White House Identifies Los Angeles Area As Coronavirus Hotspot, But County Official Says Trendlines Are “Looking Pretty Good”
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deadline.comBy Ted Johnson Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, identified the Los Angeles metro area and two other major cities on Friday as places of concern because they have a “persistent high number of cases” yet remain closed.
She also cited Washington, D.C. and Chicago as hotspots, and called for the Centers for Disease Control to work with the metro areas to study where the cases are coming from, and to come up with a way to prevent them in the future.
But Birx’s comments were a bit of a contrast with those of Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County’s public health director. “As I noted yesterday, out overall data points are looking pretty good in terms of being on the recovery journey,” she told reporters on
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