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UCLA discusses student COVID-19 vaccine availability at virtual town hall

This post was updated Jan. 31 at 8:39 p.m. UCLA is planning to give students COVID-19 vaccinations at no cost, though the university does not have a timeline for when students may receive a vaccination, administrators said at a virtual town hall Monday. Read more...

Photo: UCLA is planning to give students COVID-19 vaccinations for free, administrators said at a town hall Monday. Students who graduate in June can receive the vaccine for free until the start of the fall 2021 quarter. (Noah Danesh/Daily Bruin contributor)



UCLA nurses protest possible increase in number of patients per nurse in hospitals

Nurses at UCLA are protesting a decision that could give them a higher number of patients at UCLA hospitals. California state law requires hospitals to maintain nurse-to-patient ratios to improve patient safety outcomes by preventing issues that can arise from staffing shortages and nurses’ overextension when caring for multiple patients. Read more...

Photo: UCLA nurses are preemptively protesting a waiver that would increase the number of patients assigned to each nurse from two to three. (Daily Bruin file photo)


UCLA Health administers monoclonal antibody treatments to COVID-19 patients

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...

Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)


New, more contagious, COVID-19 strain reaches Southern California

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)


UCLA Health personnel continue to exercise caution after receiving vaccine

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)



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