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…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out