» Los Angeles County will open up vaccine eligibility to some additional essential workers, including teachers, on March 1. Grocery store staff, child-care providers, and other key people will be included in the group, expected to add around 1.3 million people to the number currently eligible in the county.
» Public schools may soon be allowed to reopen, but LAUSD teachers don’t think it is safe yet. United Teachers Los Angeles proposes waiting until the county fully exits the state’s ‘purple tier,’ which indicates widespread COVID-19, a lower community transmission rate, for schools to have “strict multi-layered mitigation strategies in place,” and for all staff to have access to vaccinations before sending educators back to campus. [LAist]