L.A. community colleges to require COVID-19 vaccination or regular testing for students and staff
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. community colleges to require COVID-19 vaccination or regular testing for students and staff

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Community College District, which includes Los Angeles City College, above, will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination or regular testing in the fall. The Los Angeles Community College District will require proof of vaccination or regular testing for students and faculty members during the fall semester. The Long Beach Community College District similarly announced last week that it would require proof of vaccination or regular testing. Unlike UC and Cal State, decisions around vaccination requirements within the California Community Colleges network lie with each local district.

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Los Angeles could end COVID vaccination rule for city employees
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Los Angeles could end COVID vaccination rule for city employees

LA Times  

The potential end of the vaccination requirement mirrors other local governments’ policies and comes as cases have begun to rise slightly in California. UPDATE Council ends vaccination rule The Los Angeles City Council voted, 13-0 with two members absent, on June 11, 2024, to end the vaccine requirement for city employees. The COVID vaccination rule was first approved by city …

California’s COVID-19 student vaccine mandate, on hold since April, is dropped
1 year, 10 months ago

California’s COVID-19 student vaccine mandate, on hold since April, is dropped

LA Times  

Sarginoor Kaur gets a COVID-19 vaccination from nurse Chelsea Meyer at Arleta High School in 2021. California will not enact its student vaccine mandate, Public Health Department officials said. California’s student COVID-19 vaccine mandate — which has been on hold since April — has been quietly dropped as the state prepares to end emergency pandemic restrictions later this month, public …

San Diego Unified’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate struck down in court — again
2 years, 1 month ago

San Diego Unified’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate struck down in court — again

LA Times  

Nurse Zoe Reza administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Blossom Bess, 15, at a mobile clinic at Crawford High School in San Diego in January. A California appeals court ruled against the San Diego Unified School District’s COVID-19 student vaccine mandate, which has been on pause for the last half-year. “This is a great win for children and the rule of …

L.A. school board delays student COVID-19 vaccine mandate without any discussion
2 years, 7 months ago

L.A. school board delays student COVID-19 vaccine mandate without any discussion

LA Times  

Sarginoor Kaur, 7, gets the COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Chelsea Meyer at Arleta High School in November. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously approved a delay of a student vaccine mandate for COVID-19 that had been scheduled to take effect next fall, under a recommendation from Supt. About 78% of Los Angeles Unified School District students age …

California pauses plans to require COVID-19 vaccinations for schoolchildren
2 years, 8 months ago

California pauses plans to require COVID-19 vaccinations for schoolchildren

LA Times  

California will not require schoolchildren to be immunized for COVID-19 after Gov. Newsom’s office said that after the FDA approves the vaccine for children 12 and older, state public health officials will consider recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups “prior to implementing a school vaccine requirement.” Currently, …

L.A. moves to lift vaccine verification mandate at indoor businesses
2 years, 9 months ago

L.A. moves to lift vaccine verification mandate at indoor businesses

LA Times  

Brian Oh, left, and Ro Chei eat at Seongbukdong, a restaurant serving traditional Korean food on 6th Street between Western and Vermont in Los Angeles. Los Angeles City Council members took the first step Wednesday toward lifting vaccine verification requirements at many indoor businesses, the latest in a slew of rule relaxations as the Omicron surge steadily fades. Dibiny said …

L.A. could soon end COVID vaccine mandate for restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters
2 years, 9 months ago

L.A. could soon end COVID vaccine mandate for restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters

LA Times  

Los Angeles could soon ease city rules requiring indoor restaurants, gyms, bars, movie theaters, hair salons and other businesses to check that customers are vaccinated against COVID-19 before letting them inside. She is still suggesting that businesses continue to verify customers’ vaccination status, but, “as opposed to telling people what they have to do, we’re asking people to do them …

Judge rules against San Diego Unified’s COVID vaccine mandate. What does it mean for L.A.?
3 years ago

Judge rules against San Diego Unified’s COVID vaccine mandate. What does it mean for L.A.?

