prevention

With COVID Surging, State Mandates Indoor Mask-Wearing Through Holiday Season

Citing a sharp increase in COVID-19 infection rates since Thanksgiving, the state announced Monday that beginning Wednesday, mask-wearing will become mandatory in all indoor public settings across California regardless of vaccination status. The order will not impact Pasadena, where officials ordered have long mandated mask-wearing at indoor public facilities.

Omicron v. delta: Battle of coronavirus mutants is critical

As the omicron coronavirus variant spreads in southern Africa and pops up in countries all around the world, scientists are anxiously watching a battle play out that could determine the future of the pandemic. Can the latest competitor to the world-dominating delta overthrow it?

‘The fire that’s here’: US is still battling delta variant

While all eyes are on the new and little-understood omicron variant that has been detected around the U.S., the delta form of the coronavirus isn’t finished wreaking havoc in the U.S., sending record numbers of patients to the hospital in the Midwest and New England.

LA County’s COVID Hospitalizations Climb Back Above 600

The number of coronavirus patients in Los Angeles County hospitals surged past 600 today, amid concern over another possible autumn and winter surge in infections and the presence of the new Omicron variant in Los Angeles County.  

We Need More Black Doctors 

African Americans know that color matters in regard to almost everything in this country. Medical care is no exception.