Tag: Covid-19
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E3 Going Remote Will Cost LA’s Economy Tens of Millions—Again
The Entertainment Software Association’s decision to hold its annual E3 mega-convention as an online-only event this year is yet another blow to Los Angeles’ struggling local tourism and events economy.The world’s largest gaming expo has traditionally…
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Surging Demand For COVID Tests May Require A New Public Health Strategy For California
Not even a week after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced it would offer residents free mail-in PCR tests for COVID-19, the program has been put on pause.In another blow for a region crippled by a surge in omicron variant case…
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Star Trek’s Original Mr. Spock Beams Down for Vaccine-Boosting LA Billboard Campaign
It’s been almost seven years since Leonard Nimoy, the actor who created the role of Mr. Spock on “Star Trek,” passed away due to respiratory disease — but his character may be coming soon to a billboard near you, as part of a widening campaign to enco…
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E3 Will Be Online-Only Again This Year, Robbing Downtown LA of Gaming’s Biggest Convention
Video game fans will have to enjoy gaming’s biggest convention from home again this year. Despite being five months away, gaming trade group the Entertainment Software Association will make its annual Electronic Entertainment Expo—better known as E3—a…
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Amid COVID Concerns, Here’s What LA Tech Firms Have Planned for CES 2022
With COVID-19 cases surging to all-time highs, tech giants like Google and Microsoft are among those who have decided they won’t be physically present at CES 2022, the massive annual consumer electronics trade show being held this week in Las Vegas.Bu…
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Three Things to Know About the LA-Based COVID Testing Company LA’s Sheriff Refuses to Use
This week, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced he would not use L.A.-based Fulgent Genetics to test his employees, saying he fears the information would be shared with the Chinese government. Fulgent is California’s largest commercial…
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How to Get Proof of the COVID Vaccine Ahead of Thanksgiving
Show-stopping turkeys and extended family get-togethers are back this Thanksgiving. With 81% of Angelenos ages 12 and older have been fully vaccine, restaurants have reopened and travel has more or less resumed at full capacity. But, Los Angeles Count…
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Curative Returns to Dodger Stadium as COVID-19 Cases in California Rise
A few days after Los Angeles put some of the strictest COVID measures in the country in place, the testing site at Dodger Stadium will reopen. The startup Curative will operate the site, once the nation’s largest, as demand for testing grows.The drive…
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LA County Is Getting Ready to Vaccinate Young Children Against COVID. Here’s What We Know so Far:
In time for the holidays, Los Angeles County is receiving a shipment of roughly 150,000 child-size coronavirus vaccines to inoculate 5 to 11 year olds as soon as next week.The CDC recommended Pfizer’s vaccine for young children on Tuesday, allowing th…
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Mass Vaccination of 5-11 Year Olds Will Look Much Different for LA County
Los Angeles County health officials expect to have child vaccines for hundreds of thousands of the region’s 5 to 11 year olds ready in the first few days of November.On Tuesday a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended the Pfizer-B…