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Author Archives: Elizabeth Aguilera

Elizabeth Aguilera is an award-winning multimedia journalist who covers health and social services for CalMatters. She joined CalMatters in 2016 from Southern California Public Radio/KPCC 89.3 where she produced stories about community health. Her reporting there revealed lead-tainted soil on school campuses near a former lead battery recycling plant that spurred district action. Previously Aguilera was a staff writer at the San Diego Union-Tribune where she covered immigration and demographics. At the U-T, she won a “Best of the West” award for her coverage of sex trafficking between Mexico and the United States. At the Denver Post, where Aguilera wrote about urban affairs and business, she was named a Livingston Award finalist for her reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Aguilera has also worked at the Orange County Register. She is a Marshall Memorial Fellow and an International Center for Journalists alum. She is also a lifetime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. The L.A. native is a graduate of Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles.

elizabeth@calmatters.org
A man wearing disposable gloves and a bandana over his face walks past a boarded up shop on Haight Street in San Francisco on April 7, 2020. California is entering the fourth week of sheltering in place to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, and the number of Californians hospitalized and those in ICUs with COVID-19 is starting to edge up only slightly. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inCoronavirus

Wary optimism: Small uptick of COVID-19 Californians in hospital and intensive care

by Elizabeth Aguilera April 10, 2020April 11, 2020
Joshua Martin and his two children, 4-year-old Olivia and 9-year-old Matthew, play Jumanji with their grandmother Shelley McCall. McCall has been babysitting the children since schools closed because Martin and his wife are both healthcare workers but they worry about her health. Photo courtesy the Martin Family
Posted inHealth

California eases child care regulations for critical workers

by Elizabeth Aguilera April 6, 2020June 8, 2020
Linda Soares, left, helps her son, Daniel, 16, with his history homework at their dining room table. Soares says that she has been able to learn from her son’s school aid, who is a friend, on how to best assist him with his class work. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inK-12 Education

Coronavirus stretches California’s special education system to the brink

Avatar photo by Elizabeth Aguilera and Ricardo Cano March 31, 2020March 31, 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.
Posted inCoronavirus

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

Avatar photo by Julie Cart, Elizabeth Aguilera and Ana B. Ibarra March 30, 2020March 30, 2020
Childrens’ cubbies at Happy face family preschool. Director/Owner Elena Ramirez hopes to fill vacancies with the children of first responders and other essential workers who must still go to work. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inCoronavirus

As coronavirus upends California, question remains: Who’ll watch the kids?

by Elizabeth Aguilera March 21, 2020June 8, 2020
Maria Castellanos, 75, cares for her grandson Valentino, 5, while he is out of school. Elk Grove Unified closed all district schools until March 13 after a student tested positive for COVID-19. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inHealth

Quarantine grandma? California families scramble as coronavirus hits

by Elizabeth Aguilera and Judy Lin March 11, 2020June 8, 2020
Students walk near Meiklejohn Hall at California State University East Bay. Al Cal State campuses will begin requiring and ethnic studies course for graduation under a new law. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inHealth

California schools brace for a coronavirus disruption

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ricardo Cano, Felicia Mello and Elizabeth Aguilera February 29, 2020March 16, 2020
Nurse Practitioner Surani Hayre-Kwan, left, and nurse practitioner student Kristina Crichton during an office visit with patient John Donaldson, a Guerneville resident who relies on Hayre-Kawn as his primary care provider. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inHealth

Facing doctor shortage, will California give nurse practitioners more authority to treat patients?

by Elizabeth Aguilera February 13, 2020February 13, 2020
Jorge Hernandez, 21, vapes near the UC Berkeley campus. California's Legislature has rejected past attempts to restrict vaping flavors, which attract younger users. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inHealth

California lawmakers have refused to restrict flavored vaping — is that about to change?

by Elizabeth Aguilera February 4, 2020February 4, 2020
A pharmacy tech fills prescriptions at La Clinica in Oakland on September 26, 2019. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inHealth

Gov. Gavin Newsom to propose that California manufacture its own generic drugs

by Judy Lin and Elizabeth Aguilera January 9, 2020July 8, 2020

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