July 31, 2020 | Sammy Caiola
California hospitals are performing a careful balancing act of continuing business as usual while maintaining COVID-19 surge capacity. In most cases, that doesn’t involve canceling or postponing non-essential procedures.
July 30, 2020 | Sammy Caiola
Many severely mentally ill Californians are cycling in-and-out of forced hospitalizations due to a lack of treatment options when they’re released, according to a recent report from the state auditor.
July 29, 2020 | Sammy Caiola
California health officials have created indicators for how well counties are mitigating COVID-19 spread. Sacramento County is failing three of them: positivity rate, transmission rate and ICU capacity.
July 28, 2020
Watch at 12 p.m. as California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly hosts a video conference to provide an update on COVID-19 in California.
July 28, 2020 | Sammy Caiola
In the era of ‘defund the police’ and during a push for more racial equality, survivors of sexual violence are calling for cases to be handled by mental health professionals not law enforcement officers.
July 27, 2020
When it comes to trials for drug treatments and vaccines, diversity matters. For reasons not always fully understood, people of different races and ethnicities can respond differently to drugs or therapies, research shows.
July 24, 2020
NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Dr. Louis Tran, an emergency physician in San Bernardino County. He spent much of May helping out in New York City ICUs grappling with COVID-19 patients.
July 21, 2020 | Chris Nichols
Medical experts say it’s likely the protests contributed somewhat, but say transmission in Los Angeles was already on the upswing before the demonstrations started.
July 21, 2020 | Sammy Caiola
A new study out of UCLA shows COVID-19 death rates are more than five times higher among middle-aged Latino than white Californians of the same age, largely due to Latinos making up much of the essential workforce.
July 21, 2020
Watch live at 12 p.m. as California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly hosts a video conference to provide an update on COVID-19 in California.
