This post was updated Jan. 31 at 8:35 p.m. Los Angeles County allowed restaurants to reopen outdoor dining Friday, according to a revised health order issued Friday. Read more...
Photo: Restaurants across Los Angeles County are reopening outdoor dining after Friday’s revised health order withdrew the ban on outdoor dining after two months. (Michael Vigman/Daily Bruin)
This article was updated to reflect new information from Los Angeles County officials. California Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the state’s regional stay-at-home order Monday, which will allow Los Angeles County to resume outdoor dining by Friday. Read more...
Photo: California rolled back its stay-at-home order Monday, allowing most counties to return to the previous color-tier system. LA County will return to the purple tier, which would let the county reopen outdoor dining and indoor, though the county may still implement additional restrictions. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
UCLA Health is giving monoclonal antibody treatments to some patients that are in the early stages of their COVID-19 infection. Monoclonal antibody treatments give people who are at high risk for complications from COVID-19 a reduced chance of hospitalization, said Tara Vijayan, an assistant professor of medicine. Read more...
Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)
A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles on Wednesday morning. The quake originated around 15 miles from the UCLA campus in South Los Angeles at 8:31 a.m., according to the United States Geological Survey. Read more...
UCLA must pay James Heaps’ former patients around $73 million and reform its clinical sexual misconduct procedures. A federal judge preliminarily approved a class action settlement Jan. Read more...
Photo: The United States District Court ordered UCLA on Jan. 11 to pay James Heaps’ former patients around $73 million in settlements. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 5:12 p.m. UCLA plans to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to some faculty and staff within the next few weeks, university administrators announced at a town hall Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Some faculty might be able to receive COVID-19 vaccines from UCLA by as early as February, UCLA administrators announced at a Thursday town hall. (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Jan. 18 at 6:24 p.m. A new COVID-19 strain could already be present in Los Angeles County, and its higher transmissibility rate could be contributing to an early-year surge of COVID-19 cases, UCLA professors said. Read more...
Photo: Health experts say that the new variant of COVID-19, which is more contagious, could already exist in LA County. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
