Coronavirus uncertainty prompts California fitness chain to move outdoors Updated: 9:29 AM PDT Aug 17, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript SPEECH. TONI: THE ONGOING CLOSURE OF INDOOR GYMS IS LEAVING ONE OF THE BIGGEST FITNESS CHAINS TO MAKE A DRASTIC STEP TO ADAPT. TEO: MIKE TESELLE IS LIVE IN ROSEVILLE […]
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The U.S. government has placed an initial order for 100 million doses of a vaccine candidate being developed by Pfizer and a German firm, BioNTech, for $1.95 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. The U.S. can acquire up to 500 million additional doses, the statement said. Meanwhile, federal unemployment benefits are taking a hit […]
The U.S. government has placed an initial order for 100 million doses of a vaccine candidate being developed by Pfizer and a German firm, BioNTech, for $1.95 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. The U.S. can acquire up to 500 million additional doses, the statement said. Meanwhile, federal unemployment benefits are taking a hit […]
The U.S. government has placed an initial order for 100 million doses of a vaccine candidate being developed by Pfizer and a German firm, BioNTech, for $1.95 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. The U.S. can acquire up to 500 million additional doses, the statement said. Meanwhile, federal unemployment benefits are taking a hit […]
The coronavirus pandemic prompted California to spike all fall high school sports on Monday, in favor of a new calendar that will compact all games, like football, into a few winter and spring months. The California Interscholastic Federation, which regulates high school sports in the nation’s largest state, won’t stage […]
High school football in the state of California will not begin until December at the earliest. The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced Monday that the sports season for the upcoming school year will begin with a modified schedule, beginning in December 2020 or January 2021. The unprecedented alteration is due […]
High school football in the state of California will not begin until December at the earliest. The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) announced Monday that the sports season for the upcoming school year will begin with a modified schedule, beginning in December 2020 or January 2021. The unprecedented alteration is due […]
Hannah Mikus demonstrates how to administer a coronavirus self-test to drivers at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Two months ago, California looked like a coronavirus success story. The first-in-the-nation stay-at-home order helped the state avoid the […]
A growing majority of coronavirus cases in Sacramento County is being reported among young adults. And health officials think birthday parties and graduations may be to blame. Members of the millennial and “Gen Z” generations – typically those under the age of 39 – make up more than half of […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles and San Diego school districts, the two largest in California with a combined K-12 student population of about 720,000, announced Monday they won’t bring students back to classrooms next month because of rising coronavirus hospitalizations and infection rates. School leaders said there is […]
(Bloomberg) — California closed indoor dining and bars, and its two biggest school districts said they would offer remote learning only despite calls by the Trump administration for classrooms to fully reopen. The state reported a record number of people hospitalized with coronavirus. New York City will redouble efforts to […]
Two of the largest school districts in the U.S., the Los Angeles and San Diego unified school districts, said Monday that their academic years will start with only online instruction, as California continues to fight a surge of COVID-19 cases. The districts made the announcement in a joint statement and said their academic calendars will begin […]
University of California campuses will offer mostly online instruction this fall, but each school has the power to set its own rules and at least two of them are already revising early plans to account for new coronavirus outbreaks. Some schools plan to offer 30% of instruction in person, while […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration instituted pay cuts across state government in a six-week bargaining sprint that ended July 1. All of the agreements, which the state Human Resources Department has posted online, use a personal leave program to accomplish the savings. The program institutes immediate savings but the leave time […]
Federal health guidelines for reopening schools across the nation will not be altered despite complaints from President Donald Trump that they are too difficult and expensive, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Vice President Mike Pence had said Wednesday that the CDC would next […]
As California enters another dangerous fire season following a dry winter, the COVID-19 pandemic is depleting the ranks of inmate fire crews that are a key component of the state’s efforts to battle out-of-control wildfires This week, state prison officials announced they had placed 12 of the state’s 43 inmate […]
On April 9, California nursing homes were already in a state of crisis. Employees were staying home, fearing for their safety without proper protection. Facilities reported deaths daily. At 12:30 p.m. that day, the chief advocate for California’s nursing home industry dispatched an email to officials at the California Department […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will require people to wear masks in most indoor settings and outdoors when distancing isn’t possible under a statewide order issued Thursday. The order comes as California broadly reopens the economy; in most counties, people can now shop, dine in at restaurants, get their hair done […]
Los Angeles DACA recipient Denea Joseph was born in Belize and came to the U.S. when she was 7. (Steve Saldivar / Los Angeles Times) For years, Denea Joseph knew that her life as a black woman without legal status in the U.S. was precarious. Born in Belize, the 26-year-old […]
The evidence is clear: Cloth masks can help significantly reduce the spread of the coronavirus. That’s why California must make masks mandatory in all public places. Sources say Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to address the question of mandatory masks today. Multiple scientific studies show that, until there’s a vaccine, […]
Sean Brandlin, an eighth grade social studies teacher at El Segundo Middle School, stands in his classroom. (Los Angeles Times) With COVID-19 cases at very low levels within its borders, Israel fully reopened its schools in mid-May. By the end of the month, 130 students at a Jerusalem high school […]