Soumya Karlamangla covers health care in California for the Los Angeles Times. She was part of the team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack. Before joining The Times in 2013, she worked for the Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, Nation magazine in D.C. and Thomson Reuters in London. She was raised in Thousand Oaks and graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in biology and English literature.
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California está enviando el 40% de los suministros de vacunas a las comunidades más afectadas por el COVID-19, con la esperanza de mejorar la equidad, detener la propagación de la enfermedad y acelerar la reapertura. ¿Funcionará el cambio radical?
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California is sending 40% of vaccine supplies to communities hardest hit by COVID-19, hoping to improve equity, halt spread of the disease and hasten reopening. Will the radical shift work?
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With COVID-19 vaccine supplies still tight, officials have been forced to make agonizing choices about who should get priority.
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En el condado de Los Ángeles, los residentes negros y latinos siguen encontrando obstáculos para recibir la vacuna, a pesar de los esfuerzos de los funcionarios del condado por ampliar el acceso.
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En Los Ángeles, muchas personas tienen ahora inmunidad al coronavirus debido a infecciones anteriores y a la vacunación, por lo que la transmisión se está ralentizando y avanzando hacia la inmunidad de grupo.
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In L.A., so many people now have immunity to the coronavirus from past infections and vaccination that transmission is slowing and inching toward herd immunity.
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In L.A. County, Black and Latino residents continue to face barriers to getting the vaccine, despite efforts by county officials to expand access.
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Durante los peores momentos de una oleada en el sur de California, los médicos y las enfermeras que intentaban frenéticamente salvar a los pacientes en los hospitales saturados hicieron advertencias aterradoras sobre lo que estaban viendo.
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During the worst moments of a surge in Southern California, doctors and nurses frantically trying to save patients at overcrowded hospitals made terrifying warnings about what they were seeing.
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New tips from the CDC on how to make your mask more effective to protect against the spread of the coronavirus focus on a better fit.