Photos: Two years of COVID-19 impacting our lives

Long lines and social distancing at Costco in Alhambra on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health for Los Angeles County, at a press conference Friday, March 6, 2020. Ferrer confirmed there are currently 12 cases of COVID-19 in Los Angeles county and that the organizers of the LA Marathon are taking proper precautions for the marathon on Sunday. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

With no traffic, a storm trooper skateboards at Hollywood Blvd and Orange avenue in Hollywood Monday, April 13, 2020. Hollywood, like most of California, remains shut down under orders from governor Gavon Newsom, however, California, Washington and Oregon announced they are joining forces in a plan to begin incremental release of stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Jen Do in line at the bi-monthly Central Lutheran Church and the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank mobile food bank at the van Nuys church, Monday, April 6, 2020. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

A bus driver on a Metro bus on Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 9, 2020. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Carol White, 82, who is recovering from coronavirus looks out the window for her daughter in the COVID-19 unit of Jasmin Terrace, an assisted living memory care facility, in Pasadena on Friday, May 15, 2020. The new crisis facing residents of the facility is isolation according to Assistant Administrator Lori Lackey. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

Venice Beach Tuesday, February 18, left and Thursday, March 26, 2020 after the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photos by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

A few cars head south on the 110 Freeway towards downtown at rush hour during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Los Angeles on Friday, April 03, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

A nearly empty Metro Red Line car at Union Station in downtown LA Thursday, March 26, 2020. As part of the city’s “Safer at Home” program, all venues and dine-in restaurants and unnecessary businesses have been closed leaving very few commuters or travelers. For most people, the new coronavirus (COVID-19) causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness.(Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The US Navy ship Mercy arrives in the port of Los Angeles Friday, March 27, 2020. The ship will not take on patients with coronavirus but will take other patients so hospitals will have more space for COVID-19 patients. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The Wilshire Grand Center in downtown Los Angeles is lit in blue lights during #LightItBlue, Thursday, April 9, 2020. The event has been organized as collective salute to the millions of essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

At LAC+USC Medical Center, doctors are beginning to experience higher numbers of patients presenting with COVID-19 but nothing alarming yet, according to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brad Spellberg. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

A man wearing a mask due to Coronavirus Pandemic and riding a bicycle rides past Graffiti art Stay Home Saves Lives on the side of the old Sopp Chevrolet building in Bell on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

Six Feet Supplies members Julianna Lozada and Eric Luo shop for groceries in Santa Clarita, Friday, April 24, 2020. Six Feet Supplies, is a group of students that shop and deliver groceries at no cost for people that are at risk for complications from COVID-19. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Pasadena Fire Battalion Chief Tim Sell receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Fire Station 36 in Pasadena on Monday, December 28, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Marisela Munoz holds a photo of her mother Evangelina C. Martinez at her home in Canyon Country, Friday August 28, 2020. Martinez, died of COVID-19 at Astoria Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sylmar at the age of 93. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has his temperature taken during a screening before a press briefing at the Los Angeles Jewish Home in Reseda, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Members of Refuse Fascism display a banner that reads “200,000 COVID DEATHS! TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW!” over the Harbor (110) Freeway from 7th street overpass in downtown Los Angeles, Friday, September 18, 2020. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Workers prepare check-in areas at a temporary hospital set up in the Pasadena Convention Center Thursday, April 16, 2020. The center will take overflow patients from Huntington hospital if needed due to COVID-19 patients. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The iconic “Bob” at Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Burbank, CA wears a mask for the coronavirus Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Restaurants are going to be allowed to re-open in Los Angeles county with new restrictions in place. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Roberto Diaz serves diners at Sorriso Bar Celona on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena on Thursday, December 3, 2020 during the COVID-19 surge. The city, which has its own health department, has decided to keep their restaurants open for outside dining. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

A woman with a child wearing masks looks on as an airline crew wearing full personal protective equipment due to the Coronavirus Pandemic walks through the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 17, 2020.

Justin Turner #10 of the Los Angeles Dodgers doubles against the San Francisco Giants in the second inning of a MLB baseball game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 25, 2020.

