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Three years after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, KCET brings you the latest on the coronavirus and perspectives on it has impacted Southern California. Visit the CDC website for the latest information.

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Beatrice Lopez walks out with sports items and meal bags distributed by LA84 Foundation and LAUSD at Grab and Go center at Thomas Alva Edison School.
The Los Angeles Unified School District announced that as of today, it has provided 100 million meals to students and community members in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tax documents on a table
The Internal Revenue Service today warned Southland taxpayers about a new wave of COVID-19-related scams as the agency delivers the second round of Economic Impact Payments.
un mazo de juez de madera
Desde la manutención de los hijos hasta el fraude de seguros, los casos judiciales se retrasan en todo California. Solo la mitad de los casos civiles y penales se resolvieron el verano pasado en comparación con las cifras anteriores a la pandemia. “La justicia no se ha cerrado. La justicia se ha ralentizado”, según un grupo de abogados.
People pull up in their vehicles for Covid-19 vaccines in the parking lot of The Forum in Inglewood, California on January 19, 2021. | FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
L.A. County began scheduling COVID-19 vaccination appointments for those aged 65 and older today, but limited supplies and uncertainty about future allocations has left the inoculation effort shrouded in doubt.
A gorilla's face. | Flickr/Mathias Appel/Public Domain
Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, zoo officials announced today.
A health care worker performs a COVID-19 test on an elderly woman. | iStock via Getty Images
La nueva variante hasta ahora ha sido detectada en cuatro personas en el Estado Dorado, luego de su descubrimiento inicial en los Estados Unidos en un Guardia Nacional de Colorado.
A health care worker performs a COVID-19 test on an elderly woman. | iStock via Getty Images
The new variant so far has been detected in six people in the Golden State, after its initial discovery in the U.S. in a Colorado National Guardsman.
A health care worker vaccinates a person with a scar on their arm. | iStock via Getty Images
The Los Angeles Fire Department received 3,200 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, allowing it to administer first doses to “virtually everybody” at the department, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced today as some firefighters received their vaccines.
Metrolink trains in Los Angeles, California on Thursday, February 20, 2014. | Scott Varley/Digital First Media/Torrance Daily Breeze via Getty Images
Metrolink today announced the addition of new, state-of-the-art antimicrobial air filters on all its train cars to ensure cleaner air for its passengers.
Nurse Yvonne Yaory checks on a coronavirus patient who is connected to a ventilator. | Heidi de Marco/California Healthline
As COVID patients have flooded into LAC+USC in recent weeks, they’ve put an immense strain on its ICU capacity and staff — especially since non-COVID patients, with gunshot wounds, drug overdoses, heart attacks and strokes, also need intensive care.
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