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Amaya Palestino, 6, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at one of St. John’s Well Child and Family Center mobile health clinics in Los Angeles on March 16, 2022. California is backing away from COVID vaccine mandates for kids. Photo by Alisha Jucevic for CalMatters

California backs away from COVID vaccine mandates for kids

by Elizabeth Aguilera April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

The state decides it won’t require COVID vaccines for children this fall, and a bill to mandate kids vaccines without personal belief exemptions stalls out.

‘An enormous disabling event’: Long COVID could have inequitable impact on Californians

by Ana B. Ibarra March 24, 2022March 23, 2022

Overdue: State owes community clinics millions for COVID vaccinations

by Kristen Hwang March 18, 2022March 18, 2022

An Oakland resident receives a COVID-19 vaccination at the La Clinica de la Raza community vaccination site in Oakland on Jan. 4, 2022. Photo by Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters

California legislators propose new slate of COVID-19 vaccine laws

by Elizabeth Aguilera March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

A health care worker points while a person wearing a protective face mask waits in line to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the L.A. Care Health Plan vaccination site at the First African Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on Jan. 29, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Old data? CDC apparently misjudged California’s COVID risks

by Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra March 2, 2022March 1, 2022

LAUSD Board Member Tanya Ortiz Franklin helps students on the first day back at school for LAUSD students following the COVID-19 remote school period in Los Angeles on Aug. 16, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

California mask mandate for schools to end after March 11

by Joe Hong February 28, 2022March 2, 2022

George Dowell, 40, receives the COVID-19 vaccine at Umoja Health pop-up clinic in Oakland on Thursday, February 17, 2022. The clinic works to vaccinate Black community members against COVID-19 by hosting pop-up sites staffed by people from the community. Photo by Marissa Leshnov for CalMatters

COVID-19 has turned deadlier for Black Californians, who have the state’s lowest vaccination rate

by Kristen Hwang February 25, 2022February 24, 2022

Renata Garza-Silva, a teacher in Los Angeles, poses for a portrait inside her classroom on Thurs. Feb. 17, 2022. Garza Photo by Lauren Justice for CalMatters

‘We don’t count’: The Californians who can’t return to normal as COVID fatigue grips state

by Ana B. Ibarra February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

Governor Gavin Newsom discusses the next phase of the state’s comprehensive pandemic response, California’s SMARTER Plan, at a press conference in Fontana on Feb. 17, 2022. The press conference took place in one of many warehouses where PPE supplies are stored. Photo by Alisha Jucevic for CalMatters

Out of the COVID crisis, but California is still in a state of emergency

by Alexei Koseff February 18, 2022February 18, 2022

Eddie Daniels administers rapid COVID-19 tests at Greater St. Paul Church in downtown Oakland on Jan. 4, 2022. Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters

‘SMARTER’: Newsom administration outlines future plans for COVID

by Ana B. Ibarra and Kristen Hwang February 17, 2022February 17, 2022