Carrie Peck is a teacher on special assignment at both Nelson and Sunset Elementary Schools La Puente and teaches from her backyard sometimes from the pool due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hacienda Heights on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

Graduate Jayden Krosevic poses for pictures for his family during the Glendora High School drive through graduation due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Glendora on Thursday, June 4, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

Playground covered with caution tape as all playgrounds, fitness zones, and exercise equipment is closed to the public at Los Angeles County Parks due to the coronavirus at Alondra Park in Lawndale on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

Dr. Brecken Armstrong and Martin Garret embrace after being married in a small ceremony in Altadena on Saturday, April 04, 2020. Dr. Brecken Armstrong is an Emergency medicine Physician who is working on the front lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic, the were supposed to be married in Greece ,but to to the Coronavirus their plans changed. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

Registered Nurse Hyang Esther Han, B.S.N. holds a vile of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as around 150 Healthcare workers are some of the first to be vaccinated with the vaccine in California at Whittier Hospital Medical Center in Whittier, California on Thursday, December 17, 2020.

X-Ray Technician MA Fabio Dos Santos administers a coronavirus test to Julian Gonzalez, 8-months old, as his mother Autumn Harrison holds him at Santa Monica Urgent Care, Friday, June 26, 2020. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Homeless activists attempt to get a worshiper to wear a mask during Christian singer Sean Feucht’s gathering at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 31, 2020 where a large group of homeless people live. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The Los Angeles Zoo reopened to the public on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. after closing for 166 consecutive days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eytan Assuied , age 10, enjoys the guerrilla exhibit. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Flags honoring people killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at Pepperdine University located at Alumni Park at Pepperdine University’s Malibu campus 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA, Monday, September 8, 2020. The University honors those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, with its annual Waves of Flags display. In compliance with guidance provided by Los Angeles County due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the display will be closed to the public. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Covid-19 testing at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Afraid of eviction laid off hospitality worker Jaime Sandoval, who has not worked since March, protests the city council adding more short-term rentals in Los Angeles outside Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s field office in West Adams neighborhood on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Maria Lopez helps Levi Ortega, 6, with his mask at a drive-thru event at Ritchie Valens Park in Pacoima for the annual San Fernando Valley Veterans Day Parade on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. Ortega’s father, a member of a parachutist WWII demonstration team, was at the event. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Diners sit in an outside dining tent along Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena on Thursday, December 17, 2020. Pasadena wants to improve their outdoor dining look. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

In sections of San Fernando Road through Burbank, CA, the city has completely closed off traffic so that restaurants can provide more outdoor seating. To stay open during COVID-19 restrictions, restaurants in Southern California have moved to outdoor dinning. Several local cities have put barricades up in streets to allow for more diners, along with the use of sidewalks. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Philippe’s in Los Angeles is open Tuesday, June 16, 2020. LA County said yesterday that “half” of all restaurants are not following the reopening rules to avoid COVID. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Buddy Balou, 69, of Pasadena, a retired ballet dancer who re-picked up the horn three years ago, busks outside of Tiffany & Co. on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena on his “COVID Horn” on Thursday, December 3, 2020. “It will be a trumpet again January 20 when he’s out,” he said. Balou danced with American Ballet Theatre early in his career. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Santa Claus wearing a mask due to the Coronavirus pandemic poses for a socially distance picture with 7 year-old Catalina Perez of Los Angeles as the holiday shopping season began at the South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach on Friday, November 27, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

Artist Lalo Garcia, of Mission Hills, stands before a digital version of his painting Cihualpilli-Tonahtzín (Noble little Indian, Our mother in the Aztec language Nahuatl) projected on the exterior of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles for the celebrations of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Friday, December 11, 2020. The midnight mass celebrations, usually packed with people, were done remotely during the COVID-19 surge. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Jessica Stange, RN, waits to take Covid-19 tests for maternity patients with close due dates at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

In honor of May Day and International Workers’ Day people held a car caravan through the streets of Long Beach. Approximately 100 cars gathered in Compton on Friday, May 1, 2020, to decorate their cars with messages. The collective is asking for the cancellation of rent, mortgages, and debt, Housing for all, an end to COVID capitalism, racism, and xenophobia and the freedom of people in ICE custody! (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Protestors at Los Angeles city hall march to Lift the lockdown of businesses, including those not deemed “essential” in Los Angeles Friday, May 1, 2020. Individuals and bipartisan groups joined the rally to send a message to Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Eric Garcetti, regarding measures enacted in response to COVID-19. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

