L.A. Covid-19 Update: County Attempting To Vaccinate 6 Million People In 6 Months — And It May Not Be Enough

Los Angeles County ended 2020 breaking Covid-19 records and brought in the new year doing just the same.

Sony Pictures Television is the latest TV studio to extend the holiday production hiatus of its Los Angeles-based series amid an unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections and Covid-19 deaths in LA County.

Gilligan's Island, died Wednesday in Los Angeles of causes related to COVID-19. She was 82.

On the same day that California reported by far its highest number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said that L.A. had breached its own grim threshold. On Wednesday, the county crossed 10,000 lives lost to Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.

LOS ANGELES -- Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann among a misfit band of shipwrecked castaways on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan's Island,” died Wednesday of causes related to COVID-19, her publicist said.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorDawn Wells, who starred as the demure Mary Ann in long-running sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Wednseday of causes related to COVID-19 in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles reached another grim milestone as the county surpassed 7,000 coronavirus-related hospitalizations for the first time, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

HOLLYWOOD – Doctors and staff clapped after Keith Leach, a black frontline worker healthcare coworker at the Los Angeles LGBT Centre, received his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination Tuesday morning. The first of 400 doses received by the Centre, it was dispensed by Dr. Ward Carpenter, co-director of health services at the Centre’s McDonald/Wright Building located on North Schrader Blvd.

LOS ANGELES—Hospitals in Los Angeles County are reporting a surge in COVID-19 patients and some have been forced to temporarily cease ambulance arrivals and use gift shops as makeshift treatment rooms, a report Tuesday said. The Los Angeles Times reported that Los Angeles County is experiencing its most challenging moment since the onset of the outbreak.The paper said one person died from the virus every 10 minutes in the county on Christmas Eve.

Scientists in Los Angeles are trying to figure out if the fast-spreading strain of the coronavirus fueling a huge surge in cases in the United Kingdom is behind a similar rise in California. The mutation is up to 70 percent more contagious, but it doesn’t appear to be any more deadly.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to render the holiday season, once merry and bright, a period of darkness and loss as Los Angeles Public Health officials confirm 29,464 new Covid-19 cases in just two days.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a new tool that would help L.A. County residents be more cautious amid the dark periods of the coronavirus pandemic.

A mother in Los Angeles County says she feels "sick" after learning that special circumstance charges against three of the men accused of murdering her 20-year-old son and throwing him off a cliff were dismissed Friday under new District Attorney George Gascon’s sweeping reforms. Desiree Andrade told FOX11 Los Angeles that the death of her son, Julian Andrade, left her devastated and that Gascon’s office has yet to reach out to her about the case.

Clayton Davis The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), one of the most important critics groups in the awards season, is announcing their favorites films and performances, following Boston and New York last week.Notorious for embracing foreign films and performances, the west coast group chose Neon’s “Parasite” and its director Bong Joon-ho last year, which went on to win the Academy Award for best picture and director.The last time a LAFCA winner for best film failed to be nominated

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported Saturday that it has tallied 610,372 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County and a total of 8,817 deaths. since the pandemic began last February.

Los Angeles County reached yet another grim milestone on Saturday as Public Health officials reported more than 600,000 total cases of Covid-19. To date the county has recorded a total of 610,372 coronavirus cases.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon on Friday appeared to say that people yelling at him were too uneducated to not interrupt him while he was speaking in front of a Pomona courthouse, according to a report.

Under assault by the rising surge in COVID-19 cases, available space continued to dwindle on Friday at Los Angeles County hospitals. As a result, health-care professionals were imploring the public to take the virus seriously to prevent medical centers from being overrun and unable to care for patients.