Also, Johns Hopkins and NYT curtail COVID tracking efforts, and new research on long COVID's unequal toll.
The pandemic continues to bring stress upon those in the state who can least afford it.
Also, California drops plan to require COVID vaccines in schools, and Chinese study claims no new variants detected from outbreak there.
Also this week: Dearth of pandemic data on race, ethnicity ‘beyond bad,' and experts support additional oversight of pathogen research.
Stigma leaves many without the products or knowledge they need to maintain a healthy period, a new reporting project finds.
The challenge: Proving that health tech companies can make a viable business out of reaching low-income people who also face social challenges.
The San Diego Union-Tribune is putting a spotlight on the real cost of child care in California.
Also this week: Latino teens take the lead in vaccine education, and fresh signs the tripledemic is on the wane.
GOP-led House takes aim at COVID origins, U.S. response. Also, public health experts see value in monitoring wastewater to detect new viral threats.
This story was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's National Fellowship.