July 23, 2021
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“This is basically an effort to create a boogeyman and pour everything into that category that they believe will prompt fear, discomfort and repudiation on the part of parents and voters who are primed to respond to this hysteria that they’re trying to create,” said Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and Columbia Law School.
(Commentary by UCLA’s Sonja Diaz) It’s no secret that the path to victory for Gov. Gavin Newsom runs through the state’s diverse electorate. At the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative, our research indicates that in the 20 years leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, there will have been a 126% increase of Latino registered voters and a 94% increase of Asian American voters.
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Because the phenomenon seems counterintuitive, there’s an “air of mystery surrounding dry thunderstorms for folks who’ve never really encountered them,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dry thunderstorms are rare in most places east of the Rockies, he said, because there’s “always enough moisture for rain to fall from them or for precipitation in some form to fall from them anyway, in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S.”
The strengthening outbreak also jeopardizes a fuller economic recovery, officials said. It was a point punctuated on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, urged Americans to get the shot … McConnell’s angst came as UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released new data from the 2021 California Health Interview Survey, attempting to shed light on Californians’ views on getting the vaccine and following suggested safety prot
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Data from the National Health Interview Survey
In 2019, 65.5% of adults aged 18−64 had a dental visit in the past 12 months.
The percentage of adults who had a dental visit was higher among those residing in urban areas (66.7%) than those in rural areas (57.6%).
In both urban and rural areas, women were more likely than men to have had a dental visit in the past 12 months.
In urban areas, non-Hispanic white adults (70.2%) were more likely than Hispanic (59.4%) and non-Hispanic black (61.8%) adults to have a dental visit. In rural areas, non-Hispanic white adults (59.1%) were more likely than Hispanic adults (45.7%) to have a dental visit.