As ChurchLeaders reported last October, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health identified GCC as the site of a COVID-19 outbreak because three confirmed cases of the virus had been associated with the church. Even though the circumstances met the county’s definition of “outbreak,” GCC’s legal team took issue with the application of the term to such a small number.
In a statement to ChurchLeaders, attorney Jenna Ellis said, “Three very mild positive tests among more than 7,000 people is hardly news. 0.0004 or 0.043 percent is not an ‘outbreak.’ The LA Times and others’ grossly misleading and fear-mongering headlines aim to mischaracterize Grace Community Church as irresponsible and a superspreader.”
The Los Angeles Times reports that if the settlement is approved Tuesday, that would resolve “all legal actions between the county and the church.”
