With Federal Covid Sick Leave Gone, Workers Feel Pressure to Show Up at Work
Economists and public health experts alike say paid sick leave is an essential tool — like testing, masks and vaccines
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Economists and public health experts alike say paid sick leave is an essential tool — like testing, masks and vaccines
Read MoreIt was supper time in the Whittier, California, home of Air Force veteran Danyelle Clark-Gutierrez, and eagerly awaiting a bowl
Read MoreWhen Greta Christina fell into a deep depression five years ago, she called up her therapist in San Francisco. She’d
Read MoreIt was Saturday morning at Southbay Tattoo and Body Piercing in Carson, California, and owner Efrain Espinoza Diaz Jr. was
Read MoreDuy Hoa Tran, a retired Vietnamese schoolteacher, arrived in Los Angeles in February 2020 to visit his daughter and 2-month-old
Read MoreSACRAMENTO — With access to abortion at stake across America, California is preparing to become the nation’s abortion provider. Democratic
Read MoreIn 1972, just 18 days after he was selected to run for vice president with Democratic Sen. George McGovern, Thomas
Read MoreThey went into hospitals with heart attacks, kidney failure or in a psychiatric crisis. They left with covid-19 — if
Read MoreEven as the U.S. prepares to roll out a covid-19 vaccine to elementary school-aged kids, its efforts to inoculate teenagers
Read MoreThere were days, nights and weekends in the early months of the pandemic when Denise Von Bargen was the only
Read MoreMODESTO, Calif. — Britta Foster and Minerva Tiznado are in different leagues as far as health care is concerned. Foster,
Read MoreFor parents living in poverty, “diaper math” is a familiar and distressingly pressing daily calculation. Babies in the U.S. go
Read MoreGov. Gavin Newsom is steering a major transformation of California’s behavioral health care system, with much at stake in the
Read MoreLOS ANGELES — Christopher Manzo, a boy with curly brown hair and bright-blue-and-yellow glasses, has lived a third of his
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Read MoreSACRAMENTO — Gavin Newsom put California’s health care industry on notice when he was a candidate for governor, vowing in
Read MoreFrom her Baltimore dining room, Susan Goodlaxson can see her neighbor gardening across the street. But while other neighbors stop
Read MoreCommunity clinics in California say they haven’t been paid for at least 1 million covid-19 vaccine doses given since January,
Read MoreThe San Leandro Hospital emergency department, where nurse Mawata Kamara works, went into lockdown recently when a visitor, agitated about
Read MoreSACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s now illegal in California to harass people on their way into a vaccination clinic, under a
Read MoreSACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s now illegal in California to harass people on their way into a vaccination clinic, under a
Read MoreSANTA CRUZ, Calif. — For more than 30 years, public health officials and nonprofits in California have provided clean hypodermic
Read MoreThe tipping point for Dr. Paula Braveman came when a longtime patient of hers at a community clinic in San
Read MoreWhen Billy Lemon was trying to kick his methamphetamine addiction, he went to a drug treatment program at the San
Read MorePhebe Cox grew up in what might seem an unlikely mental health danger zone for a kid: tony Palo Alto,
Read MoreKHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed how hospitals are dealing with covid-19 on WOSU’s “All Sides With Ann Fisher” on
Read MoreTwo California public health officials who pressed forward with aggressive measures to contain covid-19 even while enduring death threats and
Read MoreKHN correspondent Rachana Pradhan discussed why President Joe Biden hasn’t yet nominated a permanent leader for the Food and Drug
Read MoreSACRAMENTO, Calif. — As California trudges into another autumn marred by toxic wildfire smoke and drought-parched reservoirs, state lawmakers have
Read MoreIn a back-to-the-future twist on birth trends, California is seeing a sustained rise in the number of women choosing to
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