Santa Clara County sanctions Los Gatos hospital for letting teachers cut the line for vaccines
After Good Samaritan Hospital let Los Gatos teachers cut in line for COVID vaccination, Santa Clara County will withhold further vaccines from the hospital until it provides a plan to follow eligibility guidelines for the coveted shots.
City College site ramps up mass vaccinations with hundreds per day, hoping to reach 3,000 per day
While San Francisco and other cities around the country are facing shortages of vaccine supply compared with demand, the process of getting vaccines into arms quickly and efficiently continues to be honed in the city with the opening of the first of three mass-vaccination sites, at the main campus of City College.
New coronavirus variant spreading through Santa Clara County, linked to Kaiser outbreak
The Santa Clara County Public Health Department held a press conference Sunday to announce that the area is dealing with the growing threat of a new coronavirus variant that appears to be the source of several outbreaks in the county.
Kaiser San Jose hit with huge fine months before fines were issued in deadly Christmas outbreak
Kaiser Permanente in San Jose has been dealing with the aftermath of a deadly outbreak in its Emergency Department that started Christmas morning and now we are learning it also paid a hefty price for similar allegations months before.
Santa Clara County begins seeing ambulance delays due to overwhelmed hospitals
Though the situation in hospitals remains worse in Southern California, Santa Clara County has become the first county in the Bay Area to experience serious delays as ambulances arrive at emergency rooms — due to the ERs and the hospitals already being overwhelmed with patients. As cases and hospitalizations potentially surge again following the holidays, other counties are on alert that this emergency-response failure may spread.
Santa Clara County runs dangerously low on ICU beds, releases vaccine distribution information
Officials with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department said Wednesday that just 12% of the hospital beds in the county were available and that there were only 44 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds countywide that were not being used.
Where to donate masks, gloves and supplies for San Francisco & Oakland hospitals in need
Still have some unused N95 masks from the wildfires at home? Here's where you can donate them, and other items like gloves and gowns.












