California
Today is the final day of California’s statewide indoor mask mandate as the COVID-19 rate has dipped to 6.2 percent…
Newsom says kids' low vaccination rates are holding up school mask changes…
California’s subsidized preschool program may be open to children as young as two if the expansion of services in Gov. Newsom’s proposed budget comes to pass…
The U.S. Department of Justice is signaling it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites - safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses…
California’s COVID-19 sick leave bill, which the Legislature passed last week, doesn’t apply to small employers with 25 or fewer workers…
The California Student Aid Commission on Thursday, 2/10, reported a year-over-year decline in financial aid application completions among high school and undocumented students with just three weeks left before a major financial aid deadline, March 2…
The field is now officially set in the LA mayoral race…
Coronavirus
With COVID-19 cases still high nationwide, "now is not the moment" to drop mask mandates in schools and other public places, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said last week…
On Friday, 2/11, the CDC updated its guidance for some people with weakened immune systems, recommending they get a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine three months after completing the initial series of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna shots, rather than the current interval of five months…
A large-scale scientific study found that COVID-19 patients were at “substantial” risk of heart disease one year after their illness, increasing the odds of clots, arrhythmias, heart failure and related conditions…
COVID-19 can cause “irreparable damage” to the placenta - the organ that serves as a fetus’s lifeline - and lead to stillbirth, according to a study published Thursday, 2/10, in the journal Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine…
Pfizer-BioNTech on Friday, 2/11, said they were delaying their request for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize their COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5 until early April, waiting on more data on the effectiveness of a third dose…
California Department of Public Health study published by the CDC found that people who reported always wearing face masks or respirators, such as N95 masks, in public indoor settings were significantly less likely to later test positive for COVID-19 than people who said they never wore masks in such places…
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously earlier this month to fully recommend the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for adults 18 and older…