California governor plans $4 billion for economic recovery
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed a $4 billion spending plan he says will create jobs…
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California requests hundreds of federal medical personnel, USNS Mercy Hospital ship not available
The California Office of Emergency Services has requested an additional 500 federal medical personnel to help…
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Two Monterey County COVID-19 testing sites close due to staff illness
Monterey County Health Officer Dr. Edward Moreno says there were closures at two COVID-19 testing…
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Parents of college kids won’t stop having ‘the talk’ about Covid-19 protocol
Lourdes Pelaez-Kingery was recovering from appendix surgery when she got the phone call that parents of college-age kids have come to dread in this…
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Are American adults capable of quarantining?
If you think quarantine needs a better publicist in the United States, you might be right. New Zealanders went into a strict lockdown and so did…
Continue Reading Hospitals are already overwhelmed. Now some states are beginning to feel the impact of holiday gatherings
Parts of the US are beginning to feel the brunt of last month’s holiday celebrations — at a time when many hospital systems are already…
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Grammy Awards shift to March due to pandemic conditions
The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent…
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More than 10% of all Central Coast COVID-19 deaths reported in 2021
More than 10% of all COVID-19 related deaths in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties have…
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Paramedic outfits colleagues with face shields
Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (WOWT) — Face masks are a common sight these days no matter who you are.…
Continue Reading Covid-19 likely ranks as the third leading cause of death in the US in 2020, CDC statisticians say
Covid-19 was likely the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020, according to statisticians at the US Centers for Disease Control…
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California small business COVID-19 relief application deadline extended
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KION-TV) The deadline to apply for the first round of grants through the state’s Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program is…
Continue Reading How to remotivate kids for more distance learning
Motivating kids to do schoolwork was hard enough in pre-pandemic times. No matter how skilled the teacher, and how clever the lesson plans, most kids…
Continue Reading 10 things we learned in 2020 about living a good life
What do you need for a meaningful life? Even as 2020 strained communities around the world, it offered some object lessons in living well. In the…
Continue Reading Mediterranean diet named best diet for 2021
The gold medal for best 2021 diet went to the Mediterranean diet for the fourth year in a row, according to rankings announced Monday by U.S. News…
Continue Reading One American dies from Covid-19 every 33 seconds as the vaccine rollout hits snags
While hopes of vaccinating 20 million people by New Year’s Day sputtered out, the US now faces staggering new challenges in the fight against…
Continue Reading How to remotivate kids for more distant learning
Motivating kids to do schoolwork was hard enough in pre-pandemic times. No matter how skilled the teacher, and how clever the lesson plans, most kids…
Continue Reading 10 things we learned in 2020 about living the good life
What do you need for a meaningful life? Even as 2020 strained communities around the world, it offered some object lessons in living well. In the…
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California dentists given waiver to administer COVID-19 vaccines
Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a COVID-19 update Monday that the pace of immunization is “not good…
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Salinas Mayor tests positive for COVID-19
Salinas Mayor Kimbley Craig confirmed with KION that she tested positive for COVID-19 Monday…
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Costume could be link to deadly virus outbreak at hospital
A Kaiser Permanente employee died and dozens of workers were infected with the coronavirus after a…
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California EDD suspends payments on high-risk claims
The California Employment Development Department announced that it is suspending payments…
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Newsom addresses current COVID-19 cases and effort to increase speed of administering the vaccine
Gov. Gavin Newsom is providing his first update on the COVID-19 pandemic of 2021…
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UK prime minister orders new national coronavirus lockdown
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new national lockdown for England until at least…
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Investigators: Wisconsin pharmacist tried to ruin doses of COVID-19 vaccine over belief they were “unsafe”
The Wisconsin pharmacist believed to have attempted to ruin hundreds of doses of COVID-19 vaccines told police he tried to do so because he felt the…
Continue Reading CDC hopes to double the number of coronavirus samples checked for new mutations
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to more than double the number of coronavirus genomes sequenced to watch for new mutations in…
Continue Reading Mental health is one of the biggest pandemic issues we’ll face in 2021
With progress in efforts for Covid-19 vaccines and predictions for when the population will receive them, there seems to be a light at the end of the…
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More than 4.2 million Americans have been given their first Covid-19 vaccine. Experts say the US needs to go faster
