LOS ANGELES – Officials in the nation’s largest county will discuss a possible stay-home order just days before Thanksgiving after a spike of coronavirus cases surpassed a threshold set by Los Angeles public health officials to trigger one.An “impressive and alarming surge” of more than 6,000 new cases put Los Angeles County over a five-day average of 4,500 cases per day, said Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday.
She declined to take action until county supervisors meet Tuesday. If the county orders residents to stay home, it would be the first such action since mid-March when Gov.
Gavin Newsom followed several counties and issued a statewide order that closed schools and severely restricted movement, except for essential.