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Report: Long COVID Accounted for Nearly 74% of California Comp Virus Payments

Long COVID cases accounted for 82.1% of the treatment payments on COVID claims and 73.7% of all COVID-19 claim payments in California’s workers’ compensation system, according to a study. The study from the California Workers’…
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California Plan to Ban Plants Close to Homes Overlooks Some Truths About Flammability

One of the most striking patterns in the aftermath of many urban fires is how much unburned green vegetation remains amid the wreckage of burned neighborhoods. In some cases, a row of shrubs may be all that separates a…
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Blaze Triggers Alarm Over Rapid Growth of Big Batteries

A fire on a bucolic stretch of California coast has threatened the rapid growth of an industry considered key to greening the power grid — and keeping the lights on. Midway through the afternoon of…