SACRAMENTO — When Laura Chavez’s 74-year-old mom needed eye surgery last month, Chavez paid cash for the procedure. ... [Continue Reading]
Covid Fears Keep Many Latino Kids out of Classrooms
EAST LOS ANGELES — For the past year, 13-year-old twins Ariel Jr. and Abraham Osorio have logged on to their online classes from their parents’ flower shop. Ariel nestles in a corner among flowers, bows and stuffed animals. Abraham sets up on a ... [Continue Reading]
Salesforce, Google, Facebook. How Big Tech Undermines California’s Public Health System.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has embraced Silicon Valley tech companies and health care industry titans in response to the covid-19 pandemic like no other governor in America — routinely outsourcing life-or-death public health ... [Continue Reading]
Hit by Higher Prices for Gear, Doctors and Dentists Want Insurers to Pay
SACRAMENTO — Treating patients has become more expensive during the pandemic, and doctors and dentists don’t want to be on the hook for all the new costs. ... [Continue Reading]
You Don’t Have to Suffer to Benefit From Covid Vaccination — But Some Prefer It
If you think vaccination is an ordeal now, consider the 18th-century version. After having pus from a smallpox boil scratched into your arm, you would be subject to three weeks of fever, sweats, chills, bleeding and purging with dangerous medicines, ... [Continue Reading]
California and Texas Took Different Routes to Vaccination. Who’s Ahead?
California and Texas, the country’s two most populous states, have taken radically different approaches to the pandemic and the vaccination campaign to end it. Use Our ... [Continue Reading]
After a Deadly Year on the Roads, States Push for Safety Over Speed
As more Americans start commuting to work and hitting the roads after a year indoors, they’ll be returning to streets that have gotten deadlier. ... [Continue Reading]