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L.A. County to List Restaurants With Coronavirus Outbreaks

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April 22, 2020
Coronavirus testing in Los Angeles (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Los Angeles County will start to compile a public list of restaurants that have had verified reports of COVID-19.

The Los Angeles Times reported that on April 21, County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said, “Later this week, we will be including on this list restaurants that have had outbreaks as well.” The list she referenced includes institutions such as jails and nursing facilities that have had outbreaks of the virus.

The Times noted that Ferrer did not specify how the county would enforce this policy. The newspaper’s Twitter account started a poll on what users thought of the measure; as of this writing, around 68% said they approved and an estimated 19% disapproved.

Ferrer announced in an April 22 press briefing that there were 1,318 new cases and 66 deaths from the virus, bringing the county totals to 16,435 and 729, respectively. She added that 40% of the county’s COVID-19 deaths have been in nursing homes and that the county is moving toward testing everyone in those facilities, even if they’re asymptomatic.

“It’s become clear that asymptomatic people are capable of spreading the virus,” Ferrer said.

On April 20, the county published a report finding that as many as 440,000 people in the county have COVID-19 antibodies. The nonprofit myCovidMd is offering free drive-through tests on April 24-25 in Culver City for people to be tested for these antibodies.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said in an April 22 press briefing that although he still could not give a firm date on when the state will lift its shelter-in-place order, California is starting to see the curve flatten. He also said that hospitals now can start to perform non-COVID-19-related procedures, such as surgeries to remove tumors.

“We are working with our health directors and throughout the health care delivery system to reintroduce the capacity to get these scheduled surgeries up and running again,” Newsom said. “We will be very thoughtful and judicious about how we do that.”

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