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It comes as the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19 is sweeping much of the nation, accounting for more than 80% of infections.... The surge has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention( CDC) to recommend people who are fully vaccinated should resume wearing masks indoors if they live in areas where the virus is surging.... " We encourage everyone who is eligible to be vaccinated." The Associated Press contributed to this report....

close Video Fox News Sunday-Sunday, February 20 On today’s episode of ‘Fox News Sunday’, Bill Hemmer breaks down reports coming from Ukraine and Poland as tensions rise across all of Europe.... Mark's Lutheran Church in Los Angeles on Saturday for the student organization Students Deserve, according to an advertisement for the event.... " We want schools to divest from criminalization and policing.We want schools to invest in us as Black, Muslim, undocumented, indigenous, and queer youth in po

This work began with Project ALERT( youth smoking cessation) in the mid 1990s and continued with projects such as Community Partners in Care( community-based depression treatment) and Healthy Families( depression care for parents dealing with early childhood developmental delays).... In one of numerous analyses, the research team studied 126 Los Angeles-area middle school students who had been exposed to trauma and were experiencing clinically significant symptoms of post-traumatic stress or de

The three-bedroom, one-bath house was listed at$ 1.2 million.It sold in a week, at more than double that price. For$ 2.5 million.... “ It’s a competition.” People spend a day at Garfield Park in South Pasadena.... Homes in the area have sold for a few hundred thousand dollars above asking — sometimes even more, a selling agent says....

That action is expected for the Pfizer shot in the coming weeks. Advertisement Last week, U.S. health officials recommended boosters for some with weakened immune systems, citing their higher risk of catching the virus and evidence that the vaccines’ effectiveness waned over time.... Francis Collins, said Sunday that the U.S. could decide in the next couple of weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to Americans this fall.... But U.S. health officials made clear Sunday that they are p

Children in Los Angeles and around California have streamed into schools after more than a year of distance learning.... So they’re only as safe as the adults and older kids around them.... Advertisement If those adults and eligible kids are vaccinated — and wearing masks and practicing good social distancing — the younger students will be relatively well protected, experts say....

“ For all of us, there was a combination of optimism and hubris in the June time frame that led us to believe this was over, ” said Mara Aspinall, a health industry researcher at Arizona State University who has become a leading authority on COVID-19 testing supplies.... She noted that tests that are processed in laboratories — which take longer to give results — remain plentiful.... The large commercial labs that process the majority of tests performed at hospitals and testing sites still rep

Meanwhile, Trump--whose poll numbers continue to lag behind former Vice President Joe Biden--faces a credibility gap stemming from his inconsistent and often counterfactual statements about the crisis, which could do him outsize harm in the already perilous suburbs.... The shape of public education, now and in the years to come, could also be at stake as the administration threatens to withhold or divert federal funding if schools don't fully reopen, despite its lacking that unilateral power...

One man wanted to know what his obligations were as an owner if federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his business demanding to talk to his workers.... Another woman wanted to know whether the group had materials she could provide to inform the blind and deaf people she works with about their rights if stopped by ICE.... Someone else asked if they can safely still provide their nationality to hospitals when they ask for it on a birth certificate. The concerns raised a