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New findings on mental recovery from COVID | San Francisco Chronicle

A new study from UCLA researchers has found that while people with COVID-19 symptoms typically recovered physically within three months, many continued to struggle with mental well-being for up to nine months. Even a year later, one in five participants still reported poor overall health. (UCLA’s Lauren Wisk was quoted.)

Mental health amid ICE activity | KABC-TV

“[It’s] very understandable to feel fear. How could they not make all of us feel powerless and terrified?” said UCLA’s Jenna Lee. “There’s so much power that we have in community and staying connected.”

Mexican flag becomes a potent L.A. protest symbol | New York Times

“They’re the children and grandchildren of immigrants,” said Chris Zepeda-Millán, a professor of Chicano studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied the immigrants rights movement in California. “They have no doubt in their own citizenship or their own belonging here, but they understand the racial undertones of the attacks on immigrants,” he said.

California sues Trump over sending National Guard | KQED-FM

Ahilan Arulanantham, faculty co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, said Trump’s justification of military deployment could set a dangerous precedent. “If every time there’s a few people who throw rocks or lie down in front of ICE cars or something, that that’s a form of rebellion — then that essentially means that we can live in something akin to a military dictatorship,” Arulanantham said on KQED’s Forum.

Arizona teachers could soon be sued for what they say | Arizona Republic

First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Law, said the parts of the bill banning what teachers couldn’t teach in K-12 were probably OK. However, courts could find the bill’s definition of antisemitism too vague to warrant punishment like termination, he added.

Morning anxiety is real. Here’s what to do about it | Washington Post

“It can feel like this fog of confusing and unpleasant emotion,” said Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, an associate professor of psychiatry at UCLA.