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Los Angeles County health officials said they re ready to quickly resume use of Johnson & Johnson s COVID-19 vaccine Friday, after the vaccine was put back into rotation.
The federal government had paused distribution 10 days ago to investigate the risk of rare, severe blood clots. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined the benefits outweigh the risk.
The L.A County Public Health Department is putting together educational materials to hand out with the vaccine, said Chief Science Officer Dr. Paul Simon.
The materials will include really important information about what to look for, the signs and symptoms if you were to have this very rare reaction, he said. And we are going to underscore, this is a very rare reaction.
Thursday, April 15. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.
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In early March, California began devoting 40% of its vaccine supply to underserved communities, where people have died in much higher numbers.
Did that effort end up helping such communities in Los Angeles? Times reporters Luke Money and Matt Stiles analyzed the data to find out.
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It’s been a long, frustrating year for children and parents in Los Angeles, where public school classrooms have been closed since last March. Instruction via laptops set up on kitchen tables and bedroom floors has been no substitute with students losing focus and grades suffering.
Reaching the even less restrictive yellow tier of the state s blueprint, which guides business reopenings during the pandemic, currently requires a county s new infection rate to fall below 1 per 100,000 residents. However, that benchmark will be eased to less than 2 per 100,000 residents this week, when the state reaches its goal of administering 4 million doses of vaccine in low-income hard-hit communities throughout California.
The state could reach that goal by Tuesday.
Ferrer said even if the state reaches the goal and the yellow-tier threshold is eased, Los Angeles County s case rate will still be too high to immediately advance. The state adjusts each county s case rate weekly, on Tuesdays.