New data show public health officials failed to quickly deliver shots to the vast majority of California’s most vulnerable residents, who were supposed to be the priority.latimes.com/california/sto…
As of Sunday, only about 5% of long-term care facility residents in the statewide vaccination program — including people in skilled nursing homes and assisted living centers — had been vaccinated, according to state data obtained by The Times. latimes.com/california/sto…
And while the vaccines became available in the U.S. in mid-December, only 3% of California facilities in the program had been scheduled for their first visit from a vaccination team as of Sunday, the data show. latimes.com/california/sto…
The previously unpublicized data, contained in an email from a state health official to an advisory panel including geriatricians and advocates for the elderly, list 17,400 California long-term care facilities enrolled in the vaccine program run by the CDC, CVS and Walgreens.
The majority of those facilities, more than 90%, are assisted living facilities, which typically house elderly people who can no longer care for themselves. They often have cognitive issues, but are not sick enough to require medical care provided by skilled nursing facilities.
Almost none of the nearly 360,000 residents of assisted living facilities on the list had been vaccinated as of Sunday.
Trump has been delegating daily responsibilities to Mike Pence while hunkering down with a small group of aides and contemplating additional presidential pardons. latimes.com/politics/story…
Since the pro-Trump mob smashed through the Capitol, Pence has taken over.
Pence was the one who authorized the deployment of the National Guard to quell the mob.
Breaking: During his first days in office, President-elect Joe Biden plans to send legislation to congress that would provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million immigrants who are in the country without legal status.
Biden’s legislation does not include money to support detention and deportation. Previous immigration bills passed under both Democratic and Republican administrations linked an expansion of immigration with stepped-up enforcement and security measures. latimes.com/california/sto…
The bill would provide a shorter pathway to citizenship for people with Temporary Protected Status, for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients and likely also for certain frontline essential workers, vast numbers of whom are immigrants. latimes.com/california/sto…
In the crowded kitchen of a McDonald’s in Oakland, it was as though the coronavirus didn’t exist.
Social distancing wasn’t enforced in the early weeks of the pandemic. As workers boxed Big Macs and bagged orders, they often stood shoulder to shoulder. latimes.com/california/sto…
There weren’t enough masks, so managers told workers to improvise, offering up a box of dog diapers somebody had left at the store. Often, the outlet was so busy that workers said they had no time to wash their hands, let alone disinfect the countertops.
When the coronavirus surged through the store in May, employees — even those with symptoms — said they were pressured to keep working, according to formal complaints filed with the local health department and the state.
Five large COVID-19 vaccination sites are slated to open next week in Los Angeles County:
• Pomona Fairplex
• The Forum in Inglewood
• Cal State Northridge
• L.A. County Office of Education in Downey
• Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia latimes.com/california/sto…
Each site is expected to vaccinate 4,000 people a day. Appointments and proof of employment in the healthcare industry will be required to get the shot, the county said. The five sites are expected to remain open for at least four weeks. latimes.com/california/sto…
They are run separately from the city’s Dodger Stadium vaccine site.
Jesus Alegria was skateboarding with some friends at a Compton park on an afternoon in April when Deputy Miguel Vega and his partner, Chris Hernandez, pulled up.
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Hands on their holsters, the deputies approached a group of teens. Alegria and his friends shouted at them to stop harassing the kids. The deputies, he said, rounded on them and words were exchanged. latimes.com/california/sto…
Vega suddenly grabbed Alegria’s wrists and shoved him into the back of the patrol car. The deputy didn’t handcuff him and didn’t ask Alegria’s name. latimes.com/california/sto…