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January 26, 6:11 pm

UCLA discusses student COVID-19 vaccine availability at virtual town hall

This post was updated Jan. 31 at 8:39 p.m. UCLA is planning to give students COVID-19 vaccinations at no cost, though the university does not have a timeline for when students may receive a vaccination, administrators said at a virtual town hall Monday. Read more...

Photo: UCLA is planning to give students COVID-19 vaccinations for free, administrators said at a town hall Monday. Students who graduate in June can receive the vaccine for free until the start of the fall 2021 quarter. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin contributor)

News, Science & Health

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January 20, 3:14 pm

UCLA nurses protest possible increase in number of patients per nurse in hospitals

Nurses at UCLA are protesting a decision that could give them a higher number of patients at UCLA hospitals. California state law requires hospitals to maintain nurse-to-patient ratios to improve patient safety outcomes by preventing issues that can arise from staffing shortages and nurses’ overextension when caring for multiple patients. Read more...

Photo: UCLA nurses are preemptively protesting a waiver that would increase the number of patients assigned to each nurse from two to three. (Daily Bruin file photo)

Los Angeles, News, Science & Health

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January 20, 11:50 am

UCLA Health administers monoclonal antibody treatments to COVID-19 patients

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)

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)

A Closer Look, California, News, Science & Health

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January 8, 12:58 pm

UCLA Health personnel continue to exercise caution after receiving vaccine

Emergency physician Kimon Ioannides won’t hold a party with his colleagues despite receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Although COVID-19 vaccines arrived at UCLA Health, some health care workers at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, like Ioannides, remain cautious. Read more...

Photo: Although emergency physician Kimon Ioannides received a COVID-19 vaccine, he remains wary. (Finn Chitwood/Daily Bruin)

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)


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