The surge in COVID-19 cases has put immense pressure on L.A. County hospitals, as some have turned ambulances away and are running low on oxygen supplies.
The year 2020 will forever be connected with the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been a twisting, painful year, and though cases and deaths are currently soaring, there were times when the situation was markedly different. Here is a month-by-month look at how Los Angeles wrestled with a crisis of historic proportions.
January
On January 4, the World Health Organization reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, and on January 26 the L.A. County Department of Public Health reported the first confirmed local case of the novel coronavirus, in a visitor from China. Still, it was off the radar screen of most Angelenos. Mayor Eric Garcetti would later tell
By Joe DePaoloDec 30th, 2020, 9:57 am
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Following public criticism and pleas from local health officials, Hollywood will be largely shut down for the next few weeks.
According to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), Hollywood is mostly locking down for a while. In a note penned by SAG-AFTRA leaders
Gabrielle Carteris and
David White, the labor union informed its membership of the plan.
“Most entertainment productions will remain on hiatus until the second or third week of January if not later,” Carteris and White wrote. “This means that the number of our member performers working on sets right now is reduced.”
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A few weeks ago, we asked you to tell us about your most indelible memory of 2020.
So many of you shared so much with us, digging through your days to define the image, interaction or moment that remained singular to you through the most surreal of years. Thank you.
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Taken together, the responses formed a kind of kaleidoscopic year in review. All of the era-defining moments were there but refracted through individual lives.
In the first month of the year, a young mother in Los Angeles made dinner in her apartment kitchen. NPR played as she cooked, just background noise, really. Until it cut through.