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![California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks in Walnut Creek, Calif. Bonta announced that California cities and counties could receive more than $2 billion as part of a national settlement with drug distributors and manufacturers for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.]()
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![Two wings of the modern section of Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on July 20, 2022.]()
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![Patrons at The Four Deuces bar watch football in San Francisco, Calif. on Saturday, January 8, 2023]()
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![Husband and wife, Maria (L) and Faustino Salazar (CR) both precieve their Covid-19 boosters at the community testing and vaccination clinic, United in Health/Unidos en Salud is seen on Friday, September 23, 2022 in the Mission Distric of San Francisco, Calif.]()
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Judge orders nursing home chain accused of understaffing, substandard care to comply with state laws
![California Attorney General Rob Bonta argued Monday in a filing with the California Supreme Court that the justices should restore workers’ rights under a 2004 state law after the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back most of the law.]()
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![Spencer Gray injects fentanyl inside a tent in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.]()
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![A Carbon Health Clinic in San Francisco. The company has announced layoffs.]()
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![Melissa Le Biavant, a shopper at the Monterey Boulevard Safeway in San Francisco, said she’s tempted to breed her own chickens now that avian flu has created a shortage of commercial eggs.]()
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![Democratic Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman, right, shown here in 2017 talking with Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia of Bell Gardens, has been appointed to lead the Senate’s influential health committee.]()
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![Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin (3) lies on the turf after making a tackle on Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins, blocked from view, as Buffalo Bills linebacker Tremaine Edmunds (49) assists at the end of the play during the first half of an NFL football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, in Cincinnati. After getting up from the play, Hamlin collapsed and was administered CPR on the field. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)]()
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![Nurse practitioner Surani Hayre-Kwan, right, speaks with patient Mary Valesano, center, and her caregiver Georgia Manolakos-Fraley, left, during a check-up at the Russian River Health Center in 2020.]()
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![FILE - In this May 11, 2021, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Fauci has been a lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, when he was lionized by the left as a beacon of truth and villainized by the right as a misguided, spotlight-seeking bureaucrat who too often sought to undermine then-President Donald Trump. But since the release of a trove of his emails obtained by news outlets, Republicans have sharply escalated their attacks on the nation's top government infectious diseases expert. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Photo via AP, File)]()
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![From jangled nerves to lost sleep, the rising onslaught of noise in California is harming bodies and minds — and prompting legislation to deal with it.]()
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![The third year of the coronavirus pandemic began with the massive omicron surge that caught many experts off guard. Here, medical staff at Petaluma Health Center prepare to administer COVID-19 tests to patients waiting in their vehicles on Jan. 24, 2022.]()
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![Medical assistant intern Any Meza takes the temperature of patient Ronald at the Roots Community Health Center in Oakland on Nov. 30, 2022. COVID remains a threat statewide heading into the New Year.]()
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![Medical assistant intern Any Meza takes the temperature of patient Ronald at the Roots Community Health Center in Oakland on Nov. 30, 2022. COVID remains a threat statewide heading into the New Year.]()
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![The Biden administration is moving to withdraw a Trump administration rule that would have allowed anyone in health care to deny reproductive and transgender care for religious or moral reasons.]()
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![Jennifer Glasier and her dog Gnocchi, 6, wait inside SoMA RISE, a meth sobering center in SOMA to see if she can sleep there for the night in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022.]()
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![Wellness outreach specialist Danya Axelrad-Hausman holds a box of Narcan at Archie Williams High School in San Anselmo.]()
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![Paxlovid tablets can be seen at La Clinica Fruitvale Village in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, March 3, 2022.]()
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![Some audience members and artists were masked and others were not during the BART Basel stunt held at the Powell Street BART station on Dec. 3, 2022. As COVID stages another winter comeback, many Californians don’t seem to care anymore about public health precautions.]()
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![Dylan Marchiel, a high school junior, is a participant in Change SF, a unique program that gives young people ages 13-24 in San Francisco a chance to be interns in mental health and behavioral science programs.]()
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![Graduates sit socially distanced while wearing masks during Balboa High School's graduation ceremony held at Kezar Stadium San Francisco, Calif. Wednesday, June 2, 2021. After a year of distance learning, high school seniors who were not included in SFUSD's reopening plans will get to walk across a real stage to get their diplomas.]()
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![A person checks their phone amid smoke and haze in Berkeley in October 2020. Spare the Air days are in store for the region now through Christmas Day.]()
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![District officials have roped off the courtyard and garden at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 in San Francisco after finding lead 2 feet down. They are planning on digging up the entire area during winter break.]()
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![A rendering that shows one of the three contenders for San Francisco's new trash can, "slim silhouette," on the Embarcadero. A decision on the replacement for the current green model will be made after prototypes are put on display for public review.]()
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![At-home COVID-19 testing kits can be seen at West Portal Elementary in San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. The tests kits are intended for students to take home to their parents and contain two tests per box.]()
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![Maximilian Soares prepares to smoke marijuana from a water bong during the annual observance of 4/20 for cannabis consumption in San Francisco, California Tuesday, April 20, 2021.]()
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![Jackie Sharif gets tested for COVID-19 at the Unidos en Salud/United in Health community testing and vaccination clinic in San Francisco’s Mission District on Sept. 23, 2022.]()
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![Shields and face masks displayed on a table at a beauty parlor. The Oakland City Council voted Dec. 20 to reinstate a mask mandate in government facilities amid surging COVID cases.]()
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![Isabel Bueso, left, of Concord, Calif., testified before a House Oversight subcommittee hearing into the Trump administration's decision to stop considering requests from immigrants seeking to remain in the country for medical treatment and other hardships, on Sept. 11, 2019.]()
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![Jeremiah Robison watches his daughter Sofia, 13, try out a wearable leg sleeve that helps assist her mobility issues, due to cerebral palsy.]()
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![El Rio on Mission Street in San Francisco, shown on June 24, 2021, has Narcan nasal spray behind the bar and signs advertising that fact around the establishment.]()
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![Hawley Montgomery-Downs, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was thrilled when daughter Bryn won a scholarship that pays half the $63,000 tuition at the University of Southern California. But then they found out they had to pay about $3,000 to cover Bryn’s health insurance and a student health fee.]()
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![Nurse Jean Marll works in an isolation room on the COVID ward at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital last January. Though coronavirus hospitalizations are now rising, improved treatments are resulting in better outcomes for many patients.]()
