By Anita Bennett
21.04.2020 - 10:49 / hollywoodreporter.com
Anywhere between 221,000 and 442,000 Los Angeles County residents could have been infected with the COVID-19 illness, per a newly released antibody study done in partnership between USC and the L.A. County Department of Public Health.
By Anita Bennett
As florists, golf courses and trails open across Los Angeles County today, Public Health director Dr. Barbara Ferrer remained cautiously optimistic about moving into phase two of the area’s COVID-19 recovery plan.
By Tom Tapp
By Variety Staff
The path to reopening the economy in California and its largest county proved to be the focal point Tuesday of both Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 press briefings.
By Bruce Haring
By Anita Bennett
The death toll in Los Angeles County has surpassed 1,000 with an additional 56 lives lost over the past 24 hours due to COVID-19 illness, it was announced Wednesday. Of those who have died, 92 percent have faced underlying health issues, a percentage that has remained consistent over the past two weeks, said L.A.
By Anita Bennett
An additional 66 Los Angeles County residents have died from COVID-19 illness in the past 24 hours, it was reported Wednesday. That brings the total number of deaths across the county during the coronavirus pandemic to 729, with 89 percent of those patients suffering from underlying health conditions.
Another 46 people have died in Los Angeles County since Monday due to COVID-19 illness, bringing the total number to 663. For a second straight day, the number of newly diagnosed positive cases has increased significantly — Tuesday by 1,400, Monday by 1,491 — due to a backlog of cases, Dr.
Appearing on CNN 360 Monday evening, U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA), told host Anderson Cooper that “Unless we test, we will never know the extent of the spread of the #coronavirus and the extent of the challenge for us to eradicate it. It’s never too late to do the right thing. And in this case, doing the right thing can still save countless lives.”