California
A new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found that just four percent of California voters listed COVID-19 as the most important issue for the state to address, with housing affordability, homelessness, crime and gas prices dominating the priorities - and climate change ranking below fuel costs…
Food banks across the state are seeing an influx of new faces as spikes in the cost of groceries and gas have some Californians seeking help for the first time…
Six weeks after Gov. Newsom unveiled a far-reaching effort to push more people into court-ordered treatment for severe mental illness and addiction, homeless advocates are calling it legally misguided and immoral at the proposal’s first public hearing at the state Capitol yesterday, 4/27…
New rules for the state's major web-access project define precisely what affordable means when it comes to an internet plan…
Highlighting a growing trend as California’s severe drought extends into a third summer, 1.4 million East Bay residents will see new crackdowns on water use - the first since 2016 - under rules approved yesterday, 4/26…
California witnessed 367 incidents of antisemitic hate and harassment last year, part of a record national spike that observers fear will only continue in 2022, as right-wing extremism ricochets online and fringe groups pop up throughout the Bay Area…
Among the 17 states where population declined over the year, losses were greatest in New York (-1.58%), Illinois (-0.89%), Hawaii (-0.71%) and California (-0.66%). Losses in these states were driven by people moving away…
California wants electric vehicle sales to triple in the next four years to 35 percent of all new car purchases, an aggressive target set as part of the goal to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars by the middle of next decade…
Online platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube would face added legal obligations to protect children and teens under a bill being considered in California’s legislature…
Two newly introduced bills could significantly impact the early education landscape in California if they eventually become law…
Coronavirus
The vice president tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, 4/26, her office announced…
California is no longer recommending a five-day quarantine period for people who are exposed to COVID-19 but remain asymptomatic…
The United States is finally “out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase” that has led to nearly one million deaths from COVID-19 and more than two years of suffering and hardship, Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said this morning, 4/27…
Yesterday, 4/26, the White House made a push for more COVID-19 patients to get treated with Pfizer's Paxlovid as hundreds of people in the U.S. continue to die from the virus every day…
The Biden administration is expected to renew its pressure campaign on Congress to fund testing, treatments, therapeutics and prevention of future surges of COVID-19 as lawmakers return this week…
Small-business owners are bristling over a congressional proposal that would redirect unspent money from COVID-19 programs to provide $10 billion for the federal government’s pandemic health response, including vaccines and therapeutics…
The California Supreme Court must clarify the novel question arising from the COVID-19 pandemic of whether a company can be held liable for the spread of the COVID-19 virus to an employee’s household, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in an order last week…
Members of Congress sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Monday, 4/25, asking whether the agency intended to delay reviewing Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children five years old and younger and for “the scientific basis and any other rationale” for such an action…
A booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech significantly increased the level of neutralizing antibodies against both the original version of the virus and the Omicron variant in a small trial of children ages five to 11, the companies announced on Thursday, 4/21…
Infants born during the pandemic produced significantly fewer vocalizations and had less verbal back-and-forth with their caretakers compared to those born before COVID-19, according to independent studies by Brown University and a national nonprofit focused on early language development…
Vaccination coverage for kindergartners dropped across the country in the 2020-2021 school year, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday, 4/21, part of a worrying decline in childhood immunization since the start of the pandemic…
Moderna said its modified COVID-19 booster shot, designed to target two strains of COVID-19, generated a strong immune response against multiple variants of concern, including Omicron…