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When news of the pandemic first reached the men incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in central California, inmate Ed Welker said the prevailing mood was panic. “We were like, ‘Yeah, it’s going to come in here and it’s going to spread like wildfire and we’re all going to get it,’” he said. “And that’s exactly what happened.” Almost a year […]
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The coronavirus pandemic doomed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plans last year to combat homelessness, expand behavioral health services and create a state agency to control soaring health care costs. But even as the pandemic continues to rage, California’s Democratic governor said Friday he plans to push forward with those goals in the coming year, due to a […]
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration and the state’s hospital association are at odds over how best to create space for critically ill coronavirus patients at already strained medical facilities that soon could be overwhelmed by the expected surge of new cases from holiday gatherings. A surge following Halloween and Thanksgiving produced record hospitalizations and now the most seriously ill of […]
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In the United States, Black, Latino and low-income communities have historically lacked nearby access to pharmacy services. To provide the first record of these “pharmacy deserts” in Los Angeles County, a University of California, Irvine study identified communities where the nearest pharmacy was at least one mile away. Unlike previous studies, this one describes pharmacy deserts in terms of social […]
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A record-breaking 131,000 coronavirus hospitalizations were recorded in the United States on Tuesday. In hard-hit Los Angeles County, hospitals began running out of oxygen and paramedics were told not to bring patients to a hospital if they showed little hope of survival. “We’re no longer a wave or surge, or surge upon a surge. We really are in the middle […]
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The vast region of Southern California, much of the San Francisco Bay area and a large swath of the Central Valley are about to be placed under a sweeping new lockdown in an urgent attempt to slow the rapid rise of coronavirus cases. The California Department of Public Health said Saturday the intensive care unit capacity in Southern California and […]
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Fox News Flash top headlines for October 8 A coronavirus outbreak at a skilled nursing facility on California’s central coast has killed nine people and infected more than 60 residents and staff, health officials said Wednesday. The outbreak at the Watsonville Post Acute Center in Santa Cruz County comes as the rates of new COVID-19 cases fall in that county […]
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Colorado’s relatively clear air over the last few days could turn hazardous again as shifting weather patterns favor in-state fires and bring in smoke from California, state officials warned Wednesday. Scott Landes, an air quality meteorologist with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said he doesn’t anticipate the smoke will get so bad that the state has to […]
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On March 12 (Thursday) California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a new executive order to help curb the spread of coronavirus. The order waives the normal waiting period for receiving benefits for those who are newly unemployed or disabled due to COVID-19. One provision also allows the state to take private property if needed to combat the virus. Newsom also stressed […]
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