Sam Atwood, spokesperson for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, discusses how wildfires affect air quality and our health. Atwood shares tips on how to protect yourself when air quality is the most unhealthy.
As COVID patients have flooded into LAC+USC in recent weeks, they’ve put an immense strain on its ICU capacity and staff — especially since non-COVID patients, with gunshot wounds, drug overdoses, heart attacks and strokes, also need intensive care.
A Providence St. Joseph Hospital nurse was the first person in Orange County today to be vaccinated for COVID-19, shortly followed by other health care workers.