Santa Clara Health Officer: Lack Of Coordination Hampering COVID-19 Response
Santa Clara County's top health officer said Tuesday that a disorganized reopening process erased much of the progress made during the initial shelter-in-place.
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Santa Clara County's top health officer said Tuesday that a disorganized reopening process erased much of the progress made during the initial shelter-in-place.
A San Francisco epidemiologist says wearing masks is the most effective way Californians can stop the spread of coronavirus and get back on track to reopen.
While most of California sheltered in place, Latinos continued doing a lot of the hands-on work and are now being hit hard by the coronavirus because of it.
At Tribez Hair Salon in the Blackhawk Plaza, it's trendy, hip and moving outside. They didn't have a choice. It was make it happen or business would be cut.
Amid concerns that San Mateo County could soon end up on the state's COVID-19 watch list, the county's health officer called out gatherings for contributing to higher transmission of the coronavirus.
Leaders with the state's hotel industry on Monday announced they've filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court, seeking to overturn an emergency ordinance passed earlier this month that increases cleaning at the city's hotels and commercial offices.
Organizers of the AIDS Walk held annually in San Francisco refused to let the COVID-19 pandemic bring them to a standstill.
Tests of untreated waste water from Yosemite National Park have confirmed the presence of coronavirus and the recently-reopened park is cutting the number of vehicle passes in half.
Among Bay Area counties fighting to reopen amid the deepening coronavirus pandemic, San Mateo has been holding steady but that may not last much longer and small business owners can hear the clock ticking.
Gov. Newsom laid out new rules Friday that likely ensure most Bay Area schools will start with at-home, online instruction come fall. A UCSF task force has been gathering data from other countries that have successfully figured out what works and what doesn't.
A deaf San Jose woman, exempt from California face-covering requirements, says she has been repeatedly kicked out of businesses by employees and publicly persecuted by other customers at grocery stores, gas stations and pharmacies.
San Francisco mayor London Breed told residents there is little time left to get COVID-19 cases under control before we could see another large outbreak.
Most Bay Area counties have landed on California's COVID-19 watch list because of a spike in infections and hospitalizations. The only exceptions, so far, are Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. Friday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed became the latest Bay Area mayor to announce a slowdown in reopening but some business owners are unsure if they should open Monday, or close.
With COVID-19 cases rising in San Francisco and across the country, Mayor London Breed warned the crisis would likely continue for the foreseeable future and urged better coordination among leaders.
At the state's request, the U.S. Air Force sent a team of 20 medical personnel to Lodi Memorial Hospital in San Joaquin County on Wednesday to help handle the county's intensive care unit over-capacity crisis.
