Daily Edition for Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Wednesday’s California health news roundup covers Newsom’s speech, CalFresh troubles, covid cases, mask mandates, vaccines, housing nad more.
The CDC’s New Guidelines on Covid Risk and Masking Send Confounding Signals
By Colleen DeGuzman
The agency’s updated recommendations lower the level of covid risk for most of the country and therefore the need to mask. But some experts question the strategy.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Tuesday’s roundup of California health news covers covid rules and vaccines, genetic testing, polluted water and air, housing and more.
The NFL Has Been Using an Unproven Measure to Get Players With Covid Back on the Field Fast
By Rae Ellen Bichell
Doctors and scientists are debating whether a little-known measure in covid testing should be used to distinguish who is infectious from who isn’t. The NFL adopted the practice, but laboratory professionals caution against its use.
One California University Has Unified Town and Gown to Fight Covid. Why Haven’t Others?
By Mark Kreidler
The University of California-Davis has spent close to $50 million preventing the spread of covid on campus — and among residents and workers in the adjacent city of Davis. By most accounts, this town-gown experiment has paid off nicely.
Daily Edition for Monday, March 7, 2022
Monday’s roundup of California health news covers covid cases, masks, vaccine, delayed health treatment, rent relief, housing crisis, and more.
Watch: California’s Top Health Adviser on Learning to Live With Covid
KHN Senior Correspondent Samantha Young joined California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly for an engaging conversation about how California moves forward in an environment in which covid persists, but at more manageable levels.
Charts Paint a Grim Picture 2 Years Into the Coronavirus Pandemic
By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact
The on-off nature of the pandemic “has led to a lot of the confusion and grumpiness,” says one expert. Another compares it to the exhaustion of the American public when hearing body counts during the Vietnam War.
Patients Divided Over Alzheimer’s Drug: Is It a ‘Risk I’m Willing to Take’ or Just a ‘Magic Pill’?
By Judith Graham
Medicare has proposed limiting coverage of Aduhelm, the costly new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease, and several prominent groups representing patients and their families are pressing the program to make it more widely available. But among individuals facing the disease, the outlook is more nuanced.
Daily Edition for Friday, March 4, 2022
Friday’s California health news roundup covers mental health, mask mandates, vaccines, drug prices, opioids, veteran health, and more.
