Los Angeles County Public Health officials on Friday confirmed 144 new deaths and 2,110 new cases of COVID-19 countywide, with 26,403 total cases in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Statement from the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Regarding the Reopening of Schools
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LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 4, 2021 – The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased that state legislative leaders have reached an agreement aimed at securing a safe return to in-person instruction for California schools, by the end of March. We are encouraged that working parents will now have safe options for their children’s education.
“People living in underserved communities are overrepresented in the essential worker population. Students in these communities and the children of essential workers do not have the academic support or resources for optimal learning; they need in-person learning options. The measures taken by the Governor, Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools – Debra Duardo, and Los Angeles County Public Health Director – Dr. Barbara Ferrer ensure a safety-first approach to help reopen schools and an equity focused vaccine strategy w
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City health officials said they have about 500 doses of the vaccine to administer to those who show up. Seniors hoping to get the vaccine must show proof that they are Long Beach residents. If all the open slots are filled up, health officials said they would make an appointment for those who did not get a shot today.
Seniors can walk up to the Terrace Theatre where the fountains are. There is free parking below the theater off of Ocean Boulevard and Collins Way, according to health officials.
Officials didn’t immediately answer questions about why they decided to offer vaccines without appointments, something that’s typically been a requirement in the past, but recently other jurisdictions have criticized the state’s appointment system, My Turn, which is limited in how it can target vulnerable populations and screen out people misusing it to book appointments out of turn.
Buckle up. California’s vaccination plan is taking
another sharp turn.
The state will now devote
40% of available COVID-19 vaccinesto residents of the most disadvantaged areas, officials announced Wednesday night. The major shift in policy is intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus, especially in communities that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, my colleagues report.
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The latest change comes amid mounting evidence that Latino and Black communities are falling behind white and Asian ones in getting access to the COVID-19 vaccines, even though they have had the highest rates of infection.
Currently, 1.6 million doses have been administered to people who live in the state’s hardest-hit communities. In Southern California, these areas include South L.A., the Eastside, Koreatown, Chinatown, Compton, southeast L.A. County, the eastern San Fernando Valley, Santa Ana and a number of heavily Latino communities along the Interstate 10 corri