Flu in California surging to levels not seen since before the COVID pandemic
The seasonal flu in California is surging to levels not seen in several years — though the reasons why aren’t entirely clear. Test positivity for influenza specimens at state laboratories hit 26% in ...
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CA School Test Scores Trail Those of States Newsom Considers Culturally Backward
California's education system faces persistent challenges in improving student performance in reading and math.
USAID-Funded Pandemic Research Failed To Spot COVID or Ensure Chinese Transparency
President Donald Trump's effort to unilaterally wind down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has ...
California bosses cut hours as wages soared
Amid that chaos, California’s average hourly wages rose 22% to a record $39. So, California’s average paycheck was a record ...
California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch ...
CIA believes COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to ...
Alcohol-related deaths and hospitalizations spiked during the pandemic. Could policy have made a difference?
The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench in Dr. Peter Butt's retirement plans. Not because of an influx in patients infected with ...
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Sacramento-area Schools are Still Grappling With Academic and Social Recovery From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Around the Capital Region, schools are still working to recover socially and academically from the COVID-19 pandemic. Test ...
15 American and Canadian downtowns that are bouncing back, and how they did it
Spokeo used data published in the Journal of Urban Studies to explore which cities across the U.S. and Canada have ...
CIA says COVID-19 more likely to have come from lab than nature
The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from ...