Tag: COVID-19

Santa Clara County is outpacing the state in uptake of the omicron-specific Covid-19 booster vaccine across all eligible age groups, the county's top health...

Workers at Santa Clara County health care and long-term care facilities, homeless shelters and prisons will no longer be required to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after the county’s health officer on Sept. 12 rescinded a health order mandating that they do so. Vaccination or frequent testing has been a requirement for workers in settings with […]

In May, the Los Gatos Town Council decided it was going to use $2.9 million of the money Washington gave it to make it...

With the first day of school rapidly approaching and Covid-19 circulating at a high rate, health officials are urging parents to get their youngest...

While Tuesday is frequently a day off for restaurant industry workers, April 5 was actually quite a hectic one for Tony Loeffler, general manager...

Santa Clara County lifted its indoor mask mandate March 2, the last county in the Bay Area to do so following the region's winter...

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,...

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 […]

Santa Clara County officials said Jan. 14 that the region’s Omicron surge may be cresting and called on private health care providers to increase their Covid-19 testing capacity. The county is currently seeing its highest infection rates since the pandemic began, according to Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody, but recent analysis of local sewagesheds has […]

Just as the world was shutting down with the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, a Brazilian doctor named Carlos R. Degrandi Oliveira, penned an article in...