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Health officials discovered the first suspected case of monkeypox in Alameda County on Thursday, as first reported by SF Chronicle.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, confirmed the sixth case of monkeypox in the state of California on Monday, 10 days after the first recorded case in Sacramento County.
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With significantly lower vaccine uptake among long-term care facility employees, the COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake Behavioral Science Task Force report was released Feb. 23 to provide recommendations to increase vaccination rates.
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A study led by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health found increasing minimum wage and earned income tax credit, or EITC, can reduce deaths due to suicide, drug overdose and alcohol, known as “deaths of despair.”
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In early March, UC Berkeley coders, engineers and entrepreneurs joined together to launch mobile platforms that aim to provide reliable information about the spread of COVID-19.
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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) led a team of 16 senators to introduce a resolution that would designate April 11 to 17 Black Maternal Health Week, in an effort to raise awareness about the Black maternal health crisis.
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If there’s anything I learned about fear, it’s that fear is the most sincere and effective motivator to either change something, fix something, beat something or become something.
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A local food producer recalled food it supplies to stores such as Trader Joes, Walgreens and Whole Foods after an E.coli outbreak sickened 26 people in three western U.S. states.
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