Blogs of the LA Area Chamber
Safely Reopening Schools
Maria S. Salinas on February 11, 2021 at 10:00:00 am
Posted in The Business Perspective
We often ask ourselves, what is the role of the business community? We believe business can be a partner that brings about innovative solutions to help tackle the challenges ahead to ensure we have healthy communities, an economy that is strong, and families that are thriving. The realities of this pandemic, the loss, economic devastation, and the inequities we have seen are heartbreaking. And, nowhere is it more evident than in the results of schools closing.
Our Global Opportunities under a New Administration
Maria S. Salinas on February 3, 2021 at 10:00:00 am
Posted in The Business Perspective
While 2020 will be remembered as a significant year across the globe, not only because of the resulting turbulence of the pandemic, but also because of the events unfolding on the global trade front, we look with hope to a new U.S. administration to see how trade policy will be approached.
Light at the End of the Tunnel, but COVID-19 Doesn’t Vanish with Emergency Authorization of Vaccines, Especially in Low-Income Communities of Color
Richard Seidman, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, L.A. Care Health Plan on February 2, 2021 at 10:00:00 am
Posted in Health Care Waiting Room
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Emergency Use Authorization to two COVID-19 vaccinations in December, less than a year after the pandemic began, it marked a major step toward ending the scourge that, so far, has taken more than 400,000* American lives. However, we have seen that having authorized vaccines and getting those vaccines into peoples’ arms are two very different things. We have also seen that some of the hardest hit communities will not be among the first to receive the vaccines.