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The CDC made headlines this fall after warning cases of some sexually transmitted infections are at their highest levels in decades.

“STDs are a public health crisis and we need engagement from all providers, individuals and all levels of the government to fight it together.”

California is the first state in the country to require private insurance to cover at-home testing for sexually transmitted diseases. The law is the first of its kind.Stephanie Arnold Pang of the National Coalition of STD Directors discusses the new law. And, a changing climate is making the winter Olympics harder to pull off — both in the future and the present. Porter Fox, author of "The Last Winter," joins us to discuss.

SACRAMENTO >> California has become the first state to require health insurance plans to cover at-home tests for sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, chlamydia and syphilis— which could help quell the STI epidemic that has raged nearly unchecked as public health departments have focused on COVID-19. relations for the National Coalition of STD...

The country nearly eradicated this treatable sexually transmitted disease twice, only to see it come roaring back. The failure shows the weakness of a cash-strapped public health system.