Covid-19 / Santa Monica
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SMMUSD Board Delays Action on Vaccines
By Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is apparently waffling about a proposal to mandate vaccines for all eligible students. The SMMUSD Board of Education met last Thursday to discuss a COVID-19...
SMMUSD Ponders Vaccine Mandate for Eligible Students
By Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is on the verge of mandating vaccines for all eligible students. The local School Board will discuss a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for all students, ages 12...
Anti-Vaxxers Rile Covid Believers
By David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer 8/29: While there was a lot of prayer, it did not turn out to be the apocalypse by the sea that some predicted. Antifa or other opposing demonstrators did not...
85% of SMMUSD Students Registered For Weekly Covid-19 Testing
By Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer Roughly 85% of families in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District have provided consent for weekly COVID-19 testing of their children, district officials announced yesterday. The remaining families must...
Santa Monica College Mandating Vaccines for Students, Staff on Campus this Fall
If you are planning to attend classes on campus at Santa Monica College this fall, you need to be vaccinated. So says the local college as it is gearing up for the fall semester which starts August 30. In a letter to students, Santa Monica College...
Covid at Samo Summer
Santa Monica High School has announced another Covid case among its students attending one of its summer programs. The text of the email is below. While 60% of adults in Los Angeles County have been vaccinated and are not at risk for Covid-19, many...
Forbidden Fruit No Longer The Return of the Salad Bar
By David Ganezer As suddenly as they disappeared 16 months ago, salad bars and hot food bars have returned to local markets this month. According to one source at a market, who asked not to be named,...
Local Hospitals Experience Upsurge in Patients
Photo: Four local hospitals experienced over 90 percent Intensive Care Unit capacity in late December, tweeted the City's official account on Tuesday, Jan. 5th 2021. "Our hospitals continue to be...
SMMUSD Makes Plans Based on a Miracle
by Alyssa Erdley, News with Attitude LA County had over 11,000 cases of COVID in one day yesterday - that is 16 times higher than what is necessary to reach Tier 2 On Thursday, December 17, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School Board voted on a...
City Says it Promotes Covid Recovery
The City of Santa Monica claims that it is supporting local businesses in their attempt to recover from the lockdowns and other disruptions of Covid-19 and the George Floyd riots earlier this year. "A...
Gov't Overreach Strains City
Photos: 1. by Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude On Wednesday, the City of Los Angeles and Santa Monica issued further emergency orders in apparent reaction to the infamous house party held Monday...
SMPD Enforces Mask
Santa Monica Police will commence "targeted enforcement" of face coverings in Santa Monica beginning this week, the City announced in a press release. "Save $100 and save your health by masking up," the tweeted on 8/5/20. The enforcement action will...
SMMUSD Schools Won't Reopen
by Alyssa Erdley, Observer Staff Writer Today staff at the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District recommended learning occur solely from a distance when school reopens in August. The SMMUSD School Board will decide at their July 16 meeting if...
Burger King Strike Follows Death
By Stan Green Ángela Martínez Gómez died on Monday, July 6, 2020. No cause of death has yet been released. Gomez, 42, worked at local fast food purveyor Burger King on Santa Monica Blvd. Her last sh...
