latimes--2020-06-30--It's last call — again — as many bars are forced to close amid coronavirus surge

As coronavirus cases rocket upward in many parts of the state , bars across California — many of which only recently reopened — are being forced to again announce last call .
The taps will tighten Tuesday in Riverside County under a new health order .
“ People don ’ t social distance well after a couple drinks , and it ’ s one of the hardest environments to trace contacts in , ” Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser said in announcing the decision Monday .
“ My hope is that this will be only temporary and further closures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it all depends on what every one of us as a county do to slow more spread.
” The county had allowed bars to reopen June 12 .
However , Riverside , like many areas of California and the country at large , has seen a worrying spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in recent weeks — forcing officials to slow down or walk back plans to reopen businesses that have been closed during the pandemic .
Restaurants , breweries and pubs that offer dine-in services can still serve alcoholic drinks , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ county officials said .
Riverside was one of eight counties that the state recently recommended issue local health orders closing bars .
The others were Contra Costa , Santa Clara , Sacramento , San Bernardino , Ventura , Santa Barbara and Stanislaus .
Others weren ’ t given the choice .
On Sunday , Gov .
Gavin Newsom ordered seven counties — Los Angeles , Fresno , Kern , San Joaquin , Tulare , Kings and Imperial — to close bars , breweries and pubs that sell alcoholic drinks without serving food at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still circulating in California , and in some parts of the state , growing stronger , ” Newsom said in a written statement .
“ That ’ s why it is critical we take this step to limit the spread of the virus in the counties that are seeing the biggest increases.
” In light of the state ’ s recommendation , Sacramento County has amended its public health order “ to take bars off of the list of allowable activities , ” officials said in a statement .
That revised order went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had done the same .
The order there stipulates that brewpubs , breweries , bars and pubs should close starting Wednesday unless they also offer dine-in meals .
However , wineries and tasting rooms can remain open .
“ This action , particularly in anticipation of the holiday weekend , is a proactive measure to curb the spread of COVID-19 locally , ” said County Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg .
“ We have to keep each other safe during this time.
” San Bernardino County officials said Monday that they were examining @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in infections not only increases the risk of people getting sick and even dying , but also threatens our ability to continue reopening our economy , ” Board of Supervisors Chairman Curt Hagman said .
“ It is critical that you continue practicing social distancing and wearing a mask when you ’ re around other people.
” Officials in Ventura County said they are already in line with the guidance , and bars were not open in four other named counties — Contra Costa , Santa Clara , San Joaquin and Imperial — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s announcement .
“ You are much more likely to run into someone who has no symptoms but is positive if you gather with others , ” Ventura County Public Health Officer Dr. Robert Levin said .
“ It ’ s important that we collectively work together to stop the spread so that lives can be saved , and businesses can remain open.
” Other areas that were not listed by the state , including San Diego County , have also taken action to close some alcohol-serving establishments in a bid to slow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Steel , chairwoman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors , said Tuesday that the health officer “ is considering the issuance of health orders to close bars in Orange County if , in his medical opinion , it is appropriate to do so.
” “ Throughout our pandemic response , and in our phased reopening , we have consistently stated that we would closely monitor the data and correct course as needed , ” she said .
“ I , and my colleagues on the Orange County Board of Supervisors , remain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our residents .
”

As coronavirus cases rocket upward in many parts of the state, bars across California — many of which only recently reopened — are being forced to again announce last call.
The taps will tighten Tuesday in Riverside County under a new health order.
“People don’t social distance well after a couple drinks, and it’s one of the hardest environments to trace contacts in,” Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser said in announcing the decision Monday. “My hope is that this will be only temporary and further closures won’t be needed, but it all depends on what every one of us as a county do to slow more spread.”
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The county had allowed bars to reopen June 12. However, Riverside, like many areas of California and the country at large, has seen a worrying spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in recent weeks — forcing officials to slow down or walk back plans to reopen businesses that have been closed during the pandemic.
California Newsom warns of more coronavirus restrictions and enforcement ahead of July 4 weekend Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday ordered tougher restrictions on indoor activities for most of the state, marking a major step backward in the reopening and an attempt to slow an alarming rise of the coronavirus in 19 counties.
Restaurants, breweries and pubs that offer dine-in services can still serve alcoholic drinks, but only as part of a meal, county officials said.
Riverside was one of eight counties that the state recently recommended issue local health orders closing bars. The others were Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Sacramento, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Stanislaus.
Others weren’t given the choice. On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered seven counties — Los Angeles, Fresno, Kern, San Joaquin, Tulare, Kings and Imperial — to close bars, breweries and pubs that sell alcoholic drinks without serving food at the same time.
“COVID-19 is still circulating in California, and in some parts of the state, growing stronger,” Newsom said in a written statement. “That’s why it is critical we take this step to limit the spread of the virus in the counties that are seeing the biggest increases.”
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In light of the state’s recommendation, Sacramento County has amended its public health order “to take bars off of the list of allowable activities,” officials said in a statement. That revised order went into effect Monday.
California California enters a perilous phase as coronavirus spread intensifies Officials express alarm over people flouting safety rules as the state records its highest number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day.
Santa Barbara County had done the same. The order there stipulates that brewpubs, breweries, bars and pubs should close starting Wednesday unless they also offer dine-in meals. However, wineries and tasting rooms can remain open.
“This action, particularly in anticipation of the holiday weekend, is a proactive measure to curb the spread of COVID-19 locally,” said County Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg. “We have to keep each other safe during this time.”
San Bernardino County officials said Monday that they were examining the matter.
“This renewed growth in infections not only increases the risk of people getting sick and even dying, but also threatens our ability to continue reopening our economy,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Curt Hagman said. “It is critical that you continue practicing social distancing and wearing a mask when you’re around other people.”
Officials in Ventura County said they are already in line with the guidance, and bars were not open in four other named counties — Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Joaquin and Imperial — at the time of the state’s announcement.
“You are much more likely to run into someone who has no symptoms but is positive if you gather with others,” Ventura County Public Health Officer Dr. Robert Levin said. “It’s important that we collectively work together to stop the spread so that lives can be saved, and businesses can remain open.”
Other areas that were not listed by the state, including San Diego County, have also taken action to close some alcohol-serving establishments in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Michelle Steel, chairwoman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, said Tuesday that the health officer “is considering the issuance of health orders to close bars in Orange County if, in his medical opinion, it is appropriate to do so.”
“Throughout our pandemic response, and in our phased reopening, we have consistently stated that we would closely monitor the data and correct course as needed,” she said. “I, and my colleagues on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, remain dedicated to protecting the health and safety of our residents.”


latimes--2020-06-30--After record-breaking day of coronavirus cases, California surpasses 6,000 deaths

Three months after Gov .
Gavin Newsom issued an unprecedented statewide stay-at-home order designed to stem the spread of the coronavirus , California recorded a new grim milestone : passing the threshold of 6,000 coronavirus-related deaths .
Tuesday ’ s news came one day after the state recorded its highest single-day count of COVID-19 cases .
Monday ’ s tally of more than 8,000 infections broke the state ’ s daily record for the third time in eight days .
In Los Angeles County , officials reported 45 additional deaths Tuesday and 2,779 more COVID-19 cases .
It was the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 2,100 cases following Monday ’ s highest single-day tally , which brought the county past 100,000 infections .
The enormous surge in cases , which now total more than 223,900 statewide , has prompted New York Gov .
Andrew Cuomo to order anyone traveling to the state from California — and 15 other states that have seen recent spikes — to self-quarantine for 14 days .
New York has been among the hardest hit of all states , recording more than 31,000 deaths .
New Jersey follows with more than 15,000 deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Illinois , Pennsylvania and Michigan each have over 6,000 deaths , according to Johns Hopkins University ’ s coronavirus tracker .
The California increase is not simply the result of expanded testing capacity , officials have said .
The growing rate of infections and a spike in hospitalizations are proof the virus is spreading within communities .
Health officials have attributed the rising numbers to a combination of events : the further reopening of many businesses , mass protests over the death of George Floyd and clusters of private gatherings .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this shouldn ’ t surprise anybody watching — as you reopen the economy , as we move away and make the meaningful modifications which we did to our stay-at-home order , you ’ re going to see people mixing that were not mixing in the past , ” Newsom said during a news conference Monday .
Newsom says the state will make an announcement Wednesday on efforts to “ toggle back ” on the current health order .
The announcement will include tighter restrictions related to the July 4 weekend ; the governor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ If you ’ re not going to stay home and you ’ re not going to wear masks in public , we have to enforce [ rules ] , ” he said Tuesday .
In the months since the pandemic struck the U.S. , nothing in the fight against the virus has changed except people ’ s social behaviors , experts say .
The state is now closely monitoring 19 counties for surges in cases — which recently have skewed toward younger residents — and hospitalizations , which still largely affect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conditions .
Some counties , including several in the Bay Area , have begun to step back their reopening efforts .
L.A. County was one of seven counties ordered Sunday by the state to close its bars .
On Monday , local officials announced that beaches would be closed over the July 4 weekend , a little over a month after reopening ahead of Memorial Day weekend .
The county also has banned fireworks displays over the holiday .
Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in a tweet the Sheriff ’ s Department would enforce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and that beaches would be patrolled .
L.A. County health officials now estimate that 1 in 140 people are unknowingly infected with the coronavirus , a massive increase since last week ’ s projection of 1 in 400 .
With that in mind , Health Services Director Dr. Christina Ghaly said that officials were preparing for a surge in hospitalizations and an “ increase in mortality ” in the coming weeks .
Officials had warned of the possibility of a spike in cases with a resurgence in activity , but they weren ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the jump would occur .
“ What we didn ’ t expect was to see this steep an increase this quickly , ” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday .

George Vouzou works out on Venice Beach Tuesday. L.A. County beaches will be closed for the July 4th weekend due to the resurgence of the coronavirus.
Three months after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an unprecedented statewide stay-at-home order designed to stem the spread of the coronavirus, California recorded a new grim milestone: passing the threshold of 6,000 coronavirus-related deaths.
Tuesday’s news came one day after the state recorded its highest single-day count of COVID-19 cases. Monday’s tally of more than 8,000 infections broke the state’s daily record for the third time in eight days.
California Photos: Californians get out before Newsom announces new restrictions Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday ordered tougher restrictions on indoor activities for most of the state, marking a major step backward in the reopening and an attempt to slow an alarming rise of the coronavirus in 19 counties.
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In Los Angeles County, officials reported 45 additional deaths Tuesday and 2,779 more COVID-19 cases. It was the third consecutive day the county reported more than 2,100 cases following Monday’s highest single-day tally, which brought the county past 100,000 infections.
The enormous surge in cases, which now total more than 223,900 statewide, has prompted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to order anyone traveling to the state from California — and 15 other states that have seen recent spikes — to self-quarantine for 14 days.
New York has been among the hardest hit of all states, recording more than 31,000 deaths. New Jersey follows with more than 15,000 deaths, Massachusetts has more than 8,000, and Illinois, Pennsylvania and Michigan each have over 6,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus tracker.
The California increase is not simply the result of expanded testing capacity, officials have said.
If you're traveling to New York from the following states you must self-quarantine for 14 days.
The states are: AL, AR, AZ, CA, FL, GA, IA, ID, LA, MS, NC, NV, SC, TN, TX, UT. — Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 30, 2020
The growing rate of infections and a spike in hospitalizations are proof the virus is spreading within communities. Health officials have attributed the rising numbers to a combination of events: the further reopening of many businesses, mass protests over the death of George Floyd and clusters of private gatherings.
“We’ve been very clear — this shouldn’t surprise anybody watching — as you reopen the economy, as we move away and make the meaningful modifications which we did to our stay-at-home order, you’re going to see people mixing that were not mixing in the past,” Newsom said during a news conference Monday.
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Newsom says the state will make an announcement Wednesday on efforts to “toggle back” on the current health order. The announcement will include tighter restrictions related to the July 4 weekend; the governor says holiday gatherings are a major concern.
“If you’re not going to stay home and you’re not going to wear masks in public, we have to enforce [rules],” he said Tuesday.
In the months since the pandemic struck the U.S., nothing in the fight against the virus has changed except people’s social behaviors, experts say. The state is now closely monitoring 19 counties for surges in cases — which recently have skewed toward younger residents — and hospitalizations, which still largely affect older residents and those with underlying health conditions.
A man walks along the Venice Beach boardwalk Tuesday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
Some counties, including several in the Bay Area, have begun to step back their reopening efforts.
L.A. County was one of seven counties ordered Sunday by the state to close its bars. On Monday, local officials announced that beaches would be closed over the July 4 weekend, a little over a month after reopening ahead of Memorial Day weekend. The county also has banned fireworks displays over the holiday.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in a tweet the Sheriff’s Department would enforce beach parking violations over the three-day weekend and that beaches would be patrolled.
.@LASDHQ advises the beaches are CLOSED Fri, Jul 3-Mon Jul 6. Enforcement efforts will be focused on vehicle & penal code violations, beach parking lot closures, & street parking restrictions. @LASDHQ beach patrol will be patrolling the county beaches to ensure public safety — Alex Villanueva (@LACoSheriff) June 30, 2020
L.A. County health officials now estimate that 1 in 140 people are unknowingly infected with the coronavirus, a massive increase since last week’s projection of 1 in 400. With that in mind, Health Services Director Dr. Christina Ghaly said that officials were preparing for a surge in hospitalizations and an “increase in mortality” in the coming weeks.
Officials had warned of the possibility of a spike in cases with a resurgence in activity, but they weren’t prepared for the speed at which the jump would occur.
“What we didn’t expect was to see this steep an increase this quickly,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday.


latimes--2020-06-30--One woman shot to death, two injured at vigil for shooting victim in Long Beach

One woman was killed and two others injured Monday night at a vigil in Long Beach for a man shot to death the night before in the same area , authorities said .
A gunman fired into the large crowd of mourners at about 9 p.m. Monday near Orange Avenue and South Street , according to Long Beach Police Lt. Robert Woods .
Three women suffered apparent gunshot wounds , he said .
One woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died .
The other two women were also taken to a hospital .
Their conditions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authorities said .
“ We are gathering information regarding the suspect or motive for the shooting , ” Woods said .
According to police , “ the victims were all attending a vigil at the location for the victim of a homicide that occurred at the location ” the previous night .
Archie Harris , a 49-year-old Bellflower man , was shot to death in the area shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday .
Woods said police had not yet determined whether the two shootings were linked .
Anyone with information about Harris ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Shea Robertson or Travis Harris at ( 562 ) 570-7244 .
Tips can also be made anonymously by calling ( 800 ) 222-8477 .

Law enforcement officers at scene of a shooting at the 5800 block of Orange Avenue in Long Beach. One woman was killed and two others injured Monday night when someone opened fire at a vigil held for a man who had been fatally shot a day earlier.
One woman was killed and two others injured Monday night at a vigil in Long Beach for a man shot to death the night before in the same area, authorities said.
A gunman fired into the large crowd of mourners at about 9 p.m. Monday near Orange Avenue and South Street, according to Long Beach Police Lt. Robert Woods. Three women suffered apparent gunshot wounds, he said.
One woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died. The other two women were also taken to a hospital. Their conditions were described as critical and stable, authorities said.
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“We are gathering information regarding the suspect or motive for the shooting,” Woods said.
According to police, “the victims were all attending a vigil at the location for the victim of a homicide that occurred at the location” the previous night.
Archie Harris, a 49-year-old Bellflower man, was shot to death in the area shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday.
Woods said police had not yet determined whether the two shootings were linked.
Anyone with information about Harris’ death is asked to contact homicide Dets. Shea Robertson or Travis Harris at (562) 570-7244. Tips can also be made anonymously by calling (800) 222-8477.


latimes--2020-06-30--July 4 will be a do-or-die moment for California as coronavirus rages

With coronavirus cases surging in California , the upcoming July 4 weekend is shaping up to be a crucial test for whether residents can reduce risky behavior and slow the outbreak .
Data show the current jump in cases appears to have begun around the Memorial Day weekend , just as the state was allowing businesses to reopen .
Authorities believe many people resumed social gatherings after months of staying home , and that helped spread the virus .
Memorial Day holiday events were followed by graduation and Father ’ s Day celebrations .
Other factors in the surge include @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where inspections have found that many businesses were not following social-distancing and health and safety rules .
What are officials doing to prepare for July 4 ?
Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday .
Although it was a “ difficult decision to make , ” the closures are crucial because so many people gather to celebrate — which could be “ a recipe for increased transmission of COVID-19 , ” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ piers , public beach parking lots , beach bike paths “ that traverse that sanded portion of the beach ” and beach access points will be closed from 12:01 a.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday .
The ban on fireworks displays applies only to the Fourth of July weekend .
“ I know how much we look forward to this time of year , ” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a Monday evening news briefing .
“ But not this year .
This year , we have to think about saving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this country ... and to make sure our economy doesn ’ t take more steps backward.
” Gov .
Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered seven counties , including Los Angeles , to and nightspots that were open .
San Diego County bars , breweries and wineries learned Monday that they will not be allowed to operate , at least not in the traditional sense , starting Wednesday at 12:01 a.m .
While restaurants will still be allowed to serve drinks with meals , no one will be allowed to stand around with drinks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ midnight .
Newsom threatened to order the return of the , where he said the rate of positive cases has been as high as 23 % , if local officials did not do so on their own .
“ If they are unsuccessful in building consensus around going back into a stay-at-home order frame , the state of California will assert itself and make sure that happens , ” Newsom said Monday .
He also warned that the state is considering additional restrictions in other areas .
“ Let me be forthright with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of other things to advance , and we will be making those public as conditions change , ” he said .
What do experts say ?
Public health officials expected the reopenings to push up the number of coronavirus cases — but not this much .
Robert Kim-Farley , a medical epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health , said the only way to figure out how to open is to do it gradually and dial things back if the disease spreads so fast it might overwhelm hospitals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s happening now .
“ Now , we ’ re recognizing things are going up .
So we ’ re dialing it back down again , ” Kim-Farley said .
Dr. Otto Yang , a professor of medicine and the associate chief of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA , said he thought L.A. County reopened too quickly .
“ A lot of the things that really work to reduce transmission — like contact tracing and even masks — depend on your starting at a low [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
“ It ’ s back to the fire analogy : If the fire isn ’ t down to just smoldering embers — if there ’ s still active pockets of fire — then backing off will let stuff flare up very quickly.
” Physicians are increasingly seeing more younger adult patients .
“ We ’ re still getting some very sick patients , but we ’ re also seeing more young people that have milder cases , ” Yang said .
Based on what patients are telling medical staff , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was acquired by “ going out and socializing more.
” He added , “ It does seem like it ’ s either family gatherings or social activities.
” Yang said the protests against the death of George Floyd in police custody do not seem be a particularly big factor in the spread of disease .
He cited current epidemiological studies that suggest the outdoor nature of the protests , and that many protesters wore masks , limited the spread of the virus .
Where do we stand now ?
The state broke its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new coronavirus cases reported in a single day , tallying more than 8,000 .
It is the third time in eight days the state has broken a record of new daily cases , according to the Los Angeles Times ’ .
A Times analysis found that California is on track to roughly double the number of coronavirus cases in June over those it recorded in May .
Last month , there were 61,666 cases reported statewide ; by Monday night , there were 114,196 cases reported for the first 28 days of June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a cumulative 223,000 confirmed cases and more than 5,900 coronavirus-related deaths in California .
Ferrer said the surge is proof — “ definitively ” — that community transmission has increased , with the cumulative rate of those testing positive for infection increasing from 8 % to 9 % .
Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are probably unknowingly infected with the virus and contagious to others , a threefold increase over last week ’ s projection of 1 in 400 .
That means a typical large , busy store would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shop every day , officials said .
In addition , health officials revealed that on the weekend after June 19 — the day Los Angeles County gave the green light for bars , breweries , wineries and similar businesses to reopen — more than 500,000 people visited the county ’ s newly reopened nightlife spots .
Inspectors , however , found over the weekend that employees at about half of the bars and restaurants visited were not wearing face masks or shields .
Half of the bars and one-third of the restaurants inspected @ @ @ @ @ @ @

