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The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 15 in the next few days.
Pfizer reported several weeks ago that in the clinical trial, none of the adolescents who received the vaccine developed symptomatic infections, a sign of significant protection.
Barbara Ferrer, director of L.A. County s Department of Public Health, said her staff is prepared to offer the shot, for free, to kids. We already use Pfizer at all of the county sites, Ferrer said. We are working with our staff so they will be well prepared to start vaccinating 12 to 15 year olds. We’re working with the state on a standardized consent form. One reason we’re expanding all of the sites at our schools is so that, again, we have more places children are already at for them to be able to easily get vaccinated.
While many industries made rapid changes to keep employees safe and slow the spread of COVID-19, fast food workers just kept reporting in person to their jobs throughout the pandemic. Facing significant risk from the virus, as well as from customers raging against mask mandates, workers have clung to guidelines around facial coverings, social distancing and sanitization for protection.
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But according to California workers who filed more than 100 official health and safety complaints with governmental oversight agencies over the course of the pandemic, McDonald’s and a handful of other fast food chains disregarded pandemic safety precautions repeatedly, even while franchises accepted Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans from the U.S. Small Business Association’s COVID-19 program.
Los Angeles County’s continually declining COVID-19 metrics have met the threshold to move into the least-restrictive, yellow tier this week, allowing for more business reopenings starting Thursday.
California Department of Public Health officials released updated metrics Tuesday for the state’s blueprint for reopening, and as L.A. County has met all of the requirements for the yellow tier for two straight weeks, it has been given the green light to transition into the lower tier.
The county’s seven-day average test positivity rate is 0.7%, while its seven-day average case rate is 3.0 per 100,000 residents per day, and its adjusted case rate is 1.6 per 100,000, which is adjusted depending on the county’s testing volume, based on results from the week ending April 24.
Los Angeles Moves Up to Least-Restrictive COVID-19 Reopening Tier
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 23: In an aerial view from a drone, cars are lined up at the mass COVID-19 vaccination site (R) at Dodger Stadium (L), with the downtown skyline in the background, on February 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The site, one of the largest vaccination sites in the country, reopened today along with five other city-run vaccination sites, after closures for several days due to delayed vaccine shipments caused by Midwest winter storms. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Prince Harry Targets Disinformation, Jennifer Lopez Covers Sweet Caroline and Foo Fighters Rock Out: Inside Global Citizen s VAX LIVE Concert
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Los Angeles hosted the country s first large-scale music event at the new SoFi Stadium, where calls for equitable vaccine distribution took center stage alongside host Selena Gomez.
Los Angeles County met a new milestone on Sunday in the fight against COVID-19: Zero deaths.
The good news for the area, once a hot spot in the pandemic with the most infections and the tightest restrictions on normal life, just so happened to coincide with another landmark moment in