New Mask Requirements for Employers, Effective January 17th
PPE Unite: Free PPE for Businesses
New “Pick Up Testing Kit” Program to Help Meet COVID-19 Surge Demand
Isolation and Quarantine Recommendations for the Public (not applicable to healthcare personnel)
Other Resources
1. New Mask Requirements for Employers, Effective January 17th
As of January 17th, employers are required to provide their employees who work indoors and in close contact with other workers or the public, with and require them to wear a well-fitting medical grade mask, surgical mask, or higher-level respirator, such as a N95 or KN95, at all times while indoors at the worksite or facility.
3. New “Pick Up Testing Kit” Program to Help Meet COVID-19 Surge Demand
LA County Department of Health Services launched a new program designed to increase and facilitate access to COVID-19 tests for LA County residents unable to obtain appointments. The program will allow residents to pick up a PCR test kit, perform the test, and return the completed kit to designated locations for processing. Residents will be notified of their test results within 24-48 hours.
The Pick-Up Testing Kit program is the latest in a series of LA County efforts designed to expand testing capacity as demand grows across the county. Recent efforts to increase capacity include increasing the days and hours of operation for existing sites, adding mobile testing units, and providing intermittent availability of Home Testing Kits via mail.
The new Pick-Up Testing Kit program will operate at 13 testing sites across LA County. Pick-Up Test Kits will be available without an appointment and until daily supplies are exhausted. The Pick-Up Testing Kits will test for both COVID-19 and Influenza (A and B), the same as all LA County operated testing locations.
The City of Culver City recommends testing sites approved by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. All testing locations listed within the County testing website offer COVID-19 tests at no out-of-pocket cost, regardless of insurance coverage or immigration status.
It is important that LA County and Culver City residents understand that not all COVID-19 testing sites within the LA County region are affiliated or operated by LA County. COVID-19 testing sites are also being operated by private companies, private health care systems and local municipalities and some of these privately operated sites do charge for their testing services.
There are approximately 260 COVID-19 testing locations listed in the LA County COVID-19 testing site, of those, the County operates about 66 community sites and 7 State sites. The remaining locations are operated by testing partners.
Testing partner sites listed on LA County’s website are sites that have been pre-screened by LA County to ensure that they offer testing with no out-of-pocket cost, regardless of health insurance or immigration status and that they offer testing using a test approved by the FDA.
LA County does not have oversight over testing sites not directly operated by the LA County Department of Health Services.
Other Ways to Get Tested
At your doctor's office. If you need help finding a doctor, call 2-1-1 or visit 211LA.
In a pharmacy. Many pharmacies offer free COVID-19 viral tests. Call or visit the website of your local pharmacy for details.
At home. Home collection kits and self-tests kits are available by prescription and over the counter (OTC). For home collection kits, you collect the sample at home and then send it to a lab or test site for processing. For self-test kits, you collect the sample and do the test yourself. Visit the CDC self-testing website to learn more.
4. Isolation and Quarantine Recommendations for the Public (not applicable to healthcare personnel)
In Los Angeles County, if you have COVID-19, you are required to isolate yourself, wear a mask indoors and outdoors, and tell your close contacts that they have been exposed. Regardless of vaccination status, previous infection or lack of symptoms, you must stay home for at least five days. Persons are considered to have COVID-19 if they have a positive viral test and/or their healthcare provider thinks they have COVID-19.
