Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California announced that it is going to start distributing to healthcare providers struggling under the strain ofmillions of N95 face masks that had been stockpiled in emergency reserves.The move is considered a key step is getting needed equipment to California hospitals, which are already under strain as possible coronavirus cases increase. Health officials stressed that they are not recommending healthy people wear masks, which are in short supply. “However, masks are recommended to limit the spread of disease for people who are...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement California announced that it is going to start distributing to healthcare providers struggling under the strain ofmillions of N95 face masks that had been stockpiled in emergency reserves.The move is considered a key step is getting needed equipment to California hospitals, which are already under strain as possible coronavirus cases increase. Health officials stressed that they are not recommending healthy people wear masks, which are in short supply. “However, masks are recommended to limit the spread of disease for people who are...WW…

March 4“I want to reiterate this is not a response rooted in panic. We need every tool at our disposal.”March 15“We will get through this ... our city is not shutting down. We’re not planning to do so, and we never will.”March 19 - April 7"We're about to enter into a new way of living here in L.A. for a period."April 14“We do see a light at the end of the tunnel.”May 4 - 11“If we don't do this well ... we will see that spike we don't want to see and we'll need to revert to more restrictions.”May 12 - 13"We know with all certainty that we would be extending health officer orders for the next...…March 4“I want to reiterate this is not a response rooted in panic. We need every tool at our disposal.”March 15“We will get through this ... our city is not shutting down. We’re not planning to do so, and we never will.”March 19 - April 7"We're about to enter into a new way of living here in L.A. for a period."April 14“We do see a light at the end of the tunnel.”May 4 - 11“If we don't do this well ... we will see that spike we don't want to see and we'll need to revert to more restrictions.”May 12 - 13"We know with all certainty that we would be extending health officer orders for the next...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The seeds of the latest surge in coronavirus cases in California appear to have been planted around Memorial Day. People had been pent up in their homes; businesses shuttered for months amid the stay-at-home order began to open. And as the reopening accelerated, .The beckon of summer rituals followed — day , Memorial Day barbecues, graduation celebrations, Father’s Day gatherings. Around the same time, historic protests began, triggered by outrage over the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd while in police custody, which sparked...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The seeds of the latest surge in coronavirus cases in California appear to have been planted around Memorial Day. People had been pent up in their homes; businesses shuttered for months amid the stay-at-home order began to open. And as the reopening accelerated, .The beckon of summer rituals followed — day , Memorial Day barbecues, graduation celebrations, Father’s Day gatherings. Around the same time, historic protests began, triggered by outrage over the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd while in police custody, which sparked...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As smoke from a nearby car fire billowed up, the police batons came raining down. Deon Jones felt one lash across his back and shoulder as he ran. Glancing back, he saw a Los Angeles police officer aim a tactical gun right at his face. The pain was sudden and searing. Ringing filled his ears. At the hospital, a doctor told the 28-year-old protester that he would have been blinded had the police projectile struck an inch to the right — and dead had it hit an inch higher, at his temple. Instead, he had two cracked bones in his face, a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As smoke from a nearby car fire billowed up, the police batons came raining down. Deon Jones felt one lash across his back and shoulder as he ran. Glancing back, he saw a Los Angeles police officer aim a tactical gun right at his face. The pain was sudden and searing. Ringing filled his ears. At the hospital, a doctor told the 28-year-old protester that he would have been blinded had the police projectile struck an inch to the right — and dead had it hit an inch higher, at his temple. Instead, he had two cracked bones in his face, a...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement There’s a moment early in the movie “Contagion” when health officials lay out what’s known about the film’s villain, a novel virus that is sweeping the globe and leaving dead bodies in its path.For many watching in 2020, the scene hits a little too close to home.In front of a whiteboard in a drab government office, a health investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, played by Kate Winslet, reviews the basics: the virus appears to spread through coughing and sneezing. The particles released can also land on...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement There’s a moment early in the movie “Contagion” when health officials lay out what’s known about the film’s villain, a novel virus that is sweeping the globe and leaving dead bodies in its path.For many watching in 2020, the scene hits a little too close to home.In front of a whiteboard in a drab government office, a health investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, played by Kate Winslet, reviews the basics: the virus appears to spread through coughing and sneezing. The particles released can also land on...