Los Angeles County Announces 36 More Deaths Due To COVID-19
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County health and elected officials have again highlighted disparities in COVID-19 deaths among black residents and...
California To Let Gyms, Bars, Day Camps Reopen Next Week
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND AMY TAXIN Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will allow day camps, bars, gyms,...
New Jobs Report Diminishes GOP Appetite For More Virus Aid
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexpectedly strong jobs report could further scramble an already uncertain...
Amid Virus, US Students Look To Colleges Closer To Home
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer
As students make college plans for the fall, some U.S. universities are seeing...
Exclusive: Nearly 600 — And Counting — US Health Workers Have Died Of COVID-19
Nearly 600 front-line health care workers appear to have died of COVID-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, a project launched by The Guardian...
COVID-19 Overwhelms Border ICUs
CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Even as most California hospitals have avoided an incapacitating surge in coronavirus patients, some facilities near the Mexican border have...
Montana’s Tribal Nations Preserve COVID Restrictions To Preserve Their Cultures
As Montana plows forward with its reopening, including throwing open the doors to tourism on June 1, the outlook is starkly different for members...
Report: California’s COVID-19 Cases Rising, Bucking National Trend
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - California, where health experts warn of a potential second wave of the coronavirus as the economy reopens, is...
Scientist Defends Sweden’s Hotly Debated Virus Strategy
By DAVID KEYTON and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's chief epidemiologist on Wednesday defended his...
Newsom Likes To ‘Go Big’ But Doesn’t Always Deliver
Gavin Newsom knew it was a political gamble when, as the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, he promised to eradicate chronic homelessness.
“I recognize...
June 2, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 1,202 (+34) New Cases , 60 Additional...
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Los Angeles County Business Leaders Urge Officials to Lift Restrictions on Reopening
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Leaders in the film, sports, theme park, business and restaurant industries Tuesday presented detailed plans for reopening to...
KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Protests And The Pandemic
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Following the death of George Floyd while in custody in Minneapolis, protests have mushroomed around...
June 1, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 978 (-1100) New Cases , 22 Additional...
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Efforts To Curb Congenital Syphilis Falter In COVID’s Shadow
U.S. public health officials are closer to identifying a road map for curbing the rising rates of syphilis infections in newborn babies, but with...
In Hard-Hit Areas, COVID’s Ripple Effects Strain Mental Health Care Systems
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In late March, Marcell’s girlfriend took him to the emergency room at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital,...
Coronavirus Surprise: IRS Allows Midyear Insurance And FSA Changes
The economic upheaval and social disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic have upended the assumptions many people made last fall about which insurance plan...
Pico Rivera Mayor Gustavo Camacho Steps Up to Lead Pico Rivera’s Recovery While Providing...
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Pico Rivera Mayor Gustavo Camacho at a press conference speaking about the...
May 30, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 2,112 New Cases , 48 Additional Deaths,...
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State Clears Los Angeles County To Open Dine-In Restaurants, Hair Salons
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County restaurants could soon reopen for limited dine-in service, as could hair salons, with the state...
As COVID Cuts Deadly Path Through Indiana Prisons, Inmates Say Symptoms Ignored
Scottie Edwards died of COVID-19 just weeks before he would have gotten out of the Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana.
Edwards, 73, began showing symptoms...
Los Angeles County Health Official Confident, But Cautious, As More Businesses Open
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Another 50-plus deaths due to the coronavirus have been confirmed in Los Angeles County, but health officials continued...
For Seniors, COVID-19 Sets Off A Pandemic Of Despair
As states relax coronavirus restrictions, older adults are advised, in most cases, to keep sheltering in place. But for some, the burden of isolation...
May 27, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 933 New Cases (-626), 53 Additional Deaths...
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Los Angeles Archdiocese Lays Out Plans For Restarting Church Services
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Churches in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles were directed Wednesday morning to prepare to resume church services as...
What You Need To Know Today About The Virus Outbreak
Las Vegas casinos plan to welcome tourists again on June 4. South Korea on Wednesday announced a spike in new infections and...
