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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County eased its coronavirus restrictions today, joining Orange County in enacting looser regulations now that both are in the orange tier of the state s monitoring system.
That means movie theaters, restaurants, churches, museums, zoos and aquariums can go from 25% to 50% of capacity, while gyms are increased from 10% to 25%. Card rooms and family entertainment centers can resume indoor operations at 25% of capacity.
The county will still enforce certain rules that are more strict than what the state allows. Most notably, bars that don t serve food which are being permitted to reopen outdoors only are able to operate only from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with a required 8-foot distance between outdoor tables.
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That timeline bodes well for Newsom, said Dan Schnur, who previously worked as a spokesman for Gov. Pete Wilson and now teaches political communications at USC and UC Berkeley.
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“Every vaccination gets him a little bit closer to defeating the recall,” he said. “If people think about the pandemic in the past tense, then Newsom almost certainly survives the recall.”
A Public Policy Institute of California poll conducted in March found that 79% of likely voters believe the worst of the pandemic is over and only 40% supported the recall. The vast majority of those in favor of removing Newsom were Republicans.
So we do ask both those currently eligible and those that will be newly eligible to be patient as supply increases, she said. Getting an appointment will become more difficult April 15, when everyone aged 16 and up becomes eligible for the shots. That group includes an estimated 5 million people, although about 1 million are believed to have already received at least one dose, Ferrer said.
She stressed that the age-based categories of eligibility are reserved for county residents only. Categories of essential workers eligible for the shots were open to people who worked in the county, regardless of residence.
The county last week officially crossed the 4 million mark in total COVID-19 doses administered. According to the Department of Public Health, a total of 4,013,521 doses had been administered in the county as of last Saturday. That includes 1,323,686 second doses, equating to the number of people who are now fully vaccinated.