Coronavirus pandemic
Updated
Published
December 16, 2020 6:08 PM
Dr. José Mayorga, Executive Director in family medicine at UCI Medical Center, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, the first day shots were available in Orange County. (Chava Sanchez/LAist
Orange County health officials today reported 1,486 patients are hospitalized in the county with COVID-19. That includes 319 ICU patients, a startling increase of more than 100 people in just one day.
Both are new records.
Officials blame the recent surge on gatherings where people are not wearing face coverings.
And that prompted this emotional plea from county health director Dr. Clayton Chau at this week s board of supervisors meeting: Stay home.
Coronavirus pandemic
Updated
Published
December 16, 2020 6:08 PM
Dr. José Mayorga, Executive Director in family medicine at UCI Medical Center, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, the first day shots were available in Orange County. (Chava Sanchez/LAist
Orange County health officials today reported 1,486 patients are hospitalized in the county with COVID-19. That includes 319 ICU patients, a startling increase of more than 100 people in just one day.
Both are new records.
Officials blame the recent surge on gatherings where people are not wearing face coverings.
And that prompted this emotional plea from county health director Dr. Clayton Chau at this week s board of supervisors meeting: Stay home.
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Kelly Gonez, the daughter of an immigrant mother and the first in her family to attend college, was selected Tuesday as the new school board president for the Los Angeles Unified School District, representing a generational shift in the nation’s second-largest school system and potentially a shift toward more influence for backers of charter schools.
Gonez, 32, was elected in 2017 to the Board of Education, representing a district that covers most of the east San Fernando Valley.
She pledged to center her attention “on our students and families above all else, especially during this dire and extremely difficult time for so many in our school community.” She especially emphasized racial and social justice issues as areas where the school system needs to do better.
Coronavirus pandemic
Updated
Published
December 16, 2020 6:08 PM
Dr. José Mayorga, Executive Director in family medicine at UCI Medical Center, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, the first day shots were available in Orange County. (Chava Sanchez/LAist
Orange County health officials today reported 1,486 patients are hospitalized in the county with COVID-19. That includes 319 ICU patients, a startling increase of more than 100 people in just one day.
Both are new records.
Officials blame the recent surge on gatherings where people are not wearing face coverings.
And that prompted this emotional plea from county health director Dr. Clayton Chau at this week s board of supervisors meeting: Stay home.