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Covid Tracker — Nearly one-third of students and staff are at least partially vaccinated as of April 7, survey finds

By Benjamin Gamson and Eli Weiss
April 20, 2021

Nearly a third of Shalhevet students and staff have been partially immunized as of April 7, according to the Covid Tracker.  This...

PREPARING: A pharmacist at Walgreens on Olympic Boulevard in West LA prepared to administer a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine April 4.

Your turn! A student’s guide to being vaccinated in L.A.

By Evan Beller, 10th Grade
April 6, 2021

  In case you haven’t heard, starting April 15 -- next Wednesday -- California plans to expand COVID-19 vaccine...

VIEWPOINTS: Now that it’s been a year since the pandemic arrived, we asked one student from each grade to share how this time has changed their lives.

OPINION: Four views of a (Covid) year

  In a few decades, numbers and data might be the main vehicles through which people look back on the Covid-19 pandemic...

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Covid Tracker – March 23-24

By Benjamin Gamson and Eli Weiss
April 5, 2021

This week, the percentage of students and staff who said they had been exposed to Covid increased, from 14.36% as of March. 10...

MORE: One in four residents of Los Angeles suffered from food insecurity during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, officials estimate. For low-income families, the percentage was almost half.

Essential workers, essential work: How local food banks learned to protect staff from Covid and still feed the hungry

By Keira Beller, Staff Writer
April 2, 2021

Almost exactly a year ago, Los Angeles schools, businesses, travel, and just about everything else shut down to keep people safe...

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Covid Tracker – March 9-10

By Benjamin Gamson and Eli Weiss
March 18, 2021

This week, with the largest sample size of the Covid Tracker yet, 10.5% of students and staff said they have tested positive for...

MASKED: Dr. Eric Vail works in the clinical molecular pathology lab at Cedars-Sinai, wearing PPE to protect himself from Covid-19 samples he is studying.

Just blocks from school, doctors searching for U.K. variant of Covid-19 discovered California’s

By Juliet Wiener, Science Writer
March 10, 2021

California is known for the beach, movie stars, fashion, and now for its very own coronavirus variant. Originating in Southern...

COVID TRACKS -- MARCH 5, 2021

COVID TRACKS — MARCH 5, 2021

By Juliet Wiener, Staff Writer
March 8, 2021

Editor’s Note: Covid Tracks is the Boiling Point’s bi-weekly column on the Covid-19 pandemic. Compiled by BP science reporter...

POLL: View a slideshow of poll results by clicking through the Gallery box below.

Covid Tracker – February 23-24

By Benjamin Gamson, Eli Weiss, and Molly Litvak
March 5, 2021

This week, percentages of “yes” answers increased across all six questions in the Boiling Point’s bi-weekly survey of how...

COUNTRIES: Shalhevet’s debaters represented Israel and Japan at last month’s Yeshiva University Model UN conference, held Feb. 14-15 over Zoom. Dr. Harris took this screen shot of a team meeting just before the conference began.

Moving screens, louder voices and ‘breakout’ committee rooms as debate teams move online

By Gabriella Gomperts and Yael Schechter
March 3, 2021

Shalhevet’s Model Congress, Mock Trial and Model UN teams have all competed virtually this year due to Covid-19. And though...

COVID TRACKS is a biweekly feature keeping readers up to date on cases, vaccinations, variants and other news as it affects Shalhevet, Shalhevet neighborhoods and Los Angeles County.

COVID TRACKS — FEB. 16, 2021

By Juliet Wiener, Staff Writer
February 16, 2021

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the Boiling Point’s bi-weekly column on the Covid-19 pandemic. Compiled by BP science reporter Juliet...

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