Nearly Half Of Americans Delayed Medical Care Due To Pandemic
As the coronavirus threat ramped up in March, hospitals, health systems and private practices dramatically reduced inpatient, nonemergency services to prepare for an influx...
California Allows Some Reopening Of Barbershops, Hair Salons
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that barbershops and hair salons can...
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. Says 230 Employees Tested Positive for COVID-19
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported Tuesday that 230 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 since the...
Los Angeles County Reports 1,047 New COVID-19 Cases
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County officials have reported 1,047 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 12 additional deaths, raising the...
California Lays Out Pandemic Rules For Church Reopenings
By STEFANIE DAZIO and ROBERT JABLON
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz looks forward to reopening his synagogue...
May 26, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 1,843 New Cases (+796), 27 Additional Deaths,...
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COVID-19 Outbreaks Hit Nine Facilities in Vernon California, Including Farmer John
VERNON (CNS) - Los Angeles County health officials are reporting coronavirus outbreaks at nine industrial facilities in the city of Vernon, including...
Lock Your Cars! Vehicle Theft Spikes In COVID-19 Pandemic
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners.
Biden Makes 1st In-Person Appearance In More than 2 Months
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance in more...
COVID-Like Cough Sent Him To ER — Where He Got A $3,278 Bill
From late March into April, Timothy Regan had severe coughing fits several times a day that often left him out of breath. He had...
Antibody Tests Were Hailed As Way To End Lockdowns. Instead, They Cause Confusion.
Aspen was an early COVID-19 hot spot in Colorado, with a cluster of cases in March linked to tourists visiting for its world-famous skiing....
Los Angeles Beaches, Stores Open Ahead Of Memorial Day Weekend
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County has reopened some beach parkinglots as Memorial Day weekend continues and authorized retail businessesinside enclosed...
In Mexican Border cities, Many Fear Virus Is Coming From US
By JORGE LEBRIJA and MARIA VERZA Associated Press
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Adrián Alonso Gama lived life on both...
The Latest: US Task Force Chief Concerned About Gatherings
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults...
Density, Poverty Keep Los Angeles Struggling Against The Virus
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — While most of California welcomed more places to eat, shop...
‘An Arm And A Leg’: Tips For Surviving COVID With Your Financial Health Intact
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In early April, Katelyn was in a financial bind. At home and sick with COVID-19, she...
Bringing ‘Poogie’ Home: Hospice In The Time Of COVID-19
After she landed in the hospital with a broken hip, Parkinson’s disease and the coronavirus, 84-year-old Dorothy “Poogie” Wyatt Shields made a request of...
Los Angeles Slowly Opens. More Retailers Cleared To Open Ahead Of Memorial Day Weekend
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Ahead of Memorial Day weekend, Los Angeles Countytoday reopened some beach parking lots and authorized retail businesses insideenclosed...
What You Need To Know Today About The Virus Outbreak
A Trump administration policy of quickly expelling most migrants stopped along the border because of the COVID-19 pandemic was indefinitely extended Tuesday,...
The 30-Somethings Who Fled Big Cities To Shelter With Mom And Dad
AUSTIN, Texas — It took three weeks, but Lawrence and Arlene Maze finally persuaded their younger son, Gregory, of Los Angeles, to get on...
California To Spend $1.8 Billion More On Virus Response
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday took an extra $1.8...
San Diego County Gets Approval For In-Person Dining and Shopping, Jamul Casino To Reopen
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County has received word that Californiaapproved its request to allow dining at restaurants and in-store shopping,...
Pandemic Knocks Out Large Sections of Hawaii’s Economy
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) — In normal times, Roland Chang and his three sons start their...
Trump To Tour Ford’s Ventilator Assembly Plant Near Detroit
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after threatening to withhold funds over Michigan's mail-in ballot...
Coronavirus-triggered Layoffs In US Hit Nearly 39 Million
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans thrown out of work...
Reopening Dental Offices For Routine Care Amid Pandemic Touches A Nerve
Tom Peeling wanted his teeth cleaned and wasn’t going to let the coronavirus pandemic get in the way.
