September 3, 2020, 9:07PM Updated 3 hours ago National Guard medical teams are assisting staff at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, because of a severe worker shortage caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and wildfires, hospital officials confirmed Thursday. Deployment of National Guard health care workers at Sonoma County’s largest hospital also comes amid a COVID-19…
CLICK HERE if you’re having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. SAN JOSE — Maybe there’s no winning for Dr. Sara Cody. From the moment Santa Clara County’s public health officer led the Bay Area’s first-in-the-nation coronavirus lockdown 14 weeks ago, she has endured the wrath of a vociferous public taking aim…
SANTA CLARA – A swath of Santa Clara is set to be sprayed after mosquitoes there tested positive for West Nile Virus. The infected insects were collected from portions of the 95054, 95051 and 95050 ZIP code areas, the Santa Clara County Vector Control District said in a news release. The district said the target…
she was infected with the coronavirus — a startling discovery that has rewritten the timeline of the virus’s early spread in the United States and suggests that the optimistic assumptions that drove federal policies over the early weeks of the outbreak were misplaced.The unexpected new finding makes clear that the virus was circulating in the…
As the novel coronavirus spread through the Bay Area and across California last month, deaths in Santa Clara County rose significantly compared to the same time period a year before, adding to concerns that the toll of the virus may be more widespread here than initially believed. New data released to this news organization shows…
Four companies control about 80 percent of the U.S. beef market, and there is no reason to believe that any of them are satisfied with their share. Published: April 05, 2026, 8:00 am The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reported that Listeria monocytogenes was the most frequent cause of outbreaks it investigated during fiscal year
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed a new weight loss pill approved by the FDA on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on April 2. Click here to watch Gounder on CBS Mornings. KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed high Affordable Care Act premiums on WUGA’s The Georgia Health Report on
States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a law that will strip safety-net health and food benefits from millions. State governments rely on such companies to design and operate computer systems that assess whether low-income people qualify