WhatsApp Tightens Limits On Message Forwarding To Counter Coronavirus Misinformation
WhatsApp, based in Menlo Park, is trying to stem the rapid spread of coronavirus misinformation.
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WhatsApp, based in Menlo Park, is trying to stem the rapid spread of coronavirus misinformation.
The University of California said it will provide $2 million in seed funding to scientists across the state to help jump-start high impact research projects and accelerate urgently-needed breakthroughs to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Scientists in the Bay Area and around the country are focusing on antibody tests that could determine who has recovered from the coronavirus without ever knowing it. The results could be key in getting people back to work.
Leaders of Santa Clara County, the Bay Area county hit hardest by coronavirus, are willing to pay a bounty of $1,000 to anyone who can provide a used or old ventilator.
San Francisco has reversed a plan to shelter homeless people at the Moscone Center and instead will continue with a plan to place homeless people at hotels in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus,
She just got her nursing license twelve days ago, and already Tia Buxton is heading to New York.
In an interview with KPIX 5, Santa Clara County's public health officer urged the community to continue to obey the shelter in place order because, she said, it's working.
Santa Clara County health officials on Monday reported the county has 1,224 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, with the county's death toll increasing by three for a total of 42.
California is sending 500 state-owned ventilators to the Strategic National Stockpile to help New York and other states that are in immediate need for them because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the governor's office.
The state's task is to smoothly integrate that volunteer army into the existing health care system and the stopgap medical facilities springing up in sports arenas, fairgrounds and other locations.
The city of Daly City announced Monday that it will donate hundreds of pieces of personal protective equipment to Seton Medical Center, which is caring for novel coronavirus patients.
Two new drive-through coronavirus testing sites have been set up in San Francisco and Oakland for first responders, health care workers and other direct-service providers, officials announced Monday.
Coronavirus patients around the world have been rushing to join remdesivir studies that opened in hospitals in the last few weeks.
Taryn Vian, public health professor at USF, says California's early and aggressive shelter-in-place orders may help spare the state's healthcare system from running out of hospital beds during the projected peak of the coronavirus.
Apple has sourced over 20 million masks through its supply chain and its teams are working to ship face shields to healthcare workers in the South Bay and beyond fighting COVID-19, CEO Tim Cook said Sunday.
