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Possible bird flu infection reported in California child, health department reports
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Possible bird flu infection reported in California child, health department reports

Salon  

The state of California has detected a possible bird flu infection in a child in the Bay Area. The bird flu crisis, driven by the H5N1 virus, began several years ago, but ramped up considerably in April when dairy cows started becoming infected. Related Emails reveal how health departments struggle to track human cases of bird flu Although there have …

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Mosquito-borne virus spreads at 'unprecedented' levels in L.A.
3 months, 1 week ago

Mosquito-borne virus spreads at 'unprecedented' levels in L.A.

LA Times  

About 1 in 20 people infected with dengue will become severely ill, facing complications such as shock, internal bleeding or respiratory failure. The worry, though, is “if there are enough infected mosquitoes, it could lead to exponential spread,” said Dr. Aiman Halai, director of the L.A. County Department of Public Health’s Vector-Borne Disease Unit. The World Health Organization warned last …

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COVID-19 cases rising again in California
5 months, 1 week ago

COVID-19 cases rising again in California

China Daily  

California is experiencing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, with recent data indicating a sharp increase in the levels of coronavirus in wastewater across the state. For the seven-day period ending July 20, the wastewater levels were at 93 percent of the peak in the summer of 2022 and have already surpassed last summer's peak. Elizabeth Hudson, regional chief of infectious …

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California ‘overdue’ for whooping cough outbreak as cases spike across U.S.
7 months ago

California ‘overdue’ for whooping cough outbreak as cases spike across U.S.

LA Times  

An infant gets a vaccination in Fayetteville, Ga., in this 2021 photo. It’s been five years since the last major outbreak of whooping cough in California, but the disease is on the rise. And in California, case counts “have been higher during the first several months of 2024 than in the prior several years,” the state Department of Public Health …

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Parenting classes are routinely ordered in child abuse cases. California isn’t ensuring they work
1 year ago

Parenting classes are routinely ordered in child abuse cases. California isn’t ensuring they work

LA Times  

A photo of Noah Cuatro, who died in 2019, when he was 4 years old. “I don’t think judges look very closely at the quality of the parenting classes,” said former Judge Leonard Edwards, who oversaw child abuse cases for decades before retiring from Santa Clara County Superior Court in 2006. Parenting classes may be just “one of many services” …

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California countertop workers died of a preventable disease. The threat was known years earlier
1 year, 1 month ago

California countertop workers died of a preventable disease. The threat was known years earlier

LA Times  

When Wendy Solano first heard the word “silicosis,” her husband Jose Raul Garcia Leon was already suffering from the incurable disease that would kill him. “This is an epidemic of silicosis — a completely preventable lung disease — in this industry all for the sake of having a fashionable kitchen countertop,” Hoy said. Cal/OSHA officials have generally described silicosis as …

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West Nile virus is a growing threat this summer in California. What you need to know
1 year, 4 months ago

West Nile virus is a growing threat this summer in California. What you need to know

LA Times  

Robert Cummings, of the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District, collects mosquitoes from a trap at Big Canyon in Newport Beach. West Nile virus infections are on the rise this year in California after a particularly wet winter led to more mosquito reproduction, according to health experts. Among California’s latest infections, a woman in Orange tested positive for the …

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Over 34,000 L.A. County households lost Medi-Cal in July amid rollback of COVID rules
1 year, 5 months ago

Over 34,000 L.A. County households lost Medi-Cal in July amid rollback of COVID rules

LA Times  

Valerie Ibarra-Figueroa, right, a health insurance specialist at the Venice Family Clinic, talks on the phone to a county employee on behalf of Jessica Sanchez, 33, while helping get her Medi-Cal coverage reinstated. More than 34,000 households in Los Angeles County have had their Medi-Cal coverage discontinued this month as California joins other states in beginning to cut off people …

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As COVID-19 spikes in California, booster shots could make all the difference
2 years, 1 month ago

As COVID-19 spikes in California, booster shots could make all the difference

LA Times  

With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rising in Los Angeles County, officials are voicing new confidence in the effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 booster shot. New data has found that the updated COVID-19 vaccines offer “significant additional protection” against symptomatic infection in people who were previously vaccinated or boosted with the older formula. “We have seen very low uptake of the …

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Victims of violence want California courts to prioritize child safety in custody cases
2 years, 6 months ago

Victims of violence want California courts to prioritize child safety in custody cases

LA Times  

Mourners attend the South Pasadena funeral of 5-year-old Aramazd “Piqui” Andressian Jr., who was killed by his father during a custody battle in 2017. Earlier this week, survivors of violent crimes stood alongside state Sen. Susan Rubio outside the Sacramento Capitol to call for the courts to better recognize signs of abuse and to err on the side of the …

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Kamala Harris testing positive for coronavirus underscores rising cases in California
2 years, 8 months ago

Kamala Harris testing positive for coronavirus underscores rising cases in California

LA Times  

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in San Francisco on Thursday. The announcement that Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for the coronavirus underscores the sensitive place Californians and the rest of the nation find themselves in more than two years into the pandemic. Following the winter Omicron surge that sent cases soaring to record-shattering levels, the daily tally of …

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Omicron becoming dominant in some parts of California as COVID-19 cases soar
3 years ago

Omicron becoming dominant in some parts of California as COVID-19 cases soar

LA Times  

A warning sign is posted on the door of an intensive care unit where a COVID-19 patient is undergoing treatment at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton on Wednesday. Omicron is now the most identified variant of the coronavirus in some parts of California, officials said Thursday, marking a stunning rise that has triggered a new surge of infections, cast …

