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Housing Market Update: Sellers Lose the Upper Hand as Mortgage Rates Top 6%

September 15, 2022 September 15, 2022 by Tim Ellis High mortgage rates have brought balance to the market, but it comes at a high...

Mortgage Rate Spike Further Cools Homebuying and Selling

September 8, 2022 September 8, 2022 by Tim Ellis With mortgage rates reminiscent of 2008, homebuyers and sellers took a step back during the...

Is California’s Vaccine Distribution Plan Failing to Protect California’s Elderly, The Most At Risk...

The facts are stark - age, according to the CDC, is the most determinant factor in death from Covid-19. So why is California ignoring...
Angela Marsden - Pineapple Hill Saloon

Los Angeles Pub Owner’s Cry for Help. Slams County’s Hypocrisy That Allows Entertainment Catering...

LOS ANGELES (WOC) A viral video highlighting the hypocrisy of Los Angeles lockdown restrictions has struck an emotional nerve with the public. Angela Marsden,...
In this photo provided by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, clinical research coordinator Tammy Lewis-McCauley administers an injection to Katelyn Evans, a trial participant, as part of the hospital’s clinical trial of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center via AP)

Covid-19 Vaccine Update Including EU Countries

Significantly good news on the vaccine front.  Most of us (if you are old like me) could be, if desired, vaccinated by or in...
Los Cerritos News

June 27, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 2,169 New Cases, 23 Additional Deaths

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

June 16, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 1,337 New Cases, 33 Additional Deaths, 2,959...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

US coronavirus outbreaks spur debate over personal freedoms

By TERRY TANG, KEN MORITSUGU and LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — When the coronavirus flared in China this week, the country canceled...
Los Cerritos News

June 12, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 1,633 New Cases (-214 from 6/11), 20...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site   LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

Public Health Officials Face Wave Of Threats, Pressure Amid Coronavirus Response

Emily Brown was stretched thin. As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 12- and 14-hour...

If You’ve Lost Your Health Plan In The COVID Crisis, You’ve Got Options

The coronavirus pandemic — and the economic fallout that has come with it — boosted health insurance enrollment counselor Mark Van Arnam’s workload. But...

COVID-19 Batters A Beloved Bay Area Community Health Care Center

MARIN CITY, Calif. ― A small band of volunteers started the Marin City Health and Wellness Center nearly two decades ago with a doctor...

June 11, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 1,857 New Cases, 46 Additional Deaths, 2,813...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

Si perdiste tu seguro de salud por la crisis de COVID-19, tienes opciones

El coronavirus y las consecuencias económicas de la pandemia, impulsaron el trabajo del asesor de seguros de salud Mark Van Arnam. Pero él quiere...

Health Workers Resort To Etsy, Learning Chinese, Shady Deals To Find Safety Gear

A nursing home worker in New Jersey rendezvoused with “the parking lot guy” to cut a deal for gowns. A director of safety-net clinics...

June 8, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 823 New Cases (-700 from 6/7), 10...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

California To Let Gyms, Bars, Day Camps Reopen Next Week

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND AMY TAXIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will allow day camps, bars, gyms, campgrounds and professional sports to begin...

New Jobs Report Diminishes GOP Appetite For More Virus Aid

By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexpectedly strong jobs report could further scramble an already uncertain picture for passing a fifth and...

Amid Virus, US Students Look To Colleges Closer To Home

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer As students make college plans for the fall, some U.S. universities are seeing surging interest from in-state residents who...
Nurse Practitioner Surani Hayre-Kwan, left, and nurse practitioner student Kristina Crichton during an office visit with patient John Donaldson, a Guerneville resident who relies on Hayre-Kawn for his primary care. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Exclusive: Nearly 600 — And Counting — US Health Workers Have Died Of COVID-19

Nearly 600 front-line health care workers appear to have died of COVID-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, a project launched by The Guardian...
Los Cerritos News

June 7, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 1,523 New Cases , 25 Additional...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

COVID-19 Overwhelms Border ICUs

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Even as most California hospitals have avoided an incapacitating surge in coronavirus patients, some facilities near the Mexican border have...

Montana’s Tribal Nations Preserve COVID Restrictions To Preserve Their Cultures

As Montana plows forward with its reopening, including throwing open the doors to tourism on June 1, the outlook is starkly different for members...

Scientist Defends Sweden’s Hotly Debated Virus Strategy

By DAVID KEYTON and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's chief epidemiologist on Wednesday defended his country's controversial coronavirus strategy, which avoided...

