Public Health

A new California law that took effect this year further restricted questionable medical exemptions and cracked down on doctors who granted them outside of accepted medical guidelines.

The evolving federal timeline has complicated an already enormous challenge for a state as large and diverse as California: how to distribute a brand new vaccine to millions of residents?

A still rampaging coronavirus pandemic means schools have spent gobs of money just to add the necessary protective equipment and cleaning staff necessary for a safe and effective school reopening.

Foster Farms shut down its main chicken processing facility in Livingston on Tuesday evening amid a coronavirus outbreak that health officials say has claimed the lives of at least eight workers. About 1,400 employees were sent home with pay until at least Monday, Sept. 7, according to a statement by the company. They will be tested […]

The Foster Farms chicken plant in Livingston continued to operate, despite a Merced County Health Department order to shut down, according to a statement released by Foster Farms Friday morning. The Merced County Health Department ordered the Foster Farms Livingston Facility to shut down on Wednesday after officials said the company repeatedly failed to comply with COVID-19 […]

The Merced County Health Department ordered the Foster Farms Livingston Facility to shut down over the largest and most severe COVID-19 outbreak in Merced County, according to a statement released on Thursday by the health department. The shutdown order came Wednesday. However, late Thursday, Mike North, Merced County’s spokesperson, said county officials issued a 48-hour […]

El contagio del coronavirus ha sido masivo en lugares de trabajos esenciales en toda California, pero muchos condados no informan al público sobre estos brotes, lo que plantea interrogantes sobre a quiénes se está protegiendo en verdad.

Californians are suffering under the confusing and ever-changing messages from the top-down rather than being guided by their local circumstances.

The governor’s Healthy California For All Commission is creating a roadmap to transform the state’s broken health care delivery system.

Though Newsom wouldn’t cite the data glitch as the sole reason for Sunday’s resignation of Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the state Department of Public Health, the governor said it was appropriate for him to accept her resignation.