Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In early April, state inspectors completed a survey of Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside as part of a federal effort to make sure nursing homes were protecting elderly residents from the coronavirus.Their one-page report concluded: “No deficiencies.”The next day, April 8, a fleet of ambulances lined up outside Magnolia to after the staff refused to show up for work, terrified of the deadly infection already spreading within the facility.Similar scenarios played out across California this spring, survey records...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In early April, state inspectors completed a survey of Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside as part of a federal effort to make sure nursing homes were protecting elderly residents from the coronavirus.Their one-page report concluded: “No deficiencies.”The next day, April 8, a fleet of ambulances lined up outside Magnolia to after the staff refused to show up for work, terrified of the deadly infection already spreading within the facility.Similar scenarios played out across California this spring, survey records...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | She sat in a corner of the hospital room, breathing into a tube designed to prevent pneumonia or the collapse of her lungs. It was the fourth week of April, and the last two months had been so long and so monotonous that Janice Brown started counting the cars rolling by her window — just for something to do. The janitor and the nurses had become old acquaintances.So, it seemed, had the coronavirus.In the short annals of the Desert Valley Hospital’s COVID-19 unit, Brown is a person of some distinction. It’s a notoriety that no one would want — but...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | She sat in a corner of the hospital room, breathing into a tube designed to prevent pneumonia or the collapse of her lungs. It was the fourth week of April, and the last two months had been so long and so monotonous that Janice Brown started counting the cars rolling by her window — just for something to do. The janitor and the nurses had become old acquaintances.So, it seemed, had the coronavirus.In the short annals of the Desert Valley Hospital’s COVID-19 unit, Brown is a person of some distinction. It’s a notoriety that no one would want — but...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As coronavirus continues its destructive spread through nursing homes, Brier Oak on Sunset, a low-slung brick building next to a pizza parlor in Hollywood has earned a sad distinction -- it has reported nearly twice as many cases as the next biggest outbreak in Los Angeles County.But that’s at least in part because , an aggressive step public health officials were not recommending and few other homes were willing to take. That is about to change, and the number of reported COVID-19 cases at nursing homes is expected to rise sharply...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement As coronavirus continues its destructive spread through nursing homes, Brier Oak on Sunset, a low-slung brick building next to a pizza parlor in Hollywood has earned a sad distinction -- it has reported nearly twice as many cases as the next biggest outbreak in Los Angeles County.But that’s at least in part because , an aggressive step public health officials were not recommending and few other homes were willing to take. That is about to change, and the number of reported COVID-19 cases at nursing homes is expected to rise sharply...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When two teenagers from the tiny, majority-white Gold Rush town of Angels Camp posted a Facebook flier for a racial justice protest, the threats came immediately. There was a rumor that ultra-left antifa activists were being bused in from the Bay Area and that organizers were being paid $25 an hour. There were comments from people claiming they had “enough bullets” to take protesters down. There were menacing phone calls, including one from a man in nearby Mokelumne Hill who threatened to “burn down Angels Camp.”“At the end of it, he...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When two teenagers from the tiny, majority-white Gold Rush town of Angels Camp posted a Facebook flier for a racial justice protest, the threats came immediately. There was a rumor that ultra-left antifa activists were being bused in from the Bay Area and that organizers were being paid $25 an hour. There were comments from people claiming they had “enough bullets” to take protesters down. There were menacing phone calls, including one from a man in nearby Mokelumne Hill who threatened to “burn down Angels Camp.”“At the end of it, he...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement /A protester dances on top of Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a demonstration by members of Refuse Fascism who are calling an end to the Trump administration on June 20, 2020.  /Deborah Jay Winams cries after singing a song at a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles rally to call for justice in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ross Jr. by Gardena police in 2018.   /People participate in the All Black Lives Matter march in West Hollywood on Sunday, June 14. Thousands of demonstrators marched for racial justice...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement /A protester dances on top of Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a demonstration by members of Refuse Fascism who are calling an end to the Trump administration on June 20, 2020.  /Deborah Jay Winams cries after singing a song at a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles rally to call for justice in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ross Jr. by Gardena police in 2018.   /People participate in the All Black Lives Matter march in West Hollywood on Sunday, June 14. Thousands of demonstrators marched for racial justice...