Newsom Likes To ‘Go Big’ But Doesn’t Always Deliver

Gavin Newsom knew it was a political gamble when, as the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, he promised to eradicate chronic homelessness. “I recognize...
In this March 28, 2020, file photo, David Yee, an NPI mechanical engineer, tests voltage of new batteries at Bloom Energy in Sunnyvale, Calif. The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted companies large and small to rethink how they do business. Bloom Energy makes hydrogen fuel cells. But recently, they have been refurbishing old ventilators so hospitals can use them to keep coronavirus patients alive. (Beth LaBerge/KQED via AP, Pool, File)

June 2, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 1,202 (+34) New Cases , 60 Additional...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...
This Thursday, May 21, 2020, photo shows a parked car with a broken front window after a smash-and-grab break-in in Los Angeles. The coronavirus hasn't been kind to car owners. With more people than ever staying home to lessen the spread of COVID-19, their sedans, pickup trucks and SUVs are parked unattended on the streets, making them easy targets for opportunistic thieves. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Protests And The Pandemic

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Following the death of George Floyd while in custody in Minneapolis, protests have mushroomed around...

June 1, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 978 (-1100) New Cases , 22 Additional...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site   LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

Efforts To Curb Congenital Syphilis Falter In COVID’s Shadow

U.S. public health officials are closer to identifying a road map for curbing the rising rates of syphilis infections in newborn babies, but with...

In Hard-Hit Areas, COVID’s Ripple Effects Strain Mental Health Care Systems

This story can be republished for free (details). In late March, Marcell’s girlfriend took him to the emergency room at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital,...

Coronavirus Surprise: IRS Allows Midyear Insurance And FSA Changes

The economic upheaval and social disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic have upended the assumptions many people made last fall about which insurance plan...

Pico Rivera Mayor Gustavo Camacho Steps Up to Lead Pico Rivera’s Recovery While Providing...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site Pico Rivera Mayor Gustavo Camacho at a press conference speaking about the...

May 30, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 2,112 New Cases , 48 Additional Deaths,...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

As COVID Cuts Deadly Path Through Indiana Prisons, Inmates Say Symptoms Ignored

Scottie Edwards died of COVID-19 just weeks before he would have gotten out of the Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana. Edwards, 73, began showing symptoms...

For Seniors, COVID-19 Sets Off A Pandemic Of Despair

As states relax coronavirus restrictions, older adults are advised, in most cases, to keep sheltering in place. But for some, the burden of isolation...
Los Cerritos News

May 27, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 933 New Cases (-626), 53 Additional Deaths...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public...

What You Need To Know Today About The Virus Outbreak

Las Vegas casinos plan to welcome tourists again on June 4. South Korea on Wednesday announced a spike in new infections and considered reimposing...

California Allows Some Reopening Of Barbershops, Hair Salons

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that barbershops and hair salons can reopen immediately in counties that have...

California Lays Out Pandemic Rules For Church Reopenings

By STEFANIE DAZIO and ROBERT JABLON LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rabbi Shalom Rubanowitz looks forward to reopening his synagogue doors — if his congregation can...

May 26, 2020 L.A. County COVID-19 Report: 1,843 New Cases (+796), 27 Additional Deaths,...

Click HERE To See The Story at the Los Cerritos News Site An atomic resolution 3-D model of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. (Visual Science) LOS ANGELES...
This Thursday, May 21, 2020, photo shows a parked car with a broken front window after a smash-and-grab break-in in Los Angeles. The coronavirus hasn't been kind to car owners. With more people than ever staying home to lessen the spread of COVID-19, their sedans, pickup trucks and SUVs are parked unattended on the streets, making them easy targets for opportunistic thieves. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Lock Your Cars! Vehicle Theft Spikes In COVID-19 Pandemic

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners. With more people than ever staying home to lessen...
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, arrive to lay a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park, Monday, May 25, 2020, in New Castle, Del. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden Makes 1st In-Person Appearance In More than 2 Months

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance in more than two months on Monday as...
Hospital - Kaiser Health News

COVID-Like Cough Sent Him To ER — Where He Got A $3,278 Bill

From late March into April, Timothy Regan had severe coughing fits several times a day that often left him out of breath. He had...

Antibody Tests Were Hailed As Way To End Lockdowns. Instead, They Cause Confusion.

Aspen was an early COVID-19 hot spot in Colorado, with a cluster of cases in March linked to tourists visiting for its world-famous skiing....

In Mexican Border cities, Many Fear Virus Is Coming From US

By JORGE LEBRIJA and MARIA VERZA Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Adrián Alonso Gama lived life on both sides of the border, until he...

The Latest: US Task Force Chief Concerned About Gatherings

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people...

Density, Poverty Keep Los Angeles Struggling Against The Virus

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — While most of California welcomed more places to eat, shop and play this holiday weekend, Los...

‘An Arm And A Leg’: Tips For Surviving COVID With Your Financial Health Intact

Dan Weissmann Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. In early April, Katelyn was in a financial bind. At home and sick with COVID-19, she...

