There is light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel is long, says Torrance Memorial COVID expert
SHARE Dr. David Rand, an infectious disease specialist at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, receives a vaccination against COVID-19 on Sunday. Photo
Dr. David Rand, an infectious disease specialist at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, receives the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday. Photo
“Tell us your thoughts,” an NBC reporter shouted from a battery of television and newspaper cameras pointed at Dr. David Rand.
Rand was on stage at the Torrance Memorial Hoffman Health Conference Center. A nurse had just stuck his arm with a needle carrying the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccinations at Providence Little Company of Mary ‘a major moment for humanity’
SHARE Christie Baker receives the COVID-19 vaccine from fellow Registered Nurse Eunice Natividad.
Registered Nurses Arlene Kidakarn and Eunice Natividad memorialize their vaccinations against COVID-19 Thursday morning at Providence Little Company of Mary. Photos
Nurse Lailani Divina stood up from a plastic chair next to a folding table in a meeting room at Providence Little Company Hospital and said to fellow nurse Shaddae Johnson-Ball, “This is a major moment for humanity.”
Divina’s comparison Thursday morning to Neil Armstrong’s observation upon stepping on the moon in 1969, was conscious.
Hammerland, Mavericks pictured at their best by four South Bay photographers
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Australian Jamie Mitchell at Mavericks last Tuesday. Photo by Richard Podgurski. RP-Photography.com
Brad Jacobson said the surf last Tuesday at the El Segundo Jetty, was the best he’s shot since he made “Chasing El Nino” during the 2015-16 winter.
“It wasn’t giant, but it was big, conditions were clean and the barrel rides were the longest I’ve ever seen in the South Bay,” the videographer said..
Longtime South Bay surf photographer Mike Balzer agreed. Bazer’s barrel photos that day of El Segundo native Tyler Hatzikian show why Hatzikian is recognized as the jetty’s preeminent surfer, while barrel shots of former Mira Costa team rider Chad Parker show there are younger surfers ready to step up.