Los Angeles mayor rebuts Trump and warns the city is 'days away' from fate of New York

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• Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city is anywhere from six to twelve days away from the sort of crisis currently facing New York City.
• "The premature announcement that we can see that light at the end of the tunnel — I'd say we're just entering that tunnel, right now, and we need to be prepared for some of the darkness that lies ahead," Garcetti said.
• Eleven people in Los Angeles County have now died due to COVID-19, including one teenager.
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Los Angeles is just a week or two away from the fate of New York City, where hospitals are being overwhelmed with a surge in patients suffering from COVID-19 — and neither it nor the nation is anywhere near ready to return to business as usual, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Tuesday night.

"To place the economy before individuals, profits before people — that will cost lives," Garcetti said in a forceful rebuke of President Donald Trump, who suggested social-distancing measures could be rescinded by April 12. 

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