{"id":92433,"date":"2020-04-08T13:28:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=92433"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:20:55","slug":"da-in-self-quarantine-tests-negative-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/04\/08\/da-in-self-quarantine-tests-negative-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"DA in &#8216;self-quarantine,&#8217; tests negative for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76357\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76357\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jackie-Lacey-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jackie-Lacey-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jackie-Lacey.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey revealed Wednesday that she has tested negative for coronavirus but is in &#8220;self- quarantine&#8221; after coming in close contact with one of two employees in her office who tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am writing this message from self-quarantine after coming in close contact with one of the two employees in my office who tested positive for COVID-19,&#8221; Lacey wrote in her monthly newsletter. &#8220;Fortunately, I have tested negative but, in accordance with county public health guidelines, I will work remotely for 14 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with<em> City News Service<\/em>, Lacey said that she and her husband both tested negative for coronavirus and that she is working from home during the self-quarantine process. She said she expects to return to her office next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You would think you work less. It&#8217;s actually the opposite,&#8221; the county&#8217;s top prosecutor said of working from home. &#8220;In order to really successfully get through this, you have to be in constant communication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two affected employees are doing &#8220;fine,&#8221; Lacey said.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that her office has done everything it can to make sure that employees either work remotely or engage in social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>Lacey said\u00a0her office is &#8220;committed to keeping Los Angeles County safe and helping to stop the spread of this pandemic,&#8221; and that deputy district attorneys have begun staffing &#8220;video arraignments&#8221; in downtown Los Angeles and Pomona to reduce the exposure for attorneys and others still working in the county&#8217;s courtrooms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey revealed Wednesday that she has tested negative for coronavirus but is in &#8220;self- quarantine&#8221; after coming in close contact with one of two employees in her office who tested positive. &#8220;I am writing this message from self-quarantine after coming in close contact with one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1499,1496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}