Health

As we experience the holidays in the time of COVID-19, let’s keep the most vulnerable in mind and remember that suicide is preventable.

A model calculates a 12% chance that a guest at a small dinner party in Napa Valley is infected with the virus. Whether indoors or outdoors, dining in a restaurant is “amongst the riskiest things we do for COVID,” a UC San Francisco health expert said.

Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a new round of curfews from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. to slow the spread of the coronavirus in California. Businesses say they have already altered hours to comply with health restrictions and some county sheriff's offices plan not to enforce.

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, November 19. Spend or save? Even with a rosier-than-expected budget forecast, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers have some hard choices ahead of them. Wealthy Californians who made financial gains amid the pandemic and a booming stock market helped the state reap $26 billion in one-time surplus funds, according to […]

Un estudio en el condado de Orange revela una mayor prevalencia de COVID-19 en las comunidades minoritarias y muestra las disparidades en la atención médica.

California’s positivity rate of 3.7% “may sound great” compared with other states, the governor said, but he warned people to keep up their guards.

Lawmakers need to recognize the benefits of digital technologies – from advanced telehealth platforms to everyday services for patients.

The state’s Division of Juvenile Justice will no longer accept newly convicted young people after July 2021 in a shutdown quickly signed off on by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

We continue to see no action or purposeful decision-making to prioritize the needs and public health of communities around the Salton Sea.

California has had strong leadership in the COVID-19 pandemic. But, like other states, we are struggling to get COVID-19 data right.  Between the disclosure of a missing backlog of a quarter of a million lab results and announcement of a $15.3 million six-month contract with Optum to fix COVID-19 data, California is reckoning with health […]