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

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L.A. County facing a full-blown coronavirus surge as cases double, deaths rise
2 years ago

L.A. County facing a full-blown coronavirus surge as cases double, deaths rise

LA Times  

If coronavirus rates continue to rise, Los Angeles could see a return to indoor mask mandates. “We are seeing a rapid acceleration again,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in an interview Tuesday. L.A. County was on the brink of issuing new masking rules during the summer Omicron surge, but narrowly avoided doing so when cases and hospitalizations …

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As COVID-19 spikes in California, booster shots could make all the difference
2 years ago

As COVID-19 spikes in California, booster shots could make all the difference

LA Times  

With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rising in Los Angeles County, officials are voicing new confidence in the effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 booster shot. New data has found that the updated COVID-19 vaccines offer “significant additional protection” against symptomatic infection in people who were previously vaccinated or boosted with the older formula. “We have seen very low uptake of the …

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Despite rising cases, free coronavirus testing is reduced in L.A. County
2 years, 8 months ago

Despite rising cases, free coronavirus testing is reduced in L.A. County

LA Times  

Despite an increase in coronavirus cases, the availability of free testing sites has been reduced due to the stalemate in Washington over approving new COVID-19 pandemic funding. As a result, L.A. County has been forced to remove 25 community testing sites from the county’s website, “as those sites were no longer able to continue to commit to providing tests free …

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California offers cautious blueprint forward as COVID wanes, mask orders ease
2 years, 10 months ago

California offers cautious blueprint forward as COVID wanes, mask orders ease

LA Times  

California’s newly announced pandemic plan calls for flexibility as new variants surge and fall. “The date will be well within a period of time that, I think, will do justice to the needs to keep people confident that their children are being prioritized and healthy and safe; at the same time, to accommodate the understanding that we’re trying to promote …

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Why California is hoping people keep wearing masks even as coronavirus cases fall
2 years, 10 months ago

Why California is hoping people keep wearing masks even as coronavirus cases fall

LA Times  

Many health experts are strongly recommending the public still wear masks even as the state lifted its order requiring them to be worn in indoor public spaces for vaccinated people. Even as California begins to loosen its mask requirements, some top health officials are strongly recommending the public still wear face coverings, saying the state’s earlier pandemic experiences illustrate the …

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Optimism as Omicron peaks in California, but new BA.2 subtype raises questions
2 years, 10 months ago

Optimism as Omicron peaks in California, but new BA.2 subtype raises questions

LA Times  

There is growing optimism that the overall Omicron surge has peaked in California, but progress across the state remains uneven. “This downward trend is encouraging, and it signals that we’re likely to have passed the peak of Omicron transmission and are beginning to see a real decline in the number of newly infected individuals,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara …

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Omicron brings fewer serious illnesses, but California hospitals are overwhelmed as cases soar
2 years, 11 months ago

Omicron brings fewer serious illnesses, but California hospitals are overwhelmed as cases soar

LA Times  

Registered nurse Anh Bui works with a COVID-19-positive patient Tuesday in the intensive care unit at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance. A study of data from Kaiser Permanente Southern California released this week, for instance, “noted substantially reduced risk of severe clinical outcomes in patients who are infected with the Omicron variant compared with Delta,” according …

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Spike in California virus cases hitting hospitals, schools
2 years, 11 months ago

Spike in California virus cases hitting hospitals, schools

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — California is struggling to staff hospitals and classrooms as an astonishing spike in coronavirus infections sweeps through the state. The fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 is sidelining exposed or infected health care workers even as hospital beds fill with patients and “some facilities are going to be strapped,” Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said …

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California extends indoor mask mandate as Omicron surges
2 years, 11 months ago

California extends indoor mask mandate as Omicron surges

LA Times  

A support worker directs Los Angeles Unified School District students and staff at a coronavirus testing site at El Sereno Middle School in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Exemptions are in place for those younger than 2, who have certain medical conditions or are hearing-impaired, and people “for whom wearing a mask would create a risk to the person related to …

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Hospitals see big jumps in COVID-19 patients, but this surge is different from last winter
2 years, 11 months ago

Hospitals see big jumps in COVID-19 patients, but this surge is different from last winter

LA Times  

Registered nurse Akiko Gordon, left, and respiratory therapist Janssen Redondo tend to a COVID-19 patient inside the ICU at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles on Friday. The number of coronavirus-positive patients has spiked dramatically across Southern California since Christmas — but some health officials are noting important differences in how the latest surge is playing out …

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California orders statewide mask requirement starting Wednesday amid rising coronavirus cases
3 years ago

California orders statewide mask requirement starting Wednesday amid rising coronavirus cases

LA Times  

Shoppers wearing face masks wait in line to enter a store at the Citadel Outlets in Commerce on Nov. 26. Faced with rising coronavirus cases and growing concerns about the Omicron variant, California is ordering a statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces to go into effect on Wednesday. “We are proactively putting this tool of universal indoor masking in …

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Fearing a winter surge, California turbocharges its push for COVID booster shots
3 years, 1 month ago

