San Mateo health officials say COVID transmission staying high amid new subvariants
COVID-19 transmission levels remain high in San Mateo County, local health officials said Tuesday, and are likely to remain at a sustained level in the coming weeks.
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COVID-19 transmission levels remain high in San Mateo County, local health officials said Tuesday, and are likely to remain at a sustained level in the coming weeks.
Ann Shulgin, who together with her late husband Alexander Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelic drugs in psychotherapy and co-wrote two seminal books on the subject, has died at the age of 91.
Opioid makers Allergan and Teva have agreed to pay $54 million in cash and overdose reversal drugs to settle a federal lawsuit brought by San Francisco.
To date, the most common subvariant in the Bay Area is BA.5, but BA 2.75 has arrived and it may be more contagious.
The Health and Human Services Department is telling hospitals that they "must" provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk.
As the monkeypox outbreak grows, two San Francisco lawmakers along with the LGBTQ community have become frustrated over the federal government's response and the lack of available vaccines.
Recent high school graduates organized a march and rally at San Jose city hall on Saturday to protest the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and various states' attempts to ban abortions.
A San Francisco doctor plans to help women in states where abortion is limited or banned by offering services on a floating clinic offshore.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that he approved a budget that allocates $100 million for the state to create its own insulin, a response to extremely high prices for the life-saving medication that have made it inaccessible to some people with diabetes.
President Biden took executive action intended to protect access and privacy related to abortion.
Just as it did at the start of the AIDS crisis, the Bay Area LGBTQ community is stepping up to stop the spread of another illness, the monkeypox.
The BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants are now the dominant strains of COVID-19 in the United States. They're the most transmissible subvariants to date, according to Dr. John Swartzberg, and infectious disease expert at UC Berkeley.
St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton is seeking assistance from the public to identify a man who was brought in this week to the hospital after reportedly being found near a bank, Dignity Health Officials said in a press release Thursday.
Vector control crews are planning to spray insecticide next week in some Sunnyvale and Santa Clara neighborhoods, following the recent discovery of West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes.
The agency said nine additional countries had reported cases.
