Author Archives: Ana B. Ibarra

Ana covers health policy and the COVID-19 pandemic. She joined CalMatters in 2020 after four years at Kaiser Health News. She started her reporting career at McClatchy’s Merced Sun-Star. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and many other state and national news outlets.

ana@calmatters.org

A worker at the Firehouse Clinic looks out a window at a testing site for the COVID-19 virus along Huntwood Avenue near Fire Station 7 in Hayward. The state is now allowing all uninsured Californians to be tested and treated for COVID-19 at community clinics and health centers, regardless of immigration status. Photo by Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group

California’s undocumented workers to get $125 million coronavirus disaster relief

by Ana B. Ibarra April 15, 2020April 16, 2020

Retired paramedic Jane Smith, who has signed up for the California Health Corps, poses for a portrait at her home in San Francisco. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

These California medical workers are signing up for Newsom’s health corps — despite risks

by Ana B. Ibarra April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

california coronavirus hospitals

Listen: California hospitals prep for coronavirus — and life afterward

by Ana B. Ibarra April 3, 2020April 3, 2020

USNS Mercy hospital ship admit first patients on March 29, 2020. The ship is treating non-COVID-19 patients in an effort to relieve overwhelmed Los Angeles area hospitals.

California starts recruiting retired and student doctors, nurses to handle surge in severely sick people

by Julie Cart, Elizabeth Aguilera and Ana B. Ibarra March 30, 2020March 30, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference in the state capitol following the first COVID-19 death in California. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

California ramps up output of ventilators as COVID-19 cases grow

by Nigel Duara and Ana B. Ibarra March 28, 2020March 29, 2020

COVID-19 testing at San Francisco Department of Public Health laboratory. Photo by Tyrone Jue courtesy of San Francisco Department of Public Health

48,600 coronavirus test results still pending in California

by Rachel Becker and Ana B. Ibarra March 25, 2020March 26, 2020

Health care personnel test a person in the passenger seat of a car for coronavirus at a Kaiser Permanente medical center parking lot in San Francisco, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo

Coronavirus in California by the numbers

by Ana B. Ibarra, Elizabeth Castillo and Erica Yee March 24, 2020June 30, 2021

UCSF workers erect Accelerated Care Units (ACU) outside the Parnassus emergency room to provide a negative pressure environment to house patients with respiratory symptoms

How overwhelmed is California’s health care system about to be?

by Rachel Becker, Ana B. Ibarra and Judy Lin March 18, 2020March 22, 2020

COVID-19 testing at the San Francisco Department of Public Health laboratory. Photo by Tyrone Jue courtesy of San Francisco Department of Public health

Where California stands with coronavirus testing right now

by Rachel Becker and Ana B. Ibarra March 18, 2020March 21, 2020

Surge tents are set up in front of the Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, California, United States on March 6, 2020. The tents were brought in just in case there is a possible surge in novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases.

Legislature passes $1.1 billion in emergency coronavirus funding — then leaves the Capitol

by Laurel Rosenhall, Rachel Becker and Ana B. Ibarra March 16, 2020March 17, 2020