Coronavirus hospitalizations continue to drop in LA County
Long Beach lifeguard Jeremy Rocha gives a test kit to a person in a vehicle as Long Beach has two new drive-thru testing sites for the coronavirus including Jordan High School in Long Beach Saturday, April 18, 2020. Los Angeles and Riverside counties now allow anyone to be tested for COVID-19. (File photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG) Twenty-two more coronavirus-related deaths were confirmed on Friday, Sept. 18, by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, while hospitalizations due to the virus continued to drop. “I appreciate the diligent efforts everyone is making to slow the spread of COVID-19 and am grateful that daily hospitalizations and deaths have continued to decline,” county public health director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement. “This decline didn’t happen by chance — this happened because individuals …
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