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | The college student lay down on an operating table, her legs trembling in the stirrups. The doctor warned her to remain absolutely silent.She was 22, terrified of needles but prepared to go through with the medical procedure no matter what. Her future depended on it. Listen to the story“I don’t think I was particularly afraid,” she said. “I had that strong determination. This was the right thing for me to do.”Advertisement“This” was an illegal abortion. The year was 1966, the place, California, and Cheryl Bryant was out of options. She had plans...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | The college student lay down on an operating table, her legs trembling in the stirrups. The doctor warned her to remain absolutely silent.She was 22, terrified of needles but prepared to go through with the medical procedure no matter what. Her future depended on it. Listen to the story“I don’t think I was particularly afraid,” she said. “I had that strong determination. This was the right thing for me to do.”Advertisement“This” was an illegal abortion. The year was 1966, the place, California, and Cheryl Bryant was out of options. She had plans...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Norma Ramirez stepped off Delta flight 1903 from Guatemala City with a backpack, a blue neck pillow and an aromatic carry-on: chicken. Lots and lots of fried chicken.This year, in late March, the 54-year-old came back to Los Angeles after spending two weeks with her husband’s family. As she does almost every time she leaves her home country of Guatemala, Ramirez carried boxes of Pollo Campero.Her husband had returned with a 12-piece box after a trip in December, and now it was her turn to honor the ritual. This time, she was joined...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Norma Ramirez stepped off Delta flight 1903 from Guatemala City with a backpack, a blue neck pillow and an aromatic carry-on: chicken. Lots and lots of fried chicken.This year, in late March, the 54-year-old came back to Los Angeles after spending two weeks with her husband’s family. As she does almost every time she leaves her home country of Guatemala, Ramirez carried boxes of Pollo Campero.Her husband had returned with a 12-piece box after a trip in December, and now it was her turn to honor the ritual. This time, she was joined...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | VIDEO | 06:03 Meet the travel nurses saving Californians one vaccination at a time Travel nurses come from all over the Unites States to aid overburdened healthcare systems. As of mid-March, the California Department of Public Health has deployed nearly 2,000 such nurses across the state to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. Reshicka Upshaw wakes before dawn to get her children ready for school. She makes sure their teeth are brushed, their clothes clean, their homework done.Sometimes she prays with them before she starts work: Holy Spirit, you are...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | VIDEO | 06:03 Meet the travel nurses saving Californians one vaccination at a time Travel nurses come from all over the Unites States to aid overburdened healthcare systems. As of mid-March, the California Department of Public Health has deployed nearly 2,000 such nurses across the state to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. Reshicka Upshaw wakes before dawn to get her children ready for school. She makes sure their teeth are brushed, their clothes clean, their homework done.Sometimes she prays with them before she starts work: Holy Spirit, you are...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement To ward off the deadly virus that had invaded his small apartment, Jose Guadalupe Zubia slept in a surgical mask and cracked open a window beside his bed.Two of his sons, who slept in the living room with their father, also kept their masks on all night. One pulled the covers over his head, hoping to keep the infection from spreading.AdvertisementJose’s two daughters shut themselves in the bedroom they shared. When they used the apartment’s only bathroom, they wiped everything down with Lysol.The sons and daughters all...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Breaking News Advertisement To ward off the deadly virus that had invaded his small apartment, Jose Guadalupe Zubia slept in a surgical mask and cracked open a window beside his bed.Two of his sons, who slept in the living room with their father, also kept their masks on all night. One pulled the covers over his head, hoping to keep the infection from spreading.AdvertisementJose’s two daughters shut themselves in the bedroom they shared. When they used the apartment’s only bathroom, they wiped everything down with Lysol.The sons and daughters all...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Silvia Orellana knows how serious COVID-19 is. She sees its destructive steps every time she looks outside her perfume shop in Huntington Park, where the foot traffic has dwindled to almost nothing.The 45-year-old recently thought she had contracted the coronavirus, but it turned out to be the flu. Despite her fears — both personal and economic — she’s resolute on her feelings about a COVID vaccine: “Yo no me lo pondria.” “I wouldn’t get it.”Three years ago, Orellana dealt with a fever, chills and pain in her bones after getting a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Silvia Orellana knows how serious COVID-19 is. She sees its destructive steps every time she looks outside her perfume shop in Huntington Park, where the foot traffic has dwindled to almost nothing.The 45-year-old recently thought she had contracted the coronavirus, but it turned out to be the flu. Despite her fears — both personal and economic — she’s resolute on her feelings about a COVID vaccine: “Yo no me lo pondria.” “I wouldn’t get it.”Three years ago, Orellana dealt with a fever, chills and pain in her bones after getting a...WW…