13August 2020
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You may sometimes get marketing content from the Los Angeles Times. How did Los Angeles County's pandemic action go so incorrect– from acting as an early national model, to a hurried resuming that set the stage for a major revival in the pandemic?In a powerhouse investigation launched Thursday, my colleagues Sandhya Kambhampati, Soumya Karlamangla, Jaclyn Cosgrove, Priya Krishnakumar and Maloy Moore dig into the concern that a lot of Angelenos have been having a hard time to comprehend. Ad [
“How pressure to resume drove Los Angeles County into a health crisis” in the Los Angeles Times]
They reviewed months of public declarations and files from L.A. officials to understand the elements at play. The timeline they built shows that after originally preparing to resume the economy by July, officials permitted thousands of organisations to open their doors in May. Local leaders seized the chance when Gov. Gavin Newsom loosened resuming criteria.
But the relocation came too quick. Authorities at first prepared for companies to resume in stages, however they didn't leave sufficient time in between reopenings to discover growing case counts. They likewise failed to supply clear messaging to the general public that the coronavirus was still active, as people began to gather with family and friends, enhancing the spread.
“Officials preserve that they did everything they could to attempt to consist of the virus,” my coworkers write. “However, their choice to reopen eliminated much of the development made by the preliminary lockdown, creating a public health disaster that declares more Angelenos every day.”
If you read something today, make it this story. Their painstaking leisure of the timeline– and what failed– will assist you better understand the virus' spread, and how carefully adjusted the general public health action needs to be to keep the general public safe while reopening.And now, here's
what's taking place across California:
California's 2nd surge of the coronavirus has resulted in a near doubling of weekly deaths since the spring — with nearly 1,000 deaths in the recently alone– and drastically shifted the location of the break out, a Times data analysis found. Suburban and farming locations that had been relatively spared throughout California's first rise of the virus are now being ravaged. And city locations such as Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area are reporting fatality numbers just as high, if not higher, than in the spring. Los Angeles Times Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made their very first appearance as the Democratic ticket on Wednesday: The standard pageantry of such a significant minute in a presidential project was jettisoned for a securely controlled event, constrained by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of cheering crowds and waving campaign indications, there were face masks and temperature checks, as the presumptive Democratic candidate and the California senator looked like running mates for the very first time at a high school in Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Del.