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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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A group of mules lined up and reined together gallop down a commercial street. Spectators watch on the sides of the road and a mountain landscape fills the background.
Al no poder cumplir con los criterios estatales de infección por COVID-19, los condados de Merced e Inyo aún no pueden reabrir la mayoría de las empresas. El estatus de los condados amenaza un gran evento del Día de los Caídos en Bishop, por lo que la ciudad ha pedido al estado que reconsidere los requisitos de su condado rural.
A group of mules lined up and reined together gallop down a commercial street. Spectators watch on the sides of the road and a mountain landscape fills the background.
Unable to meet state COVID-19 infection criteria, Merced and Inyo counties still can’t reopen most businesses. The status threatens a big Memorial Day event in Bishop, so the town has asked the state to reconsider its rural county requirements.
Maria Gutierrez teaching LAUSD preschoolers from the virtual classroom she's created in her home.
With kids under 5 returning to the classroom — some in person for the first time — get ready for Big Feelings from adults and little ones alike.
The Hollywood Bowl has been transformed into a drive-thru food distribution on Thursdays in a season when the concerts are canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Based on county Public Health guidance, the Hollywood Bowl will be able to welcome a limited-capacity audience of 4,000 people when concerts resume beginning in May. The LA Phil anticipates ramping up to greater capacity later in the summer as guidelines evolve.
Domingo Comin, an employee at Carefield Assisted Living in Castro Valley, holds his vaccination card.
California no tiene planes de administrar un pasaporte. Pero el estado está enviando mensajes contradictorios a las empresas sobre la necesidad de verificar que las personas en los grandes eventos estén vacunadas.
Domingo Comin, an employee at Carefield Assisted Living in Castro Valley, holds his vaccination card.
California has no plans to administer a passport. But the state is sending mixed messages to businesses about the need to verify that people at large events are vaccinated.
A woman wearing a pink face mask is getting a vaccine administered to her at a clinic. She's receiving the vaccine from a man wearing teal blue scrubs, a black face mask, a clear face shield and bright blue medical gloves.
In poor neighborhoods and desert towns, community activists — some unpaid — are signing up hard-to-reach people for vaccination appointments. Experts say these campaigns are key to building the country’s immunological armor against new outbreaks.
People lounge at the beach
Face masks aren't going anywhere anytime soon, though.
Ouida Dill, left, blows a kiss to her husband David at the end of their near-daily visit at Lincoln Glen Skilled Nursing Facility on March 29, 2021 in San Jose, California.
Más de 9,000 personas han muerto de COVID-19 en hogares de ancianos de California, y muchas otras han sufrido aislamiento. Pero después de una campaña de vacunación masiva, las infecciones y las muertes se han desplomado, y los hogares de ancianos están reabriendo cautelosamente a los visitantes.
Ouida Dill, left, blows a kiss to her husband David at the end of their near-daily visit at Lincoln Glen Skilled Nursing Facility on March 29, 2021 in San Jose, California.
More than 9,000 people have died of COVID-19 in California nursing homes, and many others have suffered from isolation. But after a massive vaccination campaign, infections and deaths have plummeted — and nursing homes are cautiously reopening to visitors.
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