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LAUSD superintendent still hopeful for a mid-April reopening of elementary schools7h ago ( March 1, 2021 at 8:22 PM ) Trinidad Hernandez, a food service manager at First Street Elementary in East Los Angeles gets her COVID-19 vaccine at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Monday, March 1, 2021. In partnership with the L.A. Rams, Anthem Blue Cross and Cedars-Sinai the site at SoFi Stadium will vaccinate 12,000 LAUSD employees per day. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner speaks during a press conference at SoFi Stadium, to announce the opening of one of the nation’s la...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, La, Government, Sport, Soccer, Lausd, Local News, Gavin Newsom, Inglewood, Legislature, Anthem Blue Cross, Board of Supervisors 126 people like this. Like Coronavirus cases, deaths continue to dip as a million more in LA County become vaccine-eligible10h ago ( March 1, 2021 at 5:01 PM ) A whole new slate of folks who live or work in Los Angeles County are now eligible to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, officials announced Monday, March 1, as the county’s inoculation program continues to move forward.
The county on Monday expanded those eligible for the vaccine to include people who work in education, child care, food, agriculture, emergency services and law enforcement. About 30% of the county’s vaccine allocation will be set aside specifically for educators, Los Angele...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, Government, Sport, Soccer, Food And Drug Administration, Community, Lausd, Los Angeles County, Johnson Johnson, Ferrer, LA County, SeaWorld San Diego, Barbara Ferrer 1 people like this. Like Newsom, lawmakers forge deal – with $6.6 billion in financial incentives – to get schools open14h ago ( March 1, 2021 at 12:42 PM ) Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are scheduled to give an update this morning on the state’s school reopening efforts, during which they are expected to announce an agreement that would offer billions of dollars in funding for schools that reopen by the end of March.
Newsom and lawmakers have been negotiating for two months over bringing kids back to school, amid mounting pressure to reopen campuses closed nearly a year by the coronavirus pandemic. Newsom will be joined by Senate leader...Tags: Health, News, Education, California, Cdc, Government, Senate, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, Community, Atkins, Associated Press, Gavin Newsom, Capitol, Johnson Johnson 48 people like this. Like LA County, city, school-district sites gear up for Monday’s massive new wave of vaccine-seekersFebruary 28, 2021 at 5:10 PM With an estimated 1.2 million more people eligible for coronavirus vaccines on Monday, March 1, Los Angeles County will operate with its largest-ever infrastructure for delivering the sought-after inoculations this week.
But health officials said residents will have to be patient while vaccine supplies remain thin and sporadic, and while staff are being trained to tighten up procedures to ensure only eligible people receive shots. County health officials expressed hope that conditions will impro...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, Microsoft, California, Cdc, Government, Paul Simon, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, South Africa, United Kingdom, Community, Lausd 35 people like this. Like Here’s what’s next for West Covina, as it builds its own health departmentFebruary 27, 2021 at 5:32 PM The West Covina City Council made a bold statement by voting to terminate services with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health last week as the community — and other local cities, many contemplating their own such moves — looked on.
The hard part, however, lies ahead: Creating a team that can deliver all the state-mandated services of an independent health department. It’s not just the roles amplified during the county’s response to COVID-19 outbreak, but also scores of other tasks i...Tags: Health, News, Education, California, Government, Senate, Paul Simon, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Healthcare, Community, Lausd, City Council, Pasadena, Amy 70 people like this. Like L.A. County allocates 11% of coronavirus vaccines to teachers as LAUSD mega-clinic launches MondayFebruary 26, 2021 at 7:00 PM Of the nearly 270,000 coronavirus vaccine doses that Los Angeles County officials plan to administer next week, just over 31,000 — or 11% — will go to vaccinate educators, including those in the mammoth L.A. Unified School District.
After second doses for those already with appointments are accounted for, the county will have about 100,000 doses for first-time recipients next week as nearly 1.8 million more people become eligible for inoculations on Monday, March 1.
