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MALIBU, CA, FEBRUARY 21, 2025: A City of Los Angeles Sanitation worker walks past the tiny bits of pulverized fire debris on the sand to take a water sample at Topanga State Beach in Malibu on February 21, 2025. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Fire debris is washing up on L.A.’s beaches. County officials warn the public to steer clear

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The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, shown in purple, infects a cell, colored in green.

COVID-19 Pandemic: News, Links & Resources

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COVID-19 and the Coronavirus

3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19 in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. On the virus model, the virus surface (blue) is covered with spike proteins (red) that enable the virus to enter and infect human cells. For more information, visit the NIH 3D Print Exchange at 3dprint.nih.gov. Credit: NIH. . (Photo by: IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Opinion: Long COVID is solvable, but we need more clinical trials

President Donald Trump congratulates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after he was sworn in as Health and Human Services Secretary in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed and sworn in as the nation’s health secretary

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing for his pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

RFK Jr. kept asking to see the science that vaccines were safe. After he saw it, he dismissed it

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Senators challenge Robert Kennedy Jr. on vaccines in confirmation hearing as health secretary

FILE - A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

The CIA believes COVID likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding

HUNTINGTON PARK-CA-AUGUST 28, 2024: Brandon Guerrero, 34, of Compton, receives both a flu and COVID-19 vaccine at CVS in Huntington Park on August 28, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Trump’s first term brought world-changing vaccine. His second could bring retreat

FILE - President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (Allison Robbert/Pool via AP, File)

Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, critic of COVID mandates, to lead National Institutes of Health

A pharmacist holds a COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

Opinion: Don’t be stupid: Skipping your COVID booster could reduce your IQ

Amelia, 16, sits for a portrait in a park near her home in Illinois on Friday, March 24, 2023.

Depression was rising among young people in Southern California. COVID made it worse

FILE - A woman holds two boxes of at-home Covid-19 test kits in Washington, Dec. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Free COVID tests are back. Here’s how to get yours

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