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L.A. reducing free testing as federal funds dry up

A woman receives help with a nasal swab at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in Paramount on January 12, 2022. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Health officials warn teens about ‘long COVID’ and urge …

Hector Garnica, 13, receives a first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccination clinic at the Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA on May 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

As L.A. County makes progress in battle with COVID-19, …

A notice calling for patrons to social distance along with hand sanitizer are seen in the outdoor seating area of The Abbey Food & Bar on January 29, 2021 in West Hollywood, California. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

As hospitals fill up across L.A. County, medical care …

After administering him with oxygen, L.A. County paramedics load a potential COVID-19 patient in the ambulance before transporting him to a hospital in Hawthorne on Dec. 29, 2020 as a family walks by. (APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)

L.A. County morgues overflow, funeral homes turn away …

Family and friends console one another as they gather at a service Dec. 20 for Julio Aguilar at the Continental Funeral Home in East Los Angeles. The 74-year-old died Nov. 28 from complications of COVID-19. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

L.A. County tops 10,000 COVID-19 deaths amid ‘backup of …

In this Dec. 22, 2020, file photo, registered nurse Dania Lima, right, helps fellow nurse Adriana Volynsky put on her personal protective equipment in a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

L.A. County breaks COVID-19 hospitalization record again …

A Covid-19 patient lies on a bed in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California on December 18, 2020. (Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images)

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1 person dies of COVID-19 every 10 minutes in L.A. …

Hospital worker Alma Garibay mops the floor of a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills area of Los Angeles on Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

‘Stretched to the limit’: L.A. County hospitals slammed, …

People wait in line at a Covid-19 testing center despite the Stay-At-Home regulation underway in Los Angeles, California on December 8, 2020. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

L.A. County document outlines healthcare resource …

Dr. Leroy Pascal, in white protective gear, and emergency room nurses scramble to attend to a COVID-19 patient at Desert Valley Hospital on Thursday in Victorville.(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

‘We’re getting crushed’: L.A. County hospitals won’t …

RNurse Kristina Shannon, from left, chaplain Andrea Cammarota, and Emergency Room charge nurse Cathy Carter watch as medical workers try to resuscitate a patient who tested positive for coronavirus in the emergency room at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. Hospitals across California have all but run out of intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients, ambulances are backing up outside emergency rooms, and tents for treating the sick are going up as the nation’s most populous state emerges as the latest epicenter of the U.S. outbreak. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

California hospitals overwhelmed as coronavirus infections …

Medical tents are set up outside the emergency room at UCI Medical Center Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, in Irvine, Calif. (Ashley Landis/AP Photo)

ICU capacity drops to 0% in SoCal as state reports …

In this Nov. 19, 2020 file photo, Dr. Rafik Abdou, right, and respiratory therapist Babu Paramban check on a COVID-19 patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. (Jae Hong/AP Photo)

Already ‘under siege,’ hospitals in L.A. County brace …

A patient who survived a code blue is rushed to ICU at Providence St. John’s Health Center on Dec. 15, 2020, in Santa Monica.(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)