COVID-19

In announcing he will not enforce any vaccine mandate for his employees, the sheriff toes the line of the anti-vaccination movement.

Cases and hospitalizations are down, health officials credit early indoor mask rules.

People with developmental disabilities say their in-home aides should be added to the list of health workers required to get the shot. But a mandate could exacerbate the industry’s staffing problems.

If California had kept its color-coded reopening system governed by COVID-19 rates, almost every county would be in the most restrictive purple tier.

The new order requires more health workers to be vaccinated by Sept. 30.

The board of supervisors also requested a plan to require vaccine proof for indoor spaces in unincorporated parts of the county.

While delta can sometimes infect vaccinated people, infections, hospitalizations and deaths are rising fastest in parts of the U.S. with the most unvaccinated people. Hot spots, however, are burning everywhere from Massachusetts to California.

But vaccinated teens may have blunted rise.

Employees have until Oct. 1 to provide proof that they're fully vaccinated, but the Sheriffs Deputies Association is balking at the mandate.

COVID vaccinations? Check. Disneyland tickets? Check. The happiest place on Earth? Not for this family.

With one in four Californians living here, L.A. County accounted for about 45% of new cases reported in the state Thursday.

Los Angeles joins the state of California and New York City in mandating vaccine proof for workers.