The county is currently vaccinating health care workers and residents 65 years and older, who were made eligible based on recent federal and state guidance.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s abrupt move to lift stay-at-home orders – allowing outdoor dining and other business activities to resume – represents a gamble that California can avoid another deadly coronavirus surge in the coming months despite a slow, frustrating rollout of the vaccine and the looming
California restaurant and salon workers say customers are ready to come back in droves as Gov. Newsom lifts the stay at home order - after 20,000 died in three months and hospital system was left overwhelmed
The lifting of the stay-at-home order allows restaurants to serve diners outdoors and places of worship to offer services outside
Hair and nail salons and other businesses may reopen and retailers can have more shoppers in their stores
The state also is lifting a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, but San Francisco is keeping it in place
Mayor London Breed said outdoor restaurant dining can resume Thursday
The second one instructs the Chief Legislative Analyst to:
report back to City Council with a strategy for equitable distribution of vaccines with priority given to low-income communities of color and essential workers who are people of color; and
report back to City Council with information on Gov. Gavin Newsom s $300 million vaccine budget proposal and how Los Angeles can use that fund on a public outreach campaign for communities of color. Equitable allocation and distribution of the vaccine is critical to Los Angeles, especially to the communities who (bear) the brunt of this outbreak, Martinez said in one of the motions. The purpose of the vaccine is to prevent the spread of the virus but it must be the city of Los Angeles goal to ensure that the spread stops at the highest risk areas first.
With coronavirus cases finally on the decline in California, officials are once again allowing parts of the economy to reopen.
That includes hard-hit Los Angeles County, where officials have relaxed a slew of local restrictions in light of the state rescinding a regional stay-at-home order covering Southern California.
Perhaps the biggest change will come Friday, when L.A. County restaurants can resume offering outdoor dining for the first time in more than two months.
Despite the promising signs of progress, though, experts stress that it’s far from business as usual in the region and that staving off another catastrophic coronavirus surge will take diligence and vigilance from proprietors and the public alike.