Covid-19

Gov. Gavin Newsom broke his nearly two-week silence on Tuesday to make two key points: California is seeing an uptick in coronavirus cases that could signal the start of a worrisome winter surge, and California’s economy “continues to dominate” the rest of the country’s. Newsom made the remarks at the California Economic Summit in Monterey, […]

Health officials have tried to reach out to hundreds of thousands of people speaking Mixteco and other Indigenous languages but barriers remain, leaving them vulnerable to COVID.

En resumen Los funcionarios de salud han tratado de llegar a cientos de miles de personas que hablan mixteco y otras lenguas indígenas, pero persisten barreras que las deja vulnerables al COVID. Read this article in English.  Ismael Patia y su familia llegaron a una clínica de vacunación en el centro de Fresno un sábado por […]

Will California’s strict vaccine rules help bring an end to the pandemic that has disproportionately ravaged communities of color — or further entrench and widen those longstanding disparities? Answering that question is an increasingly urgent task for elected leaders and public health officials: Starting today, customers must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 […]

U.S. gave final approval Tuesday for children ages 5 to 11. In some California counties, they can be vaccinated as soon as today.

California renewed a huge contract for a COVID-19 testing lab so plagued with problems that state health officials warned it could lose its license.

Welcome to California’s vaccine rollout, part two: the booster and kids edition. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday received a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine, about seven months after getting the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The move reflects the “mix-and-match” strategy approved late last week by federal regulators and a group of Western public […]

When state lawmakers reconvene in January, we urge them to consider legislation that can help track anti-Asian Pacific Islander hate crimes, including setting up a multilingual hate crimes hotline.

Experts hope continued masking will reduce this season’s dual threat of COVID and flu.

California school districts have two choices: Bite the bullet and make budget cuts now, or delay them and face even more painful decisions.