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September 24, 2024
LAC DPH Health Update: Mpox Clade I & II – Prevention in the US and Before Travel
September 19, 2024
LAC DPH Health Update: Cluster of Locally Acquired Cases of Dengue in Los Angeles County
September 17, 2024
LAC DPH Health Alert: Human Infections with Baylisascaris Procyonis (Raccoon Roundworm)
September 9, 2024
LAC DPH Health Alert: Locally Acquired Case of Dengue in Los Angeles County
May 21, 2024
May 10, 2024
February 1, 2024
LAC DPH Health Alert: First LA County Measles Case
October 23, 2023
LAC DPH Health Alert: First Locally Acquired Case of Dengue in California Detected in Pasadena
October 6, 2023
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Prevent Severe RSV in Infants with Maternal or Infant Immunization
October 4, 2023
September 14, 2023
LAC DPH Health Advisory: 2023-2024 COVID-19 Vaccines
September 6, 2023
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Immunize Infants and Older Adults to Protect them from Severe RSV
July 3, 2023
LAC DPH Health Information: Certifying Deaths Due to COVID-19
February 24, 2023
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Xylazine in Illicit Drugs Increasing Overdose Risks
November 16, 2022
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Increases of Flea-Borne Typhus
November 10, 2022
October 20, 2022
LAC DPH Health Update: Fall Influenza and COVID-19 Vaccination
September 9, 2022
LAC DPH Monkeypox Update: Severe Disease, Testing, and Vaccine Eligibility
September 8, 2022
LAC DPH COVID-19 Updates: New Booster Recommendations, Observation Period, Co-Administration
August 23, 2022
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Recent Report of Polio Case in Rockland County, New York
August 12, 2022
August 1, 2022
July 27, 2022
LAC DPH COVID-19 Update: Therapeutics for SNFs, and Novavax
July 21, 2022
LAC DPH Health Update: Monkeypox Updates Including Provider Webinar this Friday, July 22
May 27, 2022
LAC DPH Health Alert: Contaminated Ecstasy and Accidental Drug Overdoses
August 18, 2021
Advisory: Inappropriate Exemptions May Subject Physicians to Discipline
December 4, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: COVID-19 Vaccine Update
October 29, 2020
LAC DPH Health Alert: Wound Botulism Cases Associated with Heroin
October 28, 2020
July 28, 2020
July 18, 2020
LAC DPH Health Update: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
July 17, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Resurgence of Candida auris in Los Angeles County
July 13, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Health Officer Order Requiring Diagnostic Testing Access
July 13, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Rifapentine Shortage and Detection of Nitrosamine Impurity
July 4, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Increasing COVID-19 Cases; Isolation and Quarantine; Testing Access
June 2, 2020
LAC DPH Health Update: COVID-19 Updates
June 1, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Tuberculosis During the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 14, 2020
May 12, 2020
May 8, 2020
May 1, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: COVID-19 Revised Isolation Period and Clinical Symptoms
April 22, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: Expanding Testing and Universal Source Control
April 16, 2020
LAC DPH Health Advisory: SARS-CoV-2 Serology
April 7, 2020
April 2, 2020
LAC DPH Health Update: Revised COVID-19 Exposure Period
March 30, 2020
Notice to Providers Prescribing Controlled Substances Re: Telehealth
On March 16, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) published a COVID-19 Information Page on the Diversion Control Division website, providing guidance on prescribing controlled substances. The public health emergency exemption allows the prescribing of controlled substances via telemedicine without a prior in-person exam.
Learn more by viewing the telemedicine section of the DEA's COVID-19 Information Page or read the COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions: Medication-Assisted Treatment and Telehealth from the Department of Health Care Services.
March 28, 2020
LAC DPH Advisory: Ambulatory Patients with COVID-19, Healthcare Personnel Monitoring
March 25, 2020
LAC DPH Alert: Preserving Critical Supplies and Resources; New COVID-19 Mortality Reporting
March 19, 2020
March 11, 2020
LAC DPH: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Testing and Revised Infection Prevention Guidance (updated March 14)
March 6, 2020
LAC DPH: COVID-19 Clinical Laboratory Testing, Reporting, PPE, HCW Exposure Monitoring
March 4, 2020
LAC DPH: COVID-19 Guidance-Optimizing N95 Supplies and Managing Mild Illness
February 29, 2020
LAC DPH: Revised Evaluation Criteria for COVID-19
February 1, 2020
CDC Health Update: Update and Interim Guidance on Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
September 24, 2019
August 28, 2019
CDPH Health Update: Vaping-Associated Pulmonary Injury
May 24, 2019
LAC DPH Health Update: Measles Situation Update and Revised Clinical Guidance
April 26, 2019
LAC DPH Health Update: Measles Prevention in Los Angeles County
April 23, 2019
LAC DPH Health Alert: Measles Outbreak in Los Angeles County
October 21, 2016
Issue Brief: Meningococcal Disease Outbreak Advisory
February 2, 2016
Issue Brief: Zika Virus Infection
February 6, 2015
Issue Brief: Measles Outbreak in Los Angeles County
October 23, 2014
Issue Brief: Ebola Resources