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Jacob Laiser, 38, of Venice balances on a slack line while working out at Santa Monica Beach on Monday. Los Angeles County beaches will close for the July 4 holiday weekend.
With coronavirus cases surging in California, the upcoming July 4 weekend is shaping up to be a crucial test for whether residents can reduce risky behavior and slow the outbreak.
Data show the current jump in cases appears to have begun around the Memorial Day weekend, just as the state was allowing businesses to reopen. Authorities believe many people resumed social gatherings after months of staying home, and that helped spread the virus. Memorial Day holiday events were followed by graduation and Father’s Day celebrations.
Other factors in the surge include people returning to restaurants and bars, where inspections have found that many businesses were not following social-distancing and health and safety rules.
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What are officials doing to prepare for July 4?
Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday.
Although it was a “difficult decision to make,” the closures are crucial because so many people gather to celebrate — which could be “a recipe for increased transmission of COVID-19,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement Monday.
All public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths “that traverse that sanded portion of the beach” and beach access points will be closed from 12:01 a.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. The ban on fireworks displays applies only to the Fourth of July weekend.
“I know how much we look forward to this time of year,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a Monday evening news briefing. “But not this year. This year, we have to think about saving lives to protect what we have in this country ... and to make sure our economy doesn’t take more steps backward.”
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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered seven counties, including Los Angeles, to immediately close bars and nightspots that were open.
San Diego County bars, breweries and wineries learned Monday that they will not be allowed to operate, at least not in the traditional sense, starting Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. While restaurants will still be allowed to serve drinks with meals, no one will be allowed to stand around with drinks in their hands after the stroke of midnight.
Newsom threatened to order the return of the stay-at-home directive in Imperial County , where he said the rate of positive cases has been as high as 23%, if local officials did not do so on their own.
“If they are unsuccessful in building consensus around going back into a stay-at-home order frame, the state of California will assert itself and make sure that happens,” Newsom said Monday.
He also warned that the state is considering additional restrictions in other areas.
“Let me be forthright with you: We are considering a number of other things to advance, and we will be making those public as conditions change,” he said.
What do experts say?
Public health officials expected the reopenings to push up the number of coronavirus cases — but not this much.
Robert Kim-Farley, a medical epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, said the only way to figure out how to open is to do it gradually and dial things back if the disease spreads so fast it might overwhelm hospitals later. And that’s what’s happening now.
“Now, we’re recognizing things are going up. So we’re dialing it back down again,” Kim-Farley said.
Dr. Otto Yang, a professor of medicine and the associate chief of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said he thought L.A. County reopened too quickly.
“A lot of the things that really work to reduce transmission — like contact tracing and even masks — depend on your starting at a low [disease] control level,” Yang said. “It’s back to the fire analogy: If the fire isn’t down to just smoldering embers — if there’s still active pockets of fire — then backing off will let stuff flare up very quickly.”
Physicians are increasingly seeing more younger adult patients. “We’re still getting some very sick patients, but we’re also seeing more young people that have milder cases,” Yang said.
Based on what patients are telling medical staff, the younger people say they suspect the virus was acquired by “going out and socializing more.” He added, “It does seem like it’s either family gatherings or social activities.”
Yang said the protests against the death of George Floyd in police custody do not seem be a particularly big factor in the spread of disease. He cited current epidemiological studies that suggest the outdoor nature of the protests, and that many protesters wore masks, limited the spread of the virus.
Where do we stand now?
The state broke its record Monday for the greatest number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day, tallying more than 8,000. It is the third time in eight days the state has broken a record of new daily cases, according to the Los Angeles Times’ California coronavirus tracker .
A Times analysis found that California is on track to roughly double the number of coronavirus cases in June over those it recorded in May. Last month, there were 61,666 cases reported statewide; by Monday night, there were 114,196 cases reported for the first 28 days of June.
By Monday evening, there were a cumulative 223,000 confirmed cases and more than 5,900 coronavirus-related deaths in California.
Ferrer said the surge is proof — “definitively” — that community transmission has increased, with the cumulative rate of those testing positive for infection increasing from 8% to 9%. Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are probably unknowingly infected with the virus and contagious to others, a threefold increase over last week’s projection of 1 in 400.
That means a typical large, busy store would probably have multiple infectious persons enter and shop every day, officials said.
In addition, health officials revealed that on the weekend after June 19 — the day Los Angeles County gave the green light for bars, breweries, wineries and similar businesses to reopen — more than 500,000 people visited the county’s newly reopened nightlife spots.
Inspectors, however, found over the weekend that employees at about half of the bars and restaurants visited were not wearing face masks or shields. Half of the bars and one-third of the restaurants inspected were not adhering to social-distancing protocols.


latimes--2020-06-30--San Quentin coronavirus outbreak spreads: 1,113 prisoners infected, death row inmate dies

With about a third of San Quentin ’ s inmates now infected with the coronavirus after a transfer of prisoners from a Southern California correctional facility overrun by the illness , Marin County officials revealed Monday that a death row inmate found dead last week in his cell tested positive for COVID-19 .
Richard Stitely ’ s death was the first in California ’ s oldest and most notorious prison , where 1,113 inmates and 102 correctional and medical staff have tested positive for the virus .
The Marin County prison has surpassed the California Institution for Men in Chino @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state .
Marin County ’ s hospitals have been inundated with intensive care patients from the prison , which houses about 3,500 inmates , including all of the men on California ’ s death row .
On Monday , 22 inmates were being treated at the county ’ s hospitals , officials said .
In a letter sent Monday to the state , Marin County Board of Supervisors President Kate Rice requested the “ establishment of on-site capacity to manage the care of inmates sickened with COVID-19 and the establishment of an Incident @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expertise.
” Gov .
Gavin Newsom said the state was coming up with a plan that included “ using Seton Hospital , one of our alternative care facility sites ” in Daly City to treat the inmates .
“ San Quentin : So that is our deep area of focus and concern right now , ” Newsom said .
The governor also said he is working to release an additional 3,500 inmates across the state ’ s prisons after a similar move made at the start of the coronavirus crisis .
“ We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ courts and others , ” Newsom said , noting that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is “ looking at medical conditions of our prisoners , those that are most vulnerable.
“ He said the state wants to ensure that all inmates have places to go before they are released .
Unlike other prisons in California , San Quentin had escaped any coronavirus outbreak until early June .
But 121 inmates were moved there from the Chino prison on May 30 .
The California Institution for Men , an early hotbed of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prison system , has reported the deaths of 16 inmates .
Statewide , 22 inmates have died of virus-related illnesses and more than 4,800 have tested positive .
Inmates in Chino who did not test positive and are medically vulnerable were transferred to other prisons , including San Quentin and Corcoran .
The transfers ignited outbreaks at both prisons , with a federal judge calling the moves a significant failure .
Stitely had been on death row at San Quentin for nearly three decades since being sentenced for the 1990 rape and murder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was last seen leaving a Reseda bar with him .
He was one of 725 death row inmates housed at the Bay Area prison .
Of those , nearly 200 have tested positive for the coronavirus .
Stitely ’ s official cause of death is still pending additional investigation , according to Marin County sheriff-coroner ’ s officials .
Newsom on Monday acknowledged the role the transfers have played in the San Quentin outbreak .
“ It looks and appears to be the case .
Again , we ’ re still getting through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have that as a caveat of consideration before people run with it , ” the governor .
A similar transfer of inmates from San Quentin to a prison in Kern County was delayed last week after some prisoners tested positive .
Before the May 30 transfer from the California Institution for Men in Chino , the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had stopped the movement of all inmates for months , limiting most outbreaks to a few of its 35 prisons .
As of Monday , 2,526 inmates at San Quentin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation data .
About two-fifths of inmates are deemed vulnerable , according to state officials .
“ We are closely monitoring and quickly responding to positive cases of COVID-19 in state prisons , including at San Quentin , ” corrections spokeswoman Dana Simas said in a statement .
“ Additionally , we are working jointly with the court-appointed Federal Receiver on housing and treatment , as well as public health agencies and stakeholders for the safety and security of our inmates , staff and communities.
” Prison @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exterior yards as part of an effort to socially distance some of the inmates .
A similar move was made at the California Institution for Men in May .

