A special Friday newsletter edition to equip you for the weekend and get you up to date on what’s happening, from questions over how widely the virus has spread to recommendations for how to stop COVID-19 from disproportionately killing black people.
, subject to county public health officers’ approval. But even as the state reopens, there’s a mystery at the heart of its pandemic:Controversial studies out of Stanford University and USC in April suggested the virus had circulated much more widely than previously thought in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles County, leading other epidemiologists to question whether those estimates were too high. Then in May, the same researchers from USC and L.A.
is the subject of much debate. It’s possible that people’s antibodies could be declining months after recovery and are no longer detectable, although that’s speculative. Then there’s the fact that the newer study made a concerted effort to test more Latino, Asian American and black Angelenos, which may have produced more accurate results. If the new study is indeed closer to the truth, the virus’s fatality rate might be higher than earlier thought, the study’s leader said.
The coronavirus is killing black people at twice the rate as white people — the result, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said, of “racism and discrimination, and how it limits access to the very opportunities and resources each of us need for optimal health.” So how do we stop COVID-19 from: Name the issue, protect essential workers, make testing accessible for all and fight for social justice.
One such inequity was plain in Friday’s federal jobs report. Its headline numbers were unexpectedly positive, with overall
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