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Power & Health
The Privilege Gap and Our Response to the COVID Pandemic
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As vaccinations continue, Orange County reached a few COVID-19 milestones today, including falling hospitalization rates and rising hospital capacity.
In Santa Ana, a majority Mexican and renting population is heavily affected by pandemic. Advocates argue that the need to address the community’s lack of affordable housing and green space, crucial public health issues even before coronavirus, is now even more urgent.
The Los Angeles Unified School District announced that as of today, it has provided 100 million meals to students and community members in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.
From child support to insurance fraud, court cases are delayed throughout California. Only half as many civil and criminal cases were resolved last summer compared with pre-pandemic numbers. “Justice has not shut down. Justice has slowed down,” according to an attorneys’ group.
“Southland Sessions” spoke with five different people about how they shifted the focus of their creative organization to keep afloat in 2020 and best serve their community.
From bathtub ballets to TikTok dance challenges, our screens have exploded with dance videos since the coronavirus pandemic forced us to dance together but apart. Here are a few performances with SoCal connections that helped us get through 2020.
As COVID patients have flooded into LAC+USC in recent weeks, they’ve put an immense strain on its ICU capacity and staff — especially since non-COVID patients, with gunshot wounds, drug overdoses, heart attacks and strokes, also need intensive care.
Riverside County health officials today reported 6,741 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases and 13 virus-related deaths since Friday, as the number of available licensed intensive care unit beds countywide dwindled to zero.
The massive surge in coronavirus cases has left hospitals scrambling to handle the increasing number of patients showing up at their doors. It's threatening to push Southern California's entire health care system to the breaking point.
Citing rising coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths over the past month, Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced plans for a “regional stay-at-home order” that will be implemented in areas running low on ICU beds and force some businesses closures.
There are no easy decisions for leaders to make when it comes to handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Both principle and concern about risk are informing collective decision-making, but privilege also underlies many such deliberations.
From personalized poetry readings to guided ritual-making, theater is able to collapse physical space and create intensely personal experiences.