Fearing a winter surge, California turbocharges its push for COVID booster shots

LA Times  

Faced with growing worries over a potential winter coronavirus surge, health officials in California and other areas are turbocharging the push for COVID-19 booster shots in hopes of getting more adults the extra dose as soon as possible. On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health summed up its booster guidance as follows: “In general terms that everyone can understand, …

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COVID-19 cases surge in L.A. County, fueled by ‘enormously selfish’ unvaccinated
3 years, 5 months ago

COVID-19 cases surge in L.A. County, fueled by ‘enormously selfish’ unvaccinated

LA Times  

Tamara Pitman, 44, left, of Long Beach is vaccinated for COVID-19 by Marc Ocampo during a clinic at the Long Beach City College Pacific Coast Campus on July 6. “It’s clear that the threat of COVID-19 is still with us and that we are dealing with a more infectious variant that causes it,” county Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis said. …

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California unveils sweeping plan for full reopening on June 15 as COVID fades
3 years, 7 months ago

California unveils sweeping plan for full reopening on June 15 as COVID fades

LA Times  

Jonathan Skogmo, CEO and founder of Jukin Media, Inc., walks through a deserted portion of the company’s offices in Culver City on May 20, 2021. Come June 15, Californians will wake up to a world that looks nothing like the last year-plus — one where businesses can open their doors without COVID-19 constraints on capacity or requirements for physical distancing, …

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In dramatic turnaround, California now has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the U.S.
3 years, 7 months ago

In dramatic turnaround, California now has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the U.S.

LA Times  

Seven-year-old Chloe Choi, right, peeks while sister Bella, 4, turns away as their dad gets his first COVID-19 shot at a Santa Ana vaccination site on Thursday. Months after a coronavirus surge sickened hundreds of thousands of people, left thousands dead and pushed hospitals to their breaking point, California’s virus case rate is now the lowest of any state in …

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California could actually reopen fully by June 15. Here’s what has to happen
3 years, 8 months ago

California could actually reopen fully by June 15. Here’s what has to happen

LA Times  

Can California really fully reopen its economy by June 15? That’s the target date officials unveiled this week amid continued optimism regarding the statewide landscape of the pandemic as the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to fall and more people are getting vaccinated. This week, California received 2.4 million total vaccine doses, a 33% increase from two weeks ago, …

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April 6, 2021 coronavirus news
3 years, 8 months ago

April 6, 2021 coronavirus news

CNN  

California, the first state to implement a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, plans to fully reopen the state’s activities and businesses beginning June 15, based on falling infection rates and low hospitalizations in the state, Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly announced Tuesday. Given the large number Covid-19 vaccinations administered so far – which surpasses 20 million doses today …

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California says it will fully reopen in June, citing falling Covid-19 case rates
3 years, 8 months ago

California says it will fully reopen in June, citing falling Covid-19 case rates

CNN  

CNN — California, the first state to implement a lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic, plans to fully reopen activities and businesses beginning June 15, state officials said Tuesday. “Looking 10 weeks out,” Newsom said, “our expectation is … everybody that would want the vaccine will have the opportunity to receive a vaccine.” California’s announcement comes as some health experts have …

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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 …

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New, potentially more contagious coronavirus variant found in California, Newsom says
3 years, 11 months ago

New, potentially more contagious coronavirus variant found in California, Newsom says

LA Times  

The new, potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in the United Kingdom has been found in California, Gov. “We have thousands and thousands of people getting tested every day, and we are just able to sample a small number of those test results and do the gene sequencing.” Whether the variant is present or not, she added, …

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Colorado identifies first known case of UK coronavirus variant in US
3 years, 11 months ago

Colorado identifies first known case of UK coronavirus variant in US

CNN  

CNN — A Colorado man has the variant of the coronavirus from the United Kingdom that health officials say is more transmissable than other strains of the virus, Gov. “An unknown travel history mean that this person picked it up the community,” Dr. Atul Gawande, a member of the Biden-Harris transition Covid advisory board and a surgeon at Brigham and …

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California coronavirus: Oxygen supply issues forced five LA-area hospitals to declare ‘internal disaster’
3 years, 11 months ago

California coronavirus: Oxygen supply issues forced five LA-area hospitals to declare ‘internal disaster’

CNN  

CNN — Oxygen supply issues led at least five Los Angeles County hospitals to declare an “internal disaster” Sunday, which included turning patients away. There are multiple issues involving oxygen delivery to patients, but generally the problem is not an absolute shortage of oxygen, according to Dr. Christina Ghaly, Los Angeles County Health Services director. “Because of that high flow …

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L.A. County issues most dire coronavirus warnings yet: Hospitals in crisis as death toll surges toward 10,000
3 years, 11 months ago

L.A. County issues most dire coronavirus warnings yet: Hospitals in crisis as death toll surges toward 10,000

LA Times  

Nurse Joan Pung dons her isolation gowns on Christmas Day inside the intensive care unit at Providence St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton. “The situation,” she added, “is truly dire.” According to the latest state data, there are 7,181 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in L.A. County; 1,449 of them are in intensive care units. “The rate of community transmission remains extraordinarily …

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