Coronavirus pandemic
Updated
Published
December 23, 2020 4:15 PM
A tent is placed last week outside the Dignity Health-St. Mary Medical Center to triage an influx of Long Beach patients. (Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)
With morgues in Long Beach nearing capacity, the city s health department has activated its mass fatality plan, as deaths from COVID-19 continue to mount.
Meanwhile, daily cases in Long Beach have exploded over the past six weeks by more than 1,000%.
And, like the rest of L.A. County, that s also translating into more hospitalizations, as officials report an over 200% increase in admissions for COVID-19 patients since Thanksgiving.
California’s new election chief Shirley Weber had a story to tell Wednesday as she was introduced to the state’s 40 million residents, save the San Diego County constituents she represents in the Assembly: Her grandfather never voted because he lived in Arkansas during Jim Crow, before the Voting Rights Act.
Her father fled Hope, Arkansas, because he was imminently in peril of being lynched. But once safely ensconced in California in the 1950s, Weber said one of the first things he did was vote because he finally had the opportunity to do so.
“His not being able to go to school, not being able to vote, he instilled its importance in his eight children,” Weber, whom Governor Gavin Newsom appointed as secretary of state on Tuesday, said.
Coronavirus pandemic
Updated
Published
December 23, 2020 4:15 PM
A tent is placed last week outside the Dignity Health-St. Mary Medical Center to triage an influx of Long Beach patients. (Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)
With morgues in Long Beach nearing capacity, the city s health department has activated its mass fatality plan, as deaths from COVID-19 continue to mount.
Meanwhile, daily cases in Long Beach have exploded over the past six weeks by more than 1,000%.
And, like the rest of L.A. County, that s also translating into more hospitalizations, as officials report an over 200% increase in admissions for COVID-19 patients since Thanksgiving.
Thousands of Oregonians may have to wait a little longer for payments, but action by Congress could ensure that their unemployment benefits will continue through March 13.
San Francisco mayor blasts California Governor Gavin Newsom for not picking a black woman to take Kamala Harris Senate seat
Governor Gavin Newsom named Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the son of Mexican immigrants, to fill Kamala Harris U.S. Senate seat
London Breed, herself an African-American woman, disagreed with the pick
Rep. Karen Bass also believed an African-American woman should be selected, but has since congratulated Padilla on his elevation to the Senate
Padilla will become the first Latino to represent California in Congress
Harris is currently the only African-American woman in the U.S. Senate