SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Over 10% of skilled nursing facilities in the Bay Area are among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in California, according to data released by state health officials on Friday.For the first time, the California Department of Public Health released the names of the facilities who have been impacted. According…
A California mayor who recently said he would resign over social media posts comparing Trump supporters to members of the Ku Klux Klan was killed in a plane crash Saturday, according to a report.Auburn Mayor Bill Kirby was identified as the person killed when a small plane went down near Auburn Airport just after 11…
Scientists from Stanford University have developed an antibody test for coronavirus, and the results indicate that more people may have contracted the disease than previously believed. A report from Stanford suggests as many as four percent of Californians may have already been infected with coronavirus, judging from the antibodies present in their system. However, antibody…
A Southern California man who needed a COVID-19 plasma donation has died amid his wife's desperate fight to save her husband.Chloe Nguyen's husband, 32-year-old Ted Le, was in critical condition with COVID-19 and on a ventilator for nearly four weeks at Pomona Valley Hospital.Le died on Friday.Doctors told Nguyen that plasma donated from someone who…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A protest of more than 200 demonstrators broke out in Southern California on Friday against the state’s stay-at-home-orders in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak, according to reports.The action in Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, was similar to others staged…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…