COVID Surge: California Virus Deaths Top 30,000 After Pandemic's Deadliest Weekend
Johns Hopkins University data showed the nation's most populous state has recorded more than 30,000 deaths since the pandemic started nearly a year ago.
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Johns Hopkins University data showed the nation's most populous state has recorded more than 30,000 deaths since the pandemic started nearly a year ago.
California is the epicenter of the worst surge in COVID-19 infections. Now the best hope is the vaccine. Elizabeth Cook has details on plans to speed up the vaccination process.
The good news is that virus transmission in the Bay Area has not yet shown a post-holiday spike. The hope is that hospitalizations will soon decline.
The progress of administering vaccines has been slow. Now, private doctors in the North Bay are banding together to offer vaccinations to medical staff.
Despite being down three key players who are quarantined due to COVID-19, No. 1 Stanford beat No. 11 Oregon 70-63 on Friday.
ICU capacity in the Bay Area was down to 3.5% on Thursday. Public health officials said they expected the drop because they've now discovered that coronavirus infections follow a predictable timeline.
UCSF Dept. of Medicine chairman Dr. Bob Wachter said California should consider a lottery system as a more equitable way to coordinate coronavirus vaccinations.
The California Department of Public Health issued a new advisory discouraging residents from non-essential travel far from home as COVID-19 cases surge.
When it comes to allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control published a new anaphylaxis study in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
UCSF Medical Center announced Wednesday that they have vaccinated nearly 10,000 frontline staff from COVID-19 and have begun distributing second doses.
A San Francisco couple that got stranded in New Zealand due to coronavirus restrictions has been reunited with their dogs, Whiskey and Waffles after living nearly 10 months apart.
Marin County will soon start phase 1B of vaccinations which includes teachers, in hopes of opening every single school in the county to some form of in-person learning.
Frontline health care workers and nursing homes are first in line to get a COVID-19 vaccine in California, but dental workers who face unmasked patients at work daily, have to wait.
Tanya Roberts, who captivated James Bond in "A View to a Kill" and appeared in the sitcom "That '70s Show," has died, her publicist confirmed to CBS News on Tuesday, a day after he and her partner mistakenly said she had died.
After priority groups get the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines now allocated to California, Bay Area public health departments and medical centers are busy making plans for the general population. But it's a work in progress.
