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Three years after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, KCET brings you the latest on the coronavirus and perspectives on it has impacted Southern California. Visit the CDC website for the latest information.

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Winner of Nobel Prize in medicine on her work fighting COVID
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Winner of Nobel Prize in medicine discusses how her work helped fight COVID-19
What’s behind a messy rollout of the new COVID vaccines
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What’s behind the messy rollout of this fall’s new COVID vaccines
A close-up of homemade posters written and painted by protestors reading "HOUSING JUSTICE FOR EVERYONE!" and "CANCEL RENT"
A new legal settlement between the state and a coalition of anti-poverty and tenant rights groups means that some California tenants will get another shot at rent relief, even though the COVID-era rental assistance program has officially ended and the state's housing department previously denied them.
An elderly man wearing a baseball hat and a face mask and carrying a cane gets a helping hand from a health worker wearing PPE inside a medical clinic with sunlight streaming through a row of windows
Rossana Pérez, healer and activist in the Salvadoran community of Los Angeles, talks about the transgenerational trauma among L.A.-based Central Americans that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed.
A colorful spray-painted mural adorns a low wall on the side of a building, depicting an Asian man with white hair, a white mustache and black glasses and the words "JUSTICE FOR VICHA" and "#STANDFORASIANS"
Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, talks about the surge in anti-Asian harassment and violence during the pandemic and the communities that are pushing back.
Book cover of "The Long Haul," featuring a side profile of someone wearing a mask, and another image of Ryan Prior speaking on "Democracy Now!"
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found nearly one in five people infected with COVID-19 go on to experience symptoms of long COVID.
I WAS THERE: Inside A COVID-19 ICU.
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A Southern California nurse discusses her work inside a COVID-19 ICU.
Woman throwing used protective surgical mask into the garbage bin. Close up of a hand that throws the used mask in the public trash can outdoors
President Joe Biden has declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be "over." Here's insight into the unemployment rates, school life, and patient deaths that support the claim regarding the coronavirus crisis — and what says otherwise.
We’re Hiring banner hangs from a Target retail store in Apple Valley, California.
The latest employment data reveal that after 28 months, California has finally recovered the millions of private sector jobs it lost during the COVID-19 recession.
An aerial view of a wastewater treatment plant in Oakland
Research teams are surveilling sewage samples to detect monkeypox in local communities, continuing the advances made in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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