Bringing ‘Poogie’ Home: Hospice In The Time Of COVID-19

After she landed in the hospital with a broken hip, Parkinson’s disease and the coronavirus, 84-year-old Dorothy “Poogie” Wyatt Shields made a request of...

What You Need To Know Today About The Virus Outbreak

A Trump administration policy of quickly expelling most migrants stopped along the border because of the COVID-19 pandemic was indefinitely extended Tuesday, with a...

The 30-Somethings Who Fled Big Cities To Shelter With Mom And Dad

AUSTIN, Texas — It took three weeks, but Lawrence and Arlene Maze finally persuaded their younger son, Gregory, of Los Angeles, to get on...

California To Spend $1.8 Billion More On Virus Response

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday took an extra $1.8 billion from the state's dwindling coffers...

Pandemic Knocks Out Large Sections of Hawaii’s Economy

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — In normal times, Roland Chang and his three sons start their day at dawn, picking up tourists...

Trump To Tour Ford’s Ventilator Assembly Plant Near Detroit

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after threatening to withhold funds over Michigan's mail-in ballot effort, President Donald Trump was set...

Coronavirus-triggered Layoffs In US Hit Nearly 39 Million

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans thrown out of work since the coronavirus crisis struck two...
Woman Having Dental Checkup

Reopening Dental Offices For Routine Care Amid Pandemic Touches A Nerve

Tom Peeling wanted his teeth cleaned and wasn’t going to let the coronavirus pandemic get in the way. Luckily, his six-month regular appointment was scheduled...
In this March 28, 2020, file photo, David Yee, an NPI mechanical engineer, tests voltage of new batteries at Bloom Energy in Sunnyvale, Calif. The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted companies large and small to rethink how they do business. Bloom Energy makes hydrogen fuel cells. But recently, they have been refurbishing old ventilators so hospitals can use them to keep coronavirus patients alive. (Beth LaBerge/KQED via AP, Pool, File)

Scientist Has ‘Invisible Enemy’ In Sights With Microscopic Portraits Of Coronavirus

From her laboratory in the far western reaches of Montana, Elizabeth Fischer is trying to help people see what they’re up against in COVID-19. Over...

Analysis: Get Ready For The Vaccine — They’re Never Simple

If there is a silver lining to the flawed U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, it is this: The relatively high number of new...

Congress Said COVID-19 Tests Should Be Free — But Who’s Paying?

Hospitals around the country are afraid to send out hundreds of thousands of bills related to COVID-19 testing. That’s because Congress mandated there would...

Tulare County Defies State As More of California Reopens

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As restaurants and stores were cleared to open for customers in more than half of California's...

Reopening: It’s Back To Business, But Not Business As Usual

By DAVID CRARY, DAVE COLLINS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This is what “normal” will look like for the foreseeable future. In...

What You Need To Know Today About The Virus Outbreak

Rising anxiety may be the common denominator as countries around the world gradually emerge from lockdowns due to the new coronavirus. What a return to...

Tennessee’s Secret To Plentiful Coronavirus Testing? Picking Up The Tab

To reopen businesses and public spaces safely, experts say, states need to be testing and contact tracing on a massive scale. But only a...

To Stem COVID, This Small Indiana City Decided To Test All Public-Facing Employees

Behind a nondescript strip mall in Carmel, Indiana, a short line of cars gathers mid-afternoon next to a large tent. Medical professionals stand out...

US Home Construction Drops 30.2% In April As Virus Rages

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home building plunged in April to the lowest level in five years, taken down by...

Fewer Traffic Collisions During Shutdown Means Longer Waits For Organ Donations

On Day Two of the San Francisco Bay Area’s stay-at-home orders in March, Nohemi Jimenez got into her car in San Pablo, California, waved...
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Hospital in San Diego

The Pandemic Is Hurting Pediatric Hospitals, Too

Children have largely escaped the ravages of COVID-19, but children’s hospitals have not eluded the financial pain the pandemic has wrought on health care...

‘Last Responders’ Seek To Expand Postmortem COVID Testing In Unexplained Deaths

Examining dead bodies and probing for a cause of death is rarely seen as a heroic or glamorous job. Rather, as the coronavirus pandemic...

Tourists, Beware: Foreign Visitors’ Travel Health Insurance Might Exclude Pandemics

It was evident that the fever, nausea and loss of appetite Vlastimil Gajdoš felt on his wedding day was not a mere case of...

Drugmakers Tout COVID-19 Vaccines To Refurbish Their Public Image

Johnson & Johnson researchers working on a vaccine against the coronavirus are “just like the heroes in the hospitals” fighting to save patients, J&J...

