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Help sought identifying possible juvenile at hospital

Officials are asking the public for help identifying a patient at County-USC Medical Center.

Blood shortage prompts hours long closure of Harbor-UCLA …

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is shown in an undated photo. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

How to get a free PCR coronavirus test in L.A. County …

L.A. County provided this photos of its free, at-home testing kits.

Probability of dying of COVID-19 in hospital doubled as …

Family members mourn Edith Fernandez alongside her casket Dec. 20 at the Continental Funeral Home in East Los Angeles. The 47-year-old died Dec. 8 from complications of COVID-19.(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

1 person dies of COVID-19 every 10 minutes in L.A. County: …

Hospital worker Alma Garibay mops the floor of a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills area of Los Angeles on Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

‘Stretched to the limit’: L.A. County hospitals slammed, …

People wait in line at a Covid-19 testing center despite the Stay-At-Home regulation underway in Los Angeles, California on December 8, 2020. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

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L.A. County aims to vaccinate a third of its front-line …

In a handout photo from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Supervising Clinic Nurse Jamie Robledo administers a COVID-19 vaccination to RN Michael Nguyen at LAC+USC Medical Center on Dec. 18, 2020. (Michael Owen Baker)

Coronavirus test kits to be mailed to homes of some L.A. …

An at-home coronavirus test kit is seen in an image shared by the County of Los Angeles on Dec. 4, 2020.

CA regulators launch review of patient delays in …

Majid Vatandoust died of colon cancer at age 52, three years after a request for a colonoscopy was denied by a specialist working for L.A. County despite tests that showed clear indicators of the disease. A woman arranges flowers at his gravestone in this undated photo. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

COVID-19 test appointments can be canceled, rescheduled …

COVID-19 test site volunteers wearing personal protective equipment assist drivers arriving at a coronavirus test site in Los Angeles on July 10, 2020. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty Images)

COVID-19 test appointments full this week as L.A. …

A testing associate dressed in personal protective equipment helps people waiting in line to check in at a COVID-19 testing center at Lincoln Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2020. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Former jail in Monterey Park to be used as decontamination …

Elon Musk says he sent hundreds of ventilators to …

Elon Musk speaks during a press conference after the launch of SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 2, 2019. (Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)