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New California Bill Attempts to Prevent Doctors from Spreading COVID Misinformation

Posted by Ibrahim Dagher
|Date: October 23, 2022
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New California Bill Attempts to Prevent Doctors from Spreading COVID Misinformation

By Nicolas Cital New legislation (AB 2098) signed on September 30 by California Governor Gavin Newsom has ...

By Nicolas Cital New legislation (AB 2098) signed on September 30 by California Governor Gavin Newsom has made it illegal for doctors to spread misleading or false information about COVID to patients. ...

October 23, 2022
| by Ibrahim Dagher

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Sac Sheriff refuses to disclose COVID vaccination rate for staff citing “medical privacy” reasons

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: April 28, 2022
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Sac Sheriff refuses to disclose COVID vaccination rate for staff citing “medical privacy” reasons

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners ...

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to report on the pandemic in California’s county jails and Department o ...

April 28, 2022
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Omicron Hits Sac Jails the Hardest; Sheriff’s Lax COVID Practices, Overpopulation and Low Vaccinations Are to Blame

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: February 10, 2022
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Omicron Hits Sac Jails the Hardest; Sheriff’s Lax COVID Practices, Overpopulation and Low Vaccinations Are to Blame

By Aparna Komarla & Sophia Juliana-Baltasar This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — ...

By Aparna Komarla & Sophia Juliana-Baltasar This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to bring reporting on t ...

February 10, 2022
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Sacramento County courts take hands-off approach to jail population reduction despite massive COVID outbreaks

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: February 02, 2022
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Sacramento County courts take hands-off approach to jail population reduction despite massive COVID outbreaks

By Anna Zheng This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project ...

By Anna Zheng This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to report on the pandemic in California’s county jails an ...

February 02, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: Some Are Not Taking Omicron Seriously Enough

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 16, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: Some Are Not Taking Omicron Seriously Enough

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor There is a shift going on—perhaps it's the fact that Omicron is le ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor There is a shift going on—perhaps it's the fact that Omicron is less severe but much more contagious than previous variants—about moving from a system of contain ...

January 16, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Omicron May Be Milder Than Delta, but It’s Still a Serious Disease

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 11, 2022
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Commentary: Omicron May Be Milder Than Delta, but It’s Still a Serious Disease

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It is true that research has found Omicron to be a less severe var ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It is true that research has found Omicron to be a less severe variant than Delta and others. But for people who are not vaccinated and boosted and those with r ...

January 11, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Study Finds Fast Food Workers Vulnerable to COVID As Great Resignation Trend Continues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 05, 2022
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Commentary: Study Finds Fast Food Workers Vulnerable to COVID As Great Resignation Trend Continues

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor About 4.5 million people voluntarily left their jobs in November, ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor About 4.5 million people voluntarily left their jobs in November, a new high, up from 4.2 million in October, according to the NY Times, and this marked the most ...

January 05, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The Next Wave is Here, Can We Ride It Out without a Shutdown?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 04, 2022
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Commentary: The Next Wave is Here, Can We Ride It Out without a Shutdown?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Yesterday I got a call from staff at my kid’s school—we were suppo ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Yesterday I got a call from staff at my kid’s school—we were supposed to have a Zoom video conference but it was called off at the last moment, as it turns out t ...

January 04, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The Fight Over Hospital Bed Space Is Coming

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2021
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Commentary: The Fight Over Hospital Bed Space Is Coming

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor On Tuesday, the US set a new record for most new COVID cases in a ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor On Tuesday, the US set a new record for most new COVID cases in a day, topping 267 thousand, more than double what it was a week ago. As I noted in Sunday’s col ...

December 29, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: How Do We Solve COVID in Light of Omicron?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 26, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: How Do We Solve COVID in Light of Omicron?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The number of new cases topped 200,000 yesterday for the first tim ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The number of new cases topped 200,000 yesterday for the first time since early in 2021. It is now more than double what it was last month, and up from 150,000 ...

December 26, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: This Graphic Tells the Story of COVID

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 06, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: This Graphic Tells the Story of COVID

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor If you drive outside of large population centers where people are ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor If you drive outside of large population centers where people are by and large still masking up and drive into rural areas you not only see most people not weari ...

December 06, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Your Freedom’s My Guillotine

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 08, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Your Freedom’s My Guillotine

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The forces of repression have done a masterful job of flipping the ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The forces of repression have done a masterful job of flipping the concept of freedom on its head. But there is really nothing new with that. The history of th ...

November 08, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Should We Be Easing Mask Restrictions?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 08, 2021
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Commentary: Should We Be Easing Mask Restrictions?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Thursday that they w ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Thursday that they were easing indoor mask requirements for certain indoor settings. There are caveats to the new ...

October 08, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: UC Davis Study Underscores Need for Vaccines and Masks

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 05, 2021
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Commentary: UC Davis Study Underscores Need for Vaccines and Masks

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The Delta surge is slowing going down—there were 103,785 new cases ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The Delta surge is slowing going down—there were 103,785 new cases yesterday, which is still 7 to 8 times higher than it was in early July, but about 33 percent ...

October 05, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: People Are Not Taking COVID Seriously Enough – And Some of Them Are Dying

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 23, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: People Are Not Taking COVID Seriously Enough – And Some of Them Are Dying

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Nashville-based conservative radio talk show host Phil Valentine w ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Nashville-based conservative radio talk show host Phil Valentine was like any number of skeptics. On his program, he repeatedly downplayed the importance of get ...

August 23, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: We Have Misconstrued Freedom in the Fight against COVID

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 06, 2021
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Commentary: We Have Misconstrued Freedom in the Fight against COVID

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Since the start of the pandemic, issues of government and health b ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Since the start of the pandemic, issues of government and health based restrictions have been framed by those—especially on the right, though not exclusively—as ...

August 06, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: COVID Reality Check

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: July 20, 2021
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Commentary: COVID Reality Check

By Tia Will I strongly disagree with almost everything David Greenwald wrote on Monday about our current ...

By Tia Will I strongly disagree with almost everything David Greenwald wrote on Monday about our current & future approach to COVID. 1. "Our biggest concern is that we are going to continue to see ...

July 20, 2021
| by Tia Will

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Guest Commentary: Snake Oil

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 20, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Snake Oil

By Rhonda Gruska At the end of March, I asked a longtime Northern California holistic nutrition and cooki ...

By Rhonda Gruska At the end of March, I asked a longtime Northern California holistic nutrition and cooking educator if he had received his COVID-19 immunizations, as he is 65+. He responded, I will i ...

July 20, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: If Someone Wants Not to Vaccinate…

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 19, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: If Someone Wants Not to Vaccinate…

By David M. Greenwald A few weeks ago we were at about 14,000 new cases a day, now we’re at 31,000 this w ...

By David M. Greenwald A few weeks ago we were at about 14,000 new cases a day, now we’re at 31,000 this weekend—which is the highest I have seen in a while and, given that it’s a weekend, it's a littl ...

July 19, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Looking Back at COVID in Sac County Jails – How Staff Violated Official Protocol

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: July 05, 2021
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Looking Back at COVID in Sac County Jails – How Staff Violated Official Protocol

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners ...

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to bring reporting on the pandemic in California’s county jails and Dep ...

July 05, 2021
| by Covid In-Custody Project

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