This post was updated April 11 at 10:00 p.m. Some student workers said they felt relieved to be some of the first students eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine but thought UCLA could have had better communication. Read more...
Photo: Metztli Mercado-Garcia, a third-year psychology student and student worker at UCLA, received her COVID-19 vaccine because of her student worker status but said the vaccine site was far away and hard to navigate. (Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated April 5 at 6:39 p.m. People experiencing homelessness are at an increased risk of dying because of COVID-19, UCLA researchers found. In the United States, people experiencing homelessness are 30% more likely to die from COVID-19 than the general population regardless of age, according to a March UCLA-led preliminary report. Read more...
Photo: UCLA researchers found that people experiencing homelessness were significantly more likely to die of COVID-19-related causes in the United States. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin)
Researchers at UCLA found that women with higher percentages of body fat are less susceptible to adverse outcomes from heart disease. Researchers previously believed that only men and women with low body fat and high muscle mass are less vulnerable to death from heart disease, despite overall body muscle mass. Read more...
Photo: UCLA researchers found high body fat percentages are linked to protection from heart diseases in women. (Finn Chitwood/Daily Bruin)
Novel ecological survey methods developed by UCLA researchers are making ecology more accessible to students. A research team at UCLA developed a process that helps identify organisms living in marine environments and released its findings in February. Read more...
Photo: UCLA researchers developed a process to more efficiently identify organisms living in marine environments and released their findings in February and are now bringing this research to students (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor).
This post was last updated April 13 at 9:38 p.m. Volunteers are playing an important role in the accelerated distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Read more...
Photo: Student volunteers have played an important role in the increased vaccination rates through their volunteering (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin).
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)
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)