LA Times  

Parents protest outside Vista Unified School District in San Diego County in July against a mask requirement for students. A San Diego County judge has struck down the student COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the San Diego school system, a ruling with potential implications elsewhere, including in the Los Angeles Unified School District. In San Diego County, Sweetwater Union High School …

Los Angeles schools delay student COVID-19 vaccine mandate
3 years ago

Los Angeles schools delay student COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Associated Press  

The Los Angeles school district, which was among the first to announce mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for students, has become the latest in California to delay a plan that would have forced thousands of unvaccinated students to return to distance learning. The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District voted Tuesday night to postpone a Jan. 10 deadline for students …

L.A. school board delays enforcement of student vaccine mandate to fall 2022
3 years ago

L.A. school board delays enforcement of student vaccine mandate to fall 2022

LA Times  

Aidan Williams sits with son Ocean, 5, as he gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot from nurse Chelsea Meyer in November. The Los Angeles school board agreed Tuesday to delay enforcement of its student COVID-19 vaccine mandate from Jan. 10 to fall 2022, citing concerns over disrupting learning and the monumental task of transferring tens of thousands of students into independent …

Op-Ed: Los Angeles led the nation on measles vaccination mandates. Can it do that for COVID?
3 years ago

Op-Ed: Los Angeles led the nation on measles vaccination mandates. Can it do that for COVID?

LA Times  

On March 31, 1977, as a measles epidemic swept through Los Angeles, the L.A. County Public Health Department issued an ultimatum to the parents of the county’s 1.6 million schoolchildren: Get your kids vaccinated within a month or keep them home. The threat — voiced by Dr. Shirley Fannin, whom the Los Angeles Times described as “the energetic, no-nonsense physician” …

LAUSD poised to push back deadline for student COVID vaccinations to fall 2022
3 years ago

LAUSD poised to push back deadline for student COVID vaccinations to fall 2022

LA Times  

A student is vaccinated at the Manual Arts High School gym near downtown. The Los Angeles school district is poised to remove its Jan. 10 student COVID-19 vaccine mandate, confronted with more than 30,000 students 12 and older who are not fully vaccinated and would otherwise be barred from campus, a significant step back from one of the nation’s strictest …

L.A.’s new COVID-19 vaccination rules for businesses and venues go into effect today
3 years, 1 month ago

L.A.’s new COVID-19 vaccination rules for businesses and venues go into effect today

LA Times  

City Hall rises in the background above Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles on Monday enacted some of the nation’s strictest COVID-19 vaccine verification rules, covering a wide variety of indoor retail businesses and venues. Here’s what you need to know: The rules Among the requirements, the city of Los Angeles now mandates proof of …

Unvaccinated L.A. city employees could get until mid-December to get their shots
3 years, 2 months ago

Unvaccinated L.A. city employees could get until mid-December to get their shots

LA Times  

Los Angeles city workers who have yet to get vaccinated for COVID-19 could have additional time to get the shots. “After several months of negotiations, the council will vote soon to impose its last, best and final offer on all city employees,” the Los Angeles Police Protective League board said in a statement Tuesday. “Overall our goal is to give …

Parents in California protest student COVID-19 vaccine mandate, keep kids home
3 years, 2 months ago

Parents in California protest student COVID-19 vaccine mandate, keep kids home

LA Times  

Parents and students hold signs and shout at a protest Monday against the state’s pending student-vaccine mandate in front of Birmingham Community Charter High School in Lake Balboa. Groups of parents and children kept out of school in protest lined the sidewalk outside Birmingham High School in Lake Balboa on Monday, part of statewide demonstrations against California’s mandate requiring all …

L.A., San Diego school districts are sued over student vaccination mandate
3 years, 2 months ago

L.A., San Diego school districts are sued over student vaccination mandate

LA Times  

A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Gizelle Carrillo, 14, in August at Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School. The L.A. and San Diego school districts face lawsuits challenging their mandates for students to be vaccinated. California’s two largest school districts — Los Angeles and San Diego — are targeted in lawsuits challenging their student COVID-19 vaccination mandates, alleging the vaccines …

Facing major campus disruption and firings, LAUSD extends staff COVID-vaccine deadline
3 years, 2 months ago

Facing major campus disruption and firings, LAUSD extends staff COVID-vaccine deadline

LA Times  

A nurse gives a COVID-19 vaccine shot to special education assistant Roxanne Juarez at Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School in August. “Our employees are one of the strongest assets that we have.” At the same time, she said, “we’re absolutely adamant about keeping our schools the safest possible environment — and vaccinations are clearly the pathway to keeping them safe.” …

Newsom sets COVID vaccine mandate across California schools
3 years, 2 months ago

Newsom sets COVID vaccine mandate across California schools

LA Times  

The COVID vaccine mandate would apply to students 12 and older after they become eligible for a fully approved vaccine. The mandate would take effect for grades seven through 12, starting with the school term following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the vaccine for children ages 12 and older, Gov. “The governor missed an opportunity to …

COVID-19 cases are falling. So why is L.A. imposing vaccine rules at bars, theme parks?
3 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19 cases are falling. So why is L.A. imposing vaccine rules at bars, theme parks?

