Life expectancy for U.S. whites declined by 0.8 years in 2020's first half. For Latinos it was 1.9 years, while for Blacks it dropped 2.7 years.
As pandemic-stricken businesses return to life, employees face medical risks and uncertainty. Mark Kreidler speaks to Elvia Martinez, who works at LAX’s Panda Express.
Differences among school districts are ignored at California's peril.
As COVID vaccines are rolled out, a critical health care network is underused.
What happens when pandemic fighters are at risk themselves with preexisting medical conditions?
Lowest-paid workers take the worst hit while pandemic continues its damage.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says schools can reopen safely, but many campuses can't meet the state's most recent guidelines for being open.
An interview with Shenita Anderson, an ER nurse at L.A.'s for-profit Olympia Medical Center, which is closing despite the COVID-19 crisis.
Critics of the state's move to an age-based priority system say it defies statistical evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread.
The rent moratorium extension worked out in Sacramento is a flawed and incomplete emergency measure.
While California struggles to distribute COVID-19 shots, Latino Los Angeles takes a hit.
A 204-bed hospital in L.A.'s Mid-Wilshire district is shuttering, despite the city's need for intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients.
The state’s slow-footed distribution of COVID-19 shots is the result first and foremost of a federal botch-job of the highest order.
How could only 29% of Black Californians be willing to take a vaccine that might save them?
Here are five ways the president-elect will seek to break with the policies of the past four years.
Mark Kreidler speaks with Dr. Coley King, director of homeless health care at Venice Family Clinic.
Grocery store owners are making huge profits — frontline employees, not so much.
She has heard no plan for a federal relief package that might somehow lessen her burden. And, hotel worker Liliana Hernandez says, the whole notion of...
Michelle Burton of the Community Health Councils discusses the systemic and pervasive racism that lies at the root of a deep distrust of the health care...
Mark Kreidler speaks with Erin McIntosh, a rapid-response nurse in Riverside, about the burnout plaguing health care workers in the final stretch of the pandemic.