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A highly contagious and deadly rabbit disease has been found in California for the first time, the state Fish and Wildlife Department said. A veterinary laboratory confirmed the presence of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease virus type 2 in a wild black-tailed jackrabbit that was among 10 jackrabbits found dead on a property near Palm Springs early…

May 11, 2020In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, the United States, like many countries, had a very brief chance to limit the spread of the disease at its borders. Identifying travelers from high-risk countries and tracing their contacts with others would have been critical measures, if put in place early enough.In California, the…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A nurse in California died two weeks after she treated a “code blue” coronavirus patient without wearing proper personal protective equipment (PPE), with her colleagues saying she would have lost valuable time if she had waited to find an N95 mask before…

California is one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths are projected to rise faster than researchers expected, according to the latest calculations in a widely relied-upon model of the COVID-19 outbreak.Christopher Murray, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation”…

Nearly half of all deaths related to COVID-19 in California are linked to elder care facilities, a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times has found, with the state releasing new data suggesting that there have been many more outbreaks than previously disclosed. At least 1,276 people have died after being infected with the coronavirus…