Update
June 24

Today, June 24, the Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health confirmed 34 new deaths due to COVID-19 across all areas of LA County. This brings the total of deaths due to COVID-19 across LA County to 3,205.

Public Health also confirmed 1,260 new positive cases of COVID-19 in LA County. This brings the total number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in LA County to 89,490 cases.

Within that total, locally as of June 23 at 8 p.m., the City of Glendale reported 1,312 positive cases of COVID-19 and 102 deaths due to COVID-19. The City of La Cañada Flintridge reported 70 positive cases and six deaths. Eagle Rock reported 240 positive cases and five deaths. Shadow Hills reported 16 positive cases and zero deaths. Sunland reported 205 positive cases and 20 deaths. Tujunga reported 167 positive cases and 11 deaths. In the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County Altadena reported 209 positive cases and seven deaths and La Crescenta/Montrose reported 42 positive cases and one death.

There are 1,556 people who are currently hospitalized; 26% of these people are in the ICU and 18% are on ventilators. Testing capacity continues to increase in LA County, with testing results available for over 990,000 individuals and 8% of people testing positive.

“To everyone who is facing the sorrow of losing a loved one to COVID-19, we are thinking of you every day and we are so sorry for your loss,” said Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, director of Public Health.

Earlier in the week Ferrer released a statement concerning a death threat she had received during a Facebook Live conference saying the public health director should be shot.

“COVID-19 has upended thousands and thousands of lives all across the nation. The virus has changed our world as we know it, and people are angry,” Ferrer said.

She spoke of the fatal toll the virus has taken on the public and those who work in Public Health. “We mourn every single one of those deaths, and we are working tirelessly to slow the spread of COVID-19 and find good solutions for the future of our communities.”

And while the devastation experienced by so many is heartbreaking, it is also disheartening that an increasing number of public health officials, across the country –myself included – are threatened with violence on a regular basis, Ferrer stated.

For the entire statement from Barbara Ferrer please visit www.cvweekly.com or https://tinyurl.com/yd9qvbsa.

For more information on COVID-19, visit www.publichealth.lacounty.gov.