Tag: Covid
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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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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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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…
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LA County Set to Inoculate Millions as CDC Approves Moderna, J&J Booster Shots
More than two million Angelenos will be able to get a booster shot in the coming week after the Center for Disease Control approved Moderna and Johnson & Johnson booster shots on Thursday. It comes a day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ann…
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Parents Say LAUSD’s Virtual Learning Spending Spree Had Mixed Results
In the sprint to remake education during the pandemic, Los Angeles Unified School District armed half a million students with internet and devices to stay connected, but experts and parents said that its efforts to teach online sometimes fell short an…
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You’ll Soon Have to Offer Proof of Vaccination at LA County Bars and Restaurants
L.A. County will require people entering 21-and-up venues and “mega events” to have proof of the coronavirus vaccine. As positive tests inch slowly upward in the county, the move is an attempt to prevent a surge. Under the rules every single employee …
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Enrollment in LA’s Virtual Schools Is Increasing As COVID Fears Spread Among Parents
The pandemic has been wrenching for parents as schools fling their doors open and throngs of unvaccinated children return to the classroom. With the delta variant raging and child hospitalizations shooting up, virtual charter schools are making …