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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:
TESTING AVAILABLE AT COUNTY & CITY OPERATED SITES
 As the need for COVID-19 testing continues to rise, LA County and the City of LA are expanding testing capacity at current sites. Due to this expansion, County and City operated testing sites have a combined capacity to test more than 140,000 people.
LA County will launch three (3) new testing sites next week to expand access to high-need areas including Montebello, South Gate and Panorama City. The City of Los Angeles, last week, opened a new site at the VA Parking Lot 15, at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
Appointments are available at the following County-operated sites this week, with an additional 1,000 appointments being added this weekend:
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Bellflower City Hall - 16600 Civic Center Drive, Bellflower, CA 90706
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Charles R. Drew University Campus - 1731 E 120th St. Los Angeles, CA 90059
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College of the Canyons - 26455 Rockwell Canyon Rd., Santa Clarita, CA 91355
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East LA College - 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, CA 91754
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Pomona Fairplex Gate 17 - 1101 W. McKinley Ave. Pomona, CA 91768
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San Gabriel Valley Airport - 4233 Santa Anita Ave., El Monte, CA 91731
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The Forum - 3900 W. Manchester Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90305
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Beach Cities Health District - 514 N Prospect Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
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Palmdale Hammack Center - 815 E Avenue Q6, Palmdale CA 93550
Appointments are available at the following City-operated sites this week:
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Dodger Stadium, Lot 1 - 1101 Scott Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Hansen Dam Recreation Center - 11770 Foothill Blvd., Lake View Terrace, Ca 91342 (Osborne St. entrance)
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Crenshaw Christian Center - 7901 S. Vermont Ave, LA, Ca 90044
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VA Parking Lot 15 (Jackie Robinson Stadium) - 100 Constitution Ave, LA, Ca 900951
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Lincoln Park Recreation Center - 3501 Valley Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90031
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Carbon Health - Echo Park - 2110 Sunset Blvd Suite M, Los Angeles, CA 90026
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West Valley/Warner Center - 6097 Canoga Ave. Woodland Hills, Ca 91367
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Kedren Community Health Center - 4211 S. Avalon Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90011
If you think you need a test, check with your health care provider first. Unless you have specific symptoms, live in a high-risk setting, or have had close contact with someone who has a confirmed positive case of COVID-19, you may not need to be tested, and your health care provider can talk with you about your concerns.
If you don’t have a doctor, call 211 to get a referral. Essential workers should also consider their risk exposure history in consultation with their provider, their occupational health advisor, and DPH.
For more information on testing availability, including a list of new County-operated testing sites and the deployment of mobile testing units, read our press release.
Scam Alert: Contact Tracing Scams!
 It may not be a surprise, but scammers are posing as contact tracers to get your personal identifying information during the COVID-19 health crisis. They're looking for social security numbers or financial information, such as your bank account number. If someone contacts you and asks for this personal information - they're posing! HANG UP immediately.
Help your friends, parents or grandparents know legitimate contact tracers will contact you if you've: 1) tested positive for COVID-19 or 2) if you've been identified as a close contact of someone who's tested positive. And when they ask you for information, they'll ask for:
- Your name.
- Your date of birth.
- Places you've been.
- How you're feeling.
- The people you've been in contact with for more than 15 min., up to 48 hours before you had symptoms - OR - they'll let you know if you may have been exposed to the virus & what you can do.
Help us keep LA County communities safe by sharing this alert.
To learn more about this scam, click here. For social media content on what contact tracers DO ask, check out our COVID-19 Social Media Toolkit located at the end of our Daily Update (or here).
Great Plates Delivered Program Extended
 Great Plates Delivered has been extended until August 9th. Through LA County's Great Plates Delivered Program, you can help a local senior or business in your community.
Great Plates Delivered offers eligible seniors with three (3) home-delivered meals a day. Seniors over 65, seniors 60-64 years of age who have been diagnosed or exposed to COVID-19 or those at high-risk for COVID-19 may qualify. When you help a senior connect to Great Plates Delivered you're also helping your local restaurant, hospitality and transportation community get back to work.
To learn more or apply for meal assistance, click here.
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.
Our contact tracers reach out by phone to everyone who is a close contact of someone who tests positive for #COVID19 to collect potentially life-saving information. All answers are always fully confidential. Thank you for doing your part! #LACountyTogether
Spanish: Nuestros rastreadores de contacto se comunican por teléfono con todas las personas que son un contacto cercano de alguien que da positivo por #COVID19 para recopilar información que puede salvar vidas. Todas las respuestas son siempre totalmente confidenciales. Gracias por hacer tu parte. #LACountyTogether
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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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