New stats reveal the businesses hardest hit by COVID in LA County: 402 FedEx workers, 253 Costco staff and 210 Amazon employees have tested positive in the district where a new case is recorded every SIX SECONDS
A shocking dashboard has revealed how COVID-19 has ripped through businesses in hard-hit LA County where a new case is recorded every six seconds and one person dies every ten minutes.
A total of 402 FedEx workers, 253 Costco staff, 210 Amazon workers and 53 Chick-Fil-A employees in LA County have now been infected with the virus, according to dismal public health figures.
The dashboard records non-residential settings including workplaces, food and retail stores where there has been three or more lab-confirmed cases.
It shows that, a total of 511 businesses have recorded outbreaks across LA County and 9,306 have been infected. Of these, 9,304 are staff working at the businesses.
This comes as hospitals in the county are buckling under the weight of the pandemic and ICUs are bursting at the seams.
Deaths have surged by 700 percent since the beginning of November and one resident is now dying every 10 minutes.
Officials fear the worst is yet to come, warning that if the county continues on its current trajectory deaths could soon top 1,000 each week.
A shocking dashboard has revealed how COVID-19 has ripped through businesses in hard-hit LA County where a new case is recorded every six seconds and one person dies every ten minutes. A total of 402 FedEx workers have been infected
Pictured Amazon warehouse workers in California. Amazon has also been hard-hit with six facilities including one Amazon bookstore accounting for 210 infections among staff members in LA County
Essential businesses and their frontline workers are bearing the brunt of the crisis.
Public health figures show that seven Costco warehouses have been hit by outbreaks of coronavirus, with the site at Culver City recording 71 cases among its workforce.
The Van Nuys facility has recorded 50 infections and 42 at the Woodland Hills site.
Of the 402 FedEx workers infected with the virus across eight company sites in the county, 128 are workers at the Pacoima facility.
Other sites ravaged by outbreaks include FedEx Ground Arcadia with 82 cases, FedEx Ground City of Industry with 69 and FedEx Ground Sun Valley with 35 cases.
Amazon has also been hard-hit with six facilities including one Amazon bookstore accounting for 210 infections among staff members.
A total of 66 workers from the site at Temple City Blvd have been infected and 512 at Rayo Avenue site.
There have also been infections at five Chick-Fil-A fast food joints at Azusa, Devonshire & Reseda, Downey, Santa Clarita and Victory & Fallbrook.
A total of 45 staff at six McDonald's locations have also been struck down with the virus, 217 employees at 10 Target stores and 42 staff at Best Buy stores in Downey and West Hollywood.
Public health figures show that seven Costco warehouses have been hit by outbreaks of coronavirus, with the site at Culver City (above) recording 71 cases among its workforce
A total of 53 Chick-Fil-A employees in LA County have now been infected with the virus, according to dismal public health figures
And eight Home Depots including in Alhambra, Cypress Park and North Hollywood have also recorded clusters of cases.
Apple, where 26 employees across three sites in Los Cerritos Mall, Glendale Galleria and Beverly Blvd have tested positive, shuttered stores across California before Christmas because of the surge in cases.
As well as retailers, warehouse locations and food establishments, other workplaces occupied by essential workers have also been rocked by recent outbreaks.
The data shows workers at Los Angeles International Airport have been infected with 82 American Airlines, seven JetBlue Airways and three Areas USA staff.
Warner Bros Burbank site has also faced outbreaks with 13 infected during production of Lucifer and 12 on the set of Young Sheldon.
It comes as Hollywood has been urged by health officials and FilmLA - the county's non-profit film office - to halt movie production to help contain the outbreak across LA.
A number of entertainment giants including Universal Television and Sony Pictures Television have agreed to stop producing several TV shows for the time being.
Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, Los Angeles County's chief medical officer, said Sunday workplaces are becoming increasingly hard-hit by outbreaks as cases, hospitalizations and deaths soar across the county.
'If you had a workplace before where you had 500 workers, there might be one person who was infected, so the risk of transmitting it to a lot of people was lower,' Gunzenhauser said.
Deaths have surged by 700 percent since the beginning of November and one resident is now dying every 10 minutes
Hospitals in the county are buckling under the weight of the pandemic and ICUs are bursting at the seams
'But now, with the prevalence of infection at 1 percent or higher, if they have 500 employees, maybe five are infected.
'And it magnifies the chances it can spread in the workplace.'
With essential workers being adversely affected by coronavirus outbreaks, this also means certain ethnic groups are worst-hit than others.
Latino residents are dying at two and a half times the rate of white residents from coronavirus in the county, according to the LA Times.
Latinos are also three times as likely and black people twice as likely to be hospitalized with the virus.
Communities of color have higher proportions of essential workers making them more vulnerable to the virus - an issue that has rocked communities since the pandemic first began.
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said Sunday the virus is disproportionately affecting both essential workers and their household members.
Staff protest outside McDonald's in California in August (left). A total of 45 staff at six McDonald's locations have been struck down with the virus while eight Home Depots have recorded clusters of cases in LA County
Apple shuttered stores across California before Christmas because of the surge in cases (pictured a Santa Monica store before it closed in December)
'We're the densest metro area in the United States. But we're also seeing the household spread now,' he said on CBS Face the Nation Sunday.
'One person is coming home - an essential worker - there might be five, seven, 10 people in that household.
'And this is a worrying trend that the fatalities now are not just people with preexisting conditions.'
The warning came as Garcetti announced that an LA County resident is currently becoming infected every six seconds with the virus.
Cases are averaging around 14,000 each day and one in five residents are currently infected.
On Monday, the county recorded another 9,142 cases and 77 deaths.
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said Sunday the virus is disproportionately affecting both essential workers and their household members as he announced that an LA County resident is currently becoming infected every six seconds with the virus
While the death and case figures are much lower than the record levels of the last month, officials explained this is due to reporting delays from the New Year holiday weekend and numbers are likely to be higher.
County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Monday that there has been a 700 percent increase in COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of November.
Ferrer warned that if the county continues on its current path, as many as 8,500 people could be hospitalized every day and there could be 175 deaths every day - equating to 1,225 people dying each week.
A total of 7,697 people were hospitalized as of Monday, with the county's hospitals struggling to cope with patient intake.
Los Angeles County Health Services Director Dr. Christina Ghaly warned that hospitals are now at 'a point of crisis', while a post-holiday surge is expected to make the situation more dire.
In total, 10,850 Angelinos have died and 827,498 have tested positive.
Across the state, hospitalizations have more than doubled in the last month and at least four have been found to be infected with the new more highly contagious strain.
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