Nurses Miniimahe and Megan prep for a patient to be tested at the West Berkeley testing site. Photo: Pete RososAnyone who lives or works in Berkeley and has COVID-19 symptoms can now call the city to request an appointment to get tested, the city announced Wednesday afternoon.Those symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, fever, chills,…
UC Berkeley public health professors are launching a major study of people in the East Bay who show no coronavirus symptoms but could have it. Photo: Google Street View It’s common knowledge that someone can be infected with COVID-19 without showing symptoms: That’s why we’re wearing masks, shouting to healthy neighbors from across the street…
Berkeleyside is sharing this message from city of Berkeley Health Officer Dr. Lisa Hernandez. It was published Friday evening and appears below in full. Today, I issued an Order mandating the use of face coverings for everyone especially customers and workers in essential businesses so that infected people without symptoms don’t unintentionally spread COVID-19. While…
FILE -- San Francisco Mayor London Breed, speaks about new measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, in San Francisco, Monday, March 16, 2020. Breed announced a shelter in place order days before the rest of California and nearly a week before New York. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) less FILE -- San Francisco…
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the results of the FDA’s largest baby formula safety test on CBS News 24/7’s The Daily Report on April 29. She also discussed how women seeking treatment for menopause symptoms are facing a shortage of estrogen patches on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on April 27.
1 min read AHEAD OF THE F1 Miami Grand Prix, Liam Lawson took a different type of drive than his usual high-speed outing. The 24-year-old racer from New Zealand got behind the wheel of the MH Muscle Car—a tricked-out Ford Raptor—with fitness director Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S. along for the ride. Lawson and Samuel roll through
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In his earliest days in the governor’s office, Democrat Gavin Newsom huddled with his advisers to consider how to realize a key campaign promise: transforming a healthcare system replete with insurance company intermediaries into the nation’s first state-run single-payer model providing comprehensive coverage to all residents, similar to those in Canada and