Local school districts react to CDC's announcement of reopening schools

The director of the CDC announced Wednesday that schools can safely reopen even if teachers are not vaccinated for the coronavirus.

Babies can get COVID-19 antibodies from mothers while in the womb, study finds

A new study shows that COVID-19 antibodies — a key element to immunity and protection from the coronavirus — can be transferred from a pregnant woman to the infant during pregnancy.

After 53 years of marriage, couple dies 16 minutes apart after COVID-19 battle

KB and Nancy Magown texted each other from their hospital beds, urging the other to continue to fight the virus. But after 53 years of marriage, they were only separated in death by 16 minutes. 

As COVID-19 death rate climbs, cremation limits lifted in Riverside County

As the COVID-19 death rate in California continues to climb, officials have issued an emergency order lifting environmental limits on the number of cremations that can be performed every month in Riverside County.

New mass vaccination sites coming to Los Angeles, Oakland, Newsom announces

Mass vaccination sites will be opening at California State University, Los Angeles, and the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum, Governor Gavin Newsom's office announced Wednesday. The sites are opening in part of a pilot project with the Biden-Harris Administration.

Coronavirus variant P.1 surging in Brazil 'deeply worrying,' experts say

A new variant of the coronavirus that’s exploded in Brazil and has since been found in the U.S. is causing some concern among scientists. Here’s what one Harvard researcher is saying.

Orange County students plan to strike in support of teachers

A group of high school students from the Huntington Beach Union High School District has organized a strike after they say teachers aren’t being given the option to continue the second semester with distanced learning. 

Political storms swirl around California’s Newsom amid virus crisis

In the year since California saw its first coronavirus case, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has gone from a governor in command to one lurching from one political crisis to the next.

LA City Council votes to move forward with 'hero pay' plan for grocery workers

LA City Council unanimously voted to move forward with a proposed emergency ordinance requiring large grocery and pharmacy retailers to pay employees an extra $5 per hour during the pandemic.

SoCal senior citizens deal with challenging process of getting vaccine

For the elderly -- sometimes with walkers, aches and pains -- standing in long lines can be as much a challenge as using computers to make appointments.

Students in South Bay school districts heading back to class
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Students in the South Bay school districts are heading back to class as districts in the Southland struggle to put together reopening plans.

CDC study urges more ‘efficient and equitable administration’ of COVID-19 vaccines

A recent study released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that a more “efficient and equitable administration” of COVID-19 vaccines needs to be a high priority after preliminary data showed mostly non-Hispanic White women received the COVID-19 vaccine so far.

CVS Health to begin administering COVID-19 vaccine in California next week

CVS Health announced that it plans to administer COVID-19 vaccines at 100 CVS Pharmacy locations across California beginning Thursday, Feb. 11. 

Biden administration will start sending COVID-19 vaccine to pharmacies next week

The Biden administration will begin providing COVID-19 vaccines to U.S. pharmacies, part of its plan to ramp up vaccinations as new and potentially more serious virus strains are starting to appear.