As cases appear in the United States and the cases increase worldwide, the university made the decision to close down the campus and convert to remote learning to avoid spread on campus.
The closure of campus facilities including the library led this graduate student to seek alternate study spaces and conduct their research without the oral histories they had planned.
In April 2019, the University Library was the site of a measles exposure which suspended operations for nearly a week until students and faculty were tested or vaccinated.
Cal State LA continued to serve as a center for public health in the 1980s by offering flu vaccines much in the same way it had offered polio vaccines in the 1960s.
Sponsored jointly by the NAACP and Anheuser-Busch, Cal State LA offered free testing for Sickle Cell Anemia and other diseases on campus during the 1980s.