No. COVID-19 vaccine is being given to Los Angeles County residents at no cost regardless of immigration status. You should not be asked about your immigration status when you get a COVID vaccine. Your medical information is private. Your doctor is not allowed to share it with immigration o...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- New COVID-19 cases continued to soar in Los Angeles, the most populous county in the U.S. state of California and the country, recording almost 45,000 over the New Year's holiday weekend, local public health authorities said Sunday. The Los Angeles Co...
The rolling average daily rate of people testing for the virus was 1.4% as of Saturday, down from 1.6% on Friday, and 2% last Sunday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. In the wake of improving metrics, officials have relaxed LA County’s indoor mask mandate,...
Disparities in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Los Angeles County adults after vaccine authorizationCOVID-19Health disparitiesVaccine hesitancyAn equitable COVID-19 vaccine rollout is a necessary piece of the public health strategy to end the current pandemic; however, vaccine hesitancy may present a...
Two weeks ago, county officials said they were "strongly recommending" that residents wear masks in indoor public settings but stopped short of requiring them after the COVID-19 case rate hit 100 per 100,000 residents. Currently, the weekly rate is 185 per 100,000 and Lo...
Today, the positivity rate in Los Angeles County is 12.5%. Today, Los Angeles County is reporting 9,243 new positive cases and 3,299 people in the hospital. Of these patients, 23% are in the ICU and 15% are on ventilators. The 7-day average of new COVID-19 cases has increased by...
COVID-19 continues to circulate at a very high level nationally and in California. The rate at which coronavirus tests are coming back positive continues to rise. For the week that ended Aug. 14, 14.4% of reported coronavirus tests were positive in Califo...
Los Angeles County appears in the midst of another full-blown coronavirus surge, with cases rising by 75% over the last week.Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Are mask mandates coming back? Meanwhile, the potential return of an indoor mask mandate hangs over the county. ...
California’s FLiRT-fueled COVID surge is continuing to spawn infections at a dizzying rate, with coronavirus levels in wastewater reaching some of the highest levels seen since 2022.
In the past two months, the positivity rate in LA County has jumped from 3.8% to 21.8%. Hospitalizations are 10 times as high as they were on November 1, and Health Services Director Christina Ghaly warned that yet another surge is expected within the next two weeks. More than 8,00...