August 3, 2022
Los Angeles Daily News
An unusually long coronavirus surge appears to have peaked in Southern California, with new cases and hospitalization numbers finally starting to decline.
On Wednesday, July 20, there were 2,154 people with confirmed COVID-19 cases in the hospital in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. By Monday, Aug. 1, the latest day available, that had ticked down to 1,967. And in the week ending Tuesday, Aug. 2, health departments in those four counties reported just over 60,000 new cases, down from about 72,000 the week ending Tuesday, July 19.
Dr. Robert Kim-Farley , an infectious disease expert and professor at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, said those are encouraging signs.
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Robert J. Kim-Farley
Robert J. Kim-Farley, MD, MPH, is a Professor-in-Residence with joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Community Health Sciences
Community Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Sheena G. Sullivan
Epidemiology
Niklas Krause
Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Anne Pebley
Community Health Sciences
Anne Rimoin
Dr. Anne Rimoin is a Professor of Epidemiology and holds the Gordon–Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health.
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Paula Tavrow
Community Health Sciences
Lawrence Ash
Epidemiology
Liwei Chen
Professor in Epidemiology
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Virginia C. Li
Community Health Sciences
Ximena Vergara
Epidemiology
Pamina Gorbach
Epidemiology
Dana Rose Garfin
Community Health Sciences
Alina Dorian
Community Health Sciences
Angie Otiniano Verissimo
Community Health Sciences
Marissa Seamans
Epidemiology
Marjan Javanbakht
Epidemiology
Wendelin Slusser
Community Health Sciences
Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
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Jonathan Jacobs
Epidemiology
Michael Rodriguez
Community Health Sciences
Lisa V. Smith
Epidemiology
Sarah Blenner
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Dawn Upchurch
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Michael Prelip
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Natalie Muth
Community Health Sciences
Karin B. Michels
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Roch A. Nianogo
Epidemiology
Zuo-Feng Zhang
Epidemiology
Cathy Lang
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Courtney S. Thomas Tobin
Community Health Sciences
Rebecca Delafield
Community Health Sciences
Roger Detels
Epidemiology
Dallas Swendeman
Epidemiology
Matthew J. Mimiaga
Epidemiology
Jessica Gipson
Community Health Sciences
Roberta Malmgren
Epidemiology
Donald E. Morisky
Community Health Sciences
Frank J. Sorvillo
Epidemiology
Jennifer A. Wagman
Community Health Sciences
Randall Kuhn
Community Health Sciences
Whitney Pirtle
Community Health Sciences
Haroutune Armenian
Epidemiology
James Macinko
Professor of Community Health Sciences & Health Policy and Management, and Associate Dean for Research
Community Health Sciences
Health Policy and Management
Elizabeth Yzquierdo
Community Health Sciences
Naomi Greene
Epidemiology
Deborah Glik
Community Health Sciences
Elizabeth D’Amico
Community Health Sciences
Sung-Jae Lee
Epidemiology
May C. Wang
Community Health Sciences
Julia Bailey
Epidemiology
Timothy Brewer
Epidemiology
Charlotte G. Neumann
Community Health Sciences
Leeka I. Kheifets
Epidemiology
Peter Katona
Epidemiology
Kimberley Shoaf
Community Health Sciences
Nathan D. Wong
Epidemiology
Jody Heymann
Epidemiology
Health Policy and Management
Christie Jeon
Epidemiology
Annette Regan
Epidemiology
Peter R. Kerndt
Epidemiology
Sander Greenland
Epidemiology
Brian Bradbury
Epidemiology
Dana Hunnes
Community Health Sciences
Teresa Ellen Seeman
Epidemiology
Ondine S. von Ehrenstein
Community Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
Community Health Sciences
Dena Herman
Community Health Sciences
Onyebuchi A. Arah
Epidemiology
Philip Massey
Community Health Sciences
Dvora Joseph Davey
Dr. Joseph Davey is an infectious disease epidemiologist with over 20 years' experience leading research on HIV/STI services for women and children.
Epidemiology
Gilbert C. Gee
Community Health Sciences
Kelika Konda
Epidemiology
Maral DerSarkissian
Epidemiology
Akihiro Nishi
Epidemiology
Beate Ritz
Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Ilan H. Meyer
Community Health Sciences
Chandra Ford
Community Health Sciences
Otoniel Martinez-Maza
Epidemiology
Susan Cochran
Epidemiology
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
Epidemiology
Paul Dluzniewski
Epidemiology
Alexandra Binder
Epidemiology
Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim
Community Health Sciences
Jian Li
Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Sheba George
Community Health Sciences
May Sudhinaraset
Community Health Sciences
Anne Coleman
Epidemiology
Michael Goldstein
Community Health Sciences
Ralph R. Frerichs
Epidemiology
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
Community Health Sciences
David Eisenman
Community Health Sciences
Vonthanak Saphonn
Epidemiology
Judith M. Siegel
Community Health Sciences
Shira Shafir
Community Health Sciences
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Ronald Halbert
Community Health Sciences
Kimberly Gregory
Community Health Sciences
Samuel Stratton
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