An additional 66 L.A. County residents have died from COVID19 illness in the past 24 hours
An additional 66 Los Angeles County residents have died from COVID-19 illness in the past 24 hours, it was reported Wednesday.
"It underscores the need for all of us to do the best job possible in making sure those who have serious health conditions can stay home, be safe and avoid close contact," Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said in announcing the latest case counts and response efforts during the county’s daily press briefing from the Board of Supervisors headquarters in downtown L.A..
Shelters are among the 275 institutional settings where Ferrer’s team is conducting active investigations, but the primary focus right now is on skilled nursing facilities, in which the majority of the 292 institutional residents have died so far from COVID-19. That figure represents 40 percent of all deaths in the area.
Dr. Christina Ghaly, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, said her team is working to better understand the volume of testing that would be needed to do widespread testing in nursing homes to prevent further outbreaks. She said there are 350 nursing homes in the county, hosting 40,000 beds — figures that would require a massive effort to administer tests to all those residents, as well as staff.
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