U.S. Surpasses 20 Million Coronavirus Cases On The First Day Of 2021
Within hours of the new year, the country surpassed 20 million reported cases of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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Within hours of the new year, the country surpassed 20 million reported cases of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services announced Friday that a team of design and construction experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is being deployed to six Los Angeles County hospitals.
The historic Los Angeles landmark, Pink's Hot Dog Stand, will be closing for at least two months as a surge of COVID-19 cases continues in the county, making fans flock to the stand for one last bite to eat.
Starting Friday, several new traffic laws went into effect in California. Anyone who sees an unattended child in a hot car can now legally smash the window to save him or her...as long as the child is six-years-old or younger.
In the past week, daily hospitalizations have increased by 843 patients and the county's seven-day daily positivity rate increased from 18.2% on Christmas Day to 21.5% on New Year's Day.
Psychic Nikki gives her predictions for 2021, which everyone hopes will be better than 2020.
With Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations over, healthcare workers in Los Angeles and Orange County are worried a surge of patients will pour into already packed hospitals over the next few weeks.
A motorcyclist was airlifted to an area trauma center from a crash on the Angeles Forest Highway, at Mile Marker 9, in the Angeles National Forest, the sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau reports.
A number of television shows have temporarily halted production in Southern California amid the COVID-19 surge.
A 41-year-old motorist was killed and his passenger, a 38-year-old man, suffered critical injuries Friday when the car they were in went off the southbound 405 Freeway in Van Nuys, crashed in a field and burst into flames.
Hospitals across the Southland have been stretched to their limits, with several forced to install makeshift mobile field hospitals in their parking lots to handle the crush of new patients.
Officers arrested a man who allegedly snatched a delivered package from a residential neighborhood in Irvine, police said Friday.
Los Angeles County health officials launched a one-day Twitter campaign Thursday to and pay tribute to those who lost their lives due to coronavirus.
It will be closed to address traffic issues in the area.
