LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he had convened a national coalition of scientists, bioscience corporations, and government leaders to explore and expand strategies for the immediate home of coronaviruses.
“Last week I brought this organization in combination for the first time Array … a basic effort to boost the science of testing so that we can temporarily locate where the epidemics are and, in a few days, decrease unit numbers and potentially temporarily recover our children,’ Garcetti said in an update to the town hall’s COVID-19.
The working group is facilitated through the American Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Governors, which Garcetti says is intended to pressure the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase approvals for home testing.
“We call on the Food and Drug Administration and our federal government, any of the parties in Congress, to paint in combination and make the insurance policy for immediate check strips mandatory nationwide, so that we can be reimbursed for those checks,” Garcetti said. “It would possibly take a few weeks longer or even months, but now we want to find even bigger answers.”
Until Friday, Garcetti said the city’s COVID-19 checkpoint sites would have their opening hours from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. until the end of summer to compensate for warmer temperatures.
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Hanson Dam and Warner Center sites will be closed Thursday through Monday due to better heat forecasts, but Garcetti said there would be an increase in check availability at Dodger Stadium, Crenshaw control sites and the Veterans Administration Center in Westwood.
Echo Park’s no-appointment registration site will be across the street Friday to Edendale Library, which will accommodate another 400 people a day, part of reservations and some other people without an appointment, Garcetti said.
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The mayor issued a new appeal for others to giant meetings and parties, especially in the run-up to Labor Day weekend, noting that Remembrance Day and the four weekends in July have contributed to the increase in instances of invirus due to unauthorized meetings.
Garcetti legalized last week to the Department of Water and Energy to cut off utilities in homes that host noisy parties at home, but said the tactic was not used last weekend.
The mayor also announced an online resource page that allows others to locate monetary assistance through resources amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The online page laconnected.la is intended to help others who have lost all or part of their income resources.
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