Many plants are flowering this spring, spelling bad news for allergy sufferers. A potential solution when you’re outside: Break out that N-95.
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Blue Shield CEO: Vaccine appointments may be backed up for several weeks
The CEO of Blue Shield predicts it will take until the end of April to ease California’s backlog. “When you make millions of people eligible overnight, there’s not millions of appointments immediately available,” he told CalMatters.
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Another racial disparity that may be heightened by the pandemic: access to outpatient care
In the first six months of the pandemic, potentially avoidable hospitalizations plummeted for white Angelenos but fell hardly at all among Black residents, reflecting a disparity in access to outpatient care.
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California isn’t seeing COVID-19 case rates like New York and Florida. Can we keep it up?
Even as the state’s numbers remain comparatively positive, officials are urging caution, saying California can ill afford to see its progress reverse.
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The Blue Shield compromise: Company will supply vaccine, but Santa Cruz County will control distribution
After initial pushback over concerns of equitable distribution of vaccines, Santa Cruz County is joining nine other local health jurisdictions in signing a memorandum of understanding with the California Government Operations Agency to allow Blue Shield to oversee vaccine distribution. Here’s what that means.
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When will California get more COVID-19 vaccine? Here’s what we know
COVID-19 supply in California is tight. But that is expected to change soon. Here is what we know.
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PHOTOS: Santa Cruz County begins vaccinating its homeless residents
After the California Department of Public Health expanded the eligibility criteria for the COVID-19 vaccine to include people experiencing homelessness, Santa Cruz County began inoculations with a clinic at Housing Matters on Tuesday. Lookout photo contributor Kevin Painchaud captured the scene.
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Prep football community seeks answers on testing guidelines as weekend games, scrimmages get postponed
Amid confusion by sports league officials and parents over testing requirements and who is supposed to interpret them, Santa Cruz County health officials are saying they have “no oversight or orders related to return-to-play issues for high school sports.”
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Here is how those with pre-existing conditions can get vaccinated beginning Monday in California
Starting Monday, millions of Californians with preexisting health conditions or disabilities will be eligible to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine.
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California makes it easier to guarantee volunteers COVID-19 vaccines — just not in Santa Cruz County yet
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…