LA Times  

Universal Studios Hollywood welcomed guests back to the theme park in April. “This is a reasonable path forward that will position us to be better able to break the cycle of surges,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said this week. is to continue our vaccine efforts.” Regarding L.A. County’s forthcoming vaccine verification plan, Newsom indicated the state …

Los Angeles requires COVID-19 vaccine for students 12 and up
3 years, 3 months ago

Los Angeles requires COVID-19 vaccine for students 12 and up

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles board of education voted Thursday to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person classes in the nation’s second-largest school district. The Los Angeles Unified School District, which has more than 600,000 mostly Latino students, already tests all students and employees every week, requires masking indoors and outdoors …

L.A. school officials order sweeping student vaccine mandate, a first by a major district
3 years, 3 months ago

L.A. school officials order sweeping student vaccine mandate, a first by a major district

LA Times  

A nurse gives Eagle Rock senior Dean Iida a COVID-19 vaccination shortly after the start of the school year. All children 12 and older in Los Angeles public schools must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January to enter campus under an order approved Thursday by the Board of Education, the first such mandate among the nation’s largest school systems …

California’s new vaccine requirement for schools: What you need to know
3 years, 4 months ago

California’s new vaccine requirement for schools: What you need to know

LA Times  

California on Wednesday became the second state in the nation, following Hawaii, to impose a vaccination mandate for school staff. The Newsom announcement comes as several large California school districts have announced similar policies in recent days, including San Francisco Unified and Long Beach Unified. Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest school system, has gone further than the state policy …

L.A. will consider requiring vaccine proof at restaurants, gyms, indoor sporting events
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. will consider requiring vaccine proof at restaurants, gyms, indoor sporting events

LA Times  

With coronavirus cases continuing to rise, Los Angeles is now considering a proposal to require proof of COVID-19 inoculation as a condition of entry at a host of indoor public spaces in what, if passed, would be the widest-ranging vaccination-verification effort in the city yet. The motion, introduced Wednesday by City Council President Nury Martinez and Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, would …

‘Well past time’: L.A. politicians want COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers
3 years, 4 months ago

‘Well past time’: L.A. politicians want COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city workers

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, shown in November, wants the city to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for city employees. “How do you engender confidence from the public,” he asked, “if you’re not assuring that the people providing services are vaccinated?” Councilwoman Nithya Raman also supports a vaccination mandate for city workers, and her office is in talks with city analysts …

CSU to require COVID-19 vaccinations for students, faculty, staff on campus this fall
3 years, 4 months ago

CSU to require COVID-19 vaccinations for students, faculty, staff on campus this fall

LA Times  

California State University — the nation’s largest four-year public university system — will require students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to campus for the fall semester. “This new provision allows some way for campuses to stay in control over how this vaccine mandate is implemented.” Cal State’s process will largely rely on trust, spokesperson Mike …

L.A. will require city employees to get vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. will require city employees to get vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19

LA Times  

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city will require employees to be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. Los Angeles will require city employees to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing to show they have tested negative, Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Council President Nury Martinez announced Tuesday. “It’s time to get it done.” Ahead …

UC mandates COVID-19 vaccinations and will bar most students without them from campus
3 years, 5 months ago

UC mandates COVID-19 vaccinations and will bar most students without them from campus

LA Times  

A lone jogger runs past Royce Hall on a nearly empty UCLA campus. As the highly contagious Delta variant spreads amid lower vaccination rates among younger people, unvaccinated students without approved exemptions will be barred from in-person classes, events and campus facilities, including housing — and not all classes will be offered online, a UC memo outlining the mandate said. …

L.A. COVID-19 vaccination pace plunges as officials work to expand access
3 years, 7 months ago

L.A. COVID-19 vaccination pace plunges as officials work to expand access

LA Times  

Providers throughout Los Angeles County administered 144,000 fewer COVID-19 vaccine doses last week compared with the week prior — the clearest evidence yet that the demand for doses has dropped significantly. Along with the additional operating day, city officials said they will provide more opportunities for people to get vaccinated without having to make an appointment and open a new …

California's public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine
3 years, 8 months ago

California's public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two of the nation’s largest …

California’s public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine
3 years, 8 months ago

California’s public universities to require COVID-19 vaccine

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Two of the nation’s largest university systems say they intend to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on University of California and California State University campuses this fall. “Together, the CSU and UC enroll and employ more than one million students and employees across 33 major university campuses, so this is the most comprehensive …

California’s massive UC and Cal State systems plan to require COVID-19 vaccinations this fall
3 years, 8 months ago

California’s massive UC and Cal State systems plan to require COVID-19 vaccinations this fall

