All three hospitals in the Santa Clara County healthcare system received a “C” grade for ensuring patient safety in 2021 and 2022.

The Stanford strike comes at a time of labor turmoil among nursing staffs at hospitals across the state. Stanford contract negotiations are to resume on Tuesday.

The vaccine rollout has been chaotic, according to news reports and hundreds of emails sent by The New York Times' California Today readers.

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

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

County data show that testing increased significantly in the month following a June 10 order for private healthcare systems to step up.