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California, Los Angeles, News

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March 12, 2:20 pm

LA County to reopen indoor dining, gyms on Monday after moving into red tier

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)

California, Los Angeles, News, Science & Health, Westwood

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March 12, 1:49 pm

Recovering from COVID-19 looks different for many students who had the disease

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...

Photo: (Nathan Koketsu/Daily Bruin)

Crime, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council, News, Westwood

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March 12, 11:52 am

LAPD’s use of Jackie Robinson Stadium as field jail was inappropriate, report finds

The LAPD was unprepared to handle mass arrests, and its use of the UCLA-leased Jackie Robinson Stadium as a detention center during protests against racial inequality was inappropriate, a report released Thursday found. Read more...

Photo: A report released Thursday evaluating the LAPD’s handling of protests in 2020 found that the use of Jackie Robinson Stadium as a field jail was inappropriate. UCLA leases the stadium for its baseball team and allowed the LAPD to use the lot before it was turned into a field jail. (Anika Chakrabarti/Daily Bruin staff)

California, Los Angeles, National, News, Science & Health, Westwood

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March 10, 3:02 pm

Social media campaigns provide education about COVID-19 vaccines

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)

Campus, Los Angeles, News

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March 9, 9:02 pm

UCLA reopens some libraries, recreation services with limited capacity

After nearly a year of COVID-19 pandemic-related closures, UCLA is beginning to reopen. Some campus facilities, including some libraries, recreation facilities and art studio spaces, have already reopened, while others will reopen by next week, administrators announced in a campuswide email Tuesday. Read more...

Photo: UCLA will reopen some campus facilities, including libraries, starting this week. Most campus facilities have been closed for almost a year. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)

Los Angeles, News, Science & Health

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March 7, 1:15 pm

Firing, reinstatement of UCLA nurse midwives causes distress and disillusionment

Shadman Habibi walked into a meeting with the obstetrics and gynecology department at the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center expecting a long-awaited meeting on ways to improve the midwifery program’s performance. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Health fired midwives working at the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and reinstated them a week later. (Daily Bruin file photo)


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