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Drivers wait in line at a mega COVID-19 vaccination site set up in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium., which was temporarily shut down recently because dozen of protesters blocked the entrance, stalling hundreds who has waited in line for hours. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
LOS ANGELES, CA After an anti-vaxxer protest group briefly shut down the nation s largest coronavirus vaccination site at Dodger Stadium last week, the group vowed to disrupt more California vaccination sites in the coming days.
The escalating tactics for disrupting vaccination efforts prompted the Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore to warn activists that they will be arrested if they block access to vaccination sites or intimidate workers and patients. It also inflamed familiar tensions between the anti-vaxxer movement epicentered in California and state lawmakers, who passed the strictest vaccination law in the nation in 2015.
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Vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax report positive trial results
A coronavirus vaccine developed by the US firm Novavax has been shown to be 89 per cent effective in preventing covid-19 in clinical trials. The trials included participants in the UK and South Africa, and found the vaccine to be 86 per cent effective against the UK variant of the virus, but only 60 per cent effective against the variant in South Africa. Novavax said it will immediately begin development on a vaccine specifically targeted to the South African variant.
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Janssen, a subsidiary of US firm Johnson & Johnson, announced that its covid-19 vaccine showed 66 per cent efficacy in an international trial. These results are based on a single dose of the vaccine, which makes it easier to administer than the two-shot vaccines that have already been approved. The company has said it will sell its vaccine on a not-for-profit basis.
Los Angeles County reports 5,925 new cases of COVID-19, 124 more deaths
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LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County reported 5,925 new cases of COVID-19 and 124 additional deaths Sunday, bringing the county s totals to 1,116,892 cases and 16,770 fatalities.
The county s COVID-19 hospitalization rate continues to decline, with 5,328 coronavirus patients hospitalized as of Sunday, down from 5,669 the day before, and 27% of those patients in the ICU.
The county s hospitalization rate has been dropping steadily since it peaked at more than 8,000 in early January.
The latest numbers came one day after health officials confirmed the second local case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 first discovered in the United Kingdom, and four additional cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).
The county s large-scale COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium was briefly and unexpectedly closed today after protesters showed up at the entrance.
The Los Angeles Fire Department today shut down the gates of the Dodger Stadium COVID-19 vaccination site for almost an hour after protesters tried to get inside.