asymptomatic rate was 70% to 90%, said Dr. James O’Connell, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and president of Boston Health Care for …

Southeast L.A. already faced many ills. Now it’s the epicenter of coronavirus
4 years, 5 months ago

Southeast L.A. already faced many ills. Now it’s the epicenter of coronavirus

LA Times  

Customers walk at the Plaza Mexico in Lynwood. Southeast Los Angeles County has become the epicenter for the resurgence of the coronavirus, according to a Times analysis of county health data that found infections skyrocketing in its mostly working-class Latino communities. “It’s done that exactly, following the line of least resistance.” Hayes-Bautista, who is tracking the growth in cases per …

Dangerous coronavirus spike continues in L.A. County as Garcetti warns of new restrictions
4 years, 5 months ago

Dangerous coronavirus spike continues in L.A. County as Garcetti warns of new restrictions

LA Times  

Hospital workers respond to a coronavirus patient in need at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook earlier this year. Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 2,848 newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with the majority of those infected under the age of 41, as related hospitalizations reached a new high. As the dangerous surge in …

California fails to protect Latino workers as coronavirus ravages communities of color
4 years, 5 months ago

California fails to protect Latino workers as coronavirus ravages communities of color

LA Times  

Rafael Saavedra and his daughter Gianna, 5, in Alhambra on Tuesday. Orange County Labor Federation Executive Director Gloria Alvarado said county officials’ failure to enforce safety mandates has jeopardized essential workers’ safety. “It’s hurtful because those heroes who are out there working — those front-line workers are your neighbors.” Los Angeles City Councilman-elect Kevin de León said he felt L.A. …

Latinos now twice as likely as whites to get coronavirus in L.A. County
4 years, 5 months ago

Latinos now twice as likely as whites to get coronavirus in L.A. County

LA Times  

Signs alert people that masks are required in the California Botanic Garden in Claremont. Black residents of L.A. County are also more likely to have been infected with the coronavirus than white residents, Ferrer said. For every 100,000 Latino residents in L.A. County, more than 700 have been infected with the coronavirus; and for every 100,000 Black residents, nearly 400 …

New Coronavirus Hot Spots Emerge Across South And In California, As Northeast Slows
4 years, 7 months ago

New Coronavirus Hot Spots Emerge Across South And In California, As Northeast Slows

NPR  

New Coronavirus Hot Spots Emerge Across South And In California, As Northeast Slows Enlarge this image toggle caption Al Seib/LA Times via Getty Images Al Seib/LA Times via Getty Images Mass protests against police violence across the U.S. have public health officials concerned about an accelerated spread of the coronavirus. The northeastern states of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts …

Coronavirus ravages poorer L.A. communities while slowing in wealthier ones, data show
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus ravages poorer L.A. communities while slowing in wealthier ones, data show

LA Times  

Maria Banderas, left, answers questions from medical assistant Dolores Becerra before being tested for COVID-19 at St. John’s Well Child and Family Center in South L.A. A major shift was already underway last month as coronavirus deaths were rising across Los Angeles County and officials were trying desperately to prevent a surge in cases. “We’re not seeing a decline in …

How coronavirus has upended life for thousands at California’s largest apartment complex
4 years, 7 months ago

How coronavirus has upended life for thousands at California’s largest apartment complex

LA Times  

Sabrina Knight, 26, is worried about the spread of the novel coronavirus within Park La Brea, the largest apartment complex west of the Mississippi River, but she’s happy living there. “Everyone’s in the same boat.” The Park La Brea complex is home to a small town’s worth of people living in 4,245 high-rise and garden-style apartments on 160 acres. “It …

How one Texas county became a coronavirus hotspot overnight
4 years, 8 months ago

How one Texas county became a coronavirus hotspot overnight

Daily Mail  

Barely a week ago, rural Lamar County in Texas could make a pretty good argument for reopening on Friday. Now 65 people county-wide are infected and stores are second-guessing reopening as Lamar County becomes a cautionary tale of the fragility of Republican Gov Greg Abbott's plan to get Texas back in business faster than many states. Pictured: Mayor Steve Clifford …

Coronavirus is retreating in Bay Area, advancing in Los Angeles
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus is retreating in Bay Area, advancing in Los Angeles

LA Times  

Over the weekend, the beach near Veterans Park was closed in Redondo Beach. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen consecutive weekly declines in the number of new cases, while Southern California has seen the pace of new cases increase. Even adjusted for its larger population, its rate of 9.9 deaths per 100,000 people is 68% higher than the next-hardest-hit …

A troubling trend: Coronavirus-related deaths doubled in L.A. County over last week
4 years, 8 months ago

A troubling trend: Coronavirus-related deaths doubled in L.A. County over last week

LA Times  

Medical staff work inside an isolation area of the emergency department at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, where patients with COVID-19 are being treated. The number of coronavirus deaths in Los Angeles County doubled in the last week amid new evidence that the poor are being hardest hit, according to the county health department. Officials said the …

Are homeless shelters ‘a nasty experiment’ during coronavirus? L.A. says no and opens more
4 years, 8 months ago

Are homeless shelters ‘a nasty experiment’ during coronavirus? L.A. says no and opens more

LA Times  

LA City parks and recreation staff along with volunteers from the Salvation Army set up cots for homeless at Westwood Recreation Center in Westwood. The outbreak is what critics of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s plan to convert dozens of city recreation centers into homeless shelters have feared — and what other cities have already experienced. On Monday, Garcetti said that the …

