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Are Los Angeles’s malls COVID-19 superspreaders?
advertisement advertisement advertisement Los Angeles in the middle of January was a landscape of contradictions. To drive around the city and county was to toggle between the woeful and the mundane. Ambulance crews queued up in hospital emergency bays for hours waiting for spaces to open, while grieving families were turned away from mortuaries that didn’t have temporary containers large enough to accommodate the number of people who had died from COVID. advertisement advertisement Yet in many areas of the sprawling county the mask of normalcy remained undisturbed. Adults with small children waited in line to browse in the Disney Store at the Glendale Galleria. “Disney’s always got a line out the door,” mused a masked vendor selling T-shirts at a nearby stall. Hundreds of cars were parked in the lot of the Citadel Outlets in Commerce; I watched a group of shoppers eat ice cream in line outside the Lululemon pop-up near posted notices … [Read more...] about Are Los Angeles’s malls COVID-19 superspreaders?