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February 9, 2021
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“We as an engineering community learned from that, that just having strength was not enough,” said Jonathan Stewart, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA. “You had to have ductility” the ability to stretch. “The [building] code would essentially produce nonductile concrete buildings.”
A new archival project at UCLA seeks to become that conduit, using boxes and boxes of internal records obtained by the LAPD. And to further that mission, the effort was recently given a three-and-a-half million-dollar boost in the form of a grant. Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Mark Vestal are professors at UCLA. They also head this new project, called Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration. (Lytle Hernandez and Vestal were interviewed.)
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“There’s the isolation and then also the dual terror of how this disease has just torn through nursing homes,” [said] Manuel Eskildsen, a clinical associate professor at the [David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA] who treats older patients. “I think everybody’s scared right now. But it’s even scarier to know you’re in the absolute most vulnerable group and you can’t get away from it.”
“I think that the early action taken by L.A. County as cases began to rise has blunted the magnitude of this tsunami that we experienced. It would have been even worse had some of these measures not been taken early on,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, medical epidemiologist and infectious diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and a former health official with L.A. County. (Kim-Farley was also quoted by Fox News.)
White people are getting vaccinated at higher rates than Black and Latino Americans
Black and Latino Americans are receiving the Covid-19 vaccine at significantly lower rates than White people a disparity that health advocates blame on the federal government and hospitals not prioritizing equitable access.
A CNN analysis of data from 14 states found vaccine coverage is twice as high among White people on average than it is among Black and Latino people. The analysis found that on average, more than 4% of the White population has received a Covid-19 vaccine, about 2.3 times higher than the Black population (1.9% covered) and 2.6 times higher than the Hispanic population (1.8% covered).