This post was updated March 25 at 5:10 p.m. All adults in California will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine by April 15, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday. Read more...
Photo: California will expand COVID-19 vaccine availability to all adults by April 15, Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press conference Thursday. People 50 years and older will be eligible by April 1, and people 16 years and older will be eligible by April 15. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated March 21 at 7:24 p.m. STANTON, Calif. – More than a month after a military coup in Myanmar, Burmese students at UCLA are continuing to raise awareness on the state of their country. Read more...
Photo: Thet Lin Tun, a fourth-year economics and political science student, speaks to the crowd at a rally in Orange County. (Bernard Mendez/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A UCLA staff member is planning to run for a California State Assembly seat that includes the Westwood area. Isaac Bryan, the director of public policy at the UCLA Ralph J. Read more...
Photo: Isaac Bryan, director of the UCLA Black Policy Project and director of public policy at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, has launched his bid for the 54th District State Assembly seat. (Courtesy of Mike Dennis)
This post was updated March 12 at 3:12 p.m. to reflect new information from the LACDPH. Los Angeles County will loosen restrictions on indoor dining and other indoor businesses starting Monday after California met a vaccine distribution threshold, state health officials announced Friday. Read more...
Photo: Los Angeles County will move into the red tier of the state’s reopening guidelines starting Sunday after being in the purple tier since August. The county will begin implementing the loosened restrictions Monday. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
Some UCLA students said they experienced fatigue and struggled with a lack of motivation while isolating and recovering from COVID-19. Facing the symptoms and isolation of COVID-19 was a shocking experience for Terran Cole, a fourth-year biochemistry student who contracted the virus in January. Read more...
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Health care workers and public health advocates are using social media to encourage people to get the COVID-19 vaccine and combat misinformation about COVID-19. Anna Yap, a resident physician at UCLA, started an organization in December with a network of physicians after seeing people spreading COVID-19 misinformation online. Read more...
Photo: To tackle misinformation about the new COVID-19 vaccines, doctors and medical professionals are using social media and other platforms to spread accurate information. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyone’s lives, especially for those working in health care. There have been both administrative and practical changes as a result of the pandemic to the health care industry, many of which are expected to remain even after the pandemic. Read more...
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