L.A. County public health director Barbara Ferrer said in an interview last week that crowded shopping malls are also a big concern. Under the state’s regional stay-at-home orders, shopping malls are supposed to be capped at 20% of capacity, but it’s clear that those limits are not being followed. “We’re going to take a hard look this weekend at the shopping malls because the pictures we’ve been seeing are … another little mini-disaster,” Ferrer said. Some hospitals in L.A. County are running dangerously low on their supplies of oxygen, a person familiar with the matter told The Times. Hospitals are also running short of other key supplies, such as the special plastic tubes used to bring the oxygen into the lungs.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 26, 2020 21:00 UTC