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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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An apartment for rent in Central Los Angeles. | Matt Tinoco/LAist
The Los Angeles County Supervisors voted on Tuesday to explore a pathway for renters and community groups to buy properties facing default — an effort designed to halt a wave of real estate speculation, as happened following the Great Recession.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at the site of hospital ship USNS Mercy in the Port of Los Angeles on Friday, March 27, 2020. | Photo by Carolyn Cole-Pool/Getty Images
The fund is an independent nonprofit. While it has no formal affiliation with Garcetti, his elected office is in its name, he helped establish it in 2014, and the organization has offices in city hall.
A student receives a laptop computer for remote learning in front of L.A. Unified's Bell High School. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
On Monday, LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner said a $100 million district initiative has secured laptops and internet connections for enough students that he's ready to declare the problem "solved."
A family walks wearing masks in downtown Los Angeles on March 22, 2020, during the coronavirus outbreak. | Apu Gomes/AFP/Getty Images
Some Angelenos want the city to rethink how public streets and sidewalks can best serve their needs in the age of coronavirus.
Hikers on trail on May 9, after restrictions were lifted on hiking trails in Los Angeles | Karen Foshay
Off-limits during the COVID-19 pandemic, trails at Temescal Canyon and other areas were allowed to reopen, giving Los Angeles-area residents tired of staying indoors a chance to get some exercise and enjoy nature.
Tents placed on a parking lot at the West Los Angeles VA's Care Treatment Rehabilitation Service program, in Brentwood. | Matt Tinoco/LAist
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing deep rifts in American society, underscoring the flaws in how our society has dealt with massive social problems, especially homelessness.
The marquee of the Nuart movie theater in West L.A. on April 11, 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | Elina Shatkin/LAist
Actors are out of work. And some actors are now losing their unemployment benefits because of work they did years ago.
Lindsey Burrell, 38, is an ICU nurse in Torrance. | Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center
For the past nine years, Burrell has worked in the ICU at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance. But providing care for COVID-19 patients is different.
The view to Santa Monica pier on a very quiet beach on March 25. | Taylor Coffman/LAist
Faced with plummeting tax revenues and a gaping budget hole, the city council voted Tuesday to lay off hundreds of workers.
East Los Angeles College is one of nine campuses in the L.A. Community College District. | Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/LAist
The shift to remote learning during the coronavirus outbreak has been difficult for many community college students — and now hundreds of thousands are being told that online classes will continue in the fall semester.
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