January 18, 2021 California Calls for Pause on Moderna Vaccines Over Reports of Allergic Reactions By Silicon Valley Newsroom More than 330,000 doses of Moderna’s inoculation were distributed throughout the state, including 21,800 to Santa Clara County. Read More 13
July 7, 2020 Private Healthcare Systems Still Lag in COVID-19 Tests By Silicon Valley Newsroom County officials last month had complained that public facilities run by Valley Med were handling nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 tests. Read More 2
June 29, 2020 More COVID-19 Test Sites, More Tests, But Still a Long Way to Go By Silicon Valley Newsroom Santa Clara County still wants more help from Big Three private healthcare systems to conduct as many tests as it needs to safely reopen. Read More 0
June 10, 2020 Kaiser, PAMF, Stanford Ordered to ‘Step Up’ and Test for COVID-19 By Silicon Valley Newsroom COVID-19 tests are to be offered free of charge, and tests do not affect immigration status or require a physician’s note. Read More 1
May 8, 2020 Wanted: Health Care Workers. Wait! Never Mind … By Ana B. Ibarra It’s an ironic twist to the pandemic: When the health care system seems to need workers the most, it can’t afford to keep them all. Read More 3
May 5, 2020 Stanford Health Resumes Non-Emergency Procedures, But Still Faces Financial Fallout By San Jose Inside Though they play a vital role in pulling this nation through the pandemic, U.S. hospitals have taken a huge financial hit from the crisis. Read More 4
April 1, 2020 BREAKING: Santa Clara Co. Reports 8,246 COVID Tests as Stanford Passes 10,000 Mark By Jennifer Wadsworth and Grace Hase Local health officials finally released data about the total number of people tested and other critical data related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Read More 13
March 27, 2020 Editorial: Santa Clara Valley Health System Needs Its Own Independent Board By New SV Media The colossal coronavirus failure of 2020 is a clear sign that politics needs to be decoupled from a healthcare system meant to keep us safe. Read More 5
March 25, 2020 Incomplete Testing Blurs Full Picture of COVID-19 Outbreak By Jennifer Wadsworth As Santa Clara County public health authorities battle a mounting pandemic, what they don’t know can actually hurt us. Read More 17
December 2, 2019 County Teams Up with Stanford Hospital to Expand Access to Sexual Assault Exams By Silicon Valley Newsroom The county will expand access to sexual assault exams by adding a new location for survivors to undergo the procedures at Stanford Hospital. Read More 1