With the Omicron variant spreading at a rapid rate, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) released data showing that patients are increasingly being sent to the intensive care unit for “severe” symptoms.  The seven-day average of coronavirus related admissions and the total number of patients admitted into the ICU as of Jan. 17 had increased from ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are encouraging residents to continue getting tested for coronavirus as well as maintaining routine immunizations, officials said Friday. As L.A. County’s communities of color remain the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, these same communities in Los Angeles County are at a higher risk for exposure to the virus because many cannot work ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the addition of six symptoms to its existing list of symptoms for COVID-19 on their website. The added symptoms include chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and loss of taste or smell, according to the CDC.  These symptoms join the previously-identified symptoms of fever, cough, shortness of ...