L.A. Unified will open one of...Tags: Health, Business, Florida, News, Education, California, Government, US, Sport, Soccer, House, Food And Drug Administration, Long Beach, Community, Lausd, Pasadena L.A. County allocates 11% of coronavirus vaccines to teachers – as new LAUSD mega-clinic launchesFebruary 26, 2021 at 7:00 PM Of the nearly 270,000 coronavirus vaccine doses that Los Angeles County officials plan to administer next week, just over 31,000 — or 11% — will go to vaccinate educators, including those in the mammoth L.A. Unified School District.
After second doses for those already with appointments are accounted for, the county will have about 100,000 doses for first-time recipients next week as nearly 1.8 million more people become eligible for inoculations on Monday, March 1.
L.A. Unified will open one of...Tags: Health, Business, Florida, News, Education, California, Government, US, Sport, Soccer, House, Food And Drug Administration, Community, Lausd, Simon, Inglewood 16 people like this. Like Newsom’s Vaccine Plan Aims To Reopen California ClassroomsFebruary 25, 2021 at 8:31 PM SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS13) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday released a new plan outlining how the state will allocate vaccines to education workers in a continued push to reopen more schools for in-person instruction.
Newsom announced last week that at least 10% of the state’s vaccines would go to education workers starting in March, which translates to roughly 75,000 dedicated doses a week.
The Governor’s Office on Thursday released an overview showing how those vaccines would be distri...Tags: Health, Politics, Education, California, California News, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Joe Biden, Ap, Union, Silicon Valley, Oakland, Biden, San Diego County, Anthony Fauci, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention 15 people like this. Like LA County hospitalizations for COVID-19 reach lowest levels since before winter surgeFebruary 25, 2021 at 6:34 PM Less than 2,000 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Los Angeles as of Thursday, Feb. 25, reaching the lowest levels since before the winter surge that began with Thanksgiving gatherings three months ago.
As of Thursday, there were 1,886 people in L.A. County hospitals that tested positive for the coronavirus, based on a state database. Roughly 30% of the patients were in intensive care units.
A similar number of hospitalized patients last occurred Nov. 25, when 1,893 people were recorded h...Tags: Health, News, Education, California, Government, China, Los Angeles, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Pfizer, Pasadena, LA County, Wednesday Long Beach 22 people like this. Like LA County unveils plan to vaccinate teachers, other essential workers, starting March 1February 24, 2021 at 7:50 PM Teachers in Los Angeles County can begin receiving the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, March 1 — but just how many doses will be available for educators will depend on supply, which is still just an estimate.
Among the slightly more than 200,000 vaccine doses that officials expect, 25% to 29% will go toward teachers and administrators, with 9% of those doses going to private school teachers and staff.
First priority for doses goes to those with second-dose appointments. The remainder will be divi...Tags: Health, Business, UK, News, Education, California, Government, Sport, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Lausd, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Ferrer, LA County 42 people like this. Like LA County surpasses 20,000 coronavirus deathsFebruary 23, 2021 at 8:35 PM A day after the nation surpassed the jolting milestone of 500,000 lives lost to the pandemic, Los Angeles County surpassed its own grim milestone on Tuesday, Feb. 23 — 20,000 COVID-19-related deaths.
The county reported another 157 deaths on Tuesday. For the family and friends of the 20,057 people claimed by the outbreak — fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and grandparents … nurses, doctors, teachers, law officers, grocery workers and so many more — that number is very real and very painful.
R...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, Navy, California, Government, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Pasadena, Dennis, American Airlines, Los Angeles County 25 people like this. Like With more federal coronavirus relief likely, LA County scrutinizes impact of CARES dollarsFebruary 23, 2021 at 6:58 PM Gearing up for more federal coronavirus relief money, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Feb. 23, called for a detailed report on the impact of CARES Act dollars the county received last year.
A key element of the 2020 CARES Act was the Coronavirus Relief Fund, through which the county received $1.057 billion. Coupled with state funding, county coronavirus aid totaled $1.22 billion, which helped pay for such efforts as virus testing, food distribution, personal protective eq...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, Government, Sport, Soccer, Community, Associated Press, LA County, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Hilda Solis, Top Stories LADN, Top Stories IVDB, Top Stories Breeze, Top Stories LBPT 30 people like this. Like LA County officials have harsh words for coronavirus vaccine inequity – and line-jumping cheatersFebruary 23, 2021 at 6:25 PM Just one week away from expanding eligibility for the coronavirus vaccine by up to 1.8 million people, Los Angeles County officials are worried the online system required by the state to book appointments will continue to pose challenges in communities hit hardest by the pandemic.
Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Hilda Solis said on Tuesday, Feb. 23, that she was “not surprised,” but nonetheless “disgusted” by certain people using any means necessary to obtain vaccine doses.
“I can tell you I was...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Dhs, Soccer, Community, County, Los Angeles County, Southland, Ferrer, Board of Supervisors, LA County 30 people like this. Like ‘Partial herd immunity’ emerging, but some challenge the value of that statusFebruary 22, 2021 at 3:21 PM It was nearly a year ago when Gov. Gavin Newsom, not long into a statewide lockdown, referenced the elephant in the COVID-19 room: herd immunity.
The concept was frightening to many; with no vaccine in sight, they feared the only way it could be attained was for the virus to have infected enough people to have run out of hosts. Estimates of the looming toll at the time were chilling: as many as 840,000 Californians dead and 1.4 million seriously ill.
National, state and local officials, meanwhil...Tags: Business, News, Education, California, Government, White House, US, Paul Simon, Los Angeles, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Columbia University, Lausd 71 people like this. Like LAUSD announces app to coordinate COVID-19 factors in step toward reopeningFebruary 22, 2021 at 12:34 PM The Los Angeles Unified School District on Monday, Feb. 22, announced the launch of “Daily Pass,” the first comprehensive system in the nation that coordinates health checks, COVID-19 tests and vaccinations in one online tool.
The district called Daily Pass “a critical component of Los Angeles Unified’s ‘Safe Steps to Safe Schools’ reopening plan.
“The Daily Pass sets the highest standard possible for school safety,” said LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner. “MERV-13 upgraded air filters in ever...Tags: Health, News, Education, Microsoft, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Lausd, Southern California, Microsoft Corp, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles Unified, Austin Beutner 50 people like this. Like Newsom touts new Southern California vaccine pop-ups as counties transition to Blue Shield networkFebruary 21, 2021 at 9:31 PM Gov. Gavin Newsom visited two federally funded pop-up coronavirus vaccination sites in Southern California on Sunday, Feb. 21, part of a statewide tour of such spots aimed at immunizing the state’s hardest-hit communities. The visit coincided with the launch of the transition to a new centralized system — which will include Riverside County in its first wave — to manage the state’s thus-far bumpy rollout of the badly needed vaccine.
Newsom, flanked by several local elected leaders, said the mobi...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Associated Press, Pfizer, Blue Shield, Orange County, Riverside County 134 people like this. Like Why some senior living communities are struggling to get COVID-19 vaccines for their residentsFebruary 21, 2021 at 7:16 PM Residents at the Bridgecreek Holiday Retirement Community in West Covina, Tom Rathman, left, Matthew Richardson, and Gene Trinaystich, right, wait to get their COVID-19 inoculations from a vaccination team coordinated by the L.A. County Department of Public Health on Sunday, February 21, 2021.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Peggy Weickert gets her COVID-19 inoculation from a vaccination team coordinated by the L.A. County Department of Public Healtat the Bridgecreek Hol...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Fox, Soccer, Community, John, Nancy, Woods, Gavin Newsom, Southern California 58 people like this. Like Why some independent senior communities are struggling to get COVID-19 vaccines for their residentsFebruary 21, 2021 at 7:16 PM Residents at the Bridgecreek Holiday Retirement Community in West Covina, Tom Rathman, left, Matthew Richardson, and Gene Trinaystich, right, wait to get their COVID-19 inoculations from a vaccination team coordinated by the L.A. County Department of Public Health on Sunday, February 21, 2021.
(Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
Peggy Weickert gets her COVID-19 inoculation from a vaccination team coordinated by the L.A. County Department of Public Healtat the Bridgecreek Hol...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Fox, Soccer, Community, John, Nancy, Woods, Gavin Newsom, State 114 people like this. Like New vaccine delivery system launches in parts of CaliforniaFebruary 21, 2021 at 3:29 PM By JANIE HAR, AMY TAXIN and KATHLEEN RONAYNE | The Associated Press
California’s new system of delivering, tracking and scheduling coronavirus vaccines is being rolled out in select counties, a first step in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to smooth out what has been a confusing and disjointed rollout hampered by limited national supply.
Newsom announced last month that his administration had tapped insurer Blue Shield to design and manage a centralized system to get doses out quickly and equitably. H...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Kaiser Permanente, Government, Uncategorized, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sport, Soccer, Kaiser, Lausd, Blue Shield, Disneyland 39 people like this. Like LA County’s vaccine mission keeps getting more complexFebruary 19, 2021 at 9:26 PM Los Angeles County’s mission to vaccinate roughly 8 million adults continues to get whole lot more complicated — and few of the solutions are worked out.
Meanwhile, L.A. County could surpass 20,000 deaths over the weekend. On Friday, the county reported 150 new deaths and 2,459 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths to 19,662 deaths and positive cases to 1,176,772. Currently hospitalized with COVID-19 were 2,498 people, another significant decline.
Bracing for the mammoth vac...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Kaiser Permanente, Government, Paul Simon, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, United States, San Diego, Community, Blue Shield, Disneyland 64 people like this. Like LAUSD officials call for vaccines to be prioritized for school employeesFebruary 17, 2021 at 10:05 PM Prioritizing school employees for vaccines was the theme of the day on Wednesday, Feb. 17, as Los Angeles Unified School District officials and representatives from some of their labor employee groups gathered at the Roybal Learning Center near downtown LA to mark the opening of the district’s first vaccination center.
District officials also used the occasion to announce plans to run a second, much larger vaccination center at SoFi Stadium, in partnership with the Los Angeles Rams, Hollywood Pa...Tags: Health, School, Business, News, Education, California, La, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Community, Lausd, Orange County, Bay Area, Hillsborough 64 people like this. Like Coronavirus: Schools line up to reopen as LA County lays out the pathFebruary 16, 2021 at 6:54 PM With coronavirus case rates in Los Angeles County now below a level deemed acceptable by the state to open grade schools, students at close to 300 elementary school were poised to get back to class and hundreds more schools could open in a matter of weeks.
Average daily case rates in L.A. County reached 20 per 100,000 people as of Tuesday, officially falling below the state’s threshold of 25 cases per 100,000 to open schools grades Pre-Kindergarten to 6th Grade.
For those schools that do reopen,...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Kaiser Permanente, La, Government, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Pomona, Los Angeles County, Carson, Ferrer, LA County 16 people like this. Like Cal State LA hosts first federally supported coronavirus mass vaccine site – with many more to comeFebruary 16, 2021 at 4:56 PM A massive COVID-19 vaccination site opened at Cal State Los Angeles on Tuesday, where Gov. Gavin Newsom and a slate of military, federal and local leaders ushered in the first of what is expected to be 100 such sites across the nation — all of them federally supported and state-managed.
Newsom declared the sprawling campus maxi-center a significant step toward assuring equity in delivering the vaccines, determinedly placed amid a hot zone for COVID-19 surrounded by multiple densely populated com...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, Colorado, California, La, Government, Sport, Soccer, Fema, Community, Oakland, Biden, Disneyland, Orange County 90 people like this. Like CDC says it’s safe to reopen schools, even without vaccinating teachersFebruary 12, 2021 at 3:19 PM By COLLIN BINKLEY and MIKE STOBBE | Associated Press
The nation’s top public health agency said Friday that in-person schooling can resume safely with masks, social distancing and other strategies, but vaccination of teachers, while important, is not a prerequisite for reopening.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its long-awaited road map for getting students back to classrooms in the middle of a pandemic. But its guidance is just that — the agency cannot force schools to r...Tags: Politics, News, Education, California, Cdc, La, White House, Israel, Sport, Joe Biden, Public Health, Soccer, Biden, Disneyland, Donald Trump, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention 31 people like this. Like LA County looks to next phase of vaccinations: Essential workersFebruary 10, 2021 at 8:48 PM With coronavirus numbers still claiming disproportionately high numbers of Latino and Black lives, Los Angeles County officials on Wednesday said that workers in education, food, agricultural, and public safety will be eligible for vaccines within a couple of weeks, as the county moves into a new immunization phase.