AP PHOTOS: A week of images from the coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

AP PHOTOS: A week of images from the coronavirus pandemic

Associated Press  

A homeless man evicted from a squatters’ camp waited on a bus in New Delhi, India. India’s homeless population, for instance, was affected when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to make up for lost time by extending the world’s largest lockdown to head off the disease’s peak. Elsewhere, daily life and religious observances carried on, albeit with many people …

Hundreds of thousands in L.A. County may have been infected with coronavirus, study finds
4 years, 8 months ago

Hundreds of thousands in L.A. County may have been infected with coronavirus, study finds

LA Times  

Hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles County residents may have been infected with the coronavirus by early April, far outpacing the number of officially confirmed cases, according to a report released Monday. “We are very early in the epidemic, and many more people in L.A. County could potentially be impacted,” said Neeraj Sood, the study’s leader and a professor at …

California names nursing homes with coronavirus outbreaks, number of cases
4 years, 8 months ago

California names nursing homes with coronavirus outbreaks, number of cases

LA Times  

For the first time, California Department of Public Health officials have divulged the names of nursing homes across the state with COVID-19 outbreaks and the number of cases at each facility. Among the hardest-hit facilities are the Brier Oak on Sunset nursing home in Los Angeles, where 80 residents and 62 staff members have tested positive, according to the state’s …

Los Angeles medical teams to help protect homeless people from coronavirus
4 years, 8 months ago

Los Angeles medical teams to help protect homeless people from coronavirus

CNN  

CNN — Los Angeles is sending medical street teams to help protect homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic that’s killed tens of thousands nationwide, city officials said. Under the effort that starts Monday, deployed medical teams will focus on people living on the streets and provide them with rapid-results coronavirus tests, regular health and welfare screenings, counseling and transportation to …

Coronavirus infections could be much more widespread than believed, California study suggests
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus infections could be much more widespread than believed, California study suggests

LA Times  

Healthcare workers take a sample from a driver at a coronavirus testing site at the Westminster Mall last week. The preliminary study, conducted by researchers at Stanford University, estimates that between 2.5% and 4.2% of Santa Clara County residents had antibodies to the new coronavirus in their blood by early April. Investigators from the Los Angeles County Department of Public …

Dozens of homeless people relocated after skid row shelter reports six coronavirus cases
4 years, 8 months ago

Dozens of homeless people relocated after skid row shelter reports six coronavirus cases

LA Times  

Staff and volunteers practice social distancing as they line up for lunch at Union Rescue Mission on Tuesday. The Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles was scrambling Thursday to relocate dozens of homeless people after the novel coronavirus infected six of its residents. The spike in cases at the massive mission, located in the heart of skid row, occurred …

Coronavirus US: Homeless crowd San Francisco's tent city
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus US: Homeless crowd San Francisco's tent city

Daily Mail  

Homeless people on the streets of San Francisco have been pictured gathering dangerously close together amid the coronavirus pandemic. Scroll down for video A homeless man peers out of his tent with the words 'D's tent please don't take' written, on the streets of the Tenderloin district in San Francisco, California Two people embrace on the streets of the Tenderloin …

Coronavirus is attacking nursing homes with poor infection track records in L.A. County
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus is attacking nursing homes with poor infection track records in L.A. County

LA Times  

A worker escorts a resident out of Beachwood Post-Acute & Rehab in Santa Monica, one of dozens of Los Angeles County skilled nursing facilities with coronavirus infections. “They also don’t have enough RNs to oversee the infection control.” Although infection control deficiencies are the most common violations for nursing homes, facilities that have struggled with the guidelines in the recent …

70 test positive for coronavirus at San Francisco homeless shelter
4 years, 8 months ago

70 test positive for coronavirus at San Francisco homeless shelter

LA Times  

Seventy residents and staff of a homeless shelter in San Francisco have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Mayor London Breed announced Friday. Breed said city officials were aware that homeless shelters and other congregant living situations, such as single-room occupancy hotels, could be locations where the virus could spread quickly. “This virus can take off quickly, and we are …

Homeless resident tests positive for coronavirus at Granada Hills Recreation Center
4 years, 9 months ago

Homeless resident tests positive for coronavirus at Granada Hills Recreation Center

LA Times  

Homeless people have moved into more than a dozen L.A. recreation centers, including one in Westwood, above. One of the homeless people living inside a recreation center in the San Fernando Valley has tested positive for the coronavirus, an aide to Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday. The test results became known two days ago and resulted in a “deep clean” …

Los Angeles crime plunges during the coronavirus stay at home order
4 years, 9 months ago

Los Angeles crime plunges during the coronavirus stay at home order

CNN  

CNN — Los Angeles has seen a 23% drop in crime in the past month as California has been under a stay at home order to fight the spread of coronavirus, the city’s police chief said. “People staying home in their neighborhoods, watching out for each other, and exercising social distancing is allowing us to have a safer city,” Los …

Consider pulling residents from nursing homes over coronavirus, says county health director
4 years, 9 months ago

Consider pulling residents from nursing homes over coronavirus, says county health director

LA Times  

The Kensington, an assisted living residence in Redondo Beach, has seen an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. With coronavirus sweeping through nursing homes at a deadly pace, Los Angeles County’s public health director on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of telling families it would be “perfectly appropriate” to pull loved ones out of long-term facilities for their safety. Dr. Barbara …

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