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Coroner’s officials Friday, Dec. 18, identified a boy who collapsed on the street after an apparent gang-related shooting in the MacArthur Park neighborhood this week as 14-year-old Arthur Touch of Long Beach. Long Beach firefighters received a call after a witness saw the teenager collapse and appear injured in the 1400 block of St. Louis…

Even as the coronavirus rips through California and the situation threatens to worsen over the holidays, vaccinations and safety measures will eventually help the state and the U.S. put the pandemic in the rear-view mirror, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a virtual conversation Friday with…

According to California public heath websites, Thursday’s end-of-day totals reported 51,385 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of people who have been infected to 1,748,726. There were also 273 new deaths reported, bringing the total number of deaths to 22,150. An additional 539 patients were admitted into California’s hospitals bringing the total…

WOODLAND (CBS13) — There’s finally some mental and emotional relief after nine long hard months. Nurses were some of those who spoke the loudest at the beginning of the pandemic, protesting when there wasn’t enough PPE. But now with the vaccine, they’re singing a different tune. Woodland Memorial Hospital Chief Nurse Executive Gena Bravo will…

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — We’re nearly a year into the pandemic and people are getting tired of following new regional stay-at-home orders as they approach the holiday. Old Sacramento has seen packed boardwalks, outdoor dining and no signs of social distancing. “They are ridiculous and I’m not going to abide by them,” said Sacramento resident, Dan…

CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) – Taking photos with Santa Claus is a special, annual tradition for kids and their families. Though families in the Sacramento area say one Santa stood out among the rest. Now in retirement, the former Sunrise Mall Santa faces health issues and is drawing support from the community. “We treasure these,” Katie…

By Judith Graham, Contributing writer Imagine this: Your elderly mother, who has dementia, is in a nursing home and COVID-19 vaccines are due to arrive in a week or two. You think she should be vaccinated, having heard the vaccine is effective in generating an immune response in older adults. Your brother disagrees. He worries…

Intensive care bed availability in Southern California has been reported at 0% capacity by state and county health officials. But that alarming figure carries a big asterisk: it doesn’t mean there are no open ICU beds that day. In the context of the coronavirus pandemic’s bleakest chapter, the state Department of Public Health’s front-and-center metric,…