Los Angeles Covid-19 Update: Record Number Of Health Care Workers Are Sick As County Hospital System Careens Toward Overwhelm

In Covid-19 ravaged California on Christmas Day, remaining ICU capacity for the first time fell to zero across the entire state.

“We are experiencing a modest decline in the rate of growth over the past few days,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom as he addressed the state of the state’s Covid-19 numbers on Wednesday. He then called the 39,069 new cases reported “a modest indication of some possible sign of some good news.” The governor also announced that the 7-day test positivity rate had “declined slightly” from 13.3% to 12.6%

Almost exactly two weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced what became a new lockdown for most of the state’s population, the daily number of new cases has fallen for five successive days. Granted, those numbers are dropping from an all-time new daily case high for the state — or any state, for that matter — of 53,711 announced last Wednesday.

With many hospitals in California at or on the brink of capacity and Gov.

During his Monday news conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that the state was monitoring a new, potentially more infectious strain of Covid-19. British officials have indicated that the variant on the virus could be up to 70% more transmissible.

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom was asked about a growth model showing there may be 99,000 virus-related hospitalizations by mid-January.

On Monday California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that many areas of the state would likely see an extension of his 3-week stay-at-home order which is set to expire in Southern California on December 30.

A California judge ruled that all San Diego County restaurants can reopen for on-site dining, falling in line with an earlier ruling that strip clubs could remain open despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s novel coronavirus-related health order that calls for such establishments to close up shop.

As ICUs across the state were overrun with Covid-19 cases this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom said of the virus, “This is not something to be trifled with. Think about what the January number may look like if we continue [this way].” January’s number may have come a little sooner than the governor expected.

On Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom took a victory lap on Tuesday after the arrival of the first 32,000 doses Covid-19 vaccine. “There is light at the end of the tunnel,” he said. But there was a lot of darkness in the numbers he later announced.

HOLLYWOOD – Helen Cordova, an ICU nurse at Kaiser Permenante Los Angeles Medical Center, became the first person in California to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

On Monday California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order altering the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) emergency temporary standard for Covid-19 related worker quarantines.

On Dec. 5, a Los Angeles County-based restaurant owner went viral after posting a video of herself showing off her outdoor dining area, which she was forced to shut down after November orders from California Gov.

New lockdown orders in California will rescue strained hospitals, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert.

California Governor Gavin Newsom took to the podium Monday morning after a devastating weekend for the state that saw the all-time high number of cases on Friday of about 22,000, growing to over 30,000 by Sunday. On Monday, the number was 24,735. “Just over the past 3 days we’ve averaged about 25,000 new cases a day,” said the Governor.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco on Friday said that his office will not be “blackmailed, bullied, or used as muscle” against county residents to enforce California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus orders.

The Orange County sheriff in California said Saturday his department would not be enforcing Gov.

Surging coronavirus cases and tumbling intensive-care unit bed availability looks almost certain to plunge Los Angeles and the rest of Southern California into a new lockdown period this weekend.

Certain parts of California may be forced to implement Gov. Gavin Newsom’s strict coronavirus stay-at-home order this weekend.