July 29, 2020 After Reopening and Closing, SJ’s Famed Winchester Mystery House Makes Adjustments By Emanuel Lee The iconic mansion is launching a new outdoor experience, Walk With Spirits Tour, running from 8 to 11pm Wednesday through Sunday. Read More 2
July 1, 2020 Santa Clara County Issues New Back-to-School Guidelines By Kyle Martin There’s no guarantee that they will by next school year, but officials released new guidance in preparation for putting kids back in classrooms. Read More 4
June 12, 2020 Op-Ed: Pastor’s Plea for Re-Opening Was Disheartening, Divisive, a Betrayal of History By Nicholas Barron A local professor calls Hillside Church minister’s use of the pulpit (albeit it a virtual one) opportunistic, insensitive and alarming. Read More 24
June 11, 2020 Letter: Dr. Sara Cody, Please Let Churches Gather to Worship By Guest Columnist Keith Crosby, the pastor of Hillside Church in San Jose, urges Santa Clara County to ease public health rules on places of worship. Read More 13
May 28, 2020 How to Stay Safe as Silicon Valley Retail Cautiously Reopens By Jennifer Wadsworth and Wallace Baine Customers venturing out to reopened businesses should be prepared to make their own safety assessments, health officials say. Read More 22
May 26, 2020 COVID-19 Cluster Reported at Morgan Hill Seafood Company By Michael Moore Thirty-eight employees of Lusamerica Foods have tested positive for the illness, county officials announced this morning. Read More 5
May 18, 2020 Santa Clara County Relaxes Health Restrictions to Allow Curbside Retail, Manufacturing By Silicon Valley Newsroom The revised mandate also lets manufacturing, warehousing and logistical operations that support such businesses to get back to work. Read More 23
April 27, 2020 Bay Area’s Shelter-in-Place Extended Through End of May By Silicon Valley Newsroom The extended stay-home order also eases restrictions on “lower-risk activities” that have been in place for most of the past month. Read More 23
April 22, 2020 Autopsies Indicate Santa Clara Co. Covid-19 Deaths Occurred Earlier Than Initially Thought By Silicon Valley Newsroom Until this week, the earliest Covid-19 fatality in the U.S. was believed to have happened on Feb. 29 in Kirkland, Washington. Read More 13
April 18, 2020 Cannabis Sellers Slam Local Rule Allowing Delivery But Not Pickup By Grace Hase As part of its sweeping public health order, Santa Clara county has made recreational cannabis dispensaries illegal again. Read More 30
April 15, 2020 Santa Clara County—Not S.F.—Was Ahead of the Curve with Public Health Mandate By The Fly Despite living in San Francisco’s shadow, South Bay health officials were always one step ahead of the City by the Bay. Read More 26
April 7, 2020 Coronavirus Live Updates, April 7, 2020: Dr. Cody Talks About the Impact of Sheltering in Place By Silicon Valley Newsroom The county’s chief health officer talks about what would have happened had she not issued the nation’s first sweeping stay-at-home order. Read More 10
April 5, 2020 Santa Clara County Reports More Than 1,200 COVID-19 Cases By Grace Hase No new deaths were reported, so the local death toll remains at 39. Meanwhile, the county reports that nearly 11,000 people have been tested. Read More 14
April 1, 2020 Santa Clara Co. Coronavirus Dashboard Lacks Critical Data on Hospitalization, Testing Capacity By The Fly While the county previously reported how many patients had been laid up in hospital beds, it stopped sharing that number on its new web portal. Read More 20
March 31, 2020 Santa Clara County Extends Stay-at-Home Order, Finally Discloses Hospitalization Stats By Grace Hase Public health officials announced the revised mandate at a news conference in which they also unveiled new social distancing criteria. Read More 34
March 26, 2020 Coronavirus Live Blog, March 26, 2020: Staying Home Saves Lives By Jennifer Wadsworth The shutdowns are working. And California has no plans to grant President Trump’s wish of getting back to business as usual by Easter. Read More 6