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Rural Northern California is falling behind in vaccinations, and COVID-19 cases are rising
3 years, 7 months ago

Rural Northern California is falling behind in vaccinations, and COVID-19 cases are rising

LA Times  

Some rural counties in Northern California are falling further behind in COVID-19 vaccination rates compared with the rest of the state, causing cases to remain flat or, in some cases, to rise. “We are seeing high case rates in our northern rural counties, where vaccination rates are lower,” tweeted State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan. Only 27% of Tehama County residents …

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Johnson & Johnson vaccine shipments to California resume as COVID cases keep falling
3 years, 8 months ago

Johnson & Johnson vaccine shipments to California resume as COVID cases keep falling

LA Times  

A box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at Kedren Health in Los Angeles on April 15. California is poised to receive almost 90,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine next week as U.S. officials resume supplies of the single-shot COVID-19 vaccine. “We have a vaccine safety program that’s really 100% transparent so that people can understand that, …

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Some say ‘the pandemic is over’ in California as crowds return. Experts are worried
3 years, 9 months ago

Some say ‘the pandemic is over’ in California as crowds return. Experts are worried

LA Times  

On a bright balmy morning in Santa Monica, Angelica Far lounged on a green deck chair, sipping a frozen coffee and taking in the sun. “I do feel like the pandemic is over,” said Kemuel Kendrick, 19, who was shopping in the Santa Monica Promenade with three friends from Charleston, S.C. “Obviously, we all have masks on, but otherwise, I …

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Coronavirus strains from California and the U.K. in battle for U.S. dominance
3 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus strains from California and the U.K. in battle for U.S. dominance

LA Times  

The grim horse race that is the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic has been reduced to a contest between two tenacious coronavirus strains: a variant native to California and an import from the United Kingdom. Its enhanced powers of transmission, ability to short-circuit the effectiveness of treatments, and ability to compromise the effects of vaccine prompted the CDC this week to declare …

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More California restaurants, cinemas, gyms could reopen this week as COVID-19 cases drop
3 years, 10 months ago

More California restaurants, cinemas, gyms could reopen this week as COVID-19 cases drop

LA Times  

Catie Fee, left, and Vivi Kirsh talk while practicing social distancing in downtown Davis in April. An additional seven California counties could be eligible to leave the state’s most restrictive tier next week — Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, El Dorado, Napa, Lassen and Modoc counties. An eighth county, Sierra County, could be eligible to leave the state’s …

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Opinion: The one unforgivable thing about the Covid-19 response
4 years ago

Opinion: The one unforgivable thing about the Covid-19 response

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Covid-19 is crushing the healthcare system, with the California Department of Public Health reporting around 39,000 daily new cases and hundreds of deaths a day as of December 23. Perhaps people who are tired of …

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California Is 1st State To Hit 2 Million Cases, And Hospitals Are Out Of ICU Beds
4 years ago

California Is 1st State To Hit 2 Million Cases, And Hospitals Are Out Of ICU Beds

NPR  

California Is 1st State To Hit 2 Million Cases, And Hospitals Are Out Of ICU Beds Enlarge this image toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Mario Tama/Getty Images The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in California has surpassed 2 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, as the virus has spread with startling speed in the state. In Los Angeles …

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California becomes the first state to surpass 2 million coronavirus cases
4 years ago

California becomes the first state to surpass 2 million coronavirus cases

LA Times  

California has now recorded more than 2 million coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, according to a county-by-county tally conducted by The Times, the first state in the nation to reach that alarming milestone and another marker of the wrenching toll the virus is inflicting. “Many of these people will not live to see 2021.” Ghaly forecast that …

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With vaccine, California enters new phase in the coronavirus pandemic
4 years ago

With vaccine, California enters new phase in the coronavirus pandemic

LA Times  

With cameras clicking and Gov. “We’ve gotten through SARS, MERS — nothing compares to this,” said Thompson, who has tended to COVID-19 patients since March, when the initial outbreak forced the state into a lockdown. “We are on the brink of a historic moment for our city: The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is beginning,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, director …

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A more sweeping stay-at-home order is likely if L.A. County can’t slow COVID-19 spike
4 years, 1 month ago

A more sweeping stay-at-home order is likely if L.A. County can’t slow COVID-19 spike

LA Times  

Los Angeles County officials said they are hoping a new set of restrictions can help slow the unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases but warned that a tougher stay-at-home measure will be necessary if cases keep spiking. Barbara Ferrer, the L.A. County health director, on Saturday said officials hope the more narrowly tailored restrictions will be sufficient to slow the spread …

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Why the third wave of the coronavirus could be the most difficult for California
4 years, 1 month ago

Why the third wave of the coronavirus could be the most difficult for California

LA Times  

Faced with a third COVID-19 wave just as we enter the holiday season, it would be fair for Californians to pose some existential questions. This third coronavirus wave is particularly troubling because “we never got back down” to a low baseline number of cases, said Dr. Sara Cody, the Santa Clara County health officer and a key architect of the …

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California breaks single-day record for new COVID-19 cases amid sweeping new restrictions
4 years, 1 month ago

California breaks single-day record for new COVID-19 cases amid sweeping new restrictions

LA Times  

In his weekly televised coronavirus update, California Gov. California officials on Monday pulled what they characterized as an emergency brake, announcing a dramatic rollback of reopening in much of the state as it broke its single-day record for new coronavirus cases. “We need now to be more aggressive,” he said, “more surgical, more targeted.” The tier system categorizes counties based …

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