| | | | Afternoon headlines for Tuesday, March 31, 2020
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Will You Be Locked Down For 44 Days? Researchers Warn That’s Essential To Battle Coronavirus  Researchers at USC and UC Riverside studied 36 countries and 50 U.S. states and concluded that aggressive restrictions to contain COVID-19 are needed and must be maintained for at least 44 days to curtail the pandemic, according to findings released Tuesday. The study was co-authored by Gerard Tellis, a professor at the USC Marshall School […]
  
10 More Coronavirus Deaths in LA, Including First Health Care Worker Fatality  Los Angeles County health officials reported 10 more deaths due to coronavirus Tuesday, bringing the county’s total to 54, while also confirming the first known death of a health-care worker in the county from the virus. No details about the health care worker, who was over age 60, were released. Barbara Ferrer, director of the […]
Nursing Home Deadly Dangers For Elderly: 11 Facility Coronavirus Outbreaks Los Angeles County officials are investigating coronavirus outbreaks at 11 area nursing homes, where elderly residents with underlying health conditions are among the most vulnerable to the deadly new pathogen. That’s up from three nursing home outbreaks county officials had announced on Friday. The county defines an outbreak as three or more cases involving residents […]
OC Supervisors Drop Tax Relief Proposal During Coronavirus Crisis Without comment, Orange County supervisors dropped discussion Tuesday of a proposal to provide property tax relief to residents hammered financially by the COVID-19 crisis. The proposal from Supervisor Andrew Do would have waived penalties and fines for delinquent property tax payments for residents hurt financially by the coronavirus pandemic. Do wanted to give residents a […]
L.A. County Board’s Virtual Meeting Limits Public Participation The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors held its first virtual meeting Tuesday to vote on a wide range of issues related to the coronavirus pandemic — with limited public participation. The board’s meetings had been put on hold for three weeks while lawyers and staffers worked out how to safely allow public comment given […]
Orange County Coronavirus Cases Stand at 464 Orange County’s coronavirus cases increased by 42 Tuesday with three new deaths reported, bringing the total number of cases to 502 with a total of seven fatalities. Ninety-four people are hospitalized, with 46 in intensive care. On Monday, there were 464 cases. Of the total number of confirmed caess, 38% are between the ages of […]
L.A. County Board Approves New Emergency Ops Ordinance The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to put the county CEO in charge of coordinating emergency operations, a role that Sheriff Alex Villanueva had insisted should be his. The board said the county had never officially put any sheriff in that role. It originally voted to update its plan for emergency […]
OC Supervisors Drop Tax Relief Proposal During Coronavirus Crisis Without comment, Orange County supervisors dropped discussion Tuesday of a proposal to provide property tax relief to residents hammered financially by the COVID-19 crisis. The proposal from Supervisor Andrew Do would have waived penalties and fines for delinquent property tax payments for residents hurt financially by the coronavirus pandemic. Do wanted to give residents a […]
Jimmy Kimmel, Chef Adam Perry Lang Help Feed At-Risk Homeless Jimmy Kimmel and chef Adam Perry Lang have joined forces with St. Joseph Center to help feed homeless families affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in Los Angeles, it was announced Tuesday. Kimmel enlisted Lang’s APL Restaurant in Hollywood to help tackle the dual problem of keeping restaurant workers employed and feeding families experiencing homelessness. The […]
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