California
The average amount owed by the paused borrowers is $36,800. The average age of the borrower is 36, with 15 percent over 50…
Evictions can resume on Friday, 4/1, for California tenants who haven’t made rent, even if they’re still waiting on COVID-19-related rent relief to come through…
The state says it will take seven years to make its remaining 73 properties available; however, the report detailed how hiring one more staff member could cut that time by roughly two years…
The Sierra snowpack has shriveled to somewhere between a third and less than half of its annual average, reservoir levels are plummeting and federal statistics put almost all of the state in a severe drought…
Coronavirus
The U.S. could yet again find itself with too few COVID-19 tests if Congress fails to authorize new funds and cases surge, warn White House officials, diagnostic manufacturers and public health experts…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light today, 3/29, to a second COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for people aged 50 and older in an effort to ward off another potential spike in infections due to a subvariant of Omicron…
Moderna is requesting that the FDA authorize a smaller dose of its COVID-19 vaccine for children six months to under six years old, the company announced last week…
In the first study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Northern California researchers analyzed the electronic medical records of 43,886 pregnant women who delivered from March 1, 2020, to March 16, 2021…
Those with “chemo brain” have a life-threatening disease for which they’ve taken toxic drugs or radiation…
An experiment overseen by the Hume foundation think tank compared COVID-19 contagion in 10,441 classrooms in Italy's central Marche region…
The CDC said it made adjustments to its COVID Data Tracker's mortality data earlier this month because its algorithm was accidentally counting deaths that were not COVID-19-related…
Researchers testing repurposed drugs against COVID-19 found that ivermectin didn’t reduce hospital admissions, in the largest trial yet of the effect of the antiparasitic on the disease driving the pandemic…
Jeff Zients, an entrepreneur and management consultant who steered President Biden’s COVID-19 response through successive pandemic waves and the largest vaccination campaign in American history, plans to leave the White House in April to return to private life…