Football Still a Possibility at Big 3 Cal State Schools

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The California State University system’s plan for a mostly virtual fall semester due to the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t necessarily close...

California Homeless Quarantine In Hotels, More Rooms Needed

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JANIE HAR Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anxiety mounted every time someone at the homeless shelter sneezed or residents got...

Medicaid Providers At The End Of The Line For Federal COVID Funding

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). Casa de Salud, a nonprofit clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, provides primary...

Coronavirus Masks a Boon For Crooks Who Hide Their Faces

By DON BABWIN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The way the FBI tells it, William Rosario Lopez put on a surgical mask...

What You Need To Know Today About The Virus Outbreak

Defying a wave of layoffs that has sent the U.S. job market into its worst catastrophe on record, at least one major industry is...

Surf’s Up And So Are New Beach Rules to Prevent Virus Spread

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — They arrived at the beach by car, skateboard and on bare feet. They carried Frisbees,...

US Retail Sales Plunged a Record 16% in April as Virus Hit

By JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. retail sales tumbled by a record 16.4% from March to April as business shutdowns caused...

As Revenues Plummet, Billions Cut From California Budget

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Reflecting the financial hit California is already seeing from the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom on...

Stopped Cold: ‘Frozen’ Musical On Broadway Not To Reopen

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The big budget musical “Frozen” will not reopen when Broadway theaters restart, marking the first...

Trump Says He’ll Restock Stockpile For Future Pandemics

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he intends to prepare the country for future pandemics by...

Officials Release Edited Coronavirus Reopening Guidance

By MIKE STOBBE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Thursday released some of their long-delayed guidance that schools,...

36 Million Have Sought US Unemployment Aid Since Virus Hit

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 3 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as the viral outbreak...

Locked Down Neighbors Let Loose At ‘Quaranchella’ Concerts

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — For 15 years, Adam Chester has subbed for Elton John, performing John’s parts in rehearsals...

In The COVID Age, Bring A Mask And Gloves To A Protest

INDIANAPOLIS — When Lamari Edwards joined Dreasjon “Sean” Reed’s Facebook Live video, she could sense something bad was going to happen, but she never...

‘New Normal’ Imagined, Tested As Virus Shutdowns relaxed

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press From outdoor kids' movies for cooped up apartment dwellers in Rio to online shopping and worship around the globe, the...

Counterfeit Masks Reaching Frontline Health Workers In US

By JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On a day when COVID-19 cases soared, healthcare supplies were scarce and an anguished...

What You Need to Know Today About the Virus Outbreak

When students return to school after a lengthy pandemic-induced absence, the consensus is they will have lost significant academic ground. Still unresolved for governments...

Trump Ramps Up Expulsions of Migrant Youth, Citing Virus

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The young migrants and asylum seekers swim across the Rio Grande and clamber...
Hospital - Kaiser Health News

Hospital Workers Complain of Minimal Disclosure After COVID Exposures

Dinah Jimenez assumed a world-class hospital would be better prepared than a chowder house to inform workers when they had been exposed to a...

California Outlines Changes for Restaurants As They Reopen

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two California counties, Butte and El Dorado, won state approval Tuesday to reopen dining rooms in restaurants — with a...

Tesla’s Elon Musk Defies Covid-19 Lockdown Order, Restarts California Factory

By TOM KRISHER and BEN MARGOT AP Auto Writer FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is restarting the company's California factory in defiance...

Hard-hit Restaurants Await Word on California Reopening as Covid-19 Slows

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California restaurants waiting for permission to reopen to diners have been preparing for the “new normal” in the age of...

Democrats Set to Take Next Steps Toward Virtual Convention

By BILL BARROW and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press Democrats are making new moves toward a virtual presidential nominating convention this August, with party officials preparing...

Job Cuts Continue; Airlines Begin Expanding Service

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Tuesday related to national and...

‘No Intubation’: Seniors Fearful Of COVID-19 Are Changing Their Living Wills

DENVER ― Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should she become critically ill. “No intubation,” she wrote in large letters on...

California Sheriff Says Inmates Tried to Infect Themselves

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of inmates at a Los Angeles County jail tried to infect themselves with the...

Tesla Parking Lot Nearly Full, Indicating Factory Is Running

FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — The parking lot was nearly full at Tesla’s California electric car factory Monday, an indication that the company could be...

AP Source: MLB Owners Approve Plan to Start Season in July

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball owners gave the go-ahead Monday to making a proposal to the players’...

As Deaths Mount, Coronavirus Testing Remains Wildly Inconsistent In Long-Term Care

This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). Mary Lanham’s assisted living complex in Florida tested all residents for...

California Takes Steps to reopen Public Spaces, Businesses

SEAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A beach bordering two Southern California counties reopened Monday with some restrictions as parts of the state slowly reopened...

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