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Eagle Rock, CA - August 30: Registered Nurse Priscilla V., left, gives a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shot to Dean Iida, 17, a senior at Eagle Rock High School, as Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda Solis, Interim Superintendent Megan K. Reilly, School Board members Kelly Gonez and Jackie Goldberg and special guests visit Los Angeles Unified School-based mobile vaccination clinics at Eagle Rock High School on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021 in Eagle Rock, CA. All employees in the Los Angeles Unified School District must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 15, an order that puts it at the forefront of school systems across the country that are mandating strict coronavirus safety measures for employees and students. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

In milestone, over 80% of eligible Californians now partially vaccinated against COVID-19

With over 80% of eligible residents having had at least one shot, California now ranks ninth out of all states on COVID vaccine coverage, according to federal data.

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Republican Kevin Kiley, second from right, speaks as from left to right, Democrat Kevin Paffrath and Republicans John Cox and Kevin Faulconer listen during a debate between candidates for the upcoming California recall election, held by KCRA 3 and the San Francisco Chronicle in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool)

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Covid-19 Pandemic and Vaccines

Six crew members of the Global Striker ship were transported to San Francisco hospitals to be treated for COVID-19.

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Six on cargo ship with COVID-19 transported to San Francisco hospitals

The ship left the Port of West Sacramento days earlier.

SANTA MONICA, CA - MAY 24, 2021: Ron Allen, foreground, left, a member of Art Directors Guild local 800, joins other supporters of Amazon workers protesting outside of Fidelity Investments in Santa Monica. The protest was held outside of Fidelity Investments because they are one of Amazon's largest shareholders. The protesters were demanding that Fidelity, along with four other asset management companies that they say collectively own 21% of Amazon shares, vote for a set of shareholder proposals calling for Amazon to be more accountable to workers, communities, and other stakeholders, including resolutions demanding Amazon cut ties with police and ICE, roll back anti competitive monopoly practices, reduce its carbon footprint and improve working conditions. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

“The algorithm fired me”: California bill takes on Amazon’s notorious work culture

Eagle Rock, CA - August 30: A nurse gives a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shot to Gizelle Carrillo, 14, at Eagle Rock High School, as Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda Solis, Interim Superintendent Megan K. Reilly, School Board members Kelly Gonez and Jackie Goldberg and special guests visit Los Angeles Unified School-based mobile vaccination clinics at Eagle Rock High School on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021 in Eagle Rock, CA. All employees in the Los Angeles Unified School District must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 15, an order that puts it at the forefront of school systems across the country that are mandating strict coronavirus safety measures for employees and students. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. teachers union calls for vaccination mandate for eligible students, stricter quarantines

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 14, 2020 Los Angeles City Council 6th district representative Nury Martinez addresses the crowded city council chambers Tuesday for the first time as President of the City Council. A daughter of Mexican immigrants she becomes the first Latina to presided over Los Angeles City Council meetings as President chosen unanimously by the City Council last December. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Vaccination foes target homes of L.A. City Council members

La Mesa, CA - August 12: At the ambulance bay at Sharp Grossmont Hospital on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 in La Mesa, CA., paramedics share medical vital of their patient with emergency room nurses before transferring the patient to the ER. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

COVID-19 increasingly crowding out other types of care in San Diego hospitals

Hundreds gather in Santa Monica to protest against proposed vaccine mandates

Hospitals see more unvaccinated, younger, healthier people with COVID-19

Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination rates

4-year-old child is youngest to die of COVID-19 in Riverside County

Coronavirus particles emerge from the surface of cells cultured in the lab.

How one unvaccinated, unmasked teacher spread coronavirus to students and parents

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA - AUGUST 17: Parents and students form lines to check for the student name on a list using the Daily Pass website - designed to issue pre-approved health clearances for students to enter campus or present their QR code for entrance to the campus at Lankershim Elementary School in North Hollywood on Tuesday for the second day of in-class learning for LAUSD schools. The pre-approved health clearances for students to enter campus appeared to be up and working so the second day of school in the Los Angeles Unified School District appears to be going more smoothly than the first, largely devoid of the long lines and frustrations on back-to-school Monday when the district's student health-check system failed. Lankershim Elementary on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021 in North Hollywood, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times).

L.A. coronavirus outbreaks hit cheerleaders, dance squads

WILMINGTON, CA - JULY 27: Nursing student Joanna Aguilar is drawing medicine into a syringe at a vaccination clinic at the Providence Wellness and Activity Center on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 in Wilmington, CA. Escalating COVID-19 cases are threatening a new surge in Southern California . Providence is holding three-day COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Wilmington for people 12 years old and up Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, July 27-29. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Vaccinations lag for Medicaid patients as states struggle to reach poorest residents

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 13: Students arrive at Mendez High School for their Covid test in preparation for returning to campus next Monday for the first day of in-class instruction for schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Mendez High School on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times).

L.A. County will continue to enforce strict school quarantine rules amid coronavirus cases

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Housing & Homelessness

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2021, file photo, tenants' rights advocates demonstrate in front of the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse in Boston. A federal judge who declared the earlier nationwide moratorium on evictions illegal is deeply skeptical of the Biden administration’s new order, but says she may lack the power to do anything about it. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Monday promised a decision soon in an effort by Alabama landlords to block the moratorium imposed last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which it said was based on the spread of COVID-19′s delta variant. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Feds report most rental assistance still has not gone out

Only 11% of the tens of billions of dollars in federal rent assistance meant to help tenants around the country avoid eviction has been distributed.

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