L.A. County, the epicenter of California's coronavirus outbreak, can reopen restaurants for in-person dining and resume services at hairstyling shops.
In black communities, where barbershops and salons are cultural institutions and gathering places, the lockdown has hit barbers and stylists hard.“I don’t think we’re going to scramble to open,” said Jon Yao, chef-owner of Kato in West L.A. “I think our timeline is going to be more in line with how we combat the disease instead of what the city says is OK.”“Personally I think it’s all a disaster,” said Josiah Citrin, chef-owner of Charcoal, Dear John’s, Citrin and Melisse.
The rush to reopen Charcoal, he said, is because the money he received from the federal PPP loan “is almost out.”“I followed the rules and I have almost no money,” he said. “I have a couple weeks left.” “I think the only reason that we felt comfortable asking the governor for a variance was because we have flattened the curve and we have not ever seen that spike and that surge in cases we were predicting a couple months ago,” Hahn said Friday. She noted that the county’s hospitals and intensive care units never reached capacity and the healthcare system did not become overwhelmed.
For example, Los Angeles County had to prove that the prevalence of COVID-19 cases is low enough that, if the stay-at-home order is eased and cases undoubtedly increase, the county will have the capacity to respond.in its total number of hospitalized patients, a seven-day average of daily percent change of -1%, according to the variance application.
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