Weekly CA-COVID Update 5/24/22

California

Being a California resident can save you a lot of money at the University of California - about $30,000 in tuition per year…

A diversion program in Los Angeles designed to keep mentally ill, addicted or homeless adults out of jail and instead provide treatment and housing is having little success, according to statistics provided by police officials…

Traffic deaths in California surged by 10.7 percent in 2021 relative to 2020, mirroring a grim upward trend observed nationwide, according to estimates released last week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration…

Gov. Newsom threatened yesterday, 5/23, to impose mandatory water restrictions if residents don’t use less on their own as a drought worsens and the hotter summer months approach…

The undergrounding project, costing $3.75 million a mile, represents the beginning of a 10,000-mile-long effort by Pacific Gas and Electric to bury the state’s distribution lines to cope with the growing risk of winds and wildfires linked to global warming…

Gov. Newsom signed a bill yesterday, 5/23, to raise the amount of money that patients can receive in medical malpractice cases…

Coronavirus

The youngest children have been most affected by lockdowns and closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, with new research finding that the educational progress and social development of four- and five-year-olds suffered severely during their first year at school…

Pfizer-BioNTech’s new three-dose COVID-19 vaccine for children under five years old is 80 percent effective at staving off infection, including from the Omicron variant, the companies announced yesterday, 5/23…

Some COVID-19-positive patients who have completed treatment of the anti-COVID drug Paxlovid are rebounding into illness, and experts are urging people to be cautious if they develop COVID-like symptoms again and become infectious…