LA’s Covid-19 ‘explosion’: overwhelmed hospitals, struggling workers, shuttered restaurants

LA’s Covid-19 ‘explosion’: overwhelmed hospitals, struggling workers, shuttered restaurants

“This is the explosion we warned about,” said Andrew Noymer, associate professor of public health at the University of California, Irvine. “There is a lot moving in the wrong direction.” … Noymer said it was possible California’s pandemic is on a later timetable than New York, which suffered by far the worst outbreak in the US earlier this spring. California and LA began reopening in phases at the end of May right when the virus was rapidly spreading in the state, he said.