The shutdowns are working. And California has no plans to grant President Trump’s wish of getting back to business as usual by Easter.

As Santa Clara County public health authorities battle a mounting pandemic, what they don’t know can actually hurt us.

How many have been tested at private labs remains unclear because they have no obligation to report that to local health officials.

We’re now in the second week of what’s become a statewide shutdown. Meanwhile, as testing ramps up, the confirmed case count increases.

As the COVID-19 death toll reaches double digits countywide, local health officials have yet to disclose how many people they’ve tested.

María Leticia Gómez, the county’s director of communications and public affairs, fell sick on March 13 and has self-isolated ever since.

Drive-through testing has rolled out, giving local health officials more tools to map out the scope of the problems in the Bay Area and beyond.

Delays and incompetence in the federal government’s COVID-10 testing set the U.S. far behind other countries in controlling the pandemic.

As COVID-19 testing slowly ramps up throughout the U.S., most of the Bay Area hunkers down at home. Welcome to day one of the lockdown.

All this pandemic news is overwhelming. We’ll do our best to keep you up to date on how COVID-19 is impacting life in Santa Clara County.

During an ongoing crisis, the way public experts, political leaders and other authorities talk to the public carries profound weight.

The announcement followed news about a 60-year-old South Bay resident dying of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Public health officials say this makes for a total of nine confirmed COVID-19 cases countywide and 84,000 around the world.

Five employees from Good Samaritan Hospital are at home self-isolating after being potentially exposed to the coronavirus.

Santa Clara County will consider an ordinance to punish employers for wage theft, a charge that would disqualify businesses from public contracts and give workers a formal recourse to lodge complaints against stingy bosses. The motion going before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday would direct the county to come up with a draft ordinance over the coming months. Supervisor Dave Cortese brought forward the idea, citing a 2008 study by the National Employment Law Project that says two-thirds of the 4,387 low-wage workers polled in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago were denied full compensation.

The Great Recession devastated shelters for battered women. And while government funding has declined, the need for such services has drastically increased. This issue will be one of many discussed at Tuesday’s county Board of Supervisors meeting, including a federal grant to develop news strategies to find long-term homes for foster children.