After a failed attempt last year, Colorado lawmakers have passed a bill that would make it harder to get a vaccine exemption for school children.
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Without rent relief for California tenants, housing advocates fear the pandemic will worsen the homelessness crisis.
At a time when the heft of the federal government’s resources is being focused on fighting Covid-19, cancer centers like Roswell can play a role.
Finding a fixer to connect with reluctant sources was the first step.
Across California, essential and service workers like Flores Contreras are being hit hardest by the coronavirus, and so are the people they live with.
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This story was produced as a project for the 2020 California Fellowship.
The Navajo Nation's high rates of asthma and other respiratory illnesses have taken on a new urgency: COVID-19 has hit the community worse than any other tribe in the country.
San Francisco-based writer and editor Linda Jue responds to the verbal attacks, intimidation and physical assaults Asians have faced in the country, which have intensified during the pandemic.
"My grief and frustration over JJ’s fate were compounded by all I learned about the effects of toxic stress on a developing brain."