Thursday, June 2, 2022 | California Healthline

Los Angeles Times:
Angelenos Begin The First Day Of Historic Water Restrictions

Thousands and thousands of Angelenos awoke Wednesday to a brand new, extra arid future as unprecedented water restrictions went into impact throughout Southern California. For some, the sweeping limitations on outside watering felt like déjà vu from the final time the state was in a big drought, when lawns turned brown and brief showers grew to become the norm. For others, the foundations have been a irritating reminder of how little has modified. (Ding and Smith, 6/1)

Los Angeles Times:
A Guide To Surviving SoCal’s Unprecedented Water Restrictions 

With unprecedented water restrictions now in place throughout Southern California, many are questioning how life will change and whether or not residents can really preserve. Listed here are 10 issues to contemplate as the brand new restrictions — most notably limiting outside watering to at least one or two days every week — set in. (Smith, 6/1)

Palm Springs Desert Sun:
MSWD Prohibits Spray Irrigation During Daylight Hours Amid Drought

Mission Springs Water District applied a number of water conservation measures on Wednesday, together with a ban on outside water use for spray irrigation throughout daytime. An emergency regulation accredited by the State Water Assets Management Board final week requires city water suppliers to implement their Stage 2 demand discount actions by June 10. (Rode, 6/1)

The (Santa Rosa) Press Democrat:
Sonoma Water To Host Virtual Town Hall On Drought Impacts

Sonoma Water will present an replace on present drought circumstances and native conservation measures throughout a digital city corridor on Thursday, in line with county officers. The 4 p.m. occasion is the primary in a sequence of scheduled month-to-month public boards concerning the drought, which was declared an area emergency in April 2021. (Inexperienced, 6/1)

The Bakersfield Californian:
Activists Renew Attention On Farmworkers’ Heat Illness Risks 

Excessive warmth and the well being dangers it presents Central Valley farmworkers have gotten a higher focus for the state’s local weather and environmental justice advocates. At a 90-minute on-line presentation hosted Wednesday morning by Santa Rosa-based The Local weather Heart, half a dozen audio system highlighted the necessity to defend outside employees from Bakersfield to Stockton amid expectations for extra frequent days with temperatures topping 100 levels. (Cox, 6/1)

Sacramento Bee:
COVID Outbreaks Emerging Again In California State Prisons

Outbreaks are underway at a number of state prisons amongst each inmates and employees, knowledge from the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation present, amid a broader surge of COVID-19 spreading throughout California and nationwide. Prisons reported almost 1,500 new inmate COVID-19 instances between Could 1 and Could 29, an nearly 20-fold improve in comparison with simply 75 infections reported over the previous 4 weeks, in line with a CDCR on-line knowledge tracker. (McGough, 6/1)

Sacramento Bee:
COVID Surge Worsens In Sacramento Area, Among Worst In CA

Coronavirus exercise surged all through Could in California, with most transmission and hospitalization numbers roughly doubling over the course of the month as extremely contagious subvariants of omicron proceed to achieve traction. Among the state’s worst COVID-19 an infection charges are actually within the Sacramento space. (McGough, 6/1)

Sacramento Bee:
Latest COVID-19 Surge In Sacramento: Here’s What To Know 

OVID-19 instances are again on the rise and new subvariants are trailing behind. Sacramento County is at a “medium” COVID neighborhood degree, as of Thursday, in line with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, which means case charges, hospital admissions and hospital mattress use have elevated. Right here’s what we all know to this point concerning the newest COVID-19 surge in Sacramento. (Truong, 6/1)

Bay Area News Group:
Here’s Why New COVID Variants Are Driving Surprise Surge

In its evolutionary struggle for survival, the COVID virus is switching methods: It’s turning into a grasp at slipping previous our immune techniques. And that, say consultants, is essentially why we’re coping with an sudden surge. Powered by two mutations, new lineages of the omicron variant — referred to as BA.2 and its newer descendants BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 — are rising charges of vaccine breakthrough and reinfection, in line with an evaluation printed Saturday by Trevor Bedford, a virologist on the Fred Hutchinson Most cancers Analysis Heart in Seattle, who research the evolution of viruses. (Krieger, 6/1)

Palm Springs Desert Sun:
COVID-19: Riverside County Hospitalizations Surpass 100 Again

Riverside County hospitalizations have returned to the triple-digits as soon as once more for the primary time since mid-March. There have been 104 sufferers reported on Wednesday, up 13 from Friday. That quantity additionally consists of eight people in intensive care. As affected person numbers have been going up steadily in current weeks, instances counts are persevering with their climb as effectively. (Sasic, 6/1)

KQED:
If You Get COVID, Should You Try To Get Paxlovid? Here’s How (With Or Without Health Insurance)

In the event you check constructive for COVID and have sure threat components that improve your possibilities of turning into severely in poor health, it’s possible you’ll be eligible to start out a COVID antiviral therapy like Paxlovid. Paxlovid is barely obtainable by prescription, and even in case you get it prescribed, the following step is discovering someplace with sufficient provide to fill that prescription. (Severn, 6/1)