Luckily, his six-month regular appointment was scheduled...
Scientist Has ‘Invisible Enemy’ In Sights With Microscopic Portraits Of Coronavirus
From her laboratory in the far western reaches of Montana, Elizabeth Fischer is trying to help people see what they’re up against in COVID-19.
Over...
Congress Said COVID-19 Tests Should Be Free — But Who’s Paying?
Hospitals around the country are afraid to send out hundreds of thousands of bills related to COVID-19 testing. That’s because Congress mandated there would...
Analysis: Get Ready For The Vaccine — They’re Never Simple
If there is a silver lining to the flawed U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, it is this: The relatively high number of new...
Tulare County Defies State As More of California Reopens
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As restaurants and stores were cleared to open for customers...
Reopening: It’s Back To Business, But Not Business As Usual
By DAVID CRARY, DAVE COLLINS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — This is what “normal” will...
What You Need To Know Today About The Virus Outbreak
Rising anxiety may be the common denominator as countries around the world gradually emerge from lockdowns due to the new coronavirus.
Tennessee’s Secret To Plentiful Coronavirus Testing? Picking Up The Tab
To reopen businesses and public spaces safely, experts say, states need to be testing and contact tracing on a massive scale. But only a...
To Stem COVID, This Small Indiana City Decided To Test All Public-Facing Employees
Behind a nondescript strip mall in Carmel, Indiana, a short line of cars gathers mid-afternoon next to a large tent. Medical professionals stand out...
US Home Construction Drops 30.2% In April As Virus Rages
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home building plunged in April to the lowest level...
Fewer Traffic Collisions During Shutdown Means Longer Waits For Organ Donations
On Day Two of the San Francisco Bay Area’s stay-at-home orders in March, Nohemi Jimenez got into her car in San Pablo, California, waved...
The Pandemic Is Hurting Pediatric Hospitals, Too
Children have largely escaped the ravages of COVID-19, but children’s hospitals have not eluded the financial pain the pandemic has wrought on health care...
‘Last Responders’ Seek To Expand Postmortem COVID Testing In Unexplained Deaths
Examining dead bodies and probing for a cause of death is rarely seen as a heroic or glamorous job. Rather, as the coronavirus pandemic...
Tourists, Beware: Foreign Visitors’ Travel Health Insurance Might Exclude Pandemics
It was evident that the fever, nausea and loss of appetite Vlastimil Gajdoš felt on his wedding day was not a mere case of...
Drugmakers Tout COVID-19 Vaccines To Refurbish Their Public Image
Johnson & Johnson researchers working on a vaccine against the coronavirus are “just like the heroes in the hospitals” fighting to save patients, J&J...
Football Still a Possibility at Big 3 Cal State Schools
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The California State University system’s plan for a mostly virtual fall semester due to the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t...
Los Angeles Lakers Training Center Re-Opens For Individual Player Sessions
EL SEGUNDO (CNS) - The Los Angeles Lakers training center in ElSegundo has re-opened for individual player sessions under a strict protocolestablished...
40 New COVID-19 Deaths Reported in Los Angeles County
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - COVID-19 deaths continue to mount in Los AngelesCounty, with 40 new deaths reported along with nearly 1,100 new...
California Homeless Quarantine In Hotels, More Rooms Needed
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JANIE HAR Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anxiety mounted every time someone at the...
Medicaid Providers At The End Of The Line For Federal COVID Funding
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Casa de Salud, a nonprofit clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, provides primary...
40 New COVID-19 Deaths Reported in Los Angeles County
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - COVID-19 deaths continue to mount in Los AngelesCounty, with 40 new deaths reported today, along with nearly 1,100...
San Diego County Records Highest Amount Of Daily COVID-19 Tests Third Day In Row
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - For the third day in a row, San Diego County hasrecorded its highest number of daily tests during...
Coronavirus Masks a Boon For Crooks Who Hide Their Faces
By DON BABWIN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — The way the FBI tells it, William Rosario...
What You Need To Know Today About The Virus Outbreak
Defying a wave of layoffs that has sent the U.S. job market into its worst catastrophe on record, at least one major...