LA Times  

Alex Harris, right, waits in line with a friend for COVID-19 vaccination at Cal State L.A. on April 9. “Together, the CSU and UC enroll and employ more than 1 million students and employees across 33 major university campuses, so this is the most comprehensive and consequential university plan for COVID-19 vaccines in the country,” Cal State Chancellor Joseph I. …

A growing number of US colleges and universities are requiring students to get Covid-19 vaccinations
3 years, 8 months ago

A growing number of US colleges and universities are requiring students to get Covid-19 vaccinations

CNN  

CNN — As colleges and universities nationwide make plans to welcome back students in the fall, a growing number have announced they will require all students to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 before returning to campus. Universities have been implementing vaccination policies since late March, when Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, became one of the first to say …

L.A.’s young and healthy head to Bakersfield for COVID-19 vaccine
3 years, 8 months ago

L.A.’s young and healthy head to Bakersfield for COVID-19 vaccine

LA Times  

As soon as Justin Perez left the vaccination clinic, his phone buzzed with a text message. “We were like, did this really happen?” The site’s excess capacity is due at least in part to a relatively high rate of vaccine hesitancy in Kern County, including among evangelical Christians and low-income residents of color, according to officials at Kaiser Permanente, which …

Waves of Californians will be newly eligible for the vaccine. But getting it will be tough
3 years, 9 months ago

Waves of Californians will be newly eligible for the vaccine. But getting it will be tough

LA Times  

A CORE staff member prepares to wrap up for the day at a new COVID-19 vaccine site at USC. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that “in the immediate term” the state doesn’t anticipate receiving additional doses of that particular vaccine — which health officials have hailed as a potential pandemic game-changer, as it requires only one dose and does not need …

Teachers at a Los Angeles private school got Covid-19 vaccines – even though they weren’t eligible under county guidelines
3 years, 10 months ago

Teachers at a Los Angeles private school got Covid-19 vaccines – even though they weren’t eligible under county guidelines

CNN  

CNN — Some teachers at a Los Angeles private school were able to get Covid-19 vaccines despite not meeting the vaccine eligibility requirements set by the county health department. In the meantime, the health department said in a statement to CNN Thursday, “All sites should be vaccinating health care workers and people 65+ and if they have a significant quantity …

L.A. Latino, Black seniors fall behind in COVID-19 vaccine access compared with whites
3 years, 10 months ago

L.A. Latino, Black seniors fall behind in COVID-19 vaccine access compared with whites

LA Times  

Black, Latino and Native American seniors in Los Angeles County are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations at a lower rate than white, Asian American and Pacific Islander seniors, according to data released Monday. “We’re alarmed by the disproportionality we’re seeing in who has received the vaccine,” said L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, who expressed particular concern about the “glaring inadequacy …

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine in L.A.: Confusion, waiting, tears and triumph
3 years, 11 months ago

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine in L.A.: Confusion, waiting, tears and triumph

LA Times  

Patricia Reber walked out of the vaccine clinic at L.A.’s Lincoln Park pumping her arms overhead like a champion. “I think they’ve done the best they can with the lack of federal help.” But in the chaotic rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, the triumphs were matched by heartbreaking disappointments and confusion as older residents struggled with appointment websites that crashed …

COVID-19 vaccinations now offered to Long Beach food workers; teachers are next
3 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 vaccinations now offered to Long Beach food workers; teachers are next

LA Times  

The city of Long Beach this week expanded distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to food workers, the first group of essential workers in Los Angeles County outside the healthcare industry to be offered the critical shots. “Our vaccine rollout has gone quite well,” Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said Thursday. Dose allocation is determined by the federal government on a weekly …

When can I get my COVID-19 vaccine in Southern California? The rollout is speeding up
3 years, 11 months ago

When can I get my COVID-19 vaccine in Southern California? The rollout is speeding up

LA Times  

Dr. Richard Dang, right, administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Ashley Van Dyke as a mass-vaccination of healthcare workers takes place at Dodger Stadium on Friday in Los Angeles. After days of confusion, Los Angeles County officials on Monday offered some more clarity on when older people could get the COVID-19 vaccine. In an executive order late Monday, Hilda Solis, chairwoman …

L.A. community colleges will remain online-only through spring
4 years, 3 months ago

L.A. community colleges will remain online-only through spring

LA Times  

L.A. City College, along with eight others in the Los Angeles Community College District, will remain closed at least until summer 2021. The Los Angeles Community College District, the largest in the nation, will remain online-only for the rest of the academic year amid the region’s ongoing coronavirus public health crisis, the system’s chancellor has announced. Riverside said it is …

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