On Thursday, April 21, 2022, the Standards Board of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) adopted streamlined COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) regulations after several months of...more
4/26/2022
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With new COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations falling to pre-surge levels, on February 25, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom acted to lift almost all of the remaining provisions of his COVID-19 executive orders (EOs)....more
With the recent Omicron surge of COVID-19 easing, on Monday, February 7, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California would be ending its statewide indoor mask mandate on February 15, 2022. The change will apply only...more
Proposed Legislation Will Require Employers to Provide Additional Leave -
Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced they had reached an agreement to restore California’s requirement that businesses provide...more
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After a brief period of uncertainty, it appears that California Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) will bring COVID-19 workplace mask regulations in line with federal and other state regulations that permit vaccinated...more
L.A. County Continues Improvement on COVID-19 Metrics -
Last week, L.A. County experienced continued improvement with its COVID-19 metrics.
The County’s cumulative test positivity rate fell to 17%, lower than the...more
Overall Downward Trends Continue in L.A. County -
L.A. County remains in Tier 3 of the State’s Blueprint.
As of April 13, 2021, L.A. County’s adjusted case rate had risen slightly to 3.2 new cases per 100,000 people....more
LA County Moves to Tier 3 -
Last Tuesday, March 30, 2021, the County’s adjusted case rate reached 3.1 new cases per 100,000 residents (down from 3.7/100,000), and the seven-day test positivity rate was 1.5% (down from...more
L.A. County Remains in Tier 2 -
As of last Monday, L.A. County remains in Tier 2 of the State’s Blueprint. Last week, the County’s adjusted case rate was 3.7 new cases per 100,000 residents....more
COVID-19 Cases Continue to Decline in Los Angeles -
Last week, Los Angeles experienced the continued reduction of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. On Monday, March 1, 2021, L.A. County Director of Public...more
COVID-19 Rates and Hospitalizations Continue to Fall -
COVID-19 infection rates, hospitalizations and fatalities continue to fall in L.A. County. New infections are down 77% since the beginning of the year,...more
COVID-19 Rates and Hospitalizations Continue to Fall; Death Rate May Have Peaked -
Over the past week, both new case rates and hospitalizations have continued to fall in the County, and it appears that daily death rates...more
COVID-19 Rates Continue Encouraging Trend -
At the L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, County Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer said that she was “encouraged by the...more
COVID-19 Rates on Apparent Downward Trajectory -
On January 21, 2021, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) noted that for the past weeks, the seven-day average number of cases was 10,560, a decrease...more
Most Counties to Remain in Most Restrictive Tier of the State’s Blueprint -
As California begins to see the recent surge in COVID-19 infections recede, the state is lifting some of the most stringent restrictions on...more
COVID-19 Rates Plateau, Although Pause May Be Temporary -
The County’s seven-day average test positivity rate has declined from a high of nearly 22% on January 6, 2021, to 16.5% as of Monday, January 18, 2021. While this...more
Last week, in response to rising rates of new COVID-19 infections, the state, some counties and many cities put new restrictions in place....more
A Dangerous COVID-19 Surge -
Last week, Los Angeles County experienced what the County Department of Public Health described as “a dangerous acceleration of cases.” The increase in new cases last week outpaced the...more
Last week, Los Angeles County remained at Tier 1 of the State’s Blueprint. The County continues to experience a slight increase in its new case rate per 100,000 residents, with an average of 7.6 new cases per 100,000 in the...more
Returning to Summer COVID-19 Rates -
Last week, Los Angeles County remained at Tier 1 of the State’s Blueprint. Meanwhile, the County experienced a rise in COVID-19 metrics to levels not seen since the summer. In a press...more
A New COVID-19 Surge -
As noted last week, Los Angeles County is experiencing a new surge in COVID-19 cases. Last Monday, October 26, 2020, the County passed a 300,000-case threshold and 7,000 total deaths. In a press...more
Reductions Have Plateaued in L.A. County -
At the L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, October 13, County Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer provided an update and noted that COVID-19 numbers...more
On Tuesday, September 22, 2020, L.A. County’s COVID-19 case rate and test positivity rate fell below the state’s threshold for Tier 2 of the Governor’s Blueprint framework for reopening. More specifically, the County’s...more
Forward Progress as We Enter Fall -
Coming out of the holiday weekend, Los Angeles County and City officials were hopeful that the region would continue to make progress in containing COVID-19. The County’s metrics...more
Some Counties Appear to Have Stabilized, but Next Steps Remain Unclear -
On Monday, August 17, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California has resolved data reporting issues with its COVID-19 database, and...more