July 28, 2021
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UCLA Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center both made the news magazine’s 2021-2022 honor roll, which highlights hospitals that excel across most or all types of care … UCLA Medical Center made the No. 3 spot, its highest ranking ever in the list, with 12 of its specialties making it into separate top 10 rankings. (Also: Los Angeles Business Journal, MyNewsLA and KCRW-FM.)
On Monday,
a team of UCLA health researchers posted a map online showing locations that could be covered by the ordinance. Chelsea Shover, assistant professor-in-residence in UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, said she and her students found that, if every location identified in the ordinance were off limits, there would be few areas left where people could sleep or camp, particularly in downtown and parts of
For weeks, Gov. Gavin Newsom has been crisscrossing the state, boasting that California is âroaring backâ from the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Monday, however, he had to interrupt his victory lap because a nasty variant of coronavirus, dubbed âdelta,â is roaring through the state, just a few weeks after Newsom had lifted personal and economic restrictions.
âAs of last week, Californiaâs statewide case rate more than quadrupled from a low in May of 1.9 cases (per) 100,000 (per) day to at least 9.5 cases (per) 100,000,â the state reported. âOur testing positivity was at a low of 0.7% in June, now it has risen to 5.2%. Our hospitalizations were at a low in June of under 900, and we are now approaching 3,000.â
Measurement of death needs to be improved to save lives in future
In a world dealing with the worst public health crisis in a century, the current U.S. system for tracking deaths suffers from organizational, political and procedural flaws that actually put public health and safety at risk, and requires significant updates and reform to solve the problems laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Inaccuracies in mortality data have real consequences for the public health mission, said Dr. Vickie Mays, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of health policy and management, who said these weaknesses have played out in how the U.S. measures mortality, creating data gaps critical to accurate classification of deaths, from COVID-19 to suicides to legal use of deadly force.
Eleven million families in the US at risk of losing their homes as CDC eviction moratorium set to expire
An historic and devastating wave of evictions and foreclosures looms, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) federal eviction moratorium set to expire at the end of this week, on July 31.
With just days to go, there is no indication the Biden administration is going to extend it. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki boasted in a press conference on Friday about vague efforts by the Biden administration to “help people with government-backed mortgages stay in their homes through monthly payment reductions and potential loan modifications.” Noticeably absent was any reference to the end of the moratorium or relief for renters.
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