On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) marked the third week without a healthcare worker death due to COVID-19. In a coronavirus update Tuesday, Public Health announced there had been no new deaths among healthcare workers in Los Angeles County, who began receiving vaccinations in December 2020, in three weeks. Public Health also encouraged those ...

With distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine now underway, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a recommended three-phase plan for the early stages of vaccine allocation, with frontline essential workers and those aged 75 or older slated for vaccination in the next phase. Phase 1 of the plan is broken up into Phase 1A, 1B and 1C, ...