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Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Here's what we know about the COVID-19 vaccines and how they are being distributed in L.A. County.
Empty desks in a classroom at Burbank Middle School on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The parents of a second-grader at a LAUSD magnet school are among seven families suing the state of California for allegedly failing to meet its constitutional obligation to ensure “basic educational equality” during this period of remote learning.
A customer orders at Love Hour's parking lot pop-up. | Chava Sanchez/LAist
As 2020 draws to a close, small businesses have persevered despite it all ... not only because of SoCal’s innovative culture, but because they’ve figured out how to serve new markets. Meet four business people who have managed to figure it all out.
Susana Braxton prays along with other worshippers during the National Day of Prayer for Religious Liberty in front of the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego on August 8, 2020. | Sandy Huffaker/CalMatters
From the pandemic's start, religious leaders have been trying and failing to convince judges to strike down California’s restrictions on mass gatherings as unconstitutional violations of religious freedom. Supreme Court decisions could change that.
Susana Braxton ora durante el Día Nacional de Oración por la Libertad Religiosa frente al Centro de Administración del Condado en el centro de San Diego el 8 de agosto de 2020. | Sandy Huffaker/CalMatters
Desde marzo, figuras religiosas han intentado (sin lograrlo) convencer que jueces deroguen las restricciones de salud pública de California sobre reuniones masivas como violaciones inconstitucionales de la libertad religiosa. Parece que eso cambiará.
Vehicles line up to enter a COVID-19 testing site at Dodger Stadium on the first day of new stay-at-home orders on December 7, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. | Mario Tama/Getty Images
Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced a statewide cell- phone-based system designed to notify residents when they've been exposed to COVID-19.
A woman walks past a homeless encampment beneath an overpass, with an American flag displayed, amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 4, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. | Mario Tama/Getty Images
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to use about $32 million in state funds to extend a program through March 21 that houses homeless people in motels and hotels amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Black child types on a laptop. | iStock via Getty Images
A new report released by the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge found students' access to computers and the internet improved during the fall school term, but a clear digital divide persists, especially among Black, Hispanic and low-income students.
A healthcare worker holds a patient's hand. | iStock via Getty Images
The massive surge in coronavirus cases has left hospitals scrambling to handle the increasing number of patients showing up at their doors. It's threatening to push Southern California's entire health care system to the breaking point. 
A healthcare worker tends to a COVID-19 patient. | iStock via Getty Images
Riverside County health officials today reported 6,741 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases and 13 virus-related deaths since Friday, as the number of available licensed intensive care unit beds countywide dwindled to zero.
The Bai Holiday ice rink stays open throughout the holiday season. | Courtesy Bai Holiday Ice Rink, via LAist
Amid a winter surge in COVID-19 cases, assessing personal safety when deciding if it's safe to do things like shop or go to the park or the dentist can be difficult. To help, a USC virologist gives her take on which activities carry high or low risk.
People wait outside the Emergency room of the Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park, California on December 1, 2020. | FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
Los Angeles County's dramatic surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continued gobbling up the availability of intensive-care unit beds Tuesday, with the number of patients across the county predicted to exceed 5,000 by week's end.
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