People hold signs during an Open Santa Clarita rally in Santa Clarita, May 5, 2020. The rally was held to protest the continued closure of businesses because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Courtney Milliner holds a photo of her mother, Eyvette Pascascio, who past away after becoming ill with COVID-19. Her mother was a devoted single mother and a healthcare worker at Country Villa Terrace Healthcare Center on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Nurse Sukhwinder Kaur prepares a COVID-19 vaccination at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center, Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Shiela Mercado holds a sign as she and other nurses at Little Company of Mary marched in front of the building in Torrance on Friday, April 17, 2020. Nurses at facilities throughout California that are represented by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) rallied on Friday, April 17 to demand proper personal protective equipment (PPE) for nurses assigned to suspected and/or confirmed COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Cars line up for food at a food give-away at Grace Community Church in Panorama City Thursday, July 16, 2020. Cars began lining up for the food at 6am for the 9am start time of the food give-away. The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank expected to give away food for 4,000 families at the event. Information on the food bank’s locations for special Covid-19 response can be found at www.lafoodbank.org/findfood. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Essential workers hold candles for fellow workers who have died from Covid-19 in front of the Los Angeles County Hall of Administration Monday, August 31, 2020. Los Angeles County continues to see a rise in cases and deaths attributed to COVID-19. Over 236,000 cases have now been confirmed, including 38 new deaths and over 1,100 current hospitalizations. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Creative Graphic Services employee Michael Mendelson holds a sign as coworker Preston Taylor climbs to affix it to a fence along Lyons Ave. in Santa Clarita, Friday, March 20, 2020. Creative Graphic Services owner Jim Niner had his employees place signs with positive messages throughout the city in response to the COVID-19 emergency. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Asha Greenidge, 16 year old sophomore at Mayfair High School, with a sample of the more than 1,400 handmade cards she has delivered to COVID-19 patients, healthcare workers and convalescent homes throughout Southern California, in Cerritos on Friday, May 29, 2020. The “Caring Cards,” project began with Greenidge and her family at their home, but quickly spread to nearly 60 other families helping out. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Bird expert Frankie Lill, feeds the penguins at The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach on Friday, December 11, 2020. Though the aquarium is closed to the public under COVID-19 restrictions the animals still need to be fed as well as have interaction, mental stimulation and physical check ups. Lill knows each penguin by sight and feels lucky to have these 22 extra friends during the quarantine. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Stefanie Underwood amongst her belonging on Beacon Street where a major cleaning of homeless encampments took place in San Pedro on Friday, July 31, 2020. The city is gave people notice two days before the cleanup, as well as offered showers, replacement tents and COVID-19 testing. Underwood said she considers the homeless people around her family and doesn’t want to abandon them by going into a shelter. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Masked Dodger fans arrive for the Dodgers vs Giants game Monday, July 19,2021. Anyone 2 years of age and older attending games at Dodger Stadium is required to wear a mask or appropriate face covering while in covered stadium concourses and at concession stands, in accordance with the latest Los Angeles County Department of Public
Health order. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Nathan Bian, 5, is swabbed for a rapid COVID-19 test at Palos Verdes High School in Palos Verdes Estates on Aug. 24, 2021. (Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Seniors and healthcare workers lineup for COVID-19 vaccinations at the Dodger Stadium drive-thru vaccination site in Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Rene Urey an LAUSD special education assistant gets his COVID-19 vaccine aboard a school bus that transported him to the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Monday, March 1, 2021. In partnership with the L.A. Rams, Anthem Blue Cross and Cedars-Sinai the site at SoFi Stadium will vaccinate 12,000 LAUSD employees per day. Urey says he is happy to get the vaccine and, “Desperate,” to get back to school where he can talk with students. Urey has been assigned to one student for the past six years and says, “I miss him, he makes me laugh, he keeps me busy, he makes my day.” (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Karen Klink, of Hermosa Beach, visits her 86-year-old mother Cynthia Tachner at Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care in Redondo Beach on Monday, March 8, 2021. Klink is hopeful she will soon be able to have in-room visits with her mother after California’s Department of Public Health issued new COVID-19 guidance on visitation for long-term care facilities. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

