Bay Area ‘Spare the Air’ caution continues through Wednesday By Dan McMenamin | Bay City News | August 16, 2022 Fire season comes to the region.
Bay Area Supervised drug injection sites could soon pop up in California. How will they work? By Ana B. Ibarra | CalMatters | August 15, 2022 Oakland and San Francisco would be among the cities and counties to operate supervised injection sites, with details of how the centers operate largely up to local officials.
California For medically vulnerable families, inflation’s squeeze is inescapable By Heidi de Marco | Kaiser Health News | August 15, 2022 Families living with chronic diseases have little choice but to pay more for the medicine, supplies, and food they need to stay healthy.
Bay Area New CDC guidelines: no need to test or quarantine students without symptoms By Diana Lambert | EdSource | August 12, 2022 New guidance focuses on community levels of infection.
COVID-19 California monkeypox response is bumpy, but builds on COVID lessons By Kristen Hwang | CalMatters | August 10, 2022 Monkeypox tests and vaccines are in short supply as public health officials grapple with red tape and short supplies.
women Women’s reproductive health professionals fight for more abortion training in California By Ally Dickson | Bay City News Foundation | August 9, 2022 A recent state bill aims to grow a network of diverse clinicians trained in abortion and sexual and reproductive health care.
gavin newsom Bounty hunting: Foes of guns and abortion resurrect an old idea By Nigel Duara | CalMatters | August 9, 2022 Texas put a bounty on abortion providers and California did the same for illegal gun sales, but critics point to bounties' long and troubled history.
California COVID sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox By Mark Kreidler | Kaiser Health News | August 9, 2022 Wastewater testing has been a reliable early alarm bell for COVID outbreaks.
Bay Area With financial aid as an incentive, state to begin recruiting 10,000 more school counselors By John Fensterwald | EdSource | August 5, 2022 Even before the COVID pandemic, there was a shortage of counselors, especially in rural schools and those serving Latino and Black students.
Bay Area Monkeypox outbreak: Newsom declares state of emergency By Eli Walsh | Bay City News Foundation | August 2, 2022 Two-thirds of total cases have been reported in Los Angeles County and San Francisco.