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

Unboosted: California COVID-19 booster rate falls below 40% in most counties

by Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra January 7, 2022January 7, 2022

Did California get its money’s worth from $1.7 billion COVID test contract?

by Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra December 16, 2021April 20, 2022

People walk down a street in Laguna Beach on May 17, 2021. California won't lift its mask requirement until June 15 to give the public and businesses time to prepare and ensure cases stay low, state Health Director Mark Ghaly said Monday. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

California mandates masks again

by Ana B. Ibarra December 13, 2021January 12, 2022

Pedestrians walk past a sign for a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Los Angeles on August 17, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

First US omicron infection found in San Francisco

by Kristen Hwang December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

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

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