UCLA.edu
“It was so grim in the beginning,” said Dr. Armand Dorian, an ER physician and chief medical officer for Verdugo Hills Hospital at USC. “Now we actually have regimens of treatments that do help. ... Since the beginning, say, February to now, we’ve learned a lot.” … more »
HUD
Failed state housing policies lead cities to decrease the affordable housing percentages in each project, to boost luxury housing production. This is the result of the same policies the state is now deliberating doubling down on. … more »
Mercury News
"While such public activities may spark dismay from those concerned with disease transmission, experts say it's good to remember that not all activities are created equal: some are far riskier than others when it comes to contracting COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus." … more »
CalPERS
"Meng’s seemingly abrupt resignation Wednesday from the $400 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System was in fact months in the making, the culmination of internal scrutiny, external attacks and personal anxiety, according to people familiar with the matter." … more »
CathRuralLife
"Workers and workers’ rights organizations say outbreaks and the subsequent swell of infections in the Central Valley point to a devastating truth: that we are each only as protected as our least protected; as vulnerable as our most vulnerable." … more »
National Geographic
"Anyone who’s tending a garden right now knows what extreme heat can do to plants. Heat is also a concern for an important form of underwater gardening: growing corals and “outplanting,” or transplanting them to restore damaged reefs." … more »
BBC
"While lung scarring, heart and kidney damage may result from COVID-19, doctors and researchers are starting to clock the potential long-term impact of the virus on the brain also. And younger COVID-19 patients who were otherwise healthy are suffering blood clots and strokes." … more »
PG&E
"From wildfires to shut-off threats, utility companies have a track record of endangering consumers. Northern California’s investor-owned electric utility PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in June over its role in 2018’s deadly Camp Fire." … more »
Brightpath Video
Writer Thomas D. Elias nails it with his concluding paragraph: "It adds us to a picture of blinkered, single-minded legislators pursuing old goals with little relevance in the post-pandemic world to come. That's why the current housing package deserves to disappear, just like Wiener's past failed efforts to rid California of single-family homes." … more »
Shogun_X
"Complex problems are called complex for a reason. They may be several layers deep; people may mistake mere symptoms for the real problem. Free-flowing capital breaks the link between prices and local incomes — and most of us are shut out." … more »
