LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County reached a grim milestone Tuesday, with COVID-19 deaths topping 1,000, even as officials expressed optimism that stay-at-home orders could be loosened in the coming weeks.
In the Antelope Valley, there were 379 reported cases in Palmdale, 280 cases in Lancaster, 26 cases in Quartz Hill, 16 cases in Lake Los Angeles, 11 cases in the Littlerock/Pearblossom, Juniper Hills areas, and four cases in Sun Village, as of 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
The county Department of Public Health on Tuesday reported 59 more deaths due to the coronavirus, although six of those deaths were reported Monday by Long Beach and Pasadena, which both have their own municipal health agencies.
After announcing that the death toll had reached 1,000, county public health director Barbara Ferrer called it “an unfortunate milestone.”
The fatalities also continued to have a disproportionate impact on the black community. According to the county, of the 918 people who died for whom information was available, 37% were Latinx, 29% were white, 18% were Asian, 14% were black and 1% were Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. Black residents make up roughly 9% of the county’s overall population.
Of the people who have died, 462 were residents of institutional settings, the vast majority of them in nursing homes — representing 46% of all COVID-19 deaths in the county. Of the 11 health care workers who have died in the county during the pandemic, eight worked at nursing homes, Ferrer said. There have been a total of 4,488 cases among residents and staff in institutional settings, including nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, shelters, jails and prisons, according to the county.
The county also announced 597 additional coronavirus cases Tuesday.
Despite the continued increase in numbers of cases and deaths across the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday expressed optimism that it could be “weeks, not months” until some of the stay-at-home orders are relaxed, possibly allowing some lower-risk businesses to reopen.
Ferrer said she shared that hope. The county’s Safer At Home order is currently scheduled to expire May 15.
“I think we’re all with the governor on this,” Ferrer said. “… We know that we’re headed into recovery. We’re hoping that happens sometime in the middle of May, that’s our best guess right now.”
But she said a decision to ease social-distancing and business-closure requirements will depend on multiple factors that have been previously identified, including hospital capacity, the expansion of testing and ensuring the ability to continue protecting the health of people more susceptible to the virus.
“We all have to work together. We have to partner with all of our businesses, with all of our residents to make sure as we start relaxing, we do so in a way that maximizes our ability to still do a lot of physical distancing.
“… But I do share the governor’s optimism. I think I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all of the people in L.A. County who are staying home, who are doing their very best to protect themselves and their loved ones who are trying really hard to make sure they don’t spread the infection. And because of that, I feel optimistic, come the middle of May, we too will be looking at the ability to relax some of the directives in the current health officer order.”
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Problem child yes it's me maria says
WTF my two hours worth of writing here has just disappeared? AGAIN! I CALL [removed]
Problem child says
Those of us who have lived thru and lost SO MANY of our beloved family and friends find it VERY DISGUSTING AND OFFENSIVE to have the outrage and circumsrancesof their deaths be acknowledged by THE ACCUMULATION, CONFIGURING AND PRESENTING OF A BUNCH OF NUMBERS …NOT NAMES TO REMEMBER AND HONOR THEM BY BUT FRICKING NUMBERS…LIKE A STATISTIC OR A MATH PROBLEM THAT CAN NOT BE SOLVED ….WHO COULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE ( NO PUN INTENDED) FOR THAT? ITS JUST ALL BASED ON A BUNCH OF FCING NUMBERS.
YEAH! NUMBERS THAT GO DIRECTLY INTO CRIMINALLY ACTIVATED ACCOUNTS . THOSE TYPE OF CRIMINALS LOVE NUMBERS DONT THEY???? NO SHAME NO FEELINGS, NO REGRETS .
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR HOW LONG NOW???
DEATHS IN HOSPITALS, NURSING HOMES, AL HOMES, INSTITUTIONS, JAILS, SHELTERS BUT OH NOW THEY COME UP WITH THE ” STAY AT HOME” SOLUTION AFTER THROWING SO MANY PEOPLE ( WHO HAVE DIED ) OUT OF THEIR HOMES SENDING THEM TO LIVE IN ALL THEIR SICK ,ABUSIVE, TORTUROUSE, ” HOUSING FACILITIES” THAT THEYVE FUNDED, BUILT AND RUN WITH THE VERY MONEY THEYVE STOLEN FROM THOSE THEYVE VICTIMIZED AND MURDERED.
