Gaps in COVID-19 vaccination rates among the state’s Medi-Cal population persist. Five Medi-Cal plans still have vaccination rates under 50%.

A conversation with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Trisha Thadani and photojournalist Stephen Lam about how they approached a project that dug deep below the surface of the city's overdose crisis.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Without sick leave, workers are forced to choose between paying their bills and possibly spreading COVID-19.

In his proposed state budget, Governor Gavin Newsom called for California to be the first state to remove immigration status as a barrier to eligibility for Medicaid, making health insurance accessible to all undocumented residents with low incomes.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Supply problems add another complication to US and California efforts to use widespread screening to suppress transmission of the coronavirus.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: As members of the huge baby boom generation start turning 80 in 2025, the pressures of caregiving will only intensify.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The health policy journal Health Affairs published a special issue featuring important perinatal mental health data and analysis.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Public health experts remain wary of a potential peril that the state avoided last winter — a “twindemic.”

Stories That Caught Our Attention: California's public health infrastructure required shoring up even before COVID-19 hammered county and state public health systems.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Even with full vaccination, former secretary of state Colin Powell's immune system — weakened by a blood cancer — couldn't fend off a coronavirus infection.

Public health leaders have been encouraged by increased acceptance of COVID-19 shots in communities that were lagging state and national vaccination rates.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Nationally, investment in health data infrastructure has been woefully lacking for years, with significant consequences for public health reporting.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Holdouts push employers to the limit.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The percentage of Americans with health insurance remained stable during 2020 despite a hobbled economy.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Insurance companies across the country have been reinstating cost sharing for people being treated for the disease, and it isn't cheap.