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Doctors and nurses say they are alarmed by reports that multiple health workers in the United States have been sickened by a deadly coronavirus and that hospitals and other healthcare facilities appear to have become hot spots for the spread of infections.On Sunday, health officials announced that had contracted COVID-19 from a patient. A day earlier, officials said that a had been hospitalized with the disease and that several more staff members would probably test positive in the coming days. Medical workers on the front lines of...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Doctors and nurses say they are alarmed by reports that multiple health workers in the United States have been sickened by a deadly coronavirus and that hospitals and other healthcare facilities appear to have become hot spots for the spread of infections.On Sunday, health officials announced that had contracted COVID-19 from a patient. A day earlier, officials said that a had been hospitalized with the disease and that several more staff members would probably test positive in the coming days. Medical workers on the front lines of...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The race to curb the spread of the new strain of coronavirus that has killed more than 130 people worldwide has triggered a massive public health experiment in China that is being closely watched by health experts around the globe. Chinese authorities have indefinitely barred 50 million people from traveling and advised them to stay home to contain the rapidly spreading virus, known as 2019-nCoV. A quarantine of this scope is “absolutely unprecedented,” said Lauren Sauer, an emergency medicine professor at Johns Hopkins University....…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The race to curb the spread of the new strain of coronavirus that has killed more than 130 people worldwide has triggered a massive public health experiment in China that is being closely watched by health experts around the globe. Chinese authorities have indefinitely barred 50 million people from traveling and advised them to stay home to contain the rapidly spreading virus, known as 2019-nCoV. A quarantine of this scope is “absolutely unprecedented,” said Lauren Sauer, an emergency medicine professor at Johns Hopkins University....WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As coronavirus cases plummet nationwide and vaccinations total 1.7 million Americans a day and rising, health experts are increasingly striking a new tone in their pandemic assessments: optimism. “I could be wrong, but I don’t think we’re going to see a big fourth surge,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I think we’ve seen the worst of it.”Many epidemiologists and other scientists, while still cautious, say they feel increasingly hopeful that the rest of 2021 will not replay the nightmare...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As coronavirus cases plummet nationwide and vaccinations total 1.7 million Americans a day and rising, health experts are increasingly striking a new tone in their pandemic assessments: optimism. “I could be wrong, but I don’t think we’re going to see a big fourth surge,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I think we’ve seen the worst of it.”Many epidemiologists and other scientists, while still cautious, say they feel increasingly hopeful that the rest of 2021 will not replay the nightmare...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement Despite heated opposition and vows of resistance from some restaurant owners and elected officials, there is increasing evidence that California’s latest stay-at-home order, including a ban on outdoor dining, worked to turn around a deadly surge of the coronavirus.Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that he was that had been in place in most of the state since early December in light of the state’s coronavirus case and hospitalization numbers.After weeks of overwhelmed hospitals and record death tolls, the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement Despite heated opposition and vows of resistance from some restaurant owners and elected officials, there is increasing evidence that California’s latest stay-at-home order, including a ban on outdoor dining, worked to turn around a deadly surge of the coronavirus.Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that he was that had been in place in most of the state since early December in light of the state’s coronavirus case and hospitalization numbers.After weeks of overwhelmed hospitals and record death tolls, the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement /Socially distanced bikers and walkers, against a backdrop of the Queen Mary, make their way along pedestrian and beach bike path on the first day that Long Beach reopened the path on Monday May 11, 2020. The city of Long Beach eased a few of its public health restrictions, allowing under certain guidelines the reopening of pedestrian and beach bike paths, tennis centers and courts. Beach bathrooms are also reopening, but the parking lots and beaches still remain closed.   /Traffic remains light on the southbound 110 Freeway...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement /Socially distanced bikers and walkers, against a backdrop of the Queen Mary, make their way along pedestrian and beach bike path on the first day that Long Beach reopened the path on Monday May 11, 2020. The city of Long Beach eased a few of its public health restrictions, allowing under certain guidelines the reopening of pedestrian and beach bike paths, tennis centers and courts. Beach bathrooms are also reopening, but the parking lots and beaches still remain closed.   /Traffic remains light on the southbound 110 Freeway...WW…