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COVID-19 vaccination pop-up sites will be offered to residents of Los Angeles City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez’s district in the northeast San Fernando Valley over the next three weeks, starting Tuesday.

A letter written by experts at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and MD Anderson Cancer Center advises women to schedule their annual mammograms either before or at least six weeks after getting vaccinated, due to swelling caused by the vaccine that may be mistake as a sign for cancer.

Having two vaccines is good. But three is better — and it could make a major difference in getting the pandemic under control.

Are you jealous of your family, friends or neighbors that have already gotten vaccinated, while you’re still waiting for your own appointment? One psychologist has some advice.

Questions about how a limited supply of vaccine should be distributed have now found a new focus in rural America.

Los Angeles city-operated COVID-19 vaccination sites, including the large-scale site at Dodger Stadium, are scheduled to reopen Tuesday, with eligibility for shots aligning with the newly expanded pool that allows many essential workers to get vaccine doses. City sites will primarily provide second doses this week for people due for the required follow-up shot, but a small number of first-dose...

Initial allocations of COVID-19 vaccine are expected to arrive in Southern California as early as this weekend. Here’s what happens next.

Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 vaccination effort will expand vastly Monday when doses are offered to essential workers, but health officials said those workers will have to be patient as vaccine supplies remain limited and staff are being trained to ensure only eligible people receive shots.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Friday that she would “stand by to review” the ACIP’s recommendation and be “ready to sign.”

The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two. Health experts are anxiously awaiting a one-and-done option to help speed vaccinations, as they race against a virus that already has killed more than 510,000 people in…

This makes the Johnson & Johnson vaccine the third vaccine to have emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

San Diego County health officials have cut ties with a local vaccine provider after allegations it had been handing out COVID-19 shots to ineligible patients.

Health experts say new strains could be behind the increase of cases.

A 1721 smallpox outbreak, one of many Boston faced in its early years, led to the introduction in what is now the United States of inoculation, a medical advancement that saved many lives. And often overlooked in the history of that inoculation is an enslaved man named Onesimus.

Beginning Saturday, police officers and sheriff’s deputies in San Diego County will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

The latest COVID-19 vaccine, a one-shot dose from Johnson & Johnson, could receive emergency use authorization by the end of the week.

An analysis by U.S. regulators says Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine protects against COVID-19

Pfizer and Moderna have pledged to up production of COVID-19 vaccine as states struggle to meet demand.

COVID-19 vaccine makers tell Congress to expect a big jump in the delivery of doses over the coming month.

Doses of COVID-19 vaccine delayed by the storm out east have been shipped to Los Angeles, and all six city-run vaccination sites will resume operations on Tuesday after being closed through the weekend, Mayor Eric Garcetti said.