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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reopening plan regulates how the California economy will restart in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Buckle up. California’s vaccination plan is taking another sharp turn .
The state will now devote 40% of available COVID-19 vaccines to residents of the most disadvantaged areas , officials announced Wednesday night. The major shift in policy is intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus, especially in communities that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, my colleagues report.
The latest change comes amid mounting evidence that Latino and Black communities are falling behind white and Asian ones in getting access to the COVID-19 vaccines, even though they have had the highest rates of infection. Currently, 1.6 million doses have been administered to people who live in the state’s hardest-hit communities.
In Southern California, these areas include South L.A., the Eastside, Koreatown, Chinatown, Compton, southeast L.A. County, the eastern San Fernando Valley, Santa Ana and a number of heavily Latino communities along the Interstate 10 corridor between Pomona and San Bernardino. Once 2 million doses have been administered in the targeted communities across California, […]
