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Nearly every phase of California’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been met with a mixture of enthusiasm and angst. But few groups have been as eager or as concerned as the latest to wrestle with the availability of vaccines: parents.
The state on Thursday expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines to adolescents from the ages of 12 to 15. In Los Angeles and many other counties, people in that age group must be accompanied by or receive consent from a parent or guardian to receive their shot.
Some parents are jumping at the chance to protect their kids from COVID-19, and from its rare but worrisome counterpart, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C. Downtown L.A. resident Ginny Brideau has already secured an appointment for her 12-year-old daughter, Iolani, to be vaccinated at Ralphs on Monday.
For high school seniors, return to campus is a trip back in time
“Welcome Back” is written on a calendar in Andrea Glenn’s class at Millikan High School in Long Beach, where seniors have been allowed back in class and other classes were invited back on Monday. Lesson plans have been designed around a hybrid of online and in-class students.
(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
April 26, 2021 7:30 PM PT
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It’s another week of transitions for California students.
Having just steered Los Angeles Unified through an incredibly trying three years, Supt. Austin Beutner said Wednesday that he won’t be back for more. His looming departure won’t help a district badly in need of stability in top management.