Kaiser Health News

Flush with a projected budget surplus of $75.7 billion, state politicians have come up with myriad legislative and budget proposals to make low-income families healthier and wealthier.

The staff at L.A. County's public rehabilitation hospital are helping mostly Latino patients recover the basic functions of daily life robbed from them during weeks or months of critical Covid illness.

The oxygen delivery infrastructure is crumbling under pressure in Los Angeles and other covid hot spots, jeopardizing patients' access to precious air and limiting hospital turnover.

Public health researchers believe restaurants are among the most common places to get infected with COVID-19 but contact tracing has been so lackluster that few health departments have been able to link disease clusters to in-person dining.

President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis is raising fresh questions about the White House's strategy for testing and containing the virus.

Many actors, directors, backstage workers and others in the entertainment industry are often eligible for health coverage through their unions, a model that some experts promote for other gig workers. But coverage is determined by past employment, and many of these professionals aren't working because of the coronavirus.

For years, activists and civil libertarians worldwide have urged police to ban less-lethal projectiles from use for crowd control.

Police in multiple cities are using supposedly "nonlethal" crowd-control methods from rubber bullets to tear gas bombs to pepper-spray projectiles.

Los Angeles is testing roughly 10,000 people daily but says it needs to double that to lift the shelter-in-place orders.

A mix of commercial and public labs are responsible for testing in California, and supply chain limitations have plagued them all.