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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

Several efforts are underway to cut insulin costs in California. Photo by George Frey, REUTERS

Plans to curb California insulin costs abound. Will anything get done this year?

by Ana B. Ibarra April 8, 2022April 7, 2022

‘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

Amanda Arellano, 17, left, and her mother Maria, right, at a park near their home in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, 2022. Amanda said she believes schools need to focus more are helping students with mental health struggles that have been caused by the pandemic. “Especially those with special needs, we are the community who have been much more impacted, especially with physical and mental problems,” she said. Amanda has autism, cerebral palsy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Amanda said the start of the pandemic had more positives because it brought more resources for distance learning and the schools had more resources for mental health, but she feels that those things have faded with time and with classes now being in-person again. Photo by Alisha Jucevic for CalMatters

When children suffer: California to funnel billions into mental health overhaul

by Jocelyn Wiener March 17, 2022March 17, 2022

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Millions of Californians at risk of losing health coverage when federal COVID programs end

by Ana B. Ibarra March 4, 2022March 4, 2022

Governor Gavin Newsom speaking at press conference

Newsom’s ‘new strategy’ would force some homeless, mentally ill Californians into treatment

by Jocelyn Wiener March 3, 2022March 3, 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