Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Wednesday that COVID-19 variants continue to be found while L.A. County’s’ case rate remains low and stable. LADPH officials announced Monday that the risk of death by COVID-19 for those fully vaccinated is 1 in a million, comparative to 1-500 without the vaccine. The most commonly circulated variants found in ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Saturday that this week marks L.A. County’s lowest test positivity rate since the start of the pandemic. The test positivity rate is the percent of all COVID-19 tests performed that come back positive, and today’s rate is just 1.1% in L.A. County.  The test positivity rate peaked on December 30, ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Wednesday that additional cases of a potentially “more severe” COVID-19 variant have been detected. Amidst the decline of COVID-19 cases among pregnant women as well as residents and staff at skilled nursing facilities, 34% of specimens analyzed at the Public Health Laboratory this past week contained a COVID-19 variant with ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced Saturday that young people under the age of 50 continue to make up the majority of new cases reported across the county. LADPH officials announced that younger people continue to drive community transmission of COVID-19 in the county as of Saturday. An additional 521 COVID-19 cases and 56 deaths were ...

Saturday marks the one-year anniversary since the first COVID-19 case was discovered in a Santa Clarita Valley resident in March of 2020. On March 13, 2020, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital received the first result indicating a patient tested positive for coronavirus COVID-19, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital. “We had a positive COVID-19 test come back,” said Moody, ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials are reminding L.A. County residents to continue using caution to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. An additional 1,730 COVID-19 cases were reported in Los Angeles County on Saturday, along with 94 deaths, according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the LADPH. “Each day, we are inspired by all of you ...

The governing board of the William S. Hart Union High School District sent five letters to various county and state officials urging for the prioritization of educators in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. On Thursday, the Hart District’s governing board sent five copies of a letter out to county and state leaders asking for educators to be prioritized for ...

Officials with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) confirmed Tuesday that the county had hit the threshold necessary to re-open in-person instruction for elementary school students in grades TK-6. Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis confirmed that Tuesday marked the fifth consecutive day in which the number of new daily COVID-19 case rate stood at 25 per ...

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) officials announced that large-scale COVID-19 vaccination sites, such as the one at Six Flags Magic Mountain, will be focusing on offering second doses of COVID-19 vaccines next week due to continued scarcity. On Friday, LADPH Science Officer Dr. Paul Simon confirmed that county health officials would continue to focus on administering second ...

Over 8,800 new cases of COVID-19 were reported within Los Angeles County Friday, shattering the previous one-day record by over 1,000 cases and marking the third day of record-high cases reported this week. An additional 8,860 coronavirus cases have been reported in Los Angeles County on Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The additional cases ...