This article was updated Jan. 10 at 4:42 p.m. News of riots at the U.S. Capitol distracted Vedant Sathye from his classes Wednesday. Sathye, a third-year computer science student, said he tried to multitask, swapping back-and-forth between his lectures and watching the news. Read more...
Photo: One student couldn’t focus on school and another was disheartened after hearing the news about Wednesday’s riots in Washington, D.C. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
The art for this post was updated Jan. 7 at 2:17 p.m. Following a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, county officials have told ambulance crews in Los Angeles County to save oxygen for critically ill patients and to not bring in patients, with or without COVID-19, to the hospital if they were unable to be resuscitated in the field. Read more...
Photo: Following two directives by the LA County’s Emergency Medical Services Agency, emergency workers are told not to bring patients back to the hospital if they were unable to resuscitate them. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 29 at 3:34 p.m. A temporary shelter established to house individuals experiencing homelessness during the pandemic has been closed since September, leaving many without shelter during the worst COVID-19 spike in LA County. Read more...
Photo: Since Westwood Recreation Center closed in September, past residents of the temporary COVID-19 shelter no longer have access to it for housing. (Ashley Kenney/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated on Jan 10 at 4:58 p.m. At least three academic departments will not alter their degree plans to allow students to use pass/no pass courses to count toward certain degree requirements in the winter 2021 quarter, despite recommendations from the Academic Senate. Read more...
Photo: Student leaders asked the Academic Senate to pressure individual academic departments to implement pass/no pass grading accommodations. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was updated on Jan. 10 at 4:55 p.m. Southern California will remain in the state’s regional stay-at-home order for the time being because of low ICU capacity in the region, a state health official announced Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: LA County, which is part of the Southern California region, is set to remain in the state’s regional stay-at-home order for at least another four weeks. Even then, health officials project the region’s ICU capacity to remain at 0%, in which case the stay-at-home order will be extended further. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
This post was updated Dec. 16 at 3:48 p.m. Undercover detectives arrested a man Tuesday who is suspected of committing at least 23 sexual batteries in West LA since October. Read more...
Photo: Police arrested a man suspected of committing at least 23 sexual batteries in the West Los Angeles and Westwood area since October.
UCLA Health administered its first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday. Medell Briggs-Malonson, an emergency medicine physician at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, was the first person to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Health administered its first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday after receiving a shipment of doses Tuesday. Medell Briggs-Malonson, a UCLA emergency medicine physician, was the first person to receive a vaccine at UCLA. (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)