NBC News:
Postal Service Sued For Seizing Black Lives Matter Masks During 2020 Protests

A California display printer is suing the U.S. Postal Service for seizing shipments of Black Lives Matter masks meant to guard demonstrators from Covid-19 throughout protests following the Could 2020 homicide of George Floyd. The material masks, with slogans like “Cease killing Black folks” and “Defund police,” have been bought by the Motion for Black Lives (M4BL) and have been meant to be shipped to D.C., St. Louis, New York Metropolis and Minneapolis, the place Floyd was killed by a police officer. However 4 packing containers containing about 500 masks every have been marked as “Seized by legislation enforcement” and their cargo was delayed greater than 24 hours. (Reilly, 6/2)

NBC News:
Pfizer Again Asks FDA To Authorize Covid Vaccine For Youngest Kids

Pfizer-BioNTech mentioned Wednesday that it requested the Meals and Drug Administration to authorize its Covid-19 vaccine for youngsters ages 6 months to 4 years — the one group that is still ineligible for vaccination. The request might be now thought of by the FDA, which is able to evaluate the info and will grant emergency use authorization for the age group later this month. The FDA’s advisory group, referred to as the Vaccines and Associated Organic Merchandise Advisory Committee, is scheduled to convene on June 15 to supply steerage on the pediatric doses. (Lovelace Jr., 6/1)

ABC News:
FDA Accepts Pfizer Application For COVID Vaccine In Kids Under 5, Clearing Way For June Timeline

The FDA mentioned in an announcement that it acquired Pfizer’s request for an EUA. “We acknowledge dad and mom are anxious to have their younger youngsters vaccinated towards COVID-19 and whereas the FDA can not predict how lengthy its analysis of the info and data will take, we’ll evaluate any EUA request we obtain as rapidly as doable utilizing a science-based method,” the company mentioned. (Kekatos, 6/1)

AP:
California Child Abuse Database Lacks Half Of County Reports

Greater than half of substantiated California youngster abuse experiences in recent times weren’t within the state’s database, which might end in youngster abusers being allowed to care for youngsters, state auditors mentioned Tuesday. The unreliability of the database “places youngsters in danger,” auditors mentioned. The database is utilized by state and county social providers and welfare departments, adoption businesses, medical employees treating doable victims of kid abuse, businesses conducting background investigations of candidates for legislation enforcement jobs, and businesses conducting background investigations on those that need to work or volunteer in positions that will give them entry to youngsters, like day care facilities or group houses. (Thompson, 5/31)

Palm Springs Desert Sun:
Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia Seeks $1B For Hospital Seismic Retrofits

As California hospitals put together for seismic upgrades, Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, is hoping to safe a $1 billion state price range appropriation to ease prices for public district hospitals. The Alquist Hospital Seismic Security Act, or Senate Invoice 1953, was established in 1995 in response to sudden poor seismic efficiency of hospitals in the course of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. California legislation mandates that every one hospitals rebuild or retrofit by Jan. 1, 2030, and should stay totally useful within the occasion of an earthquake. (Sasic, 6/1)

San Diego Union-Tribune:
Attorney General Puts Crisis Pregnancy Centers, And Anti-Abortion Groups, On Notice 

California Lawyer Normal Rob Bonta introduced a brand new statewide client alert in San Diego Wednesday that goals to extend public consciousness of being pregnant facilities that mimic reproductive well being clinics comparable to these operated by Deliberate Parenthood. (Sisson, 6/1)

Napa Valley Register:
Mike Thompson Joins With Napa Women Leaders To Advocate For Protecting Abortion Rights 

In response to a leaked U.S. Supreme Court docket draft majority opinion that exhibits the courtroom might overturn abortion rights within the close to future, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson joined with a lot of Napa County’s ladies leaders Wednesday to advocate for the necessity to defend these rights in entrance of the historic Napa County Courthouse. The draft opinion, if handed by the courtroom, would largely strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade choice from 1973. (Sales space, 6/1)

San Francisco Chronicle:
Listen: The Future Of Abortion In California After Roe

The Supreme Court docket is anticipated to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade choice legalizing abortion this month. If that occurs, 26 states are anticipated to ban abortion rights instantly, making a seismic shock to the nation’s well being care system. On this episode of the It is All Political on Fifth & Mission podcast, host Joe Garofoli rides Deliberate Parenthood’s “Bans Off Our Our bodies” bus across the state with three prime advocates for abortion rights. (6/1)

Sacramento Bee:
UC Davis Health Plans Outpatient Surgery Center In Sacramento

UC Davis Well being plans to construct a $579 million outpatient surgical procedure middle on its Sacramento campus by 2025, one other piece of its formidable enlargement that additionally features a new hospital tower and a rehabilitation hospital. These tasks come because the College of California, Davis, additionally strikes ahead with the multibillion-dollar Aggie Sq. innovation hub on the campus that goals to deliver collectively researchers, business companions, entrepreneurs and college students in an innovation hub. (Anderson, 6/2)

