Alameda County has reported a huge COVID-19 death total in recent weeks. Here’s why.
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Alameda County has reported a huge COVID-19 death total in recent weeks. Here’s why.

By David DeBolt | [email protected], Evan Webeck | [email protected] and Harriet Blair Rowan | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLSHED: Sept. 18, 2020 at 6:15 p.m. | UPDATED: Sept. 20, 2020 at 7:30 a.m. [gap size=”50px”] Over the past month, the most alarming coronavirus numbers coming out of the Bay Area have been in…

Lack of Access to Information Implies Double Risk for Latinos During The COVID-19 Pandemic
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Lack of Access to Information Implies Double Risk for Latinos During The COVID-19 Pandemic

By: BELatina Daily- August 18, 2020 From its origin to its transmission speed, the new coronavirus has been a myth-filled problem from the beginning. Now, nearly seven months since the global pandemic was declared, access to adequate information continues to put millions of lives at risk. This is especially true for communities that were already…

First Intermountain Healthcare-Stanford Medicine Physician Fellows Focus on Healthcare Innovation
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First Intermountain Healthcare-Stanford Medicine Physician Fellows Focus on Healthcare Innovation

This press release was orginally distributed by ReleaseWire Salt Lake City, UT — (ReleaseWire) — 08/10/2020 — The first two physician fellows from the Intermountain Healthcare-Stanford Medicine Population Health and Care Delivery Science Fellowship have graduated from the unique two-year master’s degree program in health services research. The collaborative program teaches future physician leaders how…

Bridging the Gap in Diabetes Care
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Bridging the Gap in Diabetes Care

Bridging the Gap: Reducing Disparities in Diabetes Care is a 5-year initiative funded by the Merck Foundation that seeks to improve access to high-quality diabetes care and reduce disparities in health outcomes among vulnerable and underserved populations with type 2 diabetes in the United States. Bridging the Gap grantees aim to build sustainable partnerships to…

California surpasses 500,000 cases, capping off deadliest month yet

California surpasses 500,000 cases, capping off deadliest month yet

© Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle California caps off July as deadliest month since pandemic began Nurse Rosemary MacLeod (left) performs a Covid-19 test on nurse Pauline Tran at Laguna Honda hospital on Thursday, June 25, 2020 in San Francisco, California. California became the first state to surpass 500,000 confirmed coronavirus cases Friday, capping off a…

Oakland, awash with COVID-19, struggles to keep people away from popular Lake Merritt
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Oakland, awash with COVID-19, struggles to keep people away from popular Lake Merritt

After authorities discouraged crowds over the weekend, Oakland’s Lake Merritt returned to normal Monday morning, with a small number of people enjoying the pathways and sunny blue skies. (Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times) By Maura DolanStaff Writer  July 27, 2020 6:10 PM OAKLAND —  As coronavirus cases topped 10,000 in Alameda County last week, Oakland officials…

Coronavirus: As deaths in Latinx community skyrocket, Newsom calls to protect essential workers
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Coronavirus: As deaths in Latinx community skyrocket, Newsom calls to protect essential workers

By Robert Salonga | [email protected], David DeBolt | [email protected] and Harriet Blair Rowan   Amid California’s COVID-19 surge, the deadly virus is stalking communities of color, elected leaders and health officials said Friday, targeting Black and Latinx people both at work and in recreational settings. In a news conference Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom underscored the…

Oakland: City Leaders Urge Residents To Avoid Social Gatherings
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Oakland: City Leaders Urge Residents To Avoid Social Gatherings

OAKLAND (BCN) East Oakland residents are being urged to avoid social gatherings because they are leading to a surge in COVID-19 cases, city leaders said Friday. Leaders made their pleas at 12:15 p.m. at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater on Lake Merritt Boulevard between 12th Street and First Avenue. The surge has been directly related to…

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Data secrecy may cripple U.S. attempts to slow pandemic

Science‘s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation California was a COVID-19 success story—until suddenly it wasn’t. Early in the pandemic, the state seemed to have the new coronavirus under control, but it has begun to ride a wave there, with records set in daily cases several times this month,…