The announcement came as the county scrambles to get vaccines to the 80% of the county’s 65-and-older population who have not yet been vaccinated. So far, 20 % have received at least...Tags: Health, Business, UK, News, Education, California, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Pfizer, Lausd, West Coast 68 people like this. Like San Fernando Valley schools, daycares offered COVID-19 vaccines by local hospitalFebruary 10, 2021 at 9:42 PM Teachers and staff at various schools and daycare centers throughout San Fernando Valley were recently offered COVID-19 vaccines after a local hospital reached out to them about getting vaccinated, despite the fact that educators younger than 65 aren’t yet eligible to receive the shots in most of Los Angeles County.
The revelation came amid an ongoing debate as to how soon educators should be able to receive the vaccines, which remain in scant supply, as four in five seniors aged 65 and older in...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Long Beach, Community, Vaccinations, Los Angeles County, Valley, Ferrer, LA County 22 people like this. Like Garcetti: Dodger Stadium vaccine site to close for 2 days, as ‘first-dose’ Moderna vaccine runs lowFebruary 10, 2021 at 9:28 PM Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday, Feb. 10, that the massive Dodger Stadium clinic will be closed for at least two days this week, with the city’s current supply of first-dose Moderna vaccines expected to run out.
“This is an enormous hurdle in our race to vaccinate Angelenos,” Garcetti said during his evening briefing on Wednesday. “And unfortunately, it means that we will have to temporarily close Dodger Stadium and the other four non-mobile vaccination sites for two days, on Frid...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Los Angeles, Sport, Soccer, Community, Pfizer, Eric Garcetti, Ferrer, LA County, LA Zoo, Garcetti 48 people like this. Like LA County vows to increase equity for coronavirus vaccines in hardest hit areasFebruary 9, 2021 at 5:34 PM One of the key aspects health officials tried to rely on to ensure the coronavirus vaccine reaches people in communities hardest hit by the virus involved using dozens of federally qualified health clinics specially tailored to provide care in underserved areas.
There was just one problem.
The vaccines being administered at those health clinics were not earmarked in any way for patients who use the clinic or for other people in the nearby community. Instead, many of those vaccination appointment...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Blacks, Los Angeles County, Ferrer, Board of Supervisors, LA County, Ryan Carter, Solis 11 people like this. Like L.A. County hospitals decompress as coronavirus continues gradual slowdownFebruary 8, 2021 at 7:07 PM Many Los Angeles County hospitals were beginning, to gradually return to normal, although patient levels still remained relatively high, health officials said Monday, Feb. 8.
This was a welcomed sign of relief, officials said, after hospitals were stretched to their limits for weeks in response to a historic surge in new coronavirus patients that peaked a month ago. But it did not mean the county was completely out of the woods yet, officials warned.
There were now 4,079 COVID-19 patients admitt...Tags: Health, Business, News, Education, California, Government, Sport, Soccer, Long Beach, Lausd, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, Ferrer, Knott, Solis, SeaWorld San Diego 10 people like this. Like L.A. County confirms 9 new cases of MIS-C in childrenFebruary 6, 2021 at 7:08 PM Los Angeles County reported 4,860 new cases of COVID-19 and 193 additional deaths on Saturday, Jan. 6, and confirmed nine new cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. The number of coronavirus patients in county hospitals was 4,421, according to the state dashboard, with 28.8% of those people in intensive care units.
The latest cases of MIS-C bring the total number of children infected in the county to 75, including one death. MIS-C is an inflammatory condition associated with COV...Tags: Health, Business, News, Supreme Court, Education, California, Government, NFL, Paul Simon, Sport, Public Health, Soccer, Nba, Long Beach, Community, Associated Press 3 people like this. Like |
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