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Health experts urge caution as LA shows modest improvement in COVID-19 cases KABC LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, while still high, is finally moving in the right direction in Los Angeles County. Hospital intensive-care units in the Los Angeles area were filled to capacity for weeks, with health-care workers struggling to treat overwhelming numbers of COVID-19 patients. The holiday season, with its travel and gatherings, was seen as a major contributor to the early January surge. That surge is now leveling off, though cases, deaths and hospitaliza...

Dodger Stadium will cease testing for COVID-19 and shift to a massive vaccination site, the city said. A Riverside Fire Department spokesman, Capt. Brian Guzzetta, told the Press Enterprise that the city is confident that Curative tests are being administered properly. "We're following the FDA safety communication to a T," Guzzetta said, according to the newspaper. Curative's test is used in sites throughout the city of Los Angeles. The county says about 10% of the 24,000 tests performed at county pop-up testing sites since mid-December were Curative tests. "The Curative platform, just like t...

Some sites in LA County to stop using Curative tests after FDA warns of false negatives

LA County reports highest daily COVID-19 death total amid concerns of new variant KABC LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles County reported its highest single-day total of COVID-19 deaths Tuesday, attributing the spike in part to a backlog in reporting from the holiday weekend, with hundreds more fatalities likely to be confirmed in the coming days. The county Department of Public Health confirmed a record-breaking 227 coronavirus-related fatalities Tuesday, pushing the county closer the grim 10,000-death mark. Long Beach, which has its own health department separate from the county, also report...