Los Angeles Still Suffering Near-Record Daily Covid-19 Deaths; Toll Expected To Remain High For Weeks Even As Cases Drop

California Governor Gavin Newsom was heckled at a live news conference on Wednesday as he sought to explain the state’s evolving response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Even though they have been a priority for weeks now, only 20% of Los Angeles County residents aged 65 and over have received even one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to county health officials.

“The issue of mutations is top of mind,” said Governor Gavin Newsom at his Wednesday Covid-19 press conference, “not only here in the State of California, but across the globe.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom was half an hour late to his own party on Monday. Scheduled to speak at a Covid-19 news conference at 11:30 pm, he didn’t appear until noon. That’s unlike the governor, but this is an unusual time for him.

LOS ANGELES -- Three people on a film set were critically hurt in an explosion that sparked a grass fire near Los Angeles on Tuesday, authorities said.The blast was reported in a mixed use industrial neighborhood of Santa Clarita, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Abraham Bedoyan.Ambulances took three critical patients to hospitals, according to Supervisor Martin Rangel with the LA County Fire Department.Fire spread to a grassy hillside but firefighters were able to quickly douse the

As many Angelenos are struggling to understand if they qualify for a Covid-19 vaccine — and then struggling to get one — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti received his first dose on January 21.

FilmLA is offering a more complete picture of how the pandemic has impacted filming in Los Angeles. The organization's latest reports found that production activity picked up considerably in the fourth quarter of last year to reach 7,34 shoot days — but that compared with the same period in the prior year (9,839 shoot days), overall fourth quarter production was down 25 percent.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFilming in Los Angeles fell to an all-time low in 2020, not surprisingly, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.FilmLA, partner film office for the City and County of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions, issued a pair of reports Tuesday illuminating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Los Angeles film economy.

When Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted regional stay-at-home orders across California on Jan.

“The good news is we’ve seen highs almost near 4,000 admissions a day into our hospitals because of Covid,” said the Golden State’s Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly today. ‘Now seeing days below 2,500 and even getting lower, which is exactly what’s going to keep our hospital conditions improving and our ICU capacity as high as it can be.”

Two months after outdoor dining was prohibited in Los Angeles amid a stricter stay-at-home order, local restaurants can one again welcome in-person customers. Governor Gavin Newsom lifted orders across the state on Mondayin response to improving coronavirus conditions after a record-breaking surge around the holidays.The order had been in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California and will now return the state to county-by-county restrictions.

“Everything that should be up is up, everything that should be down is down,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday as he sought to explain his sudden decision to end the state’s Regional Stay-at-Home Order. Newsom said he was referencing to Covid-19 numbers and vaccinations. Many in the state, however, have felt less certain of the nature of up vs. down.

Another week during the coronavirus pandemic, another grim milestone for Los Angeles County.

On Friday afternoon, as the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors met behind closed doors to discuss new, stricter shutdown orders; as Mayor Eric Garcetti and California Governor Governor Gavin Newsom appeared together to try and jumpstart the region’s lagging vaccination efforts; one key reason for the urgency of those efforts became clear.

California Governor Gavin Newsom flew down to Los Angeles on Friday for the opening of a mass vaccination site at Dodger Stadium. Before Newsom stepped to the podium, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti introduced him as “not just California’s governor, but America’s governor.”