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Wednesday. Super Bowl LV on
Sunday. There will also be a football game, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers facing off against the Kansas City Chiefs.
And now,
here’s what’s happening across California:
A group of protesters managed to temporarily disrupt operations at Dodger Stadium’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site Saturday, frustrating hundreds of motorists who had been waiting in line for hours. Los Angeles Fire Department officials closed the main entrance to the stadium one of the largest vaccination sites in the country for about an hour Saturday after a group of between 40 and 60 demonstrators appeared on Stadium Way holding signs that decried masks while shouting unfounded claims about the vaccine. The group eventually dispersed, and no arrests were made. Los Angeles officials have since expressed fury at the demonstrators while calling for increased security at testing and vaccination installations.
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L.A. will be turning its massive COVID-19 testing facility at Dodger Stadium into a vaccine distribution site this week. According to a memo sent to employees staffing the site, the testing site at Dodger Stadium will be closed Tuesday through Thursday for remodeling and training, before reopening as a vaccine site on Friday.
In other coronavirus testing news, L.A. County will stop using the Curative coronavirus test after concerns from the Food and Drug Administration about its accuracy. The decision affects only a small number of county-supported mobile testing sites. As of Sunday night, the city of Los Angeles still planned to use Curative oral swab tests at its 10 drive-through testing sites.
President Trump after last week’s ransacking of the U.S. Capitol, unless Vice President
Mike Pence and the Cabinet agree to remove him under the 25th Amendment.
Pelosi’s plan, disclosed in a letter to colleagues, came as a second Republican senator Sen.
Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania joined Sen.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska in calling on Trump to resign over his incitement of the mob that attacked the seat of Congress on Wednesday. It’s part of an intensifying push by lawmakers to force Trump from power before his term ends at noon on Jan. 20.
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Wednesday, Jan. 6, and I’m your guest host, Tony Barboza. I’m filling in for Julia Wick and writing from Long Beach.
We made it through to the New Year, with the surging coronavirus making it the strangest, and perhaps darkest, holiday season in many of our lifetimes. But 2021 isn’t having much of a honeymoon period.
The pandemic in California is already at a point of crisis. Cases, deaths and hospitalizations in L.A. and other areas across the state keep rising, signs that we are well into a new spike in infections from holiday gatherings and travel. It’s the beginning of the dreaded “surge on top of a surge on top of a surge” warned of by health officials.
Thursday, Dec. 31. I’m Nita Lelyveld, filling in for Julia Wick, and I’m writing from Los Angeles.
On Tuesday,
California’s COVID-19 death toll topped 25,000. The Times confirmed it by doing a county-by-county tally. The state also set a new one-day record of 442 fatalities. Think of it as adding up to one person dying of the disease every 3 minutes.
L.A. County was home to more than half those logged daily deaths: 242. On Tuesday, the county also crossed a grim threshold of 10,000 coronavirus deaths.
Here in L.A., we are bearing the brunt of the pandemic and the pressure points are becoming frighteningly evident.