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1 in 3 Californians won't get another COVID booster: survey

The survey, published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that California adults who have not completed the primary vaccine series against COVID-19 did not do so for several reasons: 48% think a vaccine for COVID is unnecessary, 45% worried about side effects, and 44% think the vaccine was developed too quickly.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
The Antelope Valley Times

Survey: 32% of Californians won't take COVID vaccine boosters

The survey, published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that California adults who have not completed the primary vaccine series against COVID-19 did not do so for several reasons: 48% think a vaccine for COVID is unnecessary, 45% worried about side effects, and 44% think the vaccine was developed too quickly.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
KNX News

1 in 3 Californians won't get another COVID booster: survey

The survey, published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that California adults who have not completed the primary vaccine series against COVID-19 did not do so for several reasons: 48% think a vaccine for COVID is unnecessary, 45% worried about side effects, and 44% think the vaccine was developed too quickly.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
ABC 7 Los Angeles

Coronavirus: Socal Impact

A new survey says nearly a third of adults in California say they would decline any additional COVID vaccine doses. The poll conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research also found that 22% of adults who completed the primary vaccine series have not received any additional doses, and 33% of adults say they do not have an N95 or KN95 mask more than half of them saying they would not be able to get one because they are too expensive.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Web Today

Survey: 32% of Californians won't take COVID vaccine boosters

The survey, published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that California adults who have not completed the primary vaccine series against COVID-19 did not do so for several reasons: 48% think a vaccine for COVID is unnecessary, 45% worried about side effects, and 44% think the vaccine was developed too quickly.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
My Science

92% of attendees feel safe at long-running L.A. County parks program

Ninety-two percent of people who attended a nighttime events program in Los Angeles county parks in the summer of 2022 felt safe, according to a new evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
UCLA Newsroom

92% of attendees feel safe at long-running L.A. county parks program

Ninety-two percent of people who attended a nighttime events program in Los Angeles county parks in the summer of 2022 felt safe, according to a new evaluation by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program, Los Angeles County Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation
Nadereh Pourat
19th News

California's largest school district is spending millions to protect kids from climate change

Schools without green coverage tend to be in neighborhoods that lack shade, and those communities are disproportionately home to people of color. A peer-reviewed study by UCLA public health researchers published in the journal Environment International in March found that two-thirds of Los Angeles County's Black and Latinx populations live in places with scant green coverage and lower average life expectancies.

Michael Jerrett
JBHE

Biracial Black Adults Found to have more mental health needs than monoracial adults

A new study from the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California, Los Angeles finds that adults who identify as Black and at least one other race are more likely to need mental health services than those who identify only as Black.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
UCLA Newsroom

Program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex health needs reduced emergency visits, hospitlizations

A California program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex medical needs and chronic conditions reduced the number of emergency department visits and hospital stays among its enrollees, according to an evaluation published today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Health Economics and Evaluation Research (HEER) Program
Nadereh Pourat