Latest California Healthline Stories
Daily Edition for Friday, November 20, 2020
Thursday’s roundup of California health news covers the curfew order, coming workplace rules, vaccines, rising COVID deaths and more.
Daily Edition for Thursday, November 19, 2020
Diverse, Low-Income Neighborhoods To Get The Vaccine First: As COVID disproportionately ravages California’s low-income communities, the state plans to prioritize early rounds of the eventual vaccine to these communities in the name of fairness. Read more from the Sacramento Bee and LA Daily News.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, November 18, 2020
LA County Sets COVID Curfews: With coronavirus surging, Los Angeles County Public Health officials tightened restrictions on Tuesday, including curfews on restaurants, wineries and bars, while ordering new caps on social gatherings, officials said. They stopped short of full stay-home orders. Read more from the Bay Area News Group and Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Most Of California Goes On Lockdown: A staggering 94% of California's population will move back to the most restrictive COVID-19 guidelines due to a rapid uptick in cases, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday. According to the governor, 41 counties in the state are now in the "purple" tier, which means many nonessential indoor businesses will be forced to close, including movie theaters and gyms. Read more from KQED. Continued coverage, below.
Daily Edition for Monday, November 16, 2020
Newsom Faces Backlash After Attending Birthday Party: Gov. Gavin Newsom attended a birthday party for a political adviser on Nov. 6 that included people from several households, the type of gathering his administration has discouraged during the coronavirus pandemic. “We should have modeled better behavior and not joined the dinner,” the governor said. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, AP, Politico and Newsweek.
Daily Edition for Friday, November 13, 2020
1 Million Cases In California … And It All Started With One Woman: Back in January, when Patricia Dowd became sick with flu-like symptoms and had to cancel plans to go to a funeral, it would be impossible to fathom what her illness foretold for California and the rest of the nation. Read more from the Los Angeles Times. Continued coverage, below.
Daily Edition for Thursday, November 12, 2020
Thursday’s summaries of the top health news covers California closing in on 1 million COVID cases, county responses, hospital prep and more.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Below, check out the roundup of California Healthline’s coverage. For today’s national health news, read KHN’s Morning Briefing.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, November 10, 2020
3 Bay Area Doctors On Biden’s Transition Team: Three UC San Francisco physicians will help guide President-elect Joe Biden’s pandemic response strategy as members of his newly announced Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. The UCSF physicians named to the panel are: Dr. Eric Goosby, Dr. Robert Rodriguez and Dr. David Kessler, who is a former commissioner of the FDA and will serve as a co-chair of the board. Read more from the Bay Area News Group.
Daily Edition for Monday, November 9, 2020
Celebrations Could Turn Into Superspreaders: The impromptu celebrations for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris after the marathon presidential election could very well have harmed the new president’s goal of taming the coronavirus pandemic, Bay Area epidemiologists said. “It’s going to be a concern,” said Robert Siegel, an infectious-disease specialist at Stanford University, referring to a tendency in crowds not to stay 6 feet apart or, in some cases, wear masks. “The virus doesn’t care what your political persuasion is.” Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.