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Volunteers and health care workers carry out a mass vaccination campaign at the former site of a Sears department store in a partnership with San Diego County, the city of Chula Vista and Sharp HealthCare. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard) LOS ANGELES (CN) — The race to get a Covid-19 vaccine in Los Angeles is cutthroat and most people don’t even know they’re in the competition. Over the last year, South Central and East LA have weathered the brunt of the pandemic as more Black and ...

Berkeley is partnering with Albany, Alameda County and Curative, Inc., to open a mass vaccination site for residents who are 75 and older.

Of the cases Berkeleyside has been able to learn about, most of the individuals who have died were Black, male, age 80 or older, or some combination of those factors. Most of them had multiple causes of death listed in addition to COVID-19, such as pneumonia, respiratory failure, cardiac or cardiopulmonary arrest and septic shock, among other conditions. On Wednesday, Berkeley updated the number of the city’s total COVID-19 fatalities to 22, with the cumulative number of lab-confirmed coronav...

Jim Manheimer, Berkeley High School class of 1979, reunites with his lost yearbook at Berkeley Public Library on Kittredge Street. Photo: Aimee Reeder The last time Jim Manheimer saw his Berkeley High School yearbook, President Jimmy Carter held office and the McDonald’s Happy Meal had just been invented. But with the help of a linguistics expert, a Facebook group, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s use of the word ‘hella,’ Manheimer was reunited last Friday with the yearbook he’d lost ...

3 more people in Berkeley have died from COVID-19, city reports The total death toll in Berkeley now stands at 12, with 1,854 COVID-19 cases reported. Signs at the entrance to the Curative COVID-19 testing facility at the Berkeley Adult School on San Pablo Avenue. Photo: Pete Rosos Three more people who live in Berkeley have died of COVID-19, bringing the city’s death toll to 12, the city reported Thursday. Up until the last day of the year, Berkeley’s deaths from the virus had remained at ...

Tess Mayer has taken over as director of the Berkeley Public Library. Photo: Pete Rosos Tess Mayer could not have taken over leadership of the Berkeley Public Library at a more difficult time. Mayer moved from Seattle to Berkeley in late September to take up the helm of an organization with 116 full-time equivalent employees, a $19 million budget funded by taxpayers, five branch locations, 110,000 library cardholders and more than 1.5 million moving parts. (The amount of material circulating.) ...