For the better part of a month now, the focal point of L.A. County’s daily press briefings has been the coronavirus case updates provided by Dr.
Barbara Ferrer, L.A. County Department of Public Health Director. She regularly starts with something similar to, "I’m very sorry to have to report this," before revealing how many people have died over the previous 24 hours.
The she moves on to the latest number of positive cases. During Friday’s briefing, however, Ferrer switched it up to provide a "sobering" look at the global scale of the coronavirus pandemic by opening with world statistics before zooming in on how the unprecedented crisis is affecting the United States, and later, the county and the city of Los Angeles.