Health

Los Angeles County beaches will be closed for the weekend of July 4 to avoid “dangerous overcrowding that causes the spread of the deadly COVID-19,” the county public health department said in a statement Monday. Fireworks will also be banned, the county said. The closure begins just after midnight on …

California was the first state to issue a stay-at-home order to stop the spread of the coronavirus. And it worked: For a few months after that mid-March directive, the California curve held steady, with fewer than 2,000 new cases reported each day. But in the past two weeks, California has …

Summer has just begun, but health officials are already warning Americans that the coming fall and winter months are likely to be challenging. Once the flu season begins, the US will have to worry not about one but two contagious viruses. “The real risk is that we are going to …

Baseball is back. Three glorious words. After months of failed negotiations with the players’ association, MLB has imposed a 2020 season and the two sides have agreed on health and safety protocols. However, the new season will not include some of the rule changes that you may have recently read …

“We have to do what the governor and the secretary of state say,” said Lee Parsley, an election judge at a Houston polling center, speaking through a white mask and behind a face shield. In the early afternoon, no one in the largely Democratic area had arrived without a mask, …