CalMatters:
How California Shuffles Its Mentally Ill Prisoners

On the final day of Adam Collier’s life, he had breakfast in his cell in Kern Valley State Jail. He wrote two letters, one to his mom, the opposite to the guard who would later discover his physique. Throughout the earlier 4 years in jail, Collier had been hospitalized for psychological well being crises 14 occasions. His many letters to household and buddies wobbled between lucidity and gibberish. His medical data proffered graphic descriptions of self-harm. Collier had initially landed in jail for exposing himself to ladies in public whereas excessive on meth. Ashamed and delusional, he tried to castrate himself with a damaged plastic cup as a result of he believed it was God’s want. (Lyons and Wiener, 6/2)

Los Angeles Times:
The ‘Dead Kid Club’: Parents Of Mass Shooting Victims Are A Growing Network

4 years and 6 days earlier than a fourth-grade class was gunned down at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, Rhonda Hart misplaced her teenage daughter, Kimberly Vaughan, in a capturing at a highschool about 300 miles east. She’s a member of a tragic, steadily rising community: dad and mom of youngsters who have been killed in mass shootings. “We name it, unofficially, the Useless Child Membership,” she mentioned. (Sheets, 6/2)

The Wall Street Journal:
Less Than 5% Of Violent Acts Are Linked To Mental Illness, Research Shows

Mass shootings within the U.S. have revived dialogue across the interaction between psychological well being and violent acts. Most violent acts are carried out by folks with no identified psychological sickness, say psychologists and epidemiologists. Psychological sickness can contribute to violence, analysis exhibits, however predicting who may act violently is all however not possible. The American Psychiatric Affiliation on Wednesday mentioned stigmatizing folks with psychological sickness might dissuade them from looking for therapy. “The overwhelming majority of individuals with psychological sickness will not be violent and are much more prone to be victims of violent crime than perpetrators thereof,” the group mentioned. (Wernau, 6/1)

The Atlantic:
How News Of Mass Shootings Affects People Psychologically

A horrific information occasion is a tragedy for these it instantly impacts, however merely studying and watching protection of it’s related to an uptick in signs of acute stress, comparable to intrusive ideas concerning the occasion and avoiding reminders of it. For example, one research printed in 2014 discovered that the extra protection folks noticed of the Boston Marathon bombings, the extra such signs they skilled. (Pinsker, 6/1)

San Francisco Chronicle:
New Report Finds S.F.’s Biggest Development Project Ignores Huge Climate Change Risk: Rising Contamination

Rising seas brought on by local weather change might finally expose 1000’s of individuals to hazardous chemical substances at San Francisco’s greatest redevelopment venture — and the town is unprepared for the dangers, in line with a brand new grand jury report. San Francisco plans to construct housing items, industrial areas and parks in low-lying areas of the previous Hunters Level Naval Shipyard, which hugs the bay in southeastern San Francisco. The venture is the town’s greatest redevelopment effort for the reason that 1906 earthquake. (Fagone and Dizikes, 6/1)

The Bakersfield Californian:
Kern Public Health Cautions Residents Against Potentially Harmful Algal Blooms

The Kern County Public Well being Providers Division urged boaters, canine house owners and different leisure lake customers to train warning and observe signage associated to lively algal blooms when visiting sure areas inside Lake Isabella. Public Well being lately obtained water samples from eight areas in Lake Isabella. The auxiliary dam boat launch space indicated the presence of probably dangerous blue-green algae (cyanotoxin), because it examined on the cautionary degree, which is the bottom of the three advisory ranges. Well being advisories have been posted suggesting warning when utilizing the lake. (6/1)

Sacramento Bee:
Sacramento Weed Dispensaries Can Be Sold To New Owners

Sacramento’s 30 current hashish dispensary house owners will now be capable of promote the vast majority of their enterprise after the town council Tuesday night time accredited new guidelines permitting possession transfers. Dispensary house owners have complained that an outright metropolis ban on dispensary transfers or gross sales was unfair, however the guidelines have been imposed in November 2019 after The Sacramento Bee disclosed that one enterprise group had acquired a 3rd of the town’s dispensaries regardless of prior metropolis switch prohibitions. (Diamond, 6/1)

Orange County Register:
Taft Elementary Students In Santa Ana Hit By Car Recovering With Fractures And Emotional Scars

Three Taft Elementary Faculty college students in Santa Ana injured when a sedan slammed into them as they walked to highschool final week bore bruises and damaged bones whereas recovering at dwelling Wednesday, June 1 and struggled to course of recollections of the traumatic crash. 9 days after the collision, 9-year-old Madeline De La Torre was recovering with a fractured nostril, and scabs peppered the fitting facet of her brow, marking how her face landed on the pavement after she and her cousins have been flung into the air. Sophia East, 11, was utilizing crutches to assist her transfer about whereas her bones heal in a purple forged protecting her whole proper leg. Victoria Avila, who lately turned 7, suffered fractures to her cranium and pelvis. (Licas, 6/1)