With about a third of San Quentin’s inmates now infected with the coronavirus after a transfer of prisoners from a Southern California correctional facility overrun by the illness, Marin County officials revealed Monday that a death row inmate found dead last week in his cell tested positive for COVID-19.
Richard Stitely’s death was the first in California’s oldest and most notorious prison, where 1,113 inmates and 102 correctional and medical staff have tested positive for the virus.
The Marin County prison has surpassed the California Institution for Men in Chino as the most infected prison in the state.
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California San Quentin prison coronavirus outbreak ‘tragic, predictable and unacceptable’ More than 500 inmates at the prison in Marin County have tested positive for COVID-19, many of them after transferring from the men’s prison in Chino, the site of a massive coronavirus outbreak.
Marin County’s hospitals have been inundated with intensive care patients from the prison, which houses about 3,500 inmates, including all of the men on California’s death row. On Monday, 22 inmates were being treated at the county’s hospitals, officials said.
In a letter sent Monday to the state, Marin County Board of Supervisors President Kate Rice requested the “establishment of on-site capacity to manage the care of inmates sickened with COVID-19 and the establishment of an Incident Commander at the facility with outbreak management expertise.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state was coming up with a plan that included “using Seton Hospital, one of our alternative care facility sites” in Daly City to treat the inmates.
“San Quentin: So that is our deep area of focus and concern right now,” Newsom said.
The governor also said he is working to release an additional 3,500 inmates across the state’s prisons after a similar move made at the start of the coronavirus crisis.
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“We are working with many advocates in the courts and others,” Newsom said, noting that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is “looking at medical conditions of our prisoners, those that are most vulnerable.“
He said the state wants to ensure that all inmates have places to go before they are released.
Unlike other prisons in California, San Quentin had escaped any coronavirus outbreak until early June. But 121 inmates were moved there from the Chino prison on May 30.
The California Institution for Men, an early hotbed of coronavirus cases in the state’s prison system, has reported the deaths of 16 inmates. Statewide, 22 inmates have died of virus-related illnesses and more than 4,800 have tested positive.
Inmates in Chino who did not test positive and are medically vulnerable were transferred to other prisons, including San Quentin and Corcoran. The transfers ignited outbreaks at both prisons, with a federal judge calling the moves a significant failure.
Stitely had been on death row at San Quentin for nearly three decades since being sentenced for the 1990 rape and murder of Carol Unger, 47, who was last seen leaving a Reseda bar with him.
He was one of 725 death row inmates housed at the Bay Area prison. Of those, nearly 200 have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Stitely’s official cause of death is still pending additional investigation, according to Marin County sheriff-coroner’s officials.
Newsom on Monday acknowledged the role the transfers have played in the San Quentin outbreak.
“It looks and appears to be the case. Again, we’re still getting through the complete investigation, so I want to have that as a caveat of consideration before people run with it,” the governor.
A similar transfer of inmates from San Quentin to a prison in Kern County was delayed last week after some prisoners tested positive. Before the May 30 transfer from the California Institution for Men in Chino, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had stopped the movement of all inmates for months, limiting most outbreaks to a few of its 35 prisons.
California California enters a perilous phase as coronavirus spread intensifies Officials express alarm over people flouting safety rules as the state records its highest number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day.
As of Monday, 2,526 inmates at San Quentin had been tested for the coronavirus, according to Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation data. About two-fifths of inmates are deemed vulnerable, according to state officials.
“We are closely monitoring and quickly responding to positive cases of COVID-19 in state prisons, including at San Quentin,” corrections spokeswoman Dana Simas said in a statement. “Additionally, we are working jointly with the court-appointed Federal Receiver on housing and treatment, as well as public health agencies and stakeholders for the safety and security of our inmates, staff and communities.”
Prison officials Monday set up tents in the exterior yards as part of an effort to socially distance some of the inmates. A similar move was made at the California Institution for Men in May.


latimes--2020-06-30--Carl Reiner, prolific comedy legend who created 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' dead at 98

Carl Reiner was tall , handsome and witty , but nobody ’ s idea of a leading man — even when he was playing himself .
In 1960 , he wrote and starred in a TV pilot called “ Head of the Family , ” playing a character much like himself : a TV comedy writer with a young family and a split-level house on Bonnie Meadow Road in New Rochelle , N.Y .
But Reiner as Reiner was a flop and the pilot went nowhere .
“ We got a better actor , ” he said years later , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actor was Dick Van Dyke , and Reiner became known as the creator , writer and producer of “ The Dick Van Dyke Show , ” one of TV ’ s most fondly remembered comedy series .
A comedy giant who directed hit films such as “ Oh , God !
” and “ The Jerk , ” Reiner died Monday of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills at age 98 .
Reiner ’ s son and fellow filmmaker , Rob Reiner , confirmed his father ’ s death on Twitter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ away .
As I write this my heart is hurting .
He was my guiding light , ” Rob Reiner , 73 , wrote .
His longtime writing partner Mel Brooks said he treasured Carl Reiner as a colleague and friend .
“ Whether he wrote or performed or he was just your best friend — nobody could do it better , ” Brooks said .
“ He ’ ll be greatly missed .
A tired cliche in times like this , but in Carl Reiner ’ s case it ’ s absolutely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” The Bronx-born Reiner worked in a machine shop after high school as he took free acting classes sponsored by the Works Progress Administration .
He made $ 1 a week for his first paid acting gig but had to promise not to brag about his good fortune to the other cast members at a Manhattan theater .
He first came to national attention in the 1950s on Caesar ’ s “ Your Show of Shows , ” where he wrote alongside Mel Brooks , Neil Simon and other comedy legends .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their later years , the two often shared dinner and a movie at Reiner ’ s home .
Reiner was the foil for the zany Brooks ’ 2,000-Year-Old Man , an enduring routine they spontaneously devised during a slow time in the writers ’ room at “ Your Show of Shows.
” “ I ’ m asking all the questions the audience would die to ask a man who lived for 2,000 years , ” Reiner told NPR in a joint 2009 interview with his old pal Brooks .
“ For instance , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serious , inquiring-reporter voice , “ of all the wives you ’ ve had , who is your favorite wife ?
” “ What was so special about Shirley ?
” On “ The Dick Van Dyke Show , ” which ran from 1961 to ’ 66 , Reiner occasionally played the egomaniacal Alan Brady , star of the TV show whose writing staff was headed by the show ’ s main character , Rob Petrie .
Reiner told The Times in 1993 : “ ‘ The Van Dyke Show ’ is probably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that was very , very personal , the most personal thing I ’ ve done .
Because it was about me and my wife , living in New Rochelle and working on the Sid Caesar show .
All those other things have just been entertainments .
I was a man for hire.
” The films Reiner directed include : “ The Comic ” ( 1969 ) , starring Van Dyke ; “ Where ’ s Poppa ?
” ( 1970 ) , starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon ; “ Oh , God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Denver ; and four films starring Steve Martin — “ The Jerk ” ( 1979 ) , “ Dead Men Don ’ t Wear Plaid ” ( 1982 ) , “ The Man With Two Brains ” ( 1983 ) and “ All of Me ” ( 1984 ) .
