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LA County Saw A Spike In People Dying At Home In April 

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Support for LAist comes fromWe Explain L.A.Stay ConnectedLAist is part of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), a member-supported public media network. Hear our news on-air at our partner site:Our top stories delivered weeknightsShare ThisThis is an archival story that predates current editorial management.This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click.Elly Yu, Aaron Mendelson, Yingjie WangStories like these are only possible with your help!You have the power to keep local news strong for the coming months. Your financial support today keeps our reporters ready to meet the needs of our city. Thank you for investing in your community.Sign up for How To LA, delivered weekday mornings.In April, Los Angeles County saw 53% more people dying at home than during the same period last year. That’s according to an LAist analysis of case data received from the county’s Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. In April of this year, 438 people died at home, compared to 286 people last April (289 people died at home in April 2018, and 293 in 2017). L.A. County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner Dr. Jonathan Lucas told us many of these deaths are still under investigation, so it’s too early to tell why the numbers are up:Support for LAist comes from“There’s an increase. The only question is: How much of that is because people are at home during the safer-at-home orders, and how much is just really related to disease or other things that are going on?”Lucas said it’s possible that more people are dying at home simply because more people are staying at home. For instance, he said someone who dies of a drug overdose may be more likely to die at home during the pandemic than at another location. “I think that the Safer-at-Home order may have just shifted the location [of deaths]. Some of these things may have occurred anyway,” he said. But the increase in deaths could also be attributed to people dying at home from COVID-19, or dying from, said Karin Michels, professor of epidemiology and chair at UCLA.“So these drastic increases in mortality are a mix of corona[virus] deaths and death from other [diseases] -- mostly heart attack and strokes -- that are not appropriately treated,” Michels said.She said other locations in the U.S. -- and throughout the world -- are seeing similar increases. “We want to know what's going on,” Lucas said. “Eventually, we will know more.”Our news is free on LAist. To make sure you get our coverage: . To support our non-profit public service journalism:

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