For the Record - Jan. 14, 2021

Pandemic in California: In the Jan. 13 California section, an article about the COVID-19 crisis in the state gave the impression that Dr. Mark Ghaly, the California health and human services secretary, said L.A. County was seeing “signs of this deadly surge continuing, even though the numbers of hospitalized patients across the county have stabilized for now.” That quote was spoken by Dr. Christina Ghaly, the L.A. County health services director.

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