Surf’s Up And So Are New Beach Rules to Prevent Virus Spread
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — They arrived at the beach by car, skateboard and...
US Retail Sales Plunged a Record 16% in April as Virus Hit
By JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer
BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. retail sales tumbled by a record 16.4% from March...
Coronavirus Deaths Rise Again In Los Angeles County As More Businesses Open
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Another four dozen coronavirus deaths werereported in Los Angeles County today as more businesses were permitted toreopen with...
As Revenues Plummet, Billions Cut From California Budget
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Reflecting the financial hit California is already seeing from the...
Stopped Cold: ‘Frozen’ Musical On Broadway Not To Reopen
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The big budget musical “Frozen” will not reopen when...
Trump Says He’ll Restock Stockpile For Future Pandemics
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he intends to prepare...
Officials Release Edited Coronavirus Reopening Guidance
By MIKE STOBBE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Thursday released some...
36 Million Have Sought US Unemployment Aid Since Virus Hit
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 3 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits...
Locked Down Neighbors Let Loose At ‘Quaranchella’ Concerts
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For 15 years, Adam Chester has subbed for Elton...
In The COVID Age, Bring A Mask And Gloves To A Protest
INDIANAPOLIS — When Lamari Edwards joined Dreasjon “Sean” Reed’s Facebook Live video, she could sense something bad was going to happen, but she never...
‘New Normal’ Imagined, Tested As Virus Shutdowns relaxed
By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press
From outdoor kids' movies for cooped up apartment dwellers in Rio to online shopping...
Former Los Angeles Public Health Director to Advise SAG-AFTRA on COVID-19 Issues
HOLLYWOOD (CNS) - Former Los Angeles County Public Health DirectorJonathan Fielding has joined a team of specialists advising the actors union indeveloping...
Coachella Requires Social Distancing, Face Coverings in Public Due to COVID-19
COACHELLA (CNS) - Wearing face coverings and practicing socialdistancing in public in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus areagain...
Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti Says People Must Wear Masks or Facial Coverings While in...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - People are now required to wear masks or facialcoverings while in public in Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti...
Hollywood Bowl Summer Season Falls Victim to Coronavirus – Season Cancelled
HOLLYWOOD (CNS) - For the first time in almost a century, theHollywood Bowl will be silent this summer, with the Los Angeles...
Barbers, Beauticians Sue State Lawmakers in Los Angeles in Bid to Reopen
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The organization representing hairstylists andsalon owners in the Southland and elsewhere today sued Gov. Gavin Newsom andstate Attorney...
Settlement Talks Continue in Los Angeles Skid Row Homelessness Lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Settlement talks are expected to continue today ina lawsuit seeking to house thousands of people in danger of...
Los Angeles County Beaches Reopen, But What Will New Public Health Restrictions Entail?
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County beaches reopened today amidquestions about how long -- and to what extent -- public health...
Counterfeit Masks Reaching Frontline Health Workers In US
By JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — On a day when COVID-19 cases soared, healthcare...
What You Need to Know Today About the Virus Outbreak
When students return to school after a lengthy pandemic-induced absence, the consensus is they will have lost significant academic ground. Still unresolved...
Trump Ramps Up Expulsions of Migrant Youth, Citing Virus
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — The young migrants and asylum seekers swim...
Hospital Workers Complain of Minimal Disclosure After COVID Exposures
Dinah Jimenez assumed a world-class hospital would be better prepared than a chowder house to inform workers when they had been exposed to a...
California Outlines Changes for Restaurants As They Reopen
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two California counties, Butte and El Dorado, won state approval Tuesday to reopen dining rooms in restaurants —...
Couples Turn to `Minimonies’ to Salvage Wedding Plans
NEW YORK (AP) — Couples trying to salvage weddings put on hold by the coronavirus are feeding a fresh trend in the...
Tesla’s Elon Musk Defies Covid-19 Lockdown Order, Restarts California Factory
By TOM KRISHER and BEN MARGOT AP Auto Writer
FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is restarting...
