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This photo provided by Bill Mathis shows him and his first grade teacher in the mid-1990s in Michigan, where he grew up. He credits her and another teacher with inspiring him to become a teacher. (Courtesy Bill Mathis via AP)
Public service in the US: Increasingly thankless, exhausting

By Martha Irvine May. 12, 2021 01:04 AM EDT

Bill Mathis packages THC products in Hazel Park, Mich., Thursday, April 29, 2021. A former teacher, Mathis has taken a new job in Michigan’s newly legalized cannabis industry. The pay is better, the hours more regular, the stress less, he says. No longer does he worry that he’ll catch COVID-19. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Public service in the US: Increasingly thankless, exhausting

By Martha Irvine May. 12, 2021 01:03 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2021, file photo, a police officer takes pictures of a burned-out coronavirus testing facility in the fishing village of Urk in the Netherlands after it was set on fire the night before by rioting youths protesting on the first night of a nationwide curfew. A new report by the Geneva-based Insecurity Insight and the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center identified hundreds of attacks linked to fear or frustration around the coronavirus against health care workers and facilities in the past year. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
COVID-19 pandemic fuels attacks on health workers globally

By Helen Wieffering And Joshua Housing Mar. 02, 2021 12:47 AM EST

FILE - In this March 11, 2020 file photo people walk in front of Wheeler Hall on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Calif. A surge of COVID-19 cases at the university has prompted school officials to extend a lockdown on about 2,000 students living in residence halls and ban them from outdoor exercise as part of strict new measures to curb the spread of infections. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu,File)
Outdoor exercise banned in UC Berkeley COVID-19 lockdown

By Jocelyn Gecker Feb. 11, 2021 02:39 PM EST

Lori Gonzalez, left, and Rachel Spray carry flowers to the temporary grave marker of Gonzalez's sister and Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center nurse, Sandra Oldfield, at the Sanger Cemetery in Sanger, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. Oldfield died after being exposed to the novel coronavirus. Workers at the hospital said they did not have the proper personal protective equipment. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
US medical supply chains failed, and COVID deaths followed

By Juliet Linderman And Martha Mendoza Oct. 06, 2020 10:23 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 16, 2012, file photo, researcher Terry Storm works in a stem cell research lab at the Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has doled out nearly $3 billion for stem-cell research since 2004. Now, with the institute running out of money, its advocates are asking California voters to approve Proposition 14, to give it a $5.5 billion cash infusion. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
California's stem-cell research program nearly out of money

By John Rogers Oct. 02, 2020 10:13 AM EDT

UC Berkeley virus outbreak linked to fraternity parties

Jul. 10, 2020 04:13 PM EDT
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A spike of coronavirus infections at the University of California, Berkeley, is tied to a series of fraternity parties, officials said....

FILE - Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) kneels in prayer before the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Los Angeles Friday, May 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, Pool, File)
Church singing ban strikes sour note with California pastor

By Don Thompson Jul. 10, 2020 03:49 PM EDT

In this April 6, 2020 photo, skateboarders are seen in a park in Omaha, Neb. As most governors have imposed stay-at-home orders that public health officials say are essential to slowing the spread of the new coronavirus, leaders in a handful of states have steadfastly refused to take the action, arguing it's unneeded and potentially harmful. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Holdout governors: Some states don't need stay-at-home order

By Scott Mcfetridge Apr. 07, 2020 01:58 PM EDT