COVID-19

Santa Clara County has received its first report of a case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, county officials said. The case was reported Dec. 9 involving someone who was fully vaccinated but had not received a booster. The person had recently returned from traveling...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended its emergency use authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine Monday, allowing children ages 12-15 to get a booster vaccine dose.  The FDA opened booster vaccine eligibility to everyone age 16 and up in November, arguing that an additional dose...

Santa Clara County health officials announced Feb. 9 that local indoor masking requirements will not be lifted on Feb. 16, which is the date the state will rescind its order. Instead, Santa Clara County will continue to base decisions on whether and when to lift indoor masking requirements on the risks posed by Covid-19, using […]

Parents who are fed up with having to make their kids wear masks to school protested this morning outside of R.J. Fisher Middle School, which is next to the Los Gatos Union School District offices. They say research from infectious disease scientists suggests that children...

Health officials across nine Bay Area jurisdictions announced their criteria Thursday to eventually lift the region’s requirement to wear a mask indoors regardless of vaccination status. The health officers in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties and the city of Berkeley initially issued the mandate Aug. 3 […]