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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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LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner talks at desk, May 18, 2020
On Monday, Los Angeles Unified School District's leader issued a stark warning: such a cut would do deep and lasting harm to the state's largest school system.
Carmelle concentrates while cutting a client's hair in her living room. | Chava Sanchez/LAist
Barbershops and hair salons around the state have been closed since mid-March to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. But that doesn't mean people haven't been getting haircuts, secretly, this whole time.
Laura Pozos works at a McDonald's in Monterey Park and lives in a three-bedroom home with 10 family members. (Courtesy of Fight for $15 and a Union)
For L.A.’s essential workers, the risk of becoming infected with coronavirus doesn’t end at work. Due to the housing shortage, many are coming home to crammed living quarters that put their families at risk.
VENICE, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 26: A woman sits on her bike in a shuttered Venice Beach parking lot, which remains closed under stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. | (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
L.A. County's beaches reopened for visitors on Wednesday for "active use,” but biking is on both the county's and city's not permitted lists and the reason for that is unclear, which is confusing to cyclists all over L.A.
Cambodia Town in Long Beach. The city has the largest concentration of Cambodians outside of Cambodia. | Laurie Avocado/Flickr
This is not to mention, Nga said, that many Cambodian Americans face heightened exposure to the virus from holding service jobs and living in large, multi-generational households.
Tariq Carlson, left, and mom Diane Rabinowitz. Carlson is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and is incarcerated at Twin Towers jail. | Courtesy of Diane Rabinowitz
Carlson is one of thousands of people living with a mental illness inside an L.A. County jail. And with in-person visitation frozen because of the coronavirus, they're more cut off from the outside world than ever.
Paramedics wearing facemasks work behind an ambulance at the Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park on March 19, 2020. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
As the coronavirus pandemic lingers on, mental health experts say we should be paying close attention to the psychological impacts on first responders and healthcare workers.
A probation officer walks through a dormitory at Camp Afflerbaugh in 2013. | Grant Slater / KPCC
In a hearing ordered by the California Supreme Court, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled against juvenile justice advocacy organizations seeking the categorical release of low-risk and medically fragile youth detainees.
Father Albert Avenido standing next to Eileen Neri's casket at her funeral. No one was allowed to attend because of COVID-19.
The Rev. Albert Avenido fiddled with the wires connecting the sound board to the cameras, microphones and recording equipment.  He and his assistant worked late the night before to be ready for mass.
Located near LAX and Dockweiler Beach, the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is L.A.'s oldest and largest wastewater treatment facility. | Courtesy Mayor Eric Garcetti's office
Thousands of us have done individual tests for the coronavirus, one swab at a time. But scientists plan to test entire communities for the virus by sampling something we collectively contribute — our poop.
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