UCLA Health is giving monoclonal antibody treatments to some patients that are in the early stages of their COVID-19 infection. Monoclonal antibody treatments give people who are at high risk for complications from COVID-19 a reduced chance of hospitalization, said Tara Vijayan, an assistant professor of medicine. Read more...
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This post was updated Jan. 18 at 6:24 p.m. A new COVID-19 strain could already be present in Los Angeles County, and its higher transmissibility rate could be contributing to an early-year surge of COVID-19 cases, UCLA professors said. Read more...
Photo: Health experts say that the new variant of COVID-19, which is more contagious, could already exist in LA County. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
Emergency physician Kimon Ioannides won’t hold a party with his colleagues despite receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Although COVID-19 vaccines arrived at UCLA Health, some health care workers at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, like Ioannides, remain cautious. Read more...
Photo: Although emergency physician Kimon Ioannides received a COVID-19 vaccine, he remains wary. (Finn Chitwood/Daily Bruin)
The art for this post was updated Jan. 7 at 2:17 p.m. Following a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, county officials have told ambulance crews in Los Angeles County to save oxygen for critically ill patients and to not bring in patients, with or without COVID-19, to the hospital if they were unable to be resuscitated in the field. Read more...
Photo: Following two directives by the LA County’s Emergency Medical Services Agency, emergency workers are told not to bring patients back to the hospital if they were unable to resuscitate them. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin)
UCLA Health administered its first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday. Medell Briggs-Malonson, an emergency medicine physician at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, was the first person to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine administered at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Health administered its first COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday after receiving a shipment of doses Tuesday. Medell Briggs-Malonson, a UCLA emergency medicine physician, was the first person to receive a vaccine at UCLA. (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)
UCLA Health received a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday and expects to begin vaccinations for some UCLA healthcare workers by Wednesday. UCLA Health is acting as a regional hub to distribute vaccines to other acute-care hospitals and is implementing plans to administer the vaccine, UCLA Health said in an emailed statement Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Health received a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines Tuesday and expects to begin administering the vaccines Wednesday. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
Prospective medical school students said the COVID-19 pandemic has added a layer of uncertainty to the medical school application process. Students said many of their extracurricular and research activities were either canceled, postponed or moved to an online platform. Read more...
Photo: The COVID-19 pandemic has created more difficulties for medical school applicants by affecting their standardized testing and extracurricular activities. (Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
