Hospitalizations at lowest level yet but L.A. not ‘out of the woods,’ Garcetti says - KTLA Los Angeles

Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that Los Angeles is “slowly but surely moving in the right direction” as hospitalization rates continue a steady decline after peaking in July.

could shift into the less restrictive Tier 2 of the state’s reopening plan sometime next month, public health officials said Wednesday.

But gatherings with other households without face masks and other violations of physical distancing measures could lead to more troubling infection and death rates like those seen earlier in the pandemic, officials said.

Troubling spikes in hospitalization and infection rates followed in the weeks after the Fourth of July and Memorial Day, something health officials have attributed to gatherings in violation of social distancing on those holidays.

According to the county’s Department of Public Health, officials will look at data at the end of September to see if any gatherings over Labor Day weekend lead to a surge like those seen after the Fourth of July and Memorial Day, particularly since record-breaking temperatures led to large crowds in Santa Monica.

One of the two Los Angeles County deputies shot in an ambush attack last weekend was released from the hospital Wednesday, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said