Fresno Pacific University on Wednesday announced that students will return to on-campus classes in the fall 2021 semester, more than a year after the university's classrooms were emptied and students turned to distance learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. The university is the latest to announce plans for in-person classes...
California Immediately Expands Vaccine Eligibility to All 65 and Older
California is immediately allowing residents 65 and older to get scarce coronavirus vaccines. Gov. Gavin Newsom's announcement Wednesday puts seniors in line before emergency workers, teachers, childcare providers and food and agriculture workers even as counties complain they already don’t have enough doses to go around. “There is no higher...
California Sees Bright Spot in ‘Most Intense Surge’ of Virus
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has lifted a stay-at-home order for 13 northern counties with improving hospital conditions, but most of the state’s population remains under tight restrictions in the deadly coronavirus pandemic. The state on Tuesday lifted the order in the Sacramento region — a rare turn of good news...
Defiance of Virus Dining Bans Grows as Restaurants Flounder
BORING, Ore. — A line formed out the door during the lunch rush at the Carver Hangar, a family-owned restaurant and sports bar, and waitresses zipped in and out of the kitchen trying to keep up with orders as customers backed up in the lobby. Indoor dining has been banned...
US COVID-19 Deaths Hit Another One-Day High at Over 4,300
Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. hit another one-day high at over 4,300 with the country's attention focused largely on the fallout from the deadly uprising at the Capitol. The nation's overall death toll from COVID-19 has eclipsed 380,000, according to Johns Hopkins University, and is closing in fast on the...
As Pandemic Worsens, Most US States Resist Restrictions
PHOENIX — As the U.S. goes through the most lethal phase of the coronavirus outbreak yet, governors and local officials in hard-hit parts of the country are showing little willingness to impose any new restrictions on businesses to stop the spread. And unlike in 2020, when the debate over lockdowns...
Biden Gets 2nd Dose of Vaccine as Team Readies COVID-19 Plan
NEWARK, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden received his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, three weeks after getting his first one with television cameras rolling in an attempt to reassure the American public that the inoculations are safe. Biden took off his sport jacket and said, “Ready, set,...
California Virus Deaths Top 30,000 After Deadliest Weekend
LOS ANGELES — California's coronavirus catastrophe reached a staggering new level Monday as Johns Hopkins University data showed the nation’s most populous state has recorded more than 30,000 deaths since the pandemic started nearly a year ago. Deaths have exploded since a COVID-19 surge began in October. It took California...
Assembly Republican Leader: Now Is the Time for the Legislature to Lead by Solving Problems
“Overdose deaths far outpace COVID-19 deaths in San Francisco” was a recent headline from the Associated Press highlighting the troubling fact that while COVID-19 is the most immediate threat facing Californians, it is not the only one worthy of our attention. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of about 1.8 million people worldwide,...
Walters: How Did California Lose Control of COVID-19?
With the COVID-19 pandemic surging to critical levels in California, we naturally wonder how it happened. How did California go from exemplifying success in taming the coronavirus last spring to an epicenter of disease, with 2.5 million COVID-19 cases, nearly 28,000 deaths and the second highest infection rate of any...