LAUSD Supt. Austin Beutner greets Krystal Gil, a special education substitute teacher, who was checking in LAUSD staff for COVID-19 vaccines at Panorama High School in Panorama City on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 after LAUSD and UTLA reached a tentative agreement to reopen schools almost a year after closing them during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

A heart shaped wreath is laid as part of the Floral Heart Project at Building Bridges Art Exchange in Santa Monica on Monday, March 1, 2021 as community members pay tribute to those who have died of COVID-19. The wreath laying is part of a national push for a COVID memorial day. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Movie goers at AMC Burbank 16 theaters, Mar. 15, 2021. Theaters were allowed to open in Los Angeles County today as pandemic lockdown restrictions were eased. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Holding the hand of a staff member a nine-year-old foster child anticipates being vaccinated for COVID-19 by Carina Umana, an RN with Carbon Health, at Five Acres in Altadena on Thursday, November 18, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Kindergartner Charlie Barajas, 6, waits with her mother Jillian for her first day of in person learning at Valencia Valley Elementary School in Santa Clarita on Monday, February 22, 2021 since the pandemic began. First and second graders returned on Wednesday for hybrid learning. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz | Los Angeles Daily News, SCNG #COVID-19 #BackToSchool #Saugus

As part of the City of Angels’ COVID-19 memorial called, ‘Strength + Love’, 26,872 white flags are being placed on the lawn in front of the Griffith Observatory to honor those in Los Angeles County who have died from COVID-19. The three-day virtual memorial will begin on Thursday with a variety of activities for Angelinos to take part in. More information is available at lamayor.org/COVIDMemorial (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

There were long lines of people with and without appointments at Cal State LA to get their COVID-19 vaccination in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 8, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Marylin Short has her photo taken after receiving COVID-19 vaccinations during a “Bye Bye Covid-19” vaccination party at Aegis Living of Granada Hills in Granda Hills, CA., Wednesday, January 27, 2021. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

People rally in Grand Park across from Los Angeles City Hall to protest the city’s worker COVID vaccine mandate on Monday, November 8, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Students greet each other at Olive Vista Middle School in Sylmar, CA Tuesday, January 11, 2021. Tuesday was the first day back to school for LAUSD after the winter break. Los Angeles County is currently recording a record number of COVID cases with the Omicron variant. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

River Sitone, 5, receives a mandatory COVID-19 test in August 2021. before the start of the school year in Los Angeles Unified. The district plans to loosen some of its health-and-safety protocols next semester, including requiring only non-vaccinated students to continue with weekly testing. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Panorama High School in Panorama City gets ready for students to return next month seen on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 after a LAUSD-UTLA tentative agreement to reopen schools almost a year after closing them during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Ocean Williams, 5, looks away as RN Chelsea Meyer administers a COVID-19 vaccine at the LAUSD vaccination site located at Arleta High School in Arleta, CA Monday, November 8, 2021. Ocean’s father, Aidan Williams, holds his son as he is vaccinated. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

A masked pedestrian walks along Van Nuys Blvd in Van Nuys, CA Monday, May 17, 2021. The CDC has lifted mask mandates outdoors and indoors for vaccinated people, mask mandates are still in place in Southern California. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Vicky Rios finds out during her 38th week midwife visit that her baby’s measurements have not increased since her recovery from COVID-19 putting her at risk for a home-birth on Friday, August 20, 2021 in Paramount. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The public was able to bid farewell to the late Rev. Dr. Frederick K.C. Price at the Crenshaw Christian Center
in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Price died on Feb. 12 from complications of COVID-19. Hundreds of people waited in line to pay their respects. The two-day viewing will culminate with a private family service that will be live streamed. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Even Rams mascot “Rampage” is masked up for Sunday’s game against the 49ers at SoFi Stadium Sunday, January 9, 2021. Over the weekend Los Angeles County reported a record number of COVID-19 cases. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

People protest in Woodland Hills during a statewide school walkout campaign to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates on Monday, November 15, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner gets his vaccine following a press conference at SoFi Stadium, to announce the opening of one of the nation’s largest COVID-19 vaccination sites specifically for school employees
in Inglewood on Monday, March 1, 2021. In partnership with the L.A. Rams, Anthem Blue Cross and Cedars-Sinai the site will vaccinate 12,000 employees per day. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti announce the opening of a large-scale COVID-19 vaccine site at Cal State Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. The site, set up for both drive-thru and walk-up appointments, is a joint effort between FEMA and the governor’s Office of Emergency Services to make the vaccine distribution more equitable to an area hit hard by COVID-19. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

