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A coalition of teachers, parents and community activists on Wednesday accused The Times of giving disproportionate coverage to those who want to quickly reopen Los Angeles Unified School District campuses, and short shrift to those in minority communities who urge a more deliberate approach during the coronavirus pandemic.
Reclaim Our Schools L.A., a group aligned with the United Teachers Los Angeles union, released a report analyzing seven months of columns, editorials and news articles, saying the newspaper demonstrated bias in its coverage of school reopening issues.
The group claims that the paper has relied too heavily on voices from wealthier communities where support for reopening quickly is stronger.
Mayor Eric Garcetti said hospital officials are telling him and his staff that if Los Angeles continues on its upward trend of COVID-19 hospitalizations through Christmas, the medical facilities will go under. Health care workers throughout Los Angeles are reaching their breaking point. They are understaffed, overworked and inundated with patients fighting for their lives, Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, said in a statement. COVID-19 cannot be allowed to spread following the December holidays the way it spread after Thanksgiving. We all have to work together to keep this from getting worse, and that starts with people having the financial security to stay home.
Coalition calls for strict 4-week LA County lockdown to control COVID-19 surge
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A coalition of Los Angeles-area unions are calling for a sweeping monthlong countywide lockdown for January 2021 to bring the surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths under control.
L.A. County s new cases bring its total to 580,325. Since the start of the pandemic, 8,664 deaths have been reported in the county.
In light of such numbers, the coalition of more than a dozen healthcare, labor and community groups sent a letter to the county Board of Supervisors on Wednesday asking for the implementation of a circuit breaker, a strict four-week lockdown that would include curfews and the forced closure of all nonessential businesses.
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