The last film he directed was 1997 ’ s “ That Old Feeling , ” with Bette Midler and Dennis Farina .
The critic Pauline Kael “ once wrote that she ’ s not sure if I ’ m a serious filmmaker or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interview .
“ So I assured her : I ’ m not.
” Reiner , a lifelong Democrat , was active on social media until the day he died .
On Monday , he tweeted a rebuke of President Trump : “ As I arose at 7:30 this morning , I was saddened to relive the day that led up to the election of a bankrupted and corrupt businessman who had no qualifications to be the leader of any country in the civilized world.
” Reiner ’ s son Rob once said of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in life is making other people happy and keeping the world which he inhabits moving .
He ’ s what they used to call in the Catskills a tummler — somebody who keeps people engaged and stimulated .
He always gets a sense of the room he ’ s in and expresses what ’ s on everybody ’ s mind.
” In 2000 , Reiner received the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor , a high point in a show business career that netted him 12 Emmy Awards , a Grammy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Achievement .
Most of his Emmys were for writing or for his performance in supporting roles .
“ He didn ’ t have to be the star , ” Billy Crystal wrote in his foreword to Reiner ’ s “ I Remember Me , ” a 2013 memoir .
“ He is what he is : A nice genius.
” The son of a watchmaker , Reiner was born in New York City on March 20 , 1922 .
After graduating from high school in the Bronx , he worked as a shipping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s helper in a shop that made millinery equipment .
Reiner was 16 when his older brother , Charlie , saw a newspaper announcement about free drama classes sponsored by the Works Progress Administration .
Still working at the machine shop , Reiner took classes and began acting at a midtown Manhattan theater run by Paul Gilmore , a stage actor who had starred in silent movies .
He did summer stock outside Rochester , N.Y. — his first trip away from home , he said in an interview for the Archive of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ repertory company , he followed instructions to the letter .
“ Say after me , ” the director told him , “ Now is the winter of our dithhcontent.
” “ Now , ” Reiner orated , “ is the winter of our dithhcontent ” “ I was feeling great , ” he recalled to an interviewer in 2010 .
But a few minutes later , a friend offstage told him how badly he ’ d screwed up : “ You just impersonated a guy with a stroke !
” He got the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ schools and colleges throughout the South .
Other early jobs included performing at Allaben Acres , a summer camp for adults in the Catskills .
It was there he met jazz singer Estelle Lebost , his wife for 65 years until her death in 2008 .
Reiner used some of his struggling-actor experiences in his 1958 novel , “ Enter Laughing , ” whose main character floridly reads a stage direction — “ Enter laughing ” — as a line at one of the most hilariously botched auditions in theatrical history .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stein as a Broadway play that ran from 1963 to 1964 and in 1967 was turned into a movie — the first that Reiner directed .
Drafted in World War II , Reiner was sent to Georgetown University in Washington , D.C. , for training as a French interpreter .
He wound up touring the South Pacific in GI revues as part of a Special Services entertainment unit headed by Maj. Maurice Evans , a noted Shakespearean actor .
After his discharge in 1946 , Reiner appeared in a couple of Broadway musicals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alive and Kicking.
” One of its backers , Max Liebman , hired Reiner for an upcoming comedy sketch show he was producing : NBC ’ s “ Your Show of Shows.
” “ It was the happiest thing that ever happened to me , ” Reiner once said .
Appearing in roles as varied as a Confederate soldier , a suburban commuter and a waterfront hoodlum , Reiner was often serious and straightforward while Caesar was hurtling out of control .
“ As a second banana , ” Reiner told TV Guide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chance to do just about everything a performer can ever get to do .
If it came off well , I got applause .
If it didn ’ t , the show was blamed.
” Working with such writers as Brooks , Mel Tolkin , Lucille Kallen , and Neil and Danny Simon was “ like recess , ” Reiner said .
The writers ’ room also provided the creative environment that gave rise to the 2,000-Year-Old Man .
Making fun of the interviews on a TV show called “ We , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ listless meeting by suddenly pointing to the 24-year-old Brooks : “ Here with us today , ladies and gentlemen , is a man who was actually at the scene of the Crucifixion , 2,000 years ago .
Isn ’ t that true , sir ?
” Without missing a beat , Brooks let loose with an Old World-weary sigh and said , “ Oooooh , boy.
” “ Jesus — yes , yes , ” Brooks replied in a Yiddish accent , struggling to remember .
“ Thin lad .
Wore sandals .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yes , yes , they used to come into the store a lot , never bought anything .
They came in for water .
I gave it to them .
Nice boys , well-behaved … ” The spontaneous routine , which went on for some time , had the entire room in stitches .
After “ Your Show of Shows ” ended in 1954 , Reiner became a regular on “ Caesar ’ s Hour , ” a comedy-variety show that ran from 1954 to 1957 and , in 1958 , on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Invites You.
” While writing for singer Dinah Shore ’ s variety show , he came up with the idea of a comedy series loosely based on his own life .
The ultimate result was groundbreaking , even if Reiner wrote himself out of the lead role .
“ Husband and wife , though still sleeping in separate beds , were shown to actually have a physical relationship , and Mary Tyler Moore was even shown wearing capri pants , unheard of at the time , ” according to the Museum of Broadcast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Show ” featured the wisecracking Rose Marie as writer Sally Rogers , an equal in status and cleverness to Morey Amsterdam , who played her fellow writer Buddy Sorrell .
Reiner occasionally played Rob ’ s tyrannical , toupee-wearing boss , TV star Alan Brady .
He said he took the role because he didn ’ t think a big star would .
“ My idea was to play him with his back to the audience , ” Reiner told The Times in 1994 .
“ I never intended to be seen very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Emmys for writing and producing .
In 1995 , he reprised the Alan Brady role for an episode of the series “ Mad About You , ” which earned him another Emmy .
Reiner also wrote screenplays , starting with “ The Thrill of It All ” ( 1963 ) and “ The Art of Love ” ( 1965 ) .
Both were directed by Norman Jewison , who later directed Reiner in the 1966 comedy “ The Russians Are Coming , the Russians Are Coming.
” As an actor , Reiner appeared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2001 remake of “ Ocean ’ s Eleven ” and its two sequels .
In addition to “ Enter Laughing , ” he wrote the novels “ All Kinds of Love , ” “ Continue Laughing , ” “ NNNNN : A Novel , ” and “ Just Desserts : A Novellelah , ” a story based on a fictional novelist ’ s email to God .
Although he was raised in a Jewish household , the director of “ Oh , God !
” was an atheist most of his life .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to believe in God after the Holocaust , ” he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2009 .
“ He ’ s either not listening or he ’ s very busy making flowers.
” Reiner also wrote two children ’ s books : “ Tell Me a Scary Story ” and “ Tell Me Another Scary Story … but Not TOO Scary !
” Often asked for the secret to writing humor , Reiner would say , “ Make yourself laugh.
” But that didn ’ t work for everyone , he was quick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Me , ” he recalled “ a fresh-faced exec ” ambling into an office at NBC , pulling up an easy chair , putting his feet on a coffee table , and suggesting a stream of surefire funny bits for “ The Dick Van Dyke Show.
” With his staff , Reiner looked on in stunned silence .
“ You wan na know what I think is funny ?
” Reiner finally asked .
He walked over to the coffee table , pulled off one of the astounded hot shot ’ s shoes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ window .
In addition to Rob Reiner , survivors include son Lucas Reiner , an artist ; daughter Annie Reiner , a psychoanalyst ; and five grandchildren .
Staff writer Nardine Saad contributed to this report .
McLellan and Chawkins are former Times staff writers .

