California Health Officials Recommend Masks Indoors for Everyone

KQED's The California Report

Following in the footsteps of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California public health officials are recommending that everyone wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status.

Google will require employees who return to the company’s offices be vaccinated. The Mountain View-based tech giant is among the companies that is shifting gears when it comes to employees returning to the office.

Reporter: Rachael Myrow, KQED

Health officials and politicians have blamed people who are unvaccinated for the recent surge in coronavirus cases, saying we are now in a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." But one Bay Area pediatrician called this rhetoric damaging, because it lumps everyone who hasn't gotten a shot into one group.

Guest: Dr. Rhea Boyd, Bay Area Pediatrician and Public Health Advocate

The Los Angeles City Council has passed a sweeping ordinance that would restrict homeless encampments in many areas of the city, including near parks, schools, day care facilities, libraries and freeway bridges and offramps.

Keeping someone housed may be among the best ways to prevent a serious COVID-19 infection, or even death. That’s according to a new UCLA study that looked at eviction moratoriums during the pandemic.

Reporter: Benjamin Gottlieb, KCRW

In San Diego County, tenants' rights advocates say they will continue to fight against a plan to sell nearly 6,000 housing units to the private equity firm, Blackstone. Some who live in the housing now are worried they’ll lose their homes.

Reporter: Cristina Kim, KPBS

This week marks two years since the tragic Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, and survivors are adding another defendant in a lawsuit they've filed against the festival. The lawsuit now names Century Arms LLC, which marketed and sold a military-style assault rifle used in the shooting.

Reporter: Laura Klivans, KQED

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