On Friday, December 29, LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer sneakily issued a mask mandate for healthcare facilities in the county, saying that the county had entered the CDC’s “medium” level for COVID admissions, which triggered the change.
The change comes after @lapublichealth updated its health officer order Wednesday, indicating a potential mandate.
An official press release was not issued.https://t.co/cSErL9t7FC
— MarlaTellez (@MarlaTellez) December 30, 2023
At the time of publication the link to the order itself was not working; the Department of Public Health claims that it’s due to a server problem causing the link to not work on certain devices (apparently the devices of journalists are particularly hard-hit). But screenshots of it can be found here.
The Health Officer Order was originally issued in September 2023 and related to requirements for healthcare…
