Santa Clara County residents age 75 and older are now eligible for a Covid-19 vaccination through certain healthcare providers.

The county has launched an investigation into the hospital’s handling of the superspreader event that infected at least 60 people and killed one.

Santa Clara County, meanwhile, is inviting small businesses to apply for low-interest loans of up to $100,000.

The South Bay hospital outbreak comes amid a post-holiday season explosion in coronavirus cases throughout California.

The medical center is using contact tracing and will personally notify and test any staff member or patient who were potentially exposed.

Hunger has long been a harsh reality in Silicon Valley, but the pandemic has broadened and deepened the destitution.

Covid-19 deaths as of now lag behind only cancer and heart disease, which are projected to be the top two killers in the South Bay this year.

The initiative has turned 16,000 hotel and motel rooms in 55 counties and tribal areas into housing for 22,300 people.

California registered 32,659 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of positive cases to nearly 2 million.

Now is the time for hospitals to protect nurses so that they can continue to provide this work—work that puts them on the front lines of a pandemic.

Jeff Smith says a well-enforced state order would be more effective than announcements about body bags and overflow morgues.

Rep. Anna Eshoo announced today that she’ll err on the safe side after one of her staffers tested positive for the coronavirus.

Santa Clara County received its first 5,850 doses of the new Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine earlier this week.

The loan program was first proposed two months ago by county supervisors Joe Simitian and Susan Ellenberg.

Because Covid-19 can be found in stool, even from people without symptoms, researchers are testing wastewater to monitor the virus.

The initiative includes a fee cap on food-delivery apps, local business directory and a resource guide for mom-and-pop enterprises.