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L.A. residents flouting stay-at-home order in large numbers: survey Jami Ganz
About a third of Los Angeles residents admitted to flouting stay-at-home orders as the city sees record highs of coronavirus hospitalizations, according to a survey.
A whopping 30% of respondents to the recent survey, conducted by the University of Southern California’s Center for Social and Economic Research, said they had visited a friend, relative, neighbor, or had people over to their own homes, Deadline reports.
“All public and private gatherings and events with individuals not in your household are prohibited except for church services and protests,” reads L.A. County’s health officer order, which went into effect Nov. 30.
Bob Harris gave his family one final gift.
He told them he did not want to be placed on a ventilator. He was at peace and ready to meet Jesus. Then, when his family was just not prepared for him to stop the fight against COVID-19, he agreed to be intubated. For a week.
A week wasn’t enough.
His wife, Marilou, had dropped him off at the emergency room on Oct. 29 with a hopeful, “Sweetie, I’ll come and get you tomorrow morning.” The 61-year-old motivational speaker had felt sick enough that day to seek a doctor’s care but well enough to mail bills and his absentee ballot en route to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills.
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California s hospitalizations could reach nearly 100,000 in a month as the state records half a million new COVID cases in the last two weeks and pleads for more doctors and nurses
A graph by the Covid Tracking Project shows 18,359 people are hospitalized with the virus in California
The number of people hospitalized across California with confirmed COVID-19 infections is more than double the state s previous peak and a state model forecasts the total could hit 75,000 patients by mid-January
Los Angeles County s health services director, Dr. Christina Ghaly, warned Monday the worst is yet to come
States including New York, Texas and Delaware are showing rising seven day average death tolls compared with last week; for Delaware they are up 139 per cent; Alabama 58 per cent and California 43 per cent