SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) For Caroline Brandenburger, the coronavirus outbreak that has overwhelmed California hospitals comes with a very personal toll. “Just today we had two deaths on.
The guidance appears to sharply contradict the position taken by Mayor Eric Garcetti, who opened up testing to anyone, whether or not they show symptoms.
Every 8 minutes, someone in Los Angeles County dies from COVID-19
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A person dies from COVID-19 in Los Angeles County every eight minutes, the county said Thursday, underscoring how grim the situation has become in the nation’s most populous county.
More than 11,000 Los Angeles County residents have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data from the LA County Department of Public Health. Almost half more than 5,000 of those deaths have occurred in the past two months.
“People who were otherwise leading healthy, productive lives are now passing away because of a chance encounter with the COVID-19 virus,” LA County Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday, adding that the county is seeing more than 200 deaths each day.
More than 11,000 residents of Los Angeles have died from coronavirus
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday s death toll was equivalent to the total number of homicides the city experienced all of last year
Hospitals have begun rationing care and refrigerated trucks are being used to store corpses as morgues become overwhelmed
In a new travel advisory from the government, Californias have been asked not travel more than 120 miles from home unless essential
The FDA also issued an alert that coronavirus tests by the company Curative Inc, commonly in Los Angeles, may be giving false negatives