Early in the pandemic many expected the quarantines to cause a baby bust, but instead, U.S. experts are reporting a baby bust
Across the nation, a Thursday Brookings Institute report has projected 300,000 fewer births by 2022
Those who are able to have children have changed their family plans and statistics show that 48% of people have decided to deploy having kids, 26% have become unsure about having kids at all, and 25% have decided to accelerate their timelines for kids
Another California summer series of power outages pose threat to Newsom as he faces recall
Each power outage that has occurred has frustrated Californians and they look to blame Governor Gavin newsom
California’s three largest investor-owned utilities expect to cut energy from thousands of homes and businesses to prevent power lines from sparking during high risk weather conditions that could spark wildfires
These shut-offs are a key tool in protecting California homes and businesses from the threat of utility-caused fires
The downside to this is that the prolonged outages aggravate residents as basic services and simple luxuries like an air conditioned home a refrigerator are taken away
Black and Latino Californians have ramped up vaccinations but numbers still lag behind Asian and white residents
There is a large disparity between Black and Latino Vaccinations and Asian and White Vaccinations
Overall, public health officials have expressed that they’re glad to see state officials plan to reopen nearly everything June 15
Public health officials are also concerned that not enough vaccines are going to the hardest hit communities, who are often essential workers
Across the state, 39% of residents are Latinos and have almost 47% of all cases here
Latinos have also made up 50% of deaths and received only about 20% of the vaccines so far
The Black community makes up 6% of the state’s residents and has nearly 7% of the cases, 5% of the deaths, and only 3% has received the vaccine
By K Buenavista
Mr. Buenavista is a writer that specializes in breaking down complex topics into easy to understand formats that appeal to a wide range of news seeking readers, without missing the important details. He handles a majority of the daily news reporting at Easy-Ad, and has written on many other websites. He resides in Southern California.
