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Registered nurse Kyanna Barboza, right, tends to a COVID-19 patient as Kobie Walsh puts on her PPE at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Photo by Jae C. Hong, AP

California on track for worst COVID surge yet

by Emily Hoeven January 14, 2022January 14, 2022

State public health officials project that in this California COVID surge, more than 70,000 will be hospitalized at the end of January.

Patients are held in the hallway as St.Mary Medical Center resorts to using tents outside to handle the overflow at its 200 bed hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Apple Valley on Jan. 12, 2021. Photo by Mike Blake/REUTERS

California hospitals buckle under patient surge, sick staff

by Emily Hoeven January 13, 2022January 13, 2022

Long lines of people wait for over two hours for a COVID-19 test at a testing site in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 2022. Photo by Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters

California teeters on edge of more COVID shutdowns

by Emily Hoeven January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

Gov. Gavin Newsom addressed the media during a press conference where he unveiled his budget proposal for 2022-23 in Sacramento on Jan. 10, 2022.

Newsom stops short of single-payer health care — but lawmakers forge ahead

by Emily Hoeven January 11, 2022January 11, 2022

Gov. Gavin Newsom announces a new requirement for all school teachers and employees to show proof of vaccination or to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing at a press conference held at Carl B. Munck Elementary School in Oakland on Aug. 11, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Newsom proposes $2.7 billion for COVID response

by Emily Hoeven January 10, 2022January 10, 2022

Dr. Shura Alexis Moreno sees a patient at Gabriel Medical Center in East Los Angeles on Sept. 14, 2021. Jessica Pons for CalMatters

Tax hikes for universal health care in California?

by Emily Hoeven January 7, 2022January 7, 2022

Gaby Solorio receives a COVID-19 rapid test at Greater St. Paul Church in downtown Oakland on January 4, 2022. Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters

California admits to COVID blind spot

by Emily Hoeven January 6, 2022January 6, 2022

A San Francisco police department vehicle stands in front of the Dyson store in Union Square on Nov. 24, 2021. Videos on social media showed masked people running with goods from several high-end retailers in the storied shopping area. Photo by Samuel Rigelhaupt/Sipa USA

Prop. 47 targeted by Dem, GOP lawmakers

by Emily Hoeven January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, a San Diego Democrat, says goodbye to colleagues after she announced her resignation from the state assembly today. January 3, 2022. Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters

Labor’s top ally resigns from Legislature

by Emily Hoeven January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

Assemblymembers bow their heads for the convocation at the start of the second-to-last day of the 2021 legislative session at the California State Capitol on Sept. 9, 2021. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

Amid omicron, California braces for a big year in 2022

by Emily Hoeven January 3, 2022January 3, 2022