Carl Reiner holds two Emmy statuettes awarded in 1963 for “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” (Associated Press)
Rob Reiner holds his American Cinematheque Award. With him are his wife, Michele Singer, and father, Carl Reiner. (Los Angeles Times)
In May 1997, Mel Brooks, left, and Carl Reiner reprise their popular routine the 2,000–Year–Old Man. (Anacleto Rapping / Los Angeles Times)
Norman Lear, left, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner wave to the media in 2014 after Brooks placed his hands and shoes in cement at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Brooks displays his left hand with a fake extra finger. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Carl Reiner, the legendary writer, director and actor, at his Beverly Hills home in 2009. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Carl Reiner was tall, handsome and witty, but nobody’s idea of a leading man — even when he was playing himself.
In 1960, he wrote and starred in a TV pilot called “Head of the Family,” playing a character much like himself: a TV comedy writer with a young family and a split-level house on Bonnie Meadow Road in New Rochelle, N.Y. But Reiner as Reiner was a flop and the pilot went nowhere.
“We got a better actor,” he said years later, “a much better actor.”
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That actor was Dick Van Dyke, and Reiner became known as the creator, writer and producer of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” one of TV’s most fondly remembered comedy series.
A comedy giant who directed hit films such as “Oh, God!” and “The Jerk,” Reiner died Monday of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills at age 98.
Reiner’s son and fellow filmmaker, Rob Reiner, confirmed his father’s death on Twitter.
“Last night my dad passed away. As I write this my heart is hurting. He was my guiding light,” Rob Reiner, 73, wrote.
Last night my dad passed away. As I write this my heart is hurting. He was my guiding light. — Rob Reiner (@robreiner) June 30, 2020
His longtime writing partner Mel Brooks said he treasured Carl Reiner as a colleague and friend.
“Whether he wrote or performed or he was just your best friend — nobody could do it better,” Brooks said. “He’ll be greatly missed. A tired cliche in times like this, but in Carl Reiner’s case it’s absolutely true. He will be greatly missed.”
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The Bronx-born Reiner worked in a machine shop after high school as he took free acting classes sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. He made $1 a week for his first paid acting gig but had to promise not to brag about his good fortune to the other cast members at a Manhattan theater.
He first came to national attention in the 1950s on Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows,” where he wrote alongside Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and other comedy legends. He remained lifelong friends with Brooks; in their later years, the two often shared dinner and a movie at Reiner’s home.
Reiner was the foil for the zany Brooks’ 2,000-Year-Old Man, an enduring routine they spontaneously devised during a slow time in the writers’ room at “Your Show of Shows.”
“I’m asking all the questions the audience would die to ask a man who lived for 2,000 years,” Reiner told NPR in a joint 2009 interview with his old pal Brooks.
“For instance,” he asked Brooks in his most serious, inquiring-reporter voice, “of all the wives you’ve had, who is your favorite wife?”
“Shirley,” the 2,000-Year-Old Man immediately responded.
“What was so special about Shirley?”
“Her friend Laila. Me and Laila — whoo, hoo, hoo!”
On “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” which ran from 1961 to ’66, Reiner occasionally played the egomaniacal Alan Brady, star of the TV show whose writing staff was headed by the show’s main character, Rob Petrie.
Reiner told The Times in 1993: “‘The Van Dyke Show’ is probably the most thrilling of my accomplishments because that was very, very personal, the most personal thing I’ve done. Because it was about me and my wife, living in New Rochelle and working on the Sid Caesar show. All those other things have just been entertainments. I was a man for hire.”
The films Reiner directed include: “The Comic” (1969), starring Van Dyke; “Where’s Poppa?” (1970), starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon; “Oh, God!” starring George Burns and John Denver; and four films starring Steve Martin — “The Jerk” (1979), “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” (1982), “The Man With Two Brains” (1983) and “All of Me” (1984). The last film he directed was 1997’s “That Old Feeling,” with Bette Midler and Dennis Farina.
The critic Pauline Kael “once wrote that she’s not sure if I’m a serious filmmaker or not,” Reiner recalled in an interview. “So I assured her: I’m not.”
Reiner, a lifelong Democrat, was active on social media until the day he died. On Monday, he tweeted a rebuke of President Trump: “As I arose at 7:30 this morning, I was saddened to relive the day that led up to the election of a bankrupted and corrupt businessman who had no qualifications to be the leader of any country in the civilized world.”
Books ‘Paging’ Carl Reiner: Stories of a lifetime The actor, straight man, comedian and emcee extraordinaire insists his career chronicle ‘is 96% absolutely true.’
Reiner’s son Rob once said of his father: “His main thrust in life is making other people happy and keeping the world which he inhabits moving. He’s what they used to call in the Catskills a tummler — somebody who keeps people engaged and stimulated. He always gets a sense of the room he’s in and expresses what’s on everybody’s mind.”
In 2000, Reiner received the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, a high point in a show business career that netted him 12 Emmy Awards, a Grammy and the American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Most of his Emmys were for writing or for his performance in supporting roles.
“He didn’t have to be the star,” Billy Crystal wrote in his foreword to Reiner’s “I Remember Me,” a 2013 memoir. “He is what he is: A nice genius.”
The son of a watchmaker, Reiner was born in New York City on March 20, 1922. After graduating from high school in the Bronx, he worked as a shipping clerk and then as a machinist’s helper in a shop that made millinery equipment.
Reiner was 16 when his older brother, Charlie, saw a newspaper announcement about free drama classes sponsored by the Works Progress Administration.
Still working at the machine shop, Reiner took classes and began acting at a midtown Manhattan theater run by Paul Gilmore, a stage actor who had starred in silent movies.
He did summer stock outside Rochester, N.Y. — his first trip away from home, he said in an interview for the Archive of American Television.
Auditioning with a Shakespearean repertory company, he followed instructions to the letter.
“Say after me,” the director told him, “Now is the winter of our dithhcontent.”
“Now,” Reiner orated, “is the winter of our dithhcontent ”
“I was feeling great,” he recalled to an interviewer in 2010. But a few minutes later, a friend offstage told him how badly he’d screwed up: “You just impersonated a guy with a stroke!”
He got the job and for two years toured high schools and colleges throughout the South.
Other early jobs included performing at Allaben Acres, a summer camp for adults in the Catskills. It was there he met jazz singer Estelle Lebost, his wife for 65 years until her death in 2008.
Reiner used some of his struggling-actor experiences in his 1958 novel, “Enter Laughing,” whose main character floridly reads a stage direction — “Enter laughing” — as a line at one of the most hilariously botched auditions in theatrical history.
“Enter Laughing” was adapted by Joseph Stein as a Broadway play that ran from 1963 to 1964 and in 1967 was turned into a movie — the first that Reiner directed.
Drafted in World War II, Reiner was sent to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., for training as a French interpreter. He wound up touring the South Pacific in GI revues as part of a Special Services entertainment unit headed by Maj. Maurice Evans, a noted Shakespearean actor.
After his discharge in 1946, Reiner appeared in a couple of Broadway musicals, including, in 1950, “Alive and Kicking.”
One of its backers, Max Liebman, hired Reiner for an upcoming comedy sketch show he was producing: NBC’s “Your Show of Shows.”
“It was the happiest thing that ever happened to me,” Reiner once said.
Appearing in roles as varied as a Confederate soldier, a suburban commuter and a waterfront hoodlum, Reiner was often serious and straightforward while Caesar was hurtling out of control.
“As a second banana,” Reiner told TV Guide in 1960, “I had a chance to do just about everything a performer can ever get to do. If it came off well, I got applause. If it didn’t, the show was blamed.”
Working with such writers as Brooks, Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, and Neil and Danny Simon was “like recess,” Reiner said.
The writers’ room also provided the creative environment that gave rise to the 2,000-Year-Old Man.
Making fun of the interviews on a TV show called “We, the People,” Reiner pepped up a listless meeting by suddenly pointing to the 24-year-old Brooks: “Here with us today, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who was actually at the scene of the Crucifixion, 2,000 years ago. Isn’t that true, sir?”
Without missing a beat, Brooks let loose with an Old World-weary sigh and said, “Oooooh, boy.”
In awe, Reiner asked: “You knew Jesus?”
“Jesus — yes, yes,” Brooks replied in a Yiddish accent, struggling to remember. “Thin lad. Wore sandals. Always walked around with 12 other guys. Yes, yes, they used to come into the store a lot, never bought anything. They came in for water. I gave it to them. Nice boys, well-behaved …”
The spontaneous routine, which went on for some time, had the entire room in stitches.
After “Your Show of Shows” ended in 1954, Reiner became a regular on “Caesar’s Hour,” a comedy-variety show that ran from 1954 to 1957 and, in 1958, on a short-lived effort called “Sid Caesar Invites You.”
While writing for singer Dinah Shore’s variety show, he came up with the idea of a comedy series loosely based on his own life.
The ultimate result was groundbreaking, even if Reiner wrote himself out of the lead role.
“Husband and wife, though still sleeping in separate beds, were shown to actually have a physical relationship, and Mary Tyler Moore was even shown wearing capri pants, unheard of at the time,” according to the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
My idol, Carl Reiner, wrote about the human comedy. He had a deeper understanding of the human condition, than I think even he was aware of. Kind, gentle, compassionate, empathetic and wise. His scripts were never just funny, they always had something to say about us. — Dick Van Dyke (@iammrvandy) June 30, 2020
“The Dick Van Dyke Show” featured the wisecracking Rose Marie as writer Sally Rogers, an equal in status and cleverness to Morey Amsterdam, who played her fellow writer Buddy Sorrell.
Reiner occasionally played Rob’s tyrannical, toupee-wearing boss, TV star Alan Brady. He said he took the role because he didn’t think a big star would.
“My idea was to play him with his back to the audience,” Reiner told The Times in 1994. “I never intended to be seen very much.”
The show earned Reiner multiple Emmys for writing and producing.
In 1995, he reprised the Alan Brady role for an episode of the series “Mad About You,” which earned him another Emmy.
Reiner also wrote screenplays, starting with “The Thrill of It All” (1963) and “The Art of Love” (1965). Both were directed by Norman Jewison, who later directed Reiner in the 1966 comedy “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.”
As an actor, Reiner appeared as con man Sol Bloom in the 2001 remake of “Ocean’s Eleven” and its two sequels.
In addition to “Enter Laughing,” he wrote the novels “All Kinds of Love,” “Continue Laughing,” “NNNNN: A Novel,” and “Just Desserts: A Novellelah,” a story based on a fictional novelist’s email to God.
Although he was raised in a Jewish household, the director of “Oh, God!” was an atheist most of his life.
“It’s hard for me to believe in God after the Holocaust,” he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2009. “He’s either not listening or he’s very busy making flowers.”
Reiner also wrote two children’s books: “Tell Me a Scary Story” and “Tell Me Another Scary Story … but Not TOO Scary!”
Often asked for the secret to writing humor, Reiner would say, “Make yourself laugh.”
But that didn’t work for everyone, he was quick to acknowledge.
In “I Remember Me,” he recalled “a fresh-faced exec” ambling into an office at NBC, pulling up an easy chair, putting his feet on a coffee table, and suggesting a stream of surefire funny bits for “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”
With his staff, Reiner looked on in stunned silence.
“You wanna know what I think is funny?” Reiner finally asked.
He walked over to the coffee table, pulled off one of the astounded hot shot’s shoes, and threw it out an open window.
“That, I think, is funny!”
In addition to Rob Reiner, survivors include son Lucas Reiner, an artist; daughter Annie Reiner, a psychoanalyst; and five grandchildren.
Staff writer Nardine Saad contributed to this report. McLellan and Chawkins are former Times staff writers.


