Editorial: It's reasonable to bar the unvaccinated from having spa days or movie dates. But everyone needs access to groceries and other essential goods (via @latimesopinion) latimes.com/opinion/story/…
The mandate applies to employees in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, as well as most other healthcare settings, and stipulates that they complete their COVID-19 inoculation regimen by Sept. 30 latimes.com/california/sto…
California also ordered that hospitals, skilled nursing centers and intermediate care facilities must verify that visitors indoors are either fully vaccinated or have tested negative for the coronavirus within 72 hours of their arrival latimes.com/california/sto…
Thursday’s order largely removes the testing option and allows only limited religious or medical exemptions from the vaccine requirement.
Unvaccinated employees would also have to wear a surgical mask or respirator, such as an N95, while inside a facility latimes.com/california/sto…
In what officials characterized as the first requirement of its kind in the nation, California ordered Thursday that healthcare workers statewide must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 come early fall latimes.com/california/sto…
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Exclusive: Gov. Newsom, in recall fight, says it’s "not acceptable" for homeless to camp on streets latimes.com/homeless-housi…
In a rare extended interview on homelessness, Gov. Newsom applauded the removal of homeless camps from Echo Park Lake and Venice Beach, staking out a position that reflects a change in the political dialogue about homelessness in the state latimes.com/homeless-housi…
Newsom took on the state’s most vexing and politically potent issue when he became governor, pouring billions into building more shelters and housing latimes.com/homeless-housi…
The U.S. reached a milestone this week: 70% of adults have at least one vaccine dose.
But few are celebrating, as the Delta variant surges across the nation and vaccine initiatives meet resistance in large sections of the conservative South and Midwest. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
After 12-hour grueling shifts of watching COVID-19 patients struggle to breathe, nurse Peyton Thetford leaves the hospital and sees hardly anyone wearing masks or practicing social distancing. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
The split between vaccinated people and people refusing vaccinations follows familiar political fault lines.
Democratic-leaning states in the Northeast lead in vaccinations while staunchly Republican states have the lowest vaccination rates and the steepest increase in cases.
“I had a feeling that this was going to happen this year,” said Curtis Machlan. “After Paradise went up a couple of years ago, it was really just a matter of time until it happened to more mountain communities.” latimes.com/california/sto…
The Dixie fire — now a monstrous 322,502 acres — devastated the Plumas County town of Greenville on Wednesday afternoon, and firefighters are now working to defend nearby communities from a similar fate.
New: Los Angeles County’s Superior Court, the nation’s largest trial court system, told employees Thursday they must promptly get fully vaccinated once a coronavirus vaccine receives full government approval, or face termination.
Those with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prohibit vaccination will be eligible for exclusion from the mandate, but otherwise inoculation will be considered “a condition of employment,” the system's top executive said in a letter. latimes.com/california/sto…
The court’s order goes beyond those announced by the city of Los Angeles and the state of California.
L.A. County announced this week it will require all employees to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1, but it did not specify penalties for noncompliance. latimes.com/california/sto…
Even as President Biden urges Congress to fund a rapid buildout of clean energy infrastructure to fight climate change, an arm of his administration is helping to block the country’s largest renewable power project.
Way back in 2019, @Sammy_Roth asked an energy company owned by one of America’s richest individuals to alert him when they were down to one final landowner standing in the way of their plan to send massive amounts of wind power from Wyoming to California. latimes.com/environment/ne…
This week, company officials finally had an answer for @Sammy_Roth.
They said the last landowner standing between California and an infusion of climate-friendly power will be a family of Colorado ranchers — working closely with a federal agency. latimes.com/environment/ne…
Dementia and travel rarely mix, because people with dementia tend to react poorly to any change in location or routine. But dementia is also becoming a growing reality for many families — and sometimes travel just can't be avoided. latimes.com/travel/story/2…
Staff writer @jmarantos, who has gone through this experience herself while traveling with her husband who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2011, has a few tips. latimes.com/travel/story/2…