Long COVID patients in California are waiting up to six months to see a specialist, if they can find one still accepting new patients. Clinics across the state are full. This is despite a 2024 state law.

In September 2024, Bill AB 3119 cleared both chambers of the California Legislature without a single dissenting vote and was signed into law.

This law requires the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the Physician Assistant Board to consider including, in their continuing education requirements for the licensees specified above, a course on infection-associated chronic conditions, including, but not limited to, long COVID.

The California Medical Board has not publicly discussed the issue since the bill was enacted into law.

Its position: Each physician should choose the continuing education appropriate to their patients. For patients who cannot work, cannot sleep, and cannot find a trained provider, that position has a cost.

In this episode, we sit down with Susanna Zaraysky, the California resident who pushed AB 3119 through the Legislature after spending months unable to find a doctor trained to treat her. We also discuss with Dr. Monica Gandhi, professor of Medicine at UCSF, what it would take to close the treatment gap.

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Eviction cases in Los Angeles are now arriving in court with motions written by AI. In some cases, tentative rulings have also come back citing cases that don’t exist, errors that federal courts are now sanctioning on a near-weekly basis.

Beyond the courtroom, Measure ULA has collected close to a billion dollars over its first two and a half years, and attorney Avi Sinai says the eviction defense funding it provides is reaching a wider range of tenants than many would expect.

Sinai, who represents landlords across Los Angeles, explains what it looks like when AI-written filings and AI-assisted rulings show up in the same case, and where the mansion tax money is actually landing once a case reaches court.

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California's two major refineries closed within the past year. The state now imports twice the gasoline it did before. No replacement supplier has been identified. The modeling that would show the full impact of that gap has not been made public.

The supply chain California now depends on runs through foreign refineries that are themselves struggling to source crude through a Strait of Hormuz operating at less than half its normal capacity. Prices at the pump have already risen more than a dollar per gallon, and wholesale costs have climbed faster still. The next wave has not reached the street yet.

C.J. Nord, Founder of Supply Chains for Good, and Skip York, Senior Vice President and Chief Energy Strategist at Turner, Mason & Company and Nonresident Fellow at the Baker Institute, have been watching this from inside the supply chain.

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