Community Safety
"In speaking with inmates directly, my reporting shows that the quality of life for incarcerated folks in California has diminished significantly since COVID."
“The state opened up Pandora’s box and now we’re trying to manage this disaster,” one source told me.
The residents of Madera County in California’s San Joaquin Valley are grappling with a new reality.
Black girls are called “fast” and boys are seen as men. Both lose their innocence thanks to adultification bias.
Also, looking back and forward after three pandemic years, and a new analysis points to animal origin for COVID.
As recently as August, Calif. health officials predicted the number of valley fever cases this year would go down. Now it’s shaping up to be one of the worst years on record.
A new skin test called Spherusol can detect whether a person has developed immunity to valley fever. But despite its promise, the test still isn’t in wide use.
New sensors in development at the CDC could provide a breakthrough in valley fever detection and prevention throughout the Southwestern United States.
“Valley fever is almost certainly underreported, due to physicians and the public not being familiar with the disease,” said one infectious disease specialist. Reliable estimates of valley fever...