latimes--2020-06-30--'We're surging again.' Doctors, nurses angry as coronavirus strains California hospitals

For a brief moment , California returned to bars , beaches and Botox .
But after a few days , much of the state is reversing course as hospitals see an alarming spike in people sick with COVID-19 , raising the specter of an overwhelmed medical system .
“ It ’ s scary , ” said Peter Chin-Hong , an infectious disease expert at UC San Francisco .
“ We still haven ’ t recovered from the first phase , and now we have to get ready for the next one.
” While Chin-Hong and other medical experts said California @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treat patients , the future is uncertain .
Coronavirus cases jumped to more than 220,000 Monday , creeping steadily upward in some places , skyrocketing in others and prompting health officials in multiple counties to demand the closure of bars , hair salons and other businesses opened only days ago .
Gov .
Gavin Newsom said hospitalizations have increased 43 % in the last two weeks while admissions to ICU units have increased 37 % .
He hinted at stricter statewide action if counties were unable to contain outbreaks .
“ We don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Newsom said .
“ Let me be forthright with you : We are considering a number of other things to advance , and we will be making those public as conditions change.
” Some of the worst outbreaks are in Imperial and Riverside counties , where ICU beds are nearly full and nurses at one hospital have gone on strike to protest what they say is understaffing and a lack of protective gear .
“ When you deliberately don ’ t staff someone to relieve me , I have to stay on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a nurse at Riverside Community Hospital .
“ Our professionalism is being exploited.
” Hospital officials denied that they were low on staff or protective gear , but the overwhelming case load in the area prompted Rep. Raul Ruiz ( D-Palm Desert ) , an emergency room physician , to call for a reinstatement of restrictions and mask wearing .
California officials have said that hospitalizations should not increase by more than 10 % over any three days , but more than a dozen counties across the state are missing the mark .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and about 38 % currently are in use by non-COVID patients , according to Covid Act Now , a collaboration between Stanford and Georgetown universities .
As government officials struggled to regain control of residents weary of restrictions and eager to celebrate the upcoming Fourth of July holiday , numerous health officials are frustrated and fearful .
Many said that while hospital capacity has increased , and more is known about how to treat the disease , those on the front lines still face shortages , stress and chagrin that the public is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physician in Los Angeles County contacted a Times reporter on Monday by sending a two-word text message : “ Déjà vu.
” “ I ’ m not sure why everyone is so surprised that we ’ re surging again .
It never went away , and we opened up ” while mask-wearing was being “ politicized , ” the physician said , calling it “ very frustrating.
” Erin McIntosh , 37 , a rapid response nurse in the Inland Empire said the last few months had been the “ worst of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in like we ’ re not enough , ” McIntosh said .
“ I feel like this is all setting us up to fail.
” But public resistance to restrictions also remains strong , making it difficult to re-institute public health protections , said some experts .
“ Every single one of those county health officers faces an impossible set of circumstances , ” said David Relman , a Stanford doctor .
Unlike with the first days of the epidemic , when much of the virus was concentrated in urban areas , infections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ northern and inland counties , putting pressure on medical systems with fewer resources .
It has left some medical experts to warn the state is not experiencing a second wave , but a failure to maintain the flattened curve of the first one .
And the virus continues to take an uneven toll , hitting communities of color and the elderly hardest , and often leaving the young and more affluent with milder cases that are diagnosed and treated earlier .
A study by Sutter Health in May found that Black COVID-19 patients @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more likely to be hospitalized than non-Hispanic white patients and arrived at the hospital with more severe symptoms .
Black patients also die of COVID-19 at higher rates , according to the study and state data .
Stephen Lockhart , chief medical officer for Sutter , said he believes those disparities will continue , in part because people of color make up a larger percentage of the essential workforce , can ’ t afford to stay home when they become ill and often live in multigenerational settings where the infection is passed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obvious that COVID-19 has sort of ripped the Band-Aid off the existing inequities , ” Lockhart said .
Epidemiologists say it ’ s not yet clear whether the surge in cases will cause a similar increase in deaths .
Many of the newest infections are younger individuals .
And treatments have improved survival rates , said medical experts .
But one model , by Covid Act Now , predicts deaths in California could hit 24,000 in the next month based on current trends .
Currently , about 5,900 Californians have died from causes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay-at-home order put in place in March bought time to prepare for coming cases , including surge sites that were closed weeks ago but could be re-opened .
The governor said the state has about 30,000 hospital beds available for COVID-19 patients in the traditional hospital system , including about 3,300 available ICU beds .
As of Monday , he said 4,776 people were hospitalized with a confirmed case of the virus .
“ So numbers are going up , but our ability to manage and absorb also is significant , ” Newsom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distributed throughout the state .
Newsom said Imperial County , which has experienced positivity rates of 23 % , has exceeded its hospital capacity .
“ Over a five-week period , just a five-week period , we had to move 500 patients out of their hospital system into surrounding county systems , ” Newsom said .
In Los Angeles , there are signs that cases could overload local facilities if not curtailed .
“ While we did anticipate increases in cases as sectors reopened , we did not expect the increases to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ferrer , the public health director in LA County , said Friday .
San Francisco and the Bay Area are also experiencing a “ surge ” in COVID-19 rates of infection and the city will have to “ pause ” its reopening , the city ’ s health director said Friday .
The seven-day average number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals in Contra Costa County rose 75 % from June 15 to June 29 , the county reported Monday .
Businesses that were scheduled to reopen on Monday will now stay closed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We went we went from a yellow to a high orange , and if that continues over the next couple of days , we could be in our red zone , ” which could trigger more restrictions , he said .
“ Our curve is not flat right now .
...
In fact , that curve is getting more and more vertical.
” Health officials are also alarmed by large outbreaks in California ’ s prisons and jails .
At San Quentin , just north of San Francisco , more than 1,000 inmates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Lassen County and Riverside also have outbreaks , as do numerous county jails .
Health officials said those patients likely will end up being treated in community hospitals if their cases become severe , adding another point of pressure .
“ The prison system doesn ’ t have that level of care for prisoners , so when they start doing really badly , we have to take them in the community , ” said Chin-Hong , the UC San Francisco doctor .
Health experts said that the rising numbers will continue without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place during the first days of the pandemic .
If the spread isn ’ t stopped soon , they warn , it may become impossible .
“ It could get to some point where there literally is just too much disease to manage , ” Relman said .

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People wear protective face coverings during their strolls Monday on the Santa Monica Pier. L.A. County has surged past 100,000 cases of coronavirus.
For a brief moment, California returned to bars, beaches and Botox. But after a few days, much of the state is reversing course as hospitals see an alarming spike in people sick with COVID-19, raising the specter of an overwhelmed medical system.
“It’s scary,” said Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UC San Francisco. “We still haven’t recovered from the first phase, and now we have to get ready for the next one.”
While Chin-Hong and other medical experts said California currently has the capacity it needs to treat patients, the future is uncertain. Coronavirus cases jumped to more than 220,000 Monday, creeping steadily upward in some places, skyrocketing in others and prompting health officials in multiple counties to demand the closure of bars, hair salons and other businesses opened only days ago.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said hospitalizations have increased 43% in the last two weeks while admissions to ICU units have increased 37%. He hinted at stricter statewide action if counties were unable to contain outbreaks.
“We don’t like the trend line,” Newsom said. “Let me be forthright with you: We are considering a number of other things to advance, and we will be making those public as conditions change.”
Some of the worst outbreaks are in Imperial and Riverside counties, where ICU beds are nearly full and nurses at one hospital have gone on strike to protest what they say is understaffing and a lack of protective gear.
“When you deliberately don’t staff someone to relieve me, I have to stay on duty,” said Erik Andrews, a nurse at Riverside Community Hospital. “Our professionalism is being exploited.”
Hospital officials denied that they were low on staff or protective gear, but the overwhelming case load in the area prompted Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert), an emergency room physician, to call for a reinstatement of restrictions and mask wearing.
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California officials have said that hospitalizations should not increase by more than 10% over any three days, but more than a dozen counties across the state are missing the mark. California has about 7,880 ICU beds, and about 38% currently are in use by non-COVID patients, according to Covid Act Now, a collaboration between Stanford and Georgetown universities.
As government officials struggled to regain control of residents weary of restrictions and eager to celebrate the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, numerous health officials are frustrated and fearful. Many said that while hospital capacity has increased, and more is known about how to treat the disease, those on the front lines still face shortages, stress and chagrin that the public is not taking precautions.
One emergency room physician in Los Angeles County contacted a Times reporter on Monday by sending a two-word text message: “Déjà vu.”
“I’m not sure why everyone is so surprised that we’re surging again. It never went away, and we opened up” while mask-wearing was being “politicized,” the physician said, calling it “very frustrating.”
Erin McIntosh, 37, a rapid response nurse in the Inland Empire said the last few months had been the “worst of the worst.”
“It leaves us feeling in like we’re not enough,” McIntosh said. “I feel like this is all setting us up to fail.”
But public resistance to restrictions also remains strong, making it difficult to re-institute public health protections, said some experts.
“Every single one of those county health officers faces an impossible set of circumstances,” said David Relman, a Stanford doctor.
Unlike with the first days of the epidemic, when much of the virus was concentrated in urban areas, infections are now rising in California’s northern and inland counties, putting pressure on medical systems with fewer resources. It has left some medical experts to warn the state is not experiencing a second wave, but a failure to maintain the flattened curve of the first one.
And the virus continues to take an uneven toll, hitting communities of color and the elderly hardest, and often leaving the young and more affluent with milder cases that are diagnosed and treated earlier.
Which California counties are reopening? To contain the spread of COVID-19, parks, restaurants and stores are slowly reopening.
A study by Sutter Health in May found that Black COVID-19 patients in Northern California were nearly three times more likely to be hospitalized than non-Hispanic white patients and arrived at the hospital with more severe symptoms. Black patients also die of COVID-19 at higher rates, according to the study and state data.
Stephen Lockhart, chief medical officer for Sutter, said he believes those disparities will continue, in part because people of color make up a larger percentage of the essential workforce, can’t afford to stay home when they become ill and often live in multigenerational settings where the infection is passed to others.
“It’s very obvious that COVID-19 has sort of ripped the Band-Aid off the existing inequities,” Lockhart said.
Epidemiologists say it’s not yet clear whether the surge in cases will cause a similar increase in deaths. Many of the newest infections are younger individuals. And treatments have improved survival rates, said medical experts.
But one model, by Covid Act Now, predicts deaths in California could hit 24,000 in the next month based on current trends. Currently, about 5,900 Californians have died from causes related to COVID-19.
Newsom said the stay-at-home order put in place in March bought time to prepare for coming cases, including surge sites that were closed weeks ago but could be re-opened.
The governor said the state has about 30,000 hospital beds available for COVID-19 patients in the traditional hospital system, including about 3,300 available ICU beds.
As of Monday, he said 4,776 people were hospitalized with a confirmed case of the virus.
“So numbers are going up, but our ability to manage and absorb also is significant,” Newsom said.
But those beds are unevenly distributed throughout the state. Newsom said Imperial County, which has experienced positivity rates of 23%, has exceeded its hospital capacity.
“Over a five-week period, just a five-week period, we had to move 500 patients out of their hospital system into surrounding county systems,” Newsom said.
In Los Angeles, there are signs that cases could overload local facilities if not curtailed.
“While we did anticipate increases in cases as sectors reopened, we did not expect the increases to be this steep this quickly,” Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in LA County, said Friday.
San Francisco and the Bay Area are also experiencing a “surge” in COVID-19 rates of infection and the city will have to “pause” its reopening, the city’s health director said Friday. The seven-day average number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals in Contra Costa County rose 75% from June 15 to June 29, the county reported Monday.
Businesses that were scheduled to reopen on Monday will now stay closed, Health Director Grant Colfax said.
“We went we went from a yellow to a high orange, and if that continues over the next couple of days, we could be in our red zone,” which could trigger more restrictions, he said. “Our curve is not flat right now. ... In fact, that curve is getting more and more vertical.”
Health officials are also alarmed by large outbreaks in California’s prisons and jails. At San Quentin, just north of San Francisco, more than 1,000 inmates have tested positive. Facilities in Fresno, Lassen County and Riverside also have outbreaks, as do numerous county jails. Health officials said those patients likely will end up being treated in community hospitals if their cases become severe, adding another point of pressure.
“The prison system doesn’t have that level of care for prisoners, so when they start doing really badly, we have to take them in the community,” said Chin-Hong, the UC San Francisco doctor.
Health experts said that the rising numbers will continue without the kinds of social interventions put in place during the first days of the pandemic. If the spread isn’t stopped soon, they warn, it may become impossible.
“It could get to some point where there literally is just too much disease to manage,” Relman said.
Times staff writer Maura Dolan contributed to this report.