With more than 4.2 million people given their first doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far, experts say the pace of inoculation in the US needs to speed…
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California reports more than 45,000 new coronavirus cases as surge continues into new year
California reported Sunday that 45,352 people newly tested positive for Covid-19, continuing a surge that has pushed hospitals and their exhausted…
Continue Reading Europe has kept its schools open for much of the pandemic. Now closures loom
The coronavirus pandemic transformed the working and social lives of millions of European adults in 2020. Children too have suffered immensely, with…
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43 staffers at Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center test positive for Covid-19
An outbreak possibly connected to an inflatable, air-powered costume on Christmas has sickened nearly four dozen employees at Kaiser Permanente San…
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43 staffers at a California hospital tested positive for Covid-19. An air-powered costume may be to blame
Hospitals around the United States are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the…
Continue Reading For more than a month, US hospitals have had more than 100,000 coronavirus patients every day
Hospitals around the United States are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the…
Continue Reading ‘This is about total collapse of the health care system if we have another spike’ of Covid-19
Even if you don’t have coronavirus, record-high Covid-19 hospitalizations could have a devastating impact on you. “If you are in a car…
Continue Reading As US inches closer to 350,000 Covid-19 deaths, one model projects about 115,000 more could die in next four weeks
The US topped 20 million total infections and inched closer to 350,000 Covid-19 deaths on the first day of 2021 — proof of a grim reality…
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FDA issues pet food alert after 28 dogs are reported dead from toxin
The Food and Drug Administration is alerting pet owners about high levels of aflatoxin in some pet foods after 28 dogs reportedly died and eight…
Continue Reading US surpasses 20 million Covid-19 cases while experts foresee tough times in January
The US surpassed 20 million total recorded Covid-19 cases on Friday, hours after the country ushered in 2021 and left behind its deadliest month of…
Continue Reading US surpasses 20 million Covid-19 cases as experts warn it’ll take months for vaccines to turn the tide
The US surpassed 20 million total recorded Covid-19 cases on Friday, hours after the country ushered in 2021 and left behind its deadliest month of…
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Covid-19 hospitalizations across the US are the highest they’ve ever been as nation rings in new year
As the US ushered in 2021, more than 125,300 Covid-19 patients remained hospitalized — another record for the fourth day in a…
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It’ll be months before vaccines are widespread enough to turn the tide of the pandemic in the US, experts say
(CNN) — Vaccinations are ongoing across the country, but experts say it will be months before vaccines are widespread enough to turn the course…
Continue Reading UK chief medical officers defend delay of second Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses
The UK’s chief medical officers have defended a decision to delay second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in order to prioritize first…
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With Covid-19 hospitalizations rising, California doctor says sometimes beds only open up when patients die
(CNN) — With the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations at an all-time high, medical facilities are having a hard time finding places to put new…
Continue Reading The science of how to stick to New Year’s resolutions and truly change your habits
Next year will be a crucial year for Erika Kirgios as she works to complete her doctorate, publish academic papers and try to land a faculty job at a…
Continue Reading California hospitals stressed to the ‘brink of catastrophe’ by the coronavirus surge
Overflowing hospital morgues, increased 911 wait times, beds only opening when patients die. Hospitals in California, where almost all of the state’s…
Continue Reading How the effort to vaccinate the elderly is going in some states
As Covid-19 vaccines roll out across the US, some states are already offering shots to people other than health care workers and nursing home…
Continue Reading How the effort to vaccine the elderly is going in some states
As Covid-19 vaccines roll out across the US, some states are already offering shots to people other than health care workers and nursing home…
Continue Reading US sets daily Covid-19 death record for the second straight day. Another 80,000 could die in next 3 weeks, new forecast says
As 2020 nears its end, the US still is setting one-day records for Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations. More than 3,740 coronavirus deaths were…
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US sets daily Covid-19 death record for the second day in a row. Another 80,000 could die in next 3 weeks, new forecast says
As 2020 nears its end, the US reported a record death toll for the second day in a row, with more than 3,740 Covid-19 fatalities Wednesday. And the…
Continue Reading Make a lazy New Year’s Day feast with these snacks and drinks
Maybe you got caught up in New Year’s Eve preparations, making sure you had enough bubbly to kick 2020 to the curb in spectacular fashion. Or…
Continue Reading Fauci says US can return to normal by fall if it puts aside slow start and is diligent about vaccinations
If states are able to “diligently vaccinate” people against the coronavirus next year, the US could return to normal life by early fall,…
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Watsonville nurses protest possible increase of nurse-to-patient ratio amid COVID-19 pandemic
Watsonville nurses protest possible nurse-to-patient ratio amid COVID-19…
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