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The end-of-day totals from California public health websites for Wednesday, Feb. 10, registered a 51.6% drop in the number of people needing hospital care from a Jan. 6 high of 22,853. There were 471 fewer hospitalizations on Wednesday than there were the previous day, lowering the total number of hospitalizations to 11,045. California communities reported
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The Aquarium of the Pacific announced the recipients of its African American Scholar Program Thursday, Feb. 11, and will honor them during a virtual award ceremony later this month. This scholarship, funded through donor support, is open to students who have demonstrated a commitment to studies related to careers in the aquarium field — including
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Los Angeles public health officials reported 168 fewer patients hospitalized in local hospitals, lowing the number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations to 3,604 as of Friday, Feb. 12. That’s a 55.5% decrease from the Jan. 7 high of 8,098 people hospitalized. There were 3,497 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,161,773
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A CHP motorcycle officer and at least three others were injured in a collision on the 10 freeway in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, causing major traffic delays, authorities said. Authorities described the patients’ injuries as non-life-threatening. All were expected to survive. The CHP officer responded to the crash just before 10 a.m. between a
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George Washington, 1797. (Painting by Gilbert Stuart) Government offices – Los Angeles city and county, national and state – and courts, libraries and schools are normally closed for Presidents Day – technically the federal government’s Washington’s Birthday holiday (observed annually on the third Monday of February). Here is a sampling of other services that are
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The steady decline in hospitalizations continues, marking on Tuesday, Feb. 9, a 49.6% drop in the number of people needing hospital care from a Jan. 6 high of 22,853. There were 388 fewer hospitalizations on Tuesday, than there were the previous day, lowering the total number of hospitalizations to 11,516, according to end-of-day totals from
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A woman has filed a lawsuit alleging her 88-year-old father died from COVID-19 last year after staff at a Culver City assisted-care facility allowed residents to commingle and failed to enforce social distancing. Jessica Hopman’s complaint against Sunrise Villa Culver City, seeking unspecified damages on behalf of Gerald Hopman, was transferred last week from state
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California saw 661 fewer hospitalizations on Saturday, Feb. 6 from the previous day, lowering the total number of hospitalizations to 12,476, a 45.4% decrease from the Jan. 6 high of 22,853, according to California public health websites. California communities reported 10,324 new cases of the coronavirus Saturday, bringing the total number of cases to 3,386,885.
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VAN NUYS — A man approximately 40 years old was injured and another motorist refused hospitalization from a two-vehicle traffic crash Saturday morning in the Van Nuys/Lake Balboa area. The injured motorist, suffering from a leg injury, was rushed to an area hospital, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. Firefighters extricated the injured motorist from
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Hospitalizations continue to fall in L.A. County. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, reported 4,607 patients infected with the coronavirus in local hospitals as of Feb. 6. That is 194 fewer than the previous day and a 43% decrease from the Jan. 7 high of hospitalized of 8,098 patients. The county reported 4,860
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