UPDATE MAY 30

LA County

As of May 30, Los Angeles County Public Health confirmed 48 new deaths due to COVID-19 were 2,112 new cases of positive COVID-19 reported in LA County bringing the total to 53,651. This total includes 974 cases reported in Glendale, 50 in La Cañada Flintridge, 181 in Eagle Rock, 11 in Shadow Hills, 150 in Sunland and 124 in Tujunga. In the unincorporated areas of LA County, Altadena hs reported 153 cases and La Crescenta Montrose has reported 32 cases. As of May 29 USC Verdugo Hills Hospital has reported eight patients with confirmed COVID-19 have been hospitalized, 103 have been sent home and 35 were transferred. Of the patients with negative COVID-19 test, 76 are hospitalized, 1,047 have been sent home and 11 have been transferred. Of patients with pending COVID-19 tests, four are hospitalized and three have been sent home.

Los Angeles County received approval by the State on its variance. This variance allows the County to move through Stage 2 of the State’s 4-stage Pandemic Roadmap at an accelerated rate as determined by our local Health Officer. Public Health has amended the current Health Officer Order, Safer at Work and in the Community, to allow in-person dining at restaurants and hair salons to reopen once the establishments are able to implement the required distancing and infection control directives. The directives are contained in  sector-specific protocols  that guide re-opening and are available online. Inspectors will continue to offer technical assistance as they monitor businesses   for compliance with the Health Officer Order. Higher-risk businesses remain closed.

As the recovery journey continues, more people being around one another may result in more transmission of COVID-19, more cases, and more hospitalizations and deaths. The actions everyone takes today will be reflected in our metrics in two or three weeks. Everyone must continue to follow distancing and infection control directives and wear a clean cloth face covering that securely covers both your nose and mouth when in contact with other people not in your household. Public Health will assess the activities allowed by the Order on an ongoing basis. LA County is in stage two of the five-stage Roadmap to Recovery and until the final stage five is reached, Health Officer Orders and directives will continue to ensure that we slow spread of COVID-19 to prevent an overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases at healthcare facilities.

Public Health continues to track health outcomes by race, ethnicity and income level data of people who have been tested, hospitalized and died from COVID-19. African Americans, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, and people living in communities with high levels of poverty continue to have the highest rate of death per 100,000 people for COVID-19 when compared to other groups. Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders have a death rate of 99 per 100,000, African Americans have a death of 29 per 100,000,Latinos/Latinxs have a death of 26 per 100,000, Asians have a death rate of 19 per 100,000, and Whites have a death rate of 14 per 100,000. People who live in areas with high rates of poverty have almost four times the rate of deaths for COVID-19 with 46 per 100,000 people, compared with communities with very low poverty levels who had a death rate of 12 per 100,000. Public Health continues collaboration with community, healthcare, and philanthropic partners to improve testing, connection to care and services, and in-language and culturally appropriate communications to the communities experiencing these inequitable outcomes.