LAUSD parents and students rallied against student COVID-19 vaccine mandates at the corner of Victory Blvd and Balboa Blvd. in Lake Balboa on Monday, October 18, 2021, in conjunction with a statewide Schools Walkout campaign. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

COVID-19 restrictions are easing up and more businesses are opening but gyms face tougher restrictions than most for operating indoors. Under puffy clouds and with temperatures below 60 degrees this group at UFC Gym
in Long Beach didn’t seem to mind the elements on Friday, March 12, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Hundreds of cars lined up outside the Long Beach Convention Center for the first day at the mass COVID-19 vaccine site in Long Beach on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

St. Francis Medical Center nurses pray during a celebration to thank the community for its support during the  COVID-19 pandemic, in Lynwood on Thursday, August 26, 2021. The event included a 75-bird white dove release, symbolizing the hospital’s 75-year legacy, its partnerships with the community, and its first-year anniversary as a member of Prime Healthcare.
(Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

Crosses in the ground at Villa Park in Pasadena, Wednesday, April, 28, 2021. The National Day Laborer Organizing Network installed 600 hand-made pine crosses at the park to represent the thousands of immigrant workers who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer talks with Darren Lee, 5, as she visits his kindergarten class to observe COVID-19 protocols at Repetto Elementary School in Monterey Park on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Jenny Malcolm, 43, of East Hollywood, passes the time making a blanket as she waits in a standby line for a COVID-19 vaccine at Balboa Park Sports Complex in Encino on Thursday, January 28, 2021. It is her second time waiting in line for the left over vaccines which can be available at the end of the day. Seniors and health care workers in the line are selected first. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Juan Dominguez of Glendale gets his COVID-19 vaccine at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson on Monday, February 15, 2021. Dignity Health, together with the LA Galaxy joined to vaccinate the underserved communities. They will administer roughly 20,000 vaccines in a week. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

The Forum is one of five Los Angeles County COVID-19 vaccinations super sites in Inglewood on Monday, January 25, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

d 2 editParade fans along Colorado Blvd. at the 133rd Rose Parade in Pasadena, CA., on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Randy Ramirez holds a wedding photo from the day he married Dawn Lari Ramirez just two years ago. His wife lost her battle with COVID-19 just two days into the new year, and the photo is predominantly displayed in their home
in Wilmington on Thursday, March 4, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

A COVID-19 message is left on a Northridge wall as seen on Thursday, January 27, 2022. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Rosa Castro, of Panorama City, shops at Walmart in Panorama City on Thursday, March 3, 2022. The CDC’s new COVID 19 thresholds are expected to put LA County in a “medium” and “low” transmission that would end the requirement to wear masks indoors in LA County. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Jesus Gomez, of Panorama City, folds his laundry in a laundromat in Panorama City on Thursday, March 3, 2022. The CDC’s new COVID 19 thresholds are expected to put LA County in a “medium” and “low” transmission that would end the requirement to wear masks indoors in LA County. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Nurse Shianne Todd prepares COVID-19 vacinattions at the Total Testing Solutions vaccination clinic at Union Station in Los Angeles, Friday, Jan 7, 2022. 400 free over-the-counter rapid COVID-19 tests were given out to people receiving vaccinations at the clinic. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

People wait in line to be tested for the COVID-19 virus in Echo Park on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Students at Granada Elementary School, part of the Alhambra Unified School District, study in class on Monday, March 14, 2022. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG))

Mike Oliti swabs his nose for a free COVID-19 test hosted by Reliant Health Services at the Betty Ainsworth Sports Center, parking lot, in Hawthorne on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. Each participant took a rapid test and a PCR test. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)

People get COVID-19 tests at a mobile testing site at Paramount Park in Paramount, CA Wednesday, January 12, 2022. Governor Gavin Newsom visited the testing site in south Los Angeles County to highlight his COVID-19 Emergency Response Package. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Pre-K students play at Beckford Charter for Enriched Studies in Northridge on Tuesday, February 22, 2022. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Porsche Carter works with her 5th grade students at Stanley Mosk Elementary school in Winnetka, CA Friday, March 11, 2022. Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District are still wearing masks while in school. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)