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
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Epidemiology
Philip Massey
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Kimberley Shoaf
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Teresa Ellen Seeman
Epidemiology
Kimberly Gregory
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Sander Greenland
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Matthew J. Mimiaga
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Sheba George
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Charlotte G. Neumann
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Elizabeth Yzquierdo
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Peter Katona
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Rebecca Delafield
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Dallas Swendeman
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Frank J. Sorvillo
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Susan Cochran
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Ilan H. Meyer
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Ronald Halbert
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Marissa Seamans
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Epidemiology
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Pamina Gorbach
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Shira Shafir
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Epidemiology
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Jonathan Jacobs
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Jody Heymann
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Health Policy and Management
Randall Kuhn
Community Health Sciences
Chandra Ford
Community Health Sciences
Kelika Konda
Epidemiology
Haroutune Armenian
Epidemiology
Onyebuchi A. Arah
Epidemiology
Sarah Blenner
Director of Field Studies and Applied Professional Training
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Elizabeth D’Amico
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Jian Li
Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Vonthanak Saphonn
Epidemiology
Courtney S. Thomas Tobin
Community Health Sciences
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
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Peter R. Kerndt
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Samuel Stratton
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Brian Bradbury
Epidemiology
Angie Otiniano Verissimo
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Ralph R. Frerichs
Epidemiology
Alexandra Binder
Epidemiology
Otoniel Martinez-Maza
Epidemiology
Zuo-Feng Zhang
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Liwei Chen
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Judith M. Siegel
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Christie Jeon
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Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
Epidemiology
Michael Goldstein
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Ondine S. von Ehrenstein
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Epidemiology
Wendelin Slusser
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Lisa V. Smith
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Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim
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Jennifer A. Wagman
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Timothy Brewer
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Roch A. Nianogo
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Michael Rodriguez
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Dena Herman
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Lawrence Ash
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