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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.

COVID-19 Three Years Later: How A Vaccine Was Created
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COVID-19 Three Years Later: How A Vaccine Was Created

What happens when U.S. COVID emergency measures end in May?
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What happens when U.S. COVID emergency measures end in May?

Woman throwing used protective surgical mask into the garbage bin. Close up of a hand that throws the used mask in the public trash can outdoors
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Is the Pandemic Actually Over? An Economist, an Education Expert and a Public Health Scholar Weigh In

A Year in Pandemia

Why we are so susceptible to misinformation
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PBS News Hour
Why we are so susceptible to misinformation

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Kent Dull lives at the Here There encampment in Berkeley, California. | Cal Matters
'Someone Will Contract the Virus Here:' Meet Homeless Californians Trying to Survive a Pandemic
The vast majority of people who were unhoused in California before coronavirus swept across the state are exactly where they were. Encampments still line the streets. Shelters feel more like a risk than a refuge. And affordable housing is elusive.
Bixby Knolls Towers in Long Beach is among the skilled nursing homes identified by the California Dept. of Health as having confirmed COVID-19 cases among both staff and residents. | Megan Garvey/LAist
EMT's Can Now Work At L.A. Nursing Homes, Helping Fill Staff Shortages
Paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMT's) have temporary permission to work in L.A. County nursing homes to help alleviate staffing shortfalls due to COVID-19 outbreaks.
A screenshot shows the empty interior of Barberhood in a promotional video on their site about the reopening
An O.C. Barbershop Says Choice Was 'Open, Or Let Our Dream Die'
The battle of the beach is only part of what's happening in Orange County right now. The co-owner of The Barberhood barbershop in Laguna Hills spoke about reopening her shop while the state is still under stay-at-home orders.
An airbnb listing in Mount Washington on the east side of Los Angeles. With Airbnb reservations cancelled during the pandemic, many hosts are suffering huge financial losses, unless they can find monthly renters.
Local Airbnb Hosts Struggle With Cancelled Reservations And Empty Properties
Airbnb hosts are facing difficult times as reservations are cancelled and rooms go unused due to coronavirus stay-at-home orders.
A pedestrian in a facemask walks in Hollywood, California on April 23. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
Freelancers: Your Side Hustle Could Hurt Your Unemployment Claim
Some self-employed workers are now finding that they're shut out of the state's new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. That's because even a small amount of income from traditional employment can make them ineligible.
Dr. Raynald Samoa, an endocrinologist at City of Hope, heads a team of Pacific Islander leaders from around the country who are responding to the pandemic. | Nicholaus Arnzen
In L.A. County, Pacific Islanders Are Dying From Coronavirus At A Rate 12 Times Higher Than Whites. These Leaders Are Fighting Back
No other group in California is dying from the coronavirus at a higher rate than Pacific Islanders — a painful statistic that's shaking up tight-knit communities of Samoans, Tongans and Native Hawaiians up and down the state.
The California Institution for Women in Corona. | Courtesy Of The California Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation
Throwing A Spotlight On Women Prison Inmates' Coronavirus Fears
Only 17 of CIW's 1,566 inmates have been tested for COVID-19, along with four of CCWF's 2,689 prisoners. Those ratios are not dissimilar from most of the men's state prisons.
Waterfall in Yosemite National Park, during park closure due to Covid-19
Yosemite’s Pandemic Shutdown Allows Wildlife a Respite From Mankind
For weeks now, wildlife has been allowed to move freely about the park since officials closed the mountains and valleys to humans to stem the COVID-19 pandemic. Yosemite’s empty, harkening back to an earlier time before humans invaded it.
Woman with back turned crosses street | Chava Sanchez/LAist
Supervisors Worry Budget Cuts Will Hurt L.A. County's 'Post-Pandemic World'
L.A. County Supervisors have taken the first step in what's expected to be a painful fiscal year 2020-21 budgeting process.
Warning notices are posted on a door at the Cedar Mountain Post Acute nursing facility in Yucaipa, after a COVID-19 outbreak there. | Chris Carlson/AP
O.C. Nursing Homes Are Latest Coronavirus Hot Spot
The coronavirus has spread through five nursing homes in Orange County in recent days. But while L.A. County is now requiring nursing homes to test all residents and staff regardless of whether they have symptoms, Orange County is not going that far.
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