CANT HANDLE TAKING CARE OF DEAR OLD GRANDMAS PHYSICAL OR HUMAN NEEDS SUCH AS LOVE, COMPASSION, COMMUNICATION WELL JUST PUT HER IN A HOME WHERE THOSE TRAINED TO NEGLECT, ABUSE, ROB , RIDICULE HER CAN TAKE CARE OF HER WHILE ENJOYING ALL HER PROPERTY/ ASSETS THAT MEAN $ AND THROW AWAY ANYTHING THAT WAS MADE OR KEPT SACRED WAS LOVED FOR LOVES SAKE. WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE BROUGHT HER FROM COUNTRIES WHERE THESE ACTS ARE THE NORM….LOOKING FOR HOST FAMILIES SET UP BY THOSE HERE LOOKING TO Fatten their accounts and have ” solutions” to their ” problems” using new techniques or hiring hit men again so not held accountable
HAVING A PROBLEM WITH YOUR CHILDREN PR FAMILY MEMBER WHO DOES NOT LIKE WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND TRIES TO STOP IT. WELL WE HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING IN STORE FOR YOU TOO. THERES PLENTY OF PEOPLE ON THE PAYROLL TO TERRORIZE YOU, REPORT UNTRUTHS, STEAL WHAT YOUVE MANAGED TO SAVE , HOSPITALIZE, JAIL, INSTITUTIONALIZE OR WHATEVER CAN BE DONE TO TEACH YOU A LESSON, BREAK YOUR SPIRIT AND/OR LIVE QUITE COMFORTABLY OFF OF YOUR ” UNFORTUNATE ” DEMISE.
BUT HEY THOSE MEDICAL PERSONNEL, FRONT LINE WORKERS, HOSPITAL ENSURERS LETS GIVE THEM ALL THE THANKS AND PRAISE
CHILDREN TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS AND PUT IN FOSTER HOMES OR YOUTH CAMPS OR WITH FAMILY WHO ONLY WANT THEIR $ WORTH OR USEFULLNESS IN OTHER MORE DEVIOUSLY PLANNED IDEAS
Where were all those ” stay at home ” orders then ( and now) while Their families , homes, possessions all stripped from them … The orders were ” get out” who cares if you live in some place where you’ll get abused, neglected, tortured, dehumanized, ridiculed, poisoned, beaten, lied to , molested , drugged or mind fucked.
SHOULD THOSE ACTIONS HAVE BEEN DEEMED NOT ONLY CRIMINAL BUT DEPLORABLE, UNACCEPTABLE, STOPPED AT ALL COSTS!!
I MEAN THEY EVEN WENT AFTER INNOCENT LOVING PETS .
SO ALL OF YOU WHO NEVER CARED ABOUT ANY OF THE PEOPLE WHOM YOU HURT …DEVASTATED AND EVEN MURDERED, KEEP HIDING IN YOUR STOLEN, BLOOD STAINED HOMES UNTIL THIS ALL ” PASSES OVER” Cause that’s what you’ve always done. But ITS NOT GOING TO LAST OR GO DOWN THAT WAY LIKE NONE OF YOUR CRIMES EVER HAPPENED AND GET COVERED UP WITH YOUR PARTNERSHIPS AND OGANS ABOUT ALL BEING IN TJIS TOGETHER. A REMINDER OR THREAT TO THOSE WHO WANT TO CHANGE S,TOP OR SPEAK OUT.
That was alot….was it not? I’m just MAD and SAD and need to SAY SOMETHING TO HONOR THOSE WHO WERE MUCH MORE THAN JUST” a number”
Alby says
Can you name at least ten of the people you show concern in memory of? Or do you need to go to the hospital and look up the computer numbers?
Covid Ratt says
“Get in our way, we’ll put you on your shelf.”
Miti82 says
Speak for yourself…… speak I or you NOT we.