Many sites in the city and county of Los Angeles are now offering opportunities for residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine without having to make an appointment.
Covid-19 deaths have dramatically decreased in the last few weeks, while over 8 million vaccine doses have been administered.
Los Angeles County opened Dodger Stadium as a mass-vaccination site on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)
LOS ANGELES (CN) After weathering a devastating Covid-19 surge at the beginning of the year, Los Angeles County reported zero virus-related deaths for the second day in a row Monday.
Monday’s figures come with a caveat, however, due to the lag in data reported to the county health department over the weekend. The numbers will rise again Tuesday, LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said during a briefing Monday.
California coronavirus cases plummet despite surges in Oregon, Washington
Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money, Los Angeles Times
May 3, 2021
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People outside Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital stand in a walk-up line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in San Francisco, Calif. on April 15, 2021, the first day that anyone over 16 years old in California could receive the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID positivity rates have plummeted in California in recent weeks.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE
LOS ANGELES Even as Oregon and Washington face new COVID-19 surges, there is growing optimism that California remains in recovery mode as coronavirus cases continued to fall dramatically along with related deaths.
Los Angeles County officially qualified today for a move to the least-restrictive yellow tier of the state economic-reopening blueprint, meaning capacity limits will be increased at many businesses and bars will be permitted to reopen indoors.
Los Angeles County’s road to COVID-19 recovery has been anything but smooth.
The region’s economy like the rest of the world’s ground to a halt last spring, when officials imposed sweeping restrictions after confirming the early embers of what would become a raging pandemic.
Things got moving somewhat a few weeks and a flatter curve later, only for the arrival of a summer surge to once again put the brakes on. Another round of reopenings was abandoned in the fall, when what would prove to be the worst wave of COVID-19 yet roared to life.
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But, despite the fits and starts that have typified the region’s journey over the last 14 months, this time feels different.