USAID-Funded Pandemic Research Failed To Spot COVID or Ensure Chinese Transparency
President Donald Trump's effort to unilaterally wind down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has ...
California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch ...
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Mortality and hospitalizations fully attributable to alcohol use before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic period was associated with increased alcohol consumption. We sought to estimate excess ...
Alcohol-related deaths and hospitalizations spiked during the pandemic. Could policy have made a difference?
A new study suggests alcohol-related deaths increased by about 24 per cent in the first two years of the pandemic, while ...
B.C. marks 5 years since province’s 1st COVID-19 case
Jan. 28, 2020 was the date that provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and then-health minister Adrian Dix announced the ...
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California Wine Lovers Toast to Senate Bill Allowing Home Delivery Services
The Senate Committee on Public Policy approved a bill allowing wine dealers in California to deliver wine to customers, ...
California bosses cut hours as wages soared
Amid that chaos, California’s average hourly wages rose 22% to a record $39. So, California’s average paycheck was a record ...
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Pandemic lockdowns disrupted social skills of preschool kids: study
COVID-19 lockdowns disrupted the development of a "crucial" social skill among preschool children, according to new research.
CIA believes COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to ...
CIA says COVID-19 more likely to have come from lab than nature
The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from ...
Flu in California surging to levels not seen since before the COVID pandemic
The seasonal flu in California is surging to levels not seen in several years — though the reasons why aren’t entirely clear. Test positivity for influenza specimens at state laboratories hit 26% in ...
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CA School Test Scores Trail Those of States Newsom Considers Culturally Backward
California's education system faces persistent challenges in improving student performance in reading and math.