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Thanks to decreased case numbers and changes implemented by the state in response to vaccination efforts, Los Angeles County officials said Monday that they are preparing to advance to a less-restrictive tier of the state’s Covid-19 economic reopening blueprint as early as next week. But whether the county will…

UPDATE: On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released its latest data on coronavirus cases, reporting 22 new deaths and 1,313 new positive cases of confirmed Covid-19 in L.A. County. The lower number of deaths may reflect reporting delays over the weekend. This brings the total number of…

Los Angeles could be next. On Tuesday, seven additional California counties were confirmed to be moving into the red tier of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Covid-19 reopening plan. Those counties had a total population — in 2019 — of over 3 million people, the most populous being Santa Clara. The other six are El Dorado…

“You can't reopen your economy unless you get your schools reopened,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom at the top of his Monday press conference. Newsom joined legislative leaders at the event to announce a multibillion-dollar deal aimed at enticing TK-2 schools to resume in-person instruction by April 1. The…

UPDATE: On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released the latest Covid-19 data with 107 new deaths and 1,064 new cases. The case numbers and deaths reported may reflect delays in weekend reporting. This brings the tally to 1,191,923 cases and 21,435 deaths to date. 1,661 people currently…

California's Covid-19 death toll officially surpassed 50,000 on Thursday, according to the state’s virus tracking board. Thursday’s total of 50,991 was a big jump up from Wednesday’s due to a massive backlog deaths in Los Angeles County were tallied. Thursday’s tally becomes the state’s highest daily death toll of the…

A Los Angeles County Public Health official revealed on Wednesday that 806 deaths related to Covid-19 went unrecorded due to an overwhelming volume of the public death report forms used to track causes of death. “There were a number of deaths not reported through the standard public death report forms, but later…

Los Angeles health officials confirmed that the county had recorded 20,057 Covid-related deaths on Tuesday. There were 157 new deaths and 2,091 new cases related to Covid-19 confirmed. In total, officials have identified 1,183,378 positive cases of Covid-19 in L.A. "As we mark this heartbreaking day and note with…

The powerful Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors went on record Tuesday in support of Assembly Bill 420, which seeks to let theme parks reopen earlier than California Governor Gavin Newsom has allowed. Supervisor Kathryn Barger recommended that the board back the bipartisan bill by Assembly members Sharon…

UPDATED on Friday Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that, for the second day in a row, delays in the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines will force the city to keep its vaccination sites closed. People who had Saturday appointments will be automatically rescheduled and they’ll be notified by text, email or phone. The…

In January, President Joe Biden promised to provide state and local health officials a three-week window into how many vaccine doses were on the way. "Until now we've had to guess how much vaccine to expect for the next week, and that's what the governors had to do: 'How much am I getting next week?' " Biden said…

Late Monday evening Los Angeles County health officials announced some long-awaited good news. In a statement, they said the region had reached the required threshold of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 to allow students back into classrooms. The issue has been a contentious one throughout the pandemic with many parents…