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...
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January 18, 2:22 pm
$73M class action settlement preliminarily approved in James Heaps lawsuit
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)
Campus, Los Angeles, News
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January 15, 10:18 am
UCLA announces its vaccination plan for faculty and staff
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)
Los Angeles, News, Science & Health
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January 14, 3:03 pm
New, more contagious, COVID-19 strain reaches Southern California
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)
Los Angeles, News, Westwood
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January 12, 5:51 pm
Some criticize city budget’s adequacy, lack of transparency during NWWNC town hall
A local neighborhood council held a budget town hall Saturday to discuss the city of Los Angeles’ budget and encourage LA residents to get involved in the city’s budgeting process. Read more...
Photo: Members of local neighborhood councils hosted a town hall Saturday in an effort to increase resident participation in LA city’s budgeting process. (Screen capture by Sakshi Joglekar/Daily Bruin staff)
Los Angeles, News
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January 9, 3:31 pm
LA County grapples with COVID-19 case surge’s strains on health care system
Los Angeles County is attempting to manage a health care system near full capacity while the COVID-19 case count continues to surge at an unprecedented rate. Read more...
Photo: LA County officials are dealing with the worst COVID-19 surge they have seen since the beginning of the pandemic. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Los Angeles, News, Science & Health
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January 7, 12:28 pm
LA County emergency services told not to transport some patients to hospitals
The art for this post was updated Jan. 7 at 2:17 p.m. Following a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, county officials have told ambulance crews in Los Angeles County to save oxygen for critically ill patients and to not bring in patients, with or without COVID-19, to the hospital if they were unable to be resuscitated in the field. Read more...
Photo: Following two directives by the LA County’s Emergency Medical Services Agency, emergency workers are told not to bring patients back to the hospital if they were unable to resuscitate them. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin)