California
Tens of millions of ballots began rippling out from election headquarters to voters yesterday, 5/9, launching the state’s latest round of universal mail voting…
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order on Wednesday, 5/4, intended to spur blockchain innovation, making the Golden State the first in the U.S. to start creating a regulatory framework for Web3 companies…
California cities and counties are preparing to pay for abortions, lodging, or both as they anticipate an influx of travelers from states that will ban the procedure if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade…
Torrid heat, raging wildfires and prolonged drought are putting California residents at increased risk of power outages, officials said Friday, 5/6, as extreme weather driven by climate change puts additional stress on the state’s already-taxed energy grid…
Coronavirus
The U.S. on Wednesday, 5/4, surpassed one million COVID-19 deaths…
California has seen a 50 percent increase in cases over the past two weeks…
California kids 12 and older are one step closer to being able to get vaccinated without parental consent after a key legislative committee on Thursday, 5/5, passed a controversial bill on a 7-0 vote despite hundreds of people expressing fierce opposition…
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended travelers continue to wear masks in airplanes, trains and airports despite a judge's April 18 order declaring the 14-month-old transportation mask mandate unlawful…
The White House could run out of COVID-19 vaccines if it moves forward with plans to encourage all adults to get a second COVID-19 vaccine booster dose by roughly Sept. 1, according to a tranche of budget documents sent to Congress…
The Department of Transportation has released updated FAQs for COVID-19 State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) imposed new restrictions Thursday, 5/5, on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, saying the risk of a rare and life-threatening blood clot syndrome outweighed the benefits of the vaccine for people who are 18 or older and can get another shot, unless they would otherwise remain unvaccinated…
The FDA has announced a tentative schedule for vaccine advisory meetings: June 8, 21, 22, for the use of Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech in younger populations…
The latest KFF COVID Vaccine Monitor has found that only 18 percent of parents with children under five years old are eager to get their child vaccinated right away and 38 percent say they plan to wait a while to see how the vaccine is working for others…
People who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 may be left with difficulties in thinking comparable in magnitude to aging 20 years, according to one UK study…
New data from the EdWeek Research Center show that 19 percent of teachers, principals, and district leaders surveyed say they have contracted long COVID…
A study of more than 6,000 women who gave birth in Canada during the pandemic suggests that those infected with COVID-19 were at higher risk for hospitalization and intensive care unit admission than those of nonpregnant women of childbearing age…
The sensitivity of home rapid antigen COVID-19 tests peaks four days after symptom onset, suggesting that a negative antigen test should be followed by a second test in 1 or 2 days…