SACRAMENTO — California Governor Gavin Newsom, Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Monday announced an agreement on a shared vision for reopening their economies and controlling COVID-19 into the future. A joint statement from the governors follows: COVID-19 has preyed...

California utilities ratepayers will receive a “California Climate Credit” on their April bills, according to a notice sent Thursday by the California Public Utilities Commission, which follows: This April* your utility bill will include a credit identified as the “California Climate Credit.”...

California has had a total of 22,348 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 687 deaths as of Sunday, April 12, the state Department of Public Health announced Monday afternoon. There have been 3,015 confirmed hospitalizations and 1,178 confirmed intensive care unit hospitalizations. Approximately 212,900 tests...

In a letter sent to state lawmakers Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget adviser said the Golden State will need to spend a minimum of $7 billion to fund the effort to protect the public from the COVID-19 pandemic. The state, which has already allocated $1 billion to fight the viral outbreak,...

WASHINGTON — Reacting to criticism that preventable delays set back America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump has put crosshairs on the country’s leading expert on infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci. “Time to #FireFauci,” the president endorsed Sunday night, retweeting...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has extended its March 14 No-Sail Order for all cruise ships as part of the battle to control the COVID-19 pandemic. “This Order shall continue in operation until the earliest of (1) the expiration of the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ declaration...

Johns Hopkins University – Data as of Saturday, April 11, 2020   Countries around the world are working to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus pandemic. Flattening the curve involves reducing the number of new COVID-19 cases from one day to the next. This helps prevent healthcare systems...

Immunology is one of many medical frontiers we have yet to understand fully. One poorly understood question: How does the human body produce an antibody that goes to war and defeats a virus or bacteria? We know our bodies have an innate ability to make defensive antibodies, and apparently in those patients...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has confirmed 25 new deaths and 456 new cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19 disease). Over the last 48 hours, there have been 931 new cases. Twenty-one people who died were over the age of 65 and two people between the ages of 41 to 65 years old;...

SACRAMENTO — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced Thursday that the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) have issued new guidance that will facilitate childcare for children of essential critical infrastructure...