COVID: Delta Variant Fears Overshadow Oakland Students Return To Classrooms
Students have mixed emotions about returning to class Monday in the Oakland Unified School District during the pandemic for the start of the new school year.
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Students have mixed emotions about returning to class Monday in the Oakland Unified School District during the pandemic for the start of the new school year.
With school about to resume in many Bay Area districts there is one last push to get as many students vaccinated as possible.
UC San Francisco is seeing eight times more COVID hospitalizations than it did at the state's reopening in June with experts warning that number will grow during the spread of the delta variant cases among vaccinated and non-vaccinated local residents.
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels an ongoing COVID wave, Bay Area health experts are keeping a close eye on yet another variant: Delta Plus.
The list of companies and organizations getting on board with COVID-19 vaccination requirements for employees in the Bay Area is growing.
With a mixture of excitement and a little anxiety, Oakland teachers were busy getting their classrooms ready Friday as the district's more than 36,000 students were preparing for a return to fall classes next week.
San Francisco Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax on Thursday clarified the department's stance on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for people who previously received the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
Gov. Gavin Newson boldly predicted Friday that if there was a massive surge in unvaccinated Californians getting a shot of vaccine, the rapid rise of COVID delta variant cases and indoor mask mandates for business and public places could end within 30 days.
The South San Francisco Unified School District will reopen for traditional, in-class instruction this coming Wednesday.
California has become the first state in the nation to require all workers in health care settings to be fully vaccinated against COVID.
The Delta Variant has thrown the Bay Area a curveball. Those in gravest danger are without a doubt the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
Bay Area school officials are very aware of the possibility of outbreaks during the year. Protocols are in place, and local health departments are in close contact with each school if these outbreaks happen.
Hours after the state announced a mandate, a leading expert from UC San Francisco said he was in favor of the new requirements as a way to slow the surge in COVID Delta variant cases. Dr. Bob Wachter appeared on KPIX 5's 5 O'clock news Thursday.
Amid rising COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant, officials in San Jose announced that all city employees would need to be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing, starting later this month.
With all San Francisco public schools reopening their doors in less than two weeks -- some for the first time in a year and a half -- school district and city health officials said this week they're taking extra precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Kaiser Permanente announced Thursday that it's offering free COVID-19 vaccinations Friday at Oakland Technical High School for people ages 12 and up.
Santa Rosa expects to start up pre-pandemic CityBus service starting this Sunday to accommodate students and residents returning to in-person school and work in the fall.
Moderna says a third booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine will likely be necessary this fall because of the rapid spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
As the Delta variant fuels the fourth COVID-19 wave, some already exhausted Bay Area frontline healthcare workers who've worked through the pandemic feel a sense of déjà vu.
One defiant East Bay business owner's refusal to enforce indoor mask rules has led authorities to warn he could be facing fines for non-compliance.
The ongoing surge in Bay Area COVID cases is raising concerns for Bay Area children as they return to school for in-person learning with students under age 12 still unvaccinated and unprotected against the more contagious Delta variant.
Santa Clara County has launched a new push to get more people vaccinated, even though the region has one of the highest vaccination rates of any large county in the United States.
Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, Sonoma County officials on Wednesday issued a health order calling for all fire, law enforcement and emergency medical service workers and staff at disaster shelters to be get vaccinated.
To help protect its patients, workforce and communities from the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant, Sutter Health today announced a new policy requiring its workforce to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by September 30th.
In what could be a first nationwide, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, while not recommending COVID vaccine boosters, is allowing some people to get them.
