Breaking: L.A. County health officials issued a dire warning Monday that conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic are deteriorating rapidly and the highly contagious virus is spreading swiftly in the community. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-29/l-a-county-issues-dire-warning-amid-alarming-increases-in-coronavirus">https://www.latimes.com/californi...
They said they are now faced with one of their biggest fears: that the reopening of L.A. County would coincide with sudden jumps in disease transmission that have the potential to overwhelm public and private hospitals.
L.A. County has long been the epicenter of coronavirus in California -- with nearly 98,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,300 deaths. https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/los-angeles-county/">https://www.latimes.com/projects/...
With a predicted increase in hospitalizations, for the first time since the crisis seemed to ease locally, L.A. County is now projecting the possibility of running out of currently available hospital beds in two to three weeks.
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