Santa Monica is among the beaches that will reopen, that city said. The beaches were closed in late March to help slow the spread of the coronavirus illness COVID-19.Īs of Monday, 32,258 COVID-19 cases have been identified across the county, with 1,569 deaths, according to the county health department. Beach parking lots, boardwalks, bike paths and volleyball courts remain closed. Swimming, surfing, running, walking and other "active recreation" will be allowed, but no chairs, canopies, coolers or grills will be permitted.
Los Angeles County beaches will reopen Wednesday with restrictions that prohibit sunbathing and require masks. Kidney transplants make up the vast majority of the drop, but heart, lung and liver transplants declined, too. It’s too soon to know how many people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant may die not from COVID-19 infection but because the pandemic blocked their chance at a new organ. There were only 16 such transplants the week of April 5, according to UNOS. in the second week of March when a pandemic was declared. There were 151 living donor transplants in the U.S. Transplants from living donors had a similarly staggering dive, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which runs the U.S. and 90 percent in France from late February into early April, researchers reported Monday in the journal Lancet.
WASHINGTON - Organ transplants plummeted as COVID-19 swept through communities, with surgeons wary of endangering living donors and unable to retrieve possibly usable organs from the dead - and hospitals sometimes too full even when they could.ĭeceased donor transplants - the most common kind - dropped by about half in the U.S.
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