Tag: vaccine
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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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Dalan Animal Health Scores $1.9M For Honeybee Vaccine
Los Angeles-based Dalan Animal Health, which is developing vaccinations for one of the major diseases that impacts honeybees, American Foulbrood, has raised $1.9M in a seed funding round. Source of the seed funding was not announced. The company, led b…
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Pfizer Booster Shots Roll Out in LA County. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Los Angeles County on Friday began administering Pfizer booster shots shortly after the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved third doses of the vaccine for certain groups, including frontline workers. CDC Director Dr. Ro…
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Pfizer Vaccine Shown Safe for Children 5-11, Prompting Hopes for a Quick FDA Approval
Children aged 5 to 11 may be eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by the time they go trick or treating on Halloween. Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday its vaccine has been shown to be safe and highly effective among children in that age group. The …
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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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Is Your Workplace Affected? Here’s What Angelenos Need to Know About Vaccine Mandates
President Biden announced a sweeping vaccine mandate on Thursday that would affect as many as 100 million workers. Under the mandate, the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will demand that any private company with at lea…
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LA County Is Gearing Up for Another Wave of Vaccines. Here’s What To Expect
When COVID vaccines first arrived in Southern California, lines at clinics often snaked around the block and online booking was near impossible. With booster shots for COVID likely to become available in the coming month, officials are scrambling to g…
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Long Lines at LA Schools as ‘Daily Pass’ Servers Crash, Leaving Thousands Struggling to Check-In
Los Angeles Unified School District parents and students spent the first day of school refreshing their browsers as the server for the Daily Pass app developed by Microsoft crashed as hundreds of thousands of users tried to log on. The failure caused …
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Here’s How You Can Show Proof of Vaccination in Los Angeles
A new law under consideration would require that Los Angeles city residents show proof they’ve received at least one vaccine dose before they will be allowed inside restaurants, bars or grocery stores. The proposal by L.A. city councilwoman Nury…