State officials want to clarify that Blue Shield's roll hasn't changed, only the structure of the county agreements. Several other Bay Area Counties, including Contra Costa, plan to consider the new version in the coming days. San Francisco's COVID Command Center said the ci...
she participated in 50 procedures and learned how to administer medication that eases pain and anxiety. Such conscious sedation, as it is known, is frequently used for first-trimester abortions. Now she, like any other advanced practice clinician who has obtained skills ...
THIS AGAIN: People who didn’t like how Newsom dealt with Covid don’t like how he’s handling avian flu either. Yesterday, the governor declared of a state of emergency to help contain the outbreak of H5N1, which has mostly only spread to people working directly with infected cows — ...
This story explained many things. For one, the Moon has very little material that evaporates easily, such as water, because it began life molten. It has only a tiny iron core, because it was mostly formed from the outer part of the Earth, which has very little iron. And it has a buo...
Robert Kennedy, Trump’s pick to lead HHS, has touted a debunked theory about vaccines. One expert weighs in on what his selection means for public health. Steven Ross JohnsonDec. 10, 2024 How Disease Could Roar Back With RFK Jr. A confluence of factors could cause renewed, deadly epidemic...
Silicon Valley includes northwestern Santa Clara county as far inland as San Jose, as well as the southern bay regions of Alameda and San Mateo counties. Its name is derived from the dense concentration of electronics and computer companies that sprang up there since the mid-20th century, ...
such as a voter selecting too many candidates, that can be fixed on-site. Also, any voter who’s returned a mail ballot with a mismatched or missing signature has until 5 p.m. two days after the election to submit an affidavit fixing it. California gives vo...
In August 2020, the state introduced a new framework for deciding when and how counties can reopen. Under the regime, each county is assigned to one of four tiers based on a set of metrics developed by state officials. This file records the current tier of each county by day. The definit...
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Much has been made recently of how Trump’s populism and economic nationalism have tapped into this previously obscure strain of intellectual conservatism that arose in California. But a bigger, and perhaps stranger, surprise is how deeply Trump’s view of America as a nation in need of saving...