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Los Angeles County on Tuesday reported a total of 2,708 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 numbers, with the county’s Department of Public Health announcing 51 new deaths from the virus. It said it anticipates receiving a backlog of cases in the following days due to reporting delays, with three hospitals not reporting data today. With the new cases, the county has a total of 178,642 positive COVID-19 cases and 4,426 deaths to date. There are 2,051 current coronavirus-related hospitalizations as of Tuesday, with 18% of those patients on ventilators. Total hospitalizations are down from the all-time high of 2,232 patients hospitalized on July 20, but up from 2,017 on Monday. Tuesdays COVID-19 numbers repped an uptick in cases from Friday’s 1,949 confirmed cases, a number Los A...

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, people are looking for ways they can protect themselves and others from infection. While cloth facial coverings are now ubiquitous in many parts of the country, clear plastic face shields have been slower to catch on with the public. (The gear is most commonly worn in health care settings, on top of a surgical mask or N-95 respirator). But interest seems to be growing: Google Trends data shows a large spike in searches for the term “face shields” over the last two months. And the new curiosity about face shields has raised questions about how well they protect against COVID-19. First, know that the novel coronavirus is thought to be spread mainly through the respiratory droplets produced when an infected individual coughs, sneezes or speaks. Transmiss...

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“Providing county-level mapping for the the most recent two-week period also provides much more actionable data to both public health practitioners and the public,” he said. But Heiman criticized the department’s continued gaps in racial and ethnicity data. The agency faced criticism for poor data visualization, leading to confusion. Previous maps featured legends that constantly shifted as new cases were added. That design choice made it difficult to ascertain where cases were rising in the state. DPH said the new maps feature a white to red color scheme with a fixed scale that will be updated every four weeks. Old maps will be archived for comparison. DPH also refreshed its charts showing daily reported cases and deaths. The state previously charted cases only by the earliest of either...

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