North Bay COVID Clinics See High Demand From Pre-Thanksgiving Booster Seekers
North Bay clinics are seeing long lines as people rush to get their COVID boosters in time for the holidays but many vaccination providers are completely booked.
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North Bay clinics are seeing long lines as people rush to get their COVID boosters in time for the holidays but many vaccination providers are completely booked.
Thursday's clinic at Markham Elementary is part of the effort to get more kids vaccinated across Oakland and Alameda County.
The Healdsburg City Council was accused of racially discriminating against one of its members this week after she was not allowed to attend the council's regular meeting in person because she is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
California's highest court rejected on Wednesday a challenge by Monsanto Co.'s to $86.2 million in damages to an East Bay couple who developed cancer after spraying the company's Roundup weed-killer in their yards for three decades.
An estimated 100,000 Americans have died of drug overdose in one calendar year, a never-before-seen milestone that's causing new alarm over the nation's addiction crisis.
State public health officials urged families to get vaccinated against COVID-19 this week as part of a "week of action" prior to Thanksgiving and other holidays that include large gatherings.
After Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers became the latest high-profile figure to spread misinformation around the COVID-19 vaccines, Stanford Clinical Professor of Medicine Dr. Malathi Srinivasan responded in an interview on CBSN Bay Area.
In the fraud trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, an investor who poured nearly $100 million into the failed startup took the stand Tuesday.
There was a long line when the pediatric vaccine clinic opened at a school in Sonoma County, with parents eager to get their kids vaccinated.
County officials unveiled kid-friendly, jungle-themed decorations at its mass vaccination at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.
Dozens of inmates at the Santa Cruz County Jail have been placed into quarantine protocols due to a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is expanding the booster shot eligibility to all adults 18 and older, provided they qualify based on the timing of their vaccination history.
Kaiser Permanente management and its hospital workers reached a tentative labor agreement Saturday morning, averting what would have been one of the largest strikes in the country's healthcare industry in recent memory.
The California Department of Public Health has directed health care providers to administer the booster shot upon request to any adult fully-vaccinated for six months, according to a letter from the agency dated Nov. 9.
People are contracting multiple respiratory viruses including the common cold as winter approaches, adding to the ongoing concerns for infections of COVID-19 and influenza in the weeks ahead.
