The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) provided an overview of the plan for the distribution of the first 82,875 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine allocated to the county, in a brief on Thursday afternoon. The FDA recently issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Pfizer vaccine after it completed Phase Three clinical trials, and there ...

Public Health officials are reporting a “cautious optimism” in the battle against coronavirus with a downward trend in hospitalizations and new cases in the past few weeks.  The number of reported COVID-19 patients hospitalized has not been impacted by the backlog in cases in the statewide lab system, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the L.A. County Department of ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health recently released a document outlining the county’s additional requirements which must be met for youth sports programs to resume some level of training. The reopening protocol is intended to be applied to recreational youth sports leagues, club sports, travel sports and sports sponsored by private and public schools serving students in TK-12 ...

Dr. Sonia Angell submitted her resignation Sunday evening from her position as director of California’s Department of Public Health (DPH) and as the state’s public health officer in the wake of the discovery of a backlog of 300,000 COVID-19 test results due to computer errors. Last week, state officials confirmed that an estimated 300,000 test results had not been processed ...

1,634 additional coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County confirmed on Monday, with a backlog in case reporting still occurring in the County, officials said. The L.A. County total of cumulative coronavirus cases now stands at 193,788 as of Monday, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH).  “We’re at the start of ...

An additional 2,593 coronavirus cases were confirmed in Los Angeles County on Monday, officials said.  The newly-confirmed cases bring the cumulative total number of COVID-19 cases in L.A. County to 136,129, according to Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “All of our actions and behaviors now help determine what our lives, our communities and our economy will be ...

Los Angeles County coronavirus testing capacity is increasing as the County prepares to move forward with the recovery process, with a reopening goal of July 4.  Supervisor Hilda Solis highlighted the County’s testing program, which has increased capacity to 20,000 coronavirus tests a day countywide, including a site in Santa Clarita.  Solis noted COVID-19 cases are higher for people of ...

A total of 27,815 confirmed coronavirus cases have been reported in Los Angeles County as of Tuesday afternoon, officials said. An additional 1,638 COVID-19 cases were reported Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer. Supervisor Hilda Solis encouraged the community to donate blood, amid a blood shortage nationwide during the coronavirus outbreak. ...

The projected number of patients to be hospitalized by COVID-19 has been significantly curtailed by Los Angeles County’s “Safer At Home” order, according to a new report published by the county’s Department of Health Services (DHS). A number of measures have been taken in an attempt to “flatten the curve”; that is, to prevent the hospital system from facing a ...