COVID: Backlash Over Santa Clara Co. Mandatory Employee Vaccination Status Checks
There's a growing backlash in the business community in Santa Clara County over a new requirement for employers to collect the vaccination status of their workers.
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There's a growing backlash in the business community in Santa Clara County over a new requirement for employers to collect the vaccination status of their workers.
Bay Area health officers said Friday that they back plans for schools to return to full-time in-person learning this fall, amid continuing COVID-19 case drops and rising vaccination rates.
The California Senate moved Friday to make the state's assisted death law permanent and significantly shorten the time a terminally ill patient must wait for a fatal dose of medication.
Health officers in the Bay Area said people seeking COVID-19 vaccines can receive them at the same time as other shots, in the wake of new guidance by the Centers for Disease Control.
Concluding that "mere tweaks cannot salvage the agreement," a federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday refused to bless a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit involving Roundup.
In the Bay Area, the number of deaths and hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are way, way down from earlier this year. Meanwhile, a new study from Stanford shows the health threat is far from over.
Poor working conditions at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco inspired nurses to hold a one-day strike Tuesday, noting their workplace is bad enough to drive away experienced nurses and dissuade new ones from joining.
Starting Wednesday, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority will increase passenger capacity on its light-rail vehicles and buses.
The Bay Area's largest county hit a major milestone this week when it surpassed its millionth COVID-19 vaccine administered just as state leaders announced California would fully reopen June 15.
In about three weeks, Californians will begin a new chapter in the pandemic when the state lifts nearly all COVID-19 restrictions. In Santa Clara County, business owners large and small can barely wait.
California's top health official said Friday that the state no longer will require social distancing and will allow full capacity for businesses when the state reopens on June 15.
Marin County this week confirmed its first coronavirus-related death in a month, which county officials said was evidence that widespread vaccination has succeeded in keeping people alive and out of the hospital.
Roughly half a million people will have been vaccinated at the Oakland Coliseum by the time its vaccination site closes this weekend, officials with the Coliseum's joint powers authority said Friday.
The University of California at Berkeley announced that in-person classes for the Fall 2021 semester will start on time, urging students, staff and faculty to be fully vaccinated before then.
A woman who refused to wear a face covering spat at food service and bank employees at several San Jose businesses on Tuesday.
