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$4 Million Of California’s Budget To Be Used To Resolve Rape-Kit Backlog A request by Assemblyman Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, to use $4 million of California’s budget to test backlogged rape kits was approved Wednesday. Lackey made the request to help reduce the backlog of nearly 14,000 rape kits that have yet to be tested by California law enforcement officials. “I am overjoyed that this dedication of resources will assist victims of violent crime in their trauma recovery process for years to come,” Lackey said. “The backlog is often discussed as an aggregate but each kit represents an individual working to heal physically, emotionally and psychologically. The very least we can do is affirm their pain by testing the DNA evidence provided.” ....
L.A. County sees slight rise in coronavirus cases, delta variant concerns public health officials FacebookTwitterEmail UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center lab director Dr. Charles Chiu demonstrates the process of extracting samples of COVID-19 for sequencing while working in his lab in San Francisco in January. Public health experts are increasingly concerned about the impact of highly contagious coronavirus variants. UCSF is running tests on the viruses circulating in California to help identify new strains.Jessica Christian/The Chronicle Los Angeles County is recording small increases in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, and public health officials said that nearly half of the county’s coronavirus variants sequenced for the week ending on June 12 were the highly infectious delta variant. ....