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The County of Los Angeles is regularly updating resources on COVID-19 and offers today's update in an effort to keep you and yours informed. Please share the following up-to-date information:
Great Plates Delivered Has Been Extended
LA County's Great Plates Delivered program has been extended through Friday, July 10th.
This program provides (3) free home-delivered meals a day from local restaurants to qualifying older adults and adults over 60 who are at high-risk of COVID-19. Great Plates Delivered not only helps LA County's most vulnerable residents, but helps get local restaurants, hospitality, and transportation industries back to work. To date, this program has provided 140,000 meals to 2,000 clients across LA County.
Eligibility
If you or a loved one are unsure about whether you qualify, LA County's Workforce Development, Aging, and Community Services (WDACS) prepared the following video for you. To watch in Spanish, click here.
Eligible individuals:
- must meet age requirements: 1) are 65 or older or 2) are 60-64 and have been diagnosed with, exposed to or at high risk of COVID-19 as defined by the CDC.
- are unable to prepare or obtain meals
- are not currently receiving assistance from other state or federal nutrition assistance programs such as CalFresh/SNAP
- must live alone or with one other program-eligible adult
- must earn between $25,520 to $74,940 (single household) or between $34,380 to $101,460 (two-person household) per year
- must live in unincorporated LA County or a city that does not offer its own Great Plates Delivered program
Cities Offering Great Plates Delivered
Certain cities within LA County have chosen to operate their own Great Plates Delivered program. If you reside in any of the following cities, you will not be eligible for LA County's Great Plates Delivered program & must contact your city directly to enroll:
Apply
To apply online in English, click here. To apply online in Spanish, click here. To learn more about this critical resource, visit https://wdacs.lacounty.gov/greatplates/.
Questions
Meal applicants can e-mail greatplates@wdacs.lacounty.gov or call 211 for multi-lingual assistance.
COVID-19 Testing is Available. Get Tested.
LA County takes this opportunity to remind residents that COVID-19 testing is available. We strongly encourage all LA County residents who are interested in being tested to first contact their Primary Care Provider or Healthcare Center about receiving a test at their facility. If you do not have access to this care or are unable to contact them, free testing is available across the County.
Currently, priority is given to those within either of the following categories:
- Symptomatic persons with the following symptoms: Fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell
- Asymptomatic persons: 1) Persons over age 65; 2) Those with a chronic medical conditions, or 3) Essential workers (in janitorial, security, airport, government, health care, and food & grocery groups. View a complete list of the essential workers group here.)
- Symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals in congregate institutional settings.
If you're unsure about your symptoms, and don't have a primary care provider, contact our COVID-19 Nurse Advice Line at (844) 804-0055. This free service is provided by LA County's Department of Health Services (DHS) and is available 7 days a week from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
To make an appointment for COVID-19 testing, click here.
To help us us spread the word about testing availability and requirements:
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- Download our flyer (available in English, Traditional Chinese and Spanish) here.
- Share it with others.
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Learn more by visiting LA County's COVID-19 website at covid19.lacounty.gov.
Incident Report
Our daily report is a high-level summary of L.A. County Emergency Operations Center's response to the COVID-19 health emergency. Click here to view.
COVID-19 Digital Communications Guide & Toolkit
View our updated COVID-19 Digital Communications Guide, and get tips on Best Practices, Do's and Don'ts, Key Messaging, and our Social Media Toolkit - with multi-lingual graphics and messages like the ones seen below.
Access our Social Media Toolkit here.
You can easily reduce your risk of contracting COVID-19 outside the home by:
• Avoiding the Three C's (confined space, crowds, close contact)
• Taking Steps to Reduce Your Risk
• Planning Ahead
For more information on how to reduce your risk, visit publichealth.lacounty.gov/coronavirus
Spanish: Usted puede reducir fácilmente su riesgo de contraer COVID-19 fuera del hogar al:
• Evitar estos tres pasos (espacio confinado, multitudes, contacto cercano)
• Tomar medidas para reducir su riesgo
• Planificar el futuro
Para obtener más información sobre cómo reducir su riesgo, visite publichealth.lacounty.gov/coronavirus
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Additional Resources
The County of Los Angeles appreciates your continued partnership in responding to COVID-19 questions and needs of residents. For additional information, please visit:
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