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California Health and Human Services chief Dr. Mark Ghaly to step down
3 months, 2 weeks ago

California Health and Human Services chief Dr. Mark Ghaly to step down

LA Times  

Dr. Mark Ghaly is stepping down as head of the California Health and Human Services Agency after an eventful tenure that included the eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Newsom called Ghaly “a driving force for transformative changes to make healthcare more affordable and accessible,” whose leadership during the pandemic “saved countless lives and set the stage for our state’s …

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Was racism a factor in death at Centinela Hospital? California is ill-equipped to investigate
1 year, 4 months ago

Was racism a factor in death at Centinela Hospital? California is ill-equipped to investigate

LA Times  

The family of a woman who died giving birth at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood wants California authorities to investigate what happened. “The nurse didn’t even lift up the blanket to check.” Cordova and Robertson said nurses repeatedly told them they couldn’t call Valentine’s OB-GYN because she would get upset. The state’s public health department and medical board would not comment …

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Need help for loved ones with severe mental health illness? California has a plan
1 year, 8 months ago

Need help for loved ones with severe mental health illness? California has a plan

NPR  

Need help for loved ones with severe mental health illness? "Over time we are really going to give Californians a new tool to support our neighbors who are both experiencing severe behavioral health conditions.and their connection to issues of housing instability, homelessness and the inability to meet basic needs," says Dr. Mark Ghaly California's Secretary of Health and Human Services. …

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Newsom announces $50-million contract to make California’s own brand of insulin
1 year, 9 months ago

Newsom announces $50-million contract to make California’s own brand of insulin

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom announced a new $50-million contract with the nonprofit generic drugmaker Civica to produce insulin under the state’s own label during a news conference Saturday in Downey. California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said that under the deal, Civica would commit to delivering as much insulin as California needs under the CalRx label. He said “$50 …

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Newsom budget includes naloxone for middle and high schools while largely avoiding cuts
1 year, 11 months ago

Newsom budget includes naloxone for middle and high schools while largely avoiding cuts

LA Times  

A small but attention-grabbing proposal in Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday pledged to provide naloxone — the overdose reversal drug — to every middle and high school, a low-cost but pressing need in a proposed education spending plan that would sustain school budgets but largely end a massive recent expansion of K-12 and college funding. George Blumenthal, executive director of …

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California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price
2 years, 4 months ago

California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A vial of insulin cost $25 in 1995, back when Chris Noble was 5 years old and just learning how to manage his Type 1 diabetes with the help of his parents and his doctors. The reason more companies haven’t entered the insulin market is because if they did, the established manufacturers would just undercut them, making …

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Woolly mammoth tusk found sticking out of Alaska riverbed
2 years, 6 months ago

Woolly mammoth tusk found sticking out of Alaska riverbed

The Independent  

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California offers cautious blueprint forward as COVID wanes, mask orders ease
2 years, 10 months ago

California offers cautious blueprint forward as COVID wanes, mask orders ease

LA Times  

California’s newly announced pandemic plan calls for flexibility as new variants surge and fall. “The date will be well within a period of time that, I think, will do justice to the needs to keep people confident that their children are being prioritized and healthy and safe; at the same time, to accommodate the understanding that we’re trying to promote …

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Why California is hoping people keep wearing masks even as coronavirus cases fall
2 years, 10 months ago

Why California is hoping people keep wearing masks even as coronavirus cases fall

LA Times  

Many health experts are strongly recommending the public still wear masks even as the state lifted its order requiring them to be worn in indoor public spaces for vaccinated people. Even as California begins to loosen its mask requirements, some top health officials are strongly recommending the public still wear face coverings, saying the state’s earlier pandemic experiences illustrate the …

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California to keep mask mandate in schools as indoor mandate ends
2 years, 10 months ago

California to keep mask mandate in schools as indoor mandate ends

CNN  

CNN — Just one day before California is set to relax a statewide mask mandate for vaccinated people in indoor public spaces, the state’s top health official announced that masks will still be required in schools. There will be no change to the school requirement, Health & Human Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announced at a press conference Monday. …

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California school mask mandate will remain in place through Feb. 28
2 years, 10 months ago

California school mask mandate will remain in place through Feb. 28

LA Times  

California will keep its indoor mask mandate for K-12 schools in place at least through the end of the month, the state’s top health official said Monday, even as it moves this week to relax face covering rules in other settings. E. Toby Boyd, president of the California Teachers Assn., said in a statement that “we support the administration’s decision …

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Spike in California virus cases hitting hospitals, schools
2 years, 11 months ago

Spike in California virus cases hitting hospitals, schools

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — California is struggling to staff hospitals and classrooms as an astonishing spike in coronavirus infections sweeps through the state. The fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 is sidelining exposed or infected health care workers even as hospital beds fill with patients and “some facilities are going to be strapped,” Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said …

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California extends indoor mask mandate as Omicron surges
2 years, 11 months ago

California extends indoor mask mandate as Omicron surges

LA Times  

A support worker directs Los Angeles Unified School District students and staff at a coronavirus testing site at El Sereno Middle School in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Exemptions are in place for those younger than 2, who have certain medical conditions or are hearing-impaired, and people “for whom wearing a mask would create a risk to the person related to …

