Los Angeles Coronavirus Update: Model Predicts County May Run Out Of ICU Beds In 2-4 Weeks As Transmission Rate Is Confirmed To Be Rising

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorJust minutes after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors closed the beaches for the long holiday weekend, a somber Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took to his podium.“This period will be our second big test,” said Garcetti ominously. “It is now time for a pause,” said the mayor.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLos Angeles County Department of Public Health Department Director Barbara Ferrer said on Monday that the country 2,903 cases, a record high a Total 100,772 people.Ferrer said there had been 22 additional COVID deaths, with a total of 3,326 fatalities.The director said the county tests now had an 8.4 percent positivity rate. “The increases we’re seeing today are not from testing,” said Ferrer.

LOS ANGELES — Adult film star Ron Jeremy pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday to charges of raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth in incidents from 2014 to 2019, City News Service reported.

In response to rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an order for all bars and nightclubs in Los Angeles and six other counties to close.The seven counties ordered to close their bars are Los Angeles, Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Kings, San Joaquin, and Tulare.

Jordan Moreau California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered all bars in several counties, including Los Angeles, to shut down again due to the rising number of coronavirus cases.Other counties’ bars forced to close include Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Kings, San Joaquin and Tulare.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Friday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Department reported increases in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and the positivity rate for testing over the last several weeks. The 7-day average of daily new cases is now 1,979; an increase from the 1,379 average two weeks ago.

LOS ANGELES — Adult film star Ron Jeremy pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday to charges of raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth in incidents from 2014 to 2019, City News Service reported.Jeremy, 67, is among the biggest names in the pornography industry, having appeared in more than 2,000 adult films starting in the 1970s.A preliminary hearing was set for Aug. 31 to determine if there is sufficient evidence to allow the case to proceed.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorAfter a week of record numbers and a curious plunge in cases yesterday, Johns Hopkins University indicated that Los Angeles now has the highest number of coronavirus cases of any county in the nation.Johns Hopkins reported 89,633 total cases in L.A. County as of Wednesday.

Prince Harry misses the creature comforts of his homeland back in England. The 35-year-old recently revealed what he misses the most about his country after relocating to Los Angeles, Calif., with Meghan Markle and their 1-year-old son Archie.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti reported 425 new cases in the city. According to the mayor and the county department of public health the county saw 1,260 new cases.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorLos Angeles County health officials said today that the region saw a record 2,571 new cases of coronavirus on Monday — which is more than 20% higher the previous daily mark set last week.Officials also reported 18 deaths in the past 24 hours, which is seven more than Sunday. The Public Health department has identified 85,942 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorLos Angeles County saw a spike in confirmed new cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours, jumping by a near-record 2,056, according to health officials. They also reported 48 deaths, up from the 38 reported Friday.Those numbers bring the totals to 81,636 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across L.A.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorThe number of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County crossed the 75,000 mark on Tuesday.The county Department of Public Health reported another 1,337 cases of the virus, while Long Beach confirmed 78 more and Pasadena added 10. The new cases gave the county a total of 75,172.Meanwhile, another 33 deaths were reported by the county.

Los Angeles is slowly getting back to normal.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia health officials have placed Los Angeles and eight other counties on an official watch list because those locales seem to be having trouble containing COVID-19.The warning is part of the county-by-county attestation process whereby local health officials can certify their region has met certain benchmarks and has a proper response plan in place should the virus begin to spread again. Los Angeles is one of 50 counties who filed such an attestation.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThe California National Guard has begun the process of leaving the Los Angeles area after a week-long deployment, according to a report citing sources.The move comes even as protests continue throughout Los Angeles County and sporadic looting is still present in some locations, although not at the scale of previous days.The Guard was deployed last Saturday in the wake of massive looting and fires in the areas of downtown L.A., Hollywood, Santa Monica, West Los

The ACLU of Southern California on Wednesday filed suit against the city and county of Los Angeles and the city of San Bernadino over the curfews imposed in the areas in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. The suit was filed on behalf of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and four individual plaintiffs.

Los Angeles County and several cities in the area extended curfew orders on Wednesday night and into Thursday morning as protests are again scheduled in some areas of Southern California. Los Angeles pushed back its curfew time from the 6 p.m.