latimes--2020-06-30--California enters a perilous phase as coronavirus spread intensifies

California plummeted deeper into a new coronavirus crisis Monday as new cases spiked to record levels , some hospitals filled up , and officials expressed growing alarm and frustration with people refusing to follow safety rules despite the increasingly perilous conditions .
The state broke its record Monday for the greatest number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day , tallying more than 8,000 .
That ’ s the third time in eight days the state has broken a record of new daily cases , according to the Los Angeles Times ’ California coronavirus tracker .
A Times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to roughly double the number of coronavirus cases in June over those it recorded in May .
In May , there were 61,666 cases reported statewide ; by Monday night , there were 114,196 cases reported for the first 28 days of June .
By Monday evening , there were a cumulative reported 223,000 confirmed cases and more than 5,900 coronavirus-related deaths in California .
The coronavirus has rapidly spread through communities as the economy has reopened and people reverted to old behaviors , returning to bars , barbecues and birthday parties .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in cases , positivity rates and hospitalization , ” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said .
Los Angeles County , long the center of coronavirus in California , hit another grim milestone , surpassing 100,000 confirmed cumulative cases and more than 3,330 deaths .
The county reported more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases on Monday alone , also recording its largest single-day number of new infections , according to The Times ’ coronavirus tracker .
The number of hospitalizations of confirmed COVID-19 patients has also soared in L.A. County , rising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weeks .
On Sunday , 1,732 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized , up from 1,206 two weeks earlier .
L.A. County is now projecting the possibility of running out of its existing supply of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in two to three weeks .
Likewise , the number of intensive-care beds available could be exhausted sometime in July .
Hospitals can , however , make more room for coronavirus patients by canceling elective surgeries and making other moves to increase capacity .
“ This is the time to hunker down back in your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said , urging people to wear face coverings and practice social distancing .
“ Please , let ’ s not let go of everything we worked hard and sacrificed for.
” She urged people to avoid crowds : “ It ’ s just not safe right now.
” Ferrer said the surge is proof — “ definitively ” — that community transmission has increased , with the cumulative rate of those testing positive for infection increasing from 8 % to 9 % .
Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contagious to others , a threefold increase over last week ’ s projection of 1 in 400 .
That means a typical large , busy store would probably have multiple infectious persons enter and shop every day , officials said .
In addition , health officials revealed that on the weekend after June 19 — the day Los Angeles County gave the green light for bars , breweries , wineries and similar businesses to reopen — more than 500,000 people visited the county ’ s newly reopened nightlife spots .
Inspectors , however @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at about half of bars and restaurants were not wearing face masks or shields .
Half of bars and one-third of restaurants were not adhering to social distancing protocols .
Gov .
Gavin Newsom ordered bars in L.A. County and four other counties in the San Joaquin Valley closed Sunday because of the increasing case numbers .
The effective transmission rate of the coronavirus has now increased across the county .
Previously , through the beginning of May , for every one person infected , fewer than one other person on average was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the stay-at-home order .
But by early June , as the reopening accelerated , the coronavirus transmission rate had crept above 1 , meaning for every one person infected , an additional 1.26 people are infected on average .
Orange County confirmed 57 coronavirus-related deaths for the seven-day period that ended Sunday , the highest weekly death toll that the county has reported since the pandemic began in the U.S .
It was the third consecutive week Orange County broke a weekly record for COVID-19 deaths .
There are now 19 counties @ @ @ @ @ @ @ list , including L.A. , Orange , Riverside , San Bernardino and Ventura counties .
Officials are growing increasingly alarmed by the upcoming Fourth of July weekend because they fear more crowds and gatherings could spread COVID-19 further .
Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipation of the holiday .
All public beaches , piers , public beach parking lots , beach bike paths “ that traverse that sanded portion of the beach ” and beach access points will be closed from 12:01 a.m. Friday to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fireworks displays applies to the long Fourth of July weekend .

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Friends Adrian Sanchez, 20, left, Matthew Gonzalez, 22, and Justice Arreola, all of Santa Monica, arrive at the Santa Monica Pier to fish.
California plummeted deeper into a new coronavirus crisis Monday as new cases spiked to record levels, some hospitals filled up, and officials expressed growing alarm and frustration with people refusing to follow safety rules despite the increasingly perilous conditions.
The state broke its record Monday for the greatest number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day, tallying more than 8,000. That’s the third time in eight days the state has broken a record of new daily cases, according to the Los Angeles Times’ California coronavirus tracker.
A Times analysis found that California is on track to roughly double the number of coronavirus cases in June over those it recorded in May. In May, there were 61,666 cases reported statewide; by Monday night, there were 114,196 cases reported for the first 28 days of June.
By Monday evening, there were a cumulative reported 223,000 confirmed cases and more than 5,900 coronavirus-related deaths in California.
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The coronavirus has rapidly spread through communities as the economy has reopened and people reverted to old behaviors, returning to bars, barbecues and birthday parties. The new data show “alarming increases in cases, positivity rates and hospitalization,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said.
Los Angeles County, long the center of coronavirus in California, hit another grim milestone, surpassing 100,000 confirmed cumulative cases and more than 3,330 deaths. The county reported more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases on Monday alone, also recording its largest single-day number of new infections, according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker.
California Newsom threatens to reverse California reopening as coronavirus spreads Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state is prepared to reinstate restrictions of his stay-at-home order as cases of the coronavirus continue to increase in California.
The number of hospitalizations of confirmed COVID-19 patients has also soared in L.A. County, rising by 44% in the past two weeks. On Sunday, 1,732 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized, up from 1,206 two weeks earlier.
L.A. County is now projecting the possibility of running out of its existing supply of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in two to three weeks. Likewise, the number of intensive-care beds available could be exhausted sometime in July. Hospitals can, however, make more room for coronavirus patients by canceling elective surgeries and making other moves to increase capacity.
“This is the time to hunker down back in your home whenever you can,” Ferrer said, urging people to wear face coverings and practice social distancing. “Please, let’s not let go of everything we worked hard and sacrificed for.”
She urged people to avoid crowds: “It’s just not safe right now.”
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Ferrer said the surge is proof — “definitively” — that community transmission has increased, with the cumulative rate of those testing positive for infection increasing from 8% to 9%. Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are probably unknowingly infected with the virus and contagious to others, a threefold increase over last week’s projection of 1 in 400.
That means a typical large, busy store would probably have multiple infectious persons enter and shop every day, officials said.
In addition, health officials revealed that on the weekend after June 19 — the day Los Angeles County gave the green light for bars, breweries, wineries and similar businesses to reopen — more than 500,000 people visited the county’s newly reopened nightlife spots.
Inspectors, however, found over the weekend that employees at about half of bars and restaurants were not wearing face masks or shields. Half of bars and one-third of restaurants were not adhering to social distancing protocols. Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered bars in L.A. County and four other counties in the San Joaquin Valley closed Sunday because of the increasing case numbers.
The effective transmission rate of the coronavirus has now increased across the county. Previously, through the beginning of May, for every one person infected, fewer than one other person on average was infected — a testament to the success of the stay-at-home order. But by early June, as the reopening accelerated, the coronavirus transmission rate had crept above 1, meaning for every one person infected, an additional 1.26 people are infected on average.
During the strictest version of the stay-at-home order, officials believed that the effective transmission rate of the coronavirus was under 1, meaning that every one person on averaged infected fewer than one person. But now, officials believe the effective transmission rate is now 1.26, meaning every infected person now infects on average 1.26 other people. (L.A. County Department of Health Services)
Orange County confirmed 57 coronavirus-related deaths for the seven-day period that ended Sunday, the highest weekly death toll that the county has reported since the pandemic began in the U.S. It was the third consecutive week Orange County broke a weekly record for COVID-19 deaths.
There are now 19 counties on the state’s coronavirus watch list, including L.A., Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
Officials are growing increasingly alarmed by the upcoming Fourth of July weekend because they fear more crowds and gatherings could spread COVID-19 further.
Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipation of the holiday.
All public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths “that traverse that sanded portion of the beach” and beach access points will be closed from 12:01 a.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. The ban on fireworks displays applies to the long Fourth of July weekend.
Times staff writer Ryan Murphy contributed to this report.


latimes--2020-06-30--Body found untouched by flames or smoke after firefighters respond to house fire

Firefighters responding to a small fire in a Woodland Hills house found a dead man inside who was not touched @ @ @ @ @ , the Los Angeles Fire Department said Monday .
LAFD spokesman Nicholas Prange said firefighters @ @ @ @ @ one room ” in a house in the 23200 block of West Victory Boulevard and @ @ @ @ @ 2:45 p.m. Monday .
When firefighters searched the home , they found the dead man @ @ @ @ @ in his late 50s , Prange said .
“ The patient didn ’ t come @ @ @ @ @ or smoke , ” Prange said .
Los Angeles police and arson officials are investigating @ @ @ @ @ t impact the walls of the home and no other victims were found inside .
@ @ @ @ @ give information about where the body was found in relation to the fire or his @ @ @ @

Firefighters responding to a small fire in a Woodland Hills house found a dead man inside who was not touched by the flames or smoke, the Los Angeles Fire Department said Monday.
LAFD spokesman Nicholas Prange said firefighters found “contents burning in one room” in a house in the 23200 block of West Victory Boulevard and extinguished the flames by about 2:45 p.m. Monday.
When firefighters searched the home, they found the dead man, who appeared to be in his late 50s, Prange said.
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“The patient didn’t come into contact with the fire or smoke,” Prange said.
Los Angeles police and arson officials are investigating. The fire didn’t impact the walls of the home and no other victims were found inside.
Prange said he could not give information about where the body was found in relation to the fire or his cause of death.