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A registered nurse puts on her PPE before entering a room to check on a patient in a COVID-19 unit decorated with Christmas stockings at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo on Dec. 21, 2020. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Another COVID holiday: Is California in a better place this year?

by Ana B. Ibarra and Hannah Getahun November 23, 2021November 22, 2021

The answer is no in many parts of California: Eighteen counties, mostly rural ones, have more hospitalized COVID-19 patients today than a year ago. But urban counties are faring better.

COVID misinformation plagues California’s Indigenous speakers

by Hannah Getahun November 10, 2021November 9, 2021

A close-up photograph of the CA Notify website on an iPhone.

California rolled out websites and apps to fight COVID-19 — did they work?

by Grace Gedye November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

Mobile vaccination teams visited Los Angeles Unified school campuses to deliver first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, as students returned to in-person classes in Los Angeles on Aug. 30, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Young children can receive COVID vaccines soon. Here’s what you need to know

by Ana B. Ibarra November 3, 2021November 3, 2021

A Fluzone influenza vaccine at Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy in San Francisco on Jan. 9, 2018. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

COVID and the flu: Is a ‘twindemic’ threat lurking again?

by Ana B. Ibarra October 21, 2021October 20, 2021

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Hospitals brace for strikes as California workers protest staff shortages

by Kristen Hwang October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

Shlomo Rechnitz nursing home suit over COVID deaths reflects ‘broken state licensing’

by Jocelyn Wiener October 4, 2021October 4, 2021

Sisters Guadalupe Flores, 15, right, and Estela Flores, 13, left, from East Los Angeles, get vaccinated with the Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine by licensed vocational nurse Rita Orozco at Esteban E. Torres High School in Los Angeles. The city has required all students 12 and older to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus to participate in on-campus instruction. Now the state of California is following with its own mandate. Photo by Damian Dovarganes, AP Photo

Student COVID vaccinations: California becomes first state to require them for kids 12 and up

by Joe Hong October 1, 2021October 1, 2021

Registered Nurse Reanne Takara administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to frontline health workers at UC Davis Medical Center on Dec. 15, 2020. Photo courtesy of UC Davis Health

California vaccine mandate: Most health care workers are complying, hospitals say

by Kristen Hwang September 29, 2021September 29, 2021

Maria Jimenez swabs her 7 year old daughter, Glendy Perez, for a COVID-19 test at Canal Alliance in San Rafael on Sept. 25, 2021. Photo by Penni Gladstone for CalMatters

Rapid COVID-19 tests in short supply in California

by Kristen Hwang September 27, 2021September 27, 2021