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California plans dramatic push of COVID-19 booster shots, vaccinations
3 years, 3 months ago

California plans dramatic push of COVID-19 booster shots, vaccinations

LA Times  

With millions of Californians slated to be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine booster, the state is planning to dramatically ramp up its inoculation rate. Officials unveiled a new COVID-19 Vaccine Action Plan on Thursday — just hours before the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said a third Pfizer-BioNTech dose should be given …

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California unveils sweeping plan for full reopening on June 15 as COVID fades
3 years, 7 months ago

California unveils sweeping plan for full reopening on June 15 as COVID fades

LA Times  

Jonathan Skogmo, CEO and founder of Jukin Media, Inc., walks through a deserted portion of the company’s offices in Culver City on May 20, 2021. Come June 15, Californians will wake up to a world that looks nothing like the last year-plus — one where businesses can open their doors without COVID-19 constraints on capacity or requirements for physical distancing, …

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In dramatic turnaround, California now has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the U.S.
3 years, 7 months ago

In dramatic turnaround, California now has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the U.S.

LA Times  

Seven-year-old Chloe Choi, right, peeks while sister Bella, 4, turns away as their dad gets his first COVID-19 shot at a Santa Ana vaccination site on Thursday. Months after a coronavirus surge sickened hundreds of thousands of people, left thousands dead and pushed hospitals to their breaking point, California’s virus case rate is now the lowest of any state in …

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California could actually reopen fully by June 15. Here’s what has to happen
3 years, 8 months ago

California could actually reopen fully by June 15. Here’s what has to happen

LA Times  

Can California really fully reopen its economy by June 15? That’s the target date officials unveiled this week amid continued optimism regarding the statewide landscape of the pandemic as the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to fall and more people are getting vaccinated. This week, California received 2.4 million total vaccine doses, a 33% increase from two weeks ago, …

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April 6, 2021 coronavirus news
3 years, 8 months ago

April 6, 2021 coronavirus news

CNN  

California, the first state to implement a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, plans to fully reopen the state’s activities and businesses beginning June 15, based on falling infection rates and low hospitalizations in the state, Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly announced Tuesday. Given the large number Covid-19 vaccinations administered so far – which surpasses 20 million doses today …

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California says it will fully reopen in June, citing falling Covid-19 case rates
3 years, 8 months ago

California says it will fully reopen in June, citing falling Covid-19 case rates

CNN  

CNN — California, the first state to implement a lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic, plans to fully reopen activities and businesses beginning June 15, state officials said Tuesday. “Looking 10 weeks out,” Newsom said, “our expectation is … everybody that would want the vaccine will have the opportunity to receive a vaccine.” California’s announcement comes as some health experts have …

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California aims to fully reopen its economy June 15
3 years, 8 months ago

California aims to fully reopen its economy June 15

LA Times  

Sawyer Livsey, visiting from San Francisco with his family, bowls at Bowlero Los Angeles bowling alley in Westchester which reopened on Tuesday. “So this is a big day.” June 15 is expected to be the end of California’s current reopening roadmap, which sorts counties into one of four color-coded tiers based on three metrics: coronavirus case rates, adjusted based on …

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California is reserving 40% of COVID-19 vaccine for the neediest. Who will get it?
3 years, 9 months ago

California is reserving 40% of COVID-19 vaccine for the neediest. Who will get it?

LA Times  

Keyaira Escoe, a medical assistant, signals that she is ready to vaccinate people at a vaccination site opened by St. John’s Well Child and Family Center at East Los Angeles Civic Center on March 3. Once 400,000 additional doses are given to people in those areas — expected within the next two weeks — the new plan formally announced this …

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L.A. has avoided a New York-level COVID-19 hospital meltdown as conditions improve
3 years, 10 months ago

L.A. has avoided a New York-level COVID-19 hospital meltdown as conditions improve

LA Times  

Just weeks ago, Los Angeles County’s hospitals were overwhelmed and on the brink of a worst-case catastrophic scenario, with plans ready if doctors needed to ration healthcare. L.A. County’s hospitals are still under great strain, with nearly three times as many COVID-19 patients as it did during the peak of the summer wave. “But are absolutely heading in the right …

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When’s your turn? L.A. County residents can check COVID-19 vaccine eligibility on state site
3 years, 10 months ago

When’s your turn? L.A. County residents can check COVID-19 vaccine eligibility on state site

LA Times  

Maria Saravia, an environmental services worker at Keck Hospital of USC, tightens the mask of her mother, Sara Saravia, 81, before Sara receives the COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles. “Patience is going to be required, because we just don’t have enough doses,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Tuesday. “Californians were understandably confused by mixed messages, variability of …

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Newsom’s COVID-19 briefings often leave more questions than answers, some officials say
3 years, 11 months ago

Newsom’s COVID-19 briefings often leave more questions than answers, some officials say

LA Times  

In his last news briefing of 2020, one of more than 100 held since the COVID-19 pandemic exploded in March, Gov. Superintendents in seven of California’s largest school districts said Newsom failed to address the needs of big-city schoolchildren and called his policy “confused.” The state’s largest teachers’ union said it left “many unanswered questions.” The independent Legislative Analyst’s Office, …

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