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US health officials are preparing to give emergency clearance to a technique for extending the supply of Bavarian Nordic A/S’s monkeypox vaccine amid ongoing shortages, according to an email seen by Bloomberg. The dose-sparing strategy involves injecting the vaccine, called Jynneos, into the upper layer of the skin, rather...

Section 8 vouchers have been one of the federal government’s landmark responses to unaffordable housing for half a century. But too often in California, families sit on a waitlist for years only to see their once-golden ticket expire before they can find a home. A fresh batch of emergency...

SAN JOSE — Widening woes in the tech sector such as job cuts have hobbled efforts to land a big tenant for a brand-new San Jose office building next to Santana Row, real estate executives said Thursday. Despite the current short-term lease challenges for the One Santana West complex,...

SAN JOSE — A Motel 6 property in the South Bay has been bought by Texas-based real estate investors, a deal that extends a private equity firm’s sales of its lodging sites. A 204-room Motel 6 in south San Jose has been bought by investors whose primary business...

Editor’s note: Coronavirus cases remain in flux. Health officials advise delaying travel if you’re not fully vaccinated and caught up on boosters. This article was last updated on August 3. If you’re planning to travel to Mexico, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want...

Here we are in the grip of yet another COVID-19 surge, yet most people I see out and about are behaving as if the pandemic is over. And I live in Los Angeles County, whose public health department is arguably one of the most vigilant and proactive in the U.S.

Many technicians at Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics, two of the largest commercial labs in the US, have been refusing to draw blood from patients who might have monkeypox, CNN has learned. Labcorp and Quest don’t dispute that in many cases, their phlebotomists are not taking blood from possible monkeypox patients....

A Long Beach minor has tested positive for monkeypox, the Department of Health and Human Services reported on Tuesday, Aug. 2, as the virus continues spreading throughout the city and countywide. There were 20 confirmed and probable cases of monkeypox in Long Beach as of Tuesday, the health department reported...

The Food and Drug Administration reportedly has a new strategy for rolling out new booster shots that should bring needed clarity to COVID vaccination in the United States. Going forward, most Americans will get the same advice about when to get their next shots. Currently, second boosters are available only...

SAN JOSE — San Jose International Airport has extended its rebound from coronavirus-spawned economic woes by handling more than 1 million passengers in June, the air travel facility reported on Tuesday. The South Bay aviation hub handled 1.07 million passengers at the start of the summer travel season, marking...

Roughly a century after the first antibiotics revolutionized medicine, the development pipeline for these critical drugs is on the brink of collapse. Without policies to reinvigorate research into newer, more potent antibiotics, the world may soon face another global public health crisis as devastating as COVID-19. According to an analysis...

SACRAMENTO — California’s governor on Monday declared a state of emergency to speed efforts to combat the monkeypox outbreak, becoming the second state in three days to take the step. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the declaration will help the state coordinate a government-wide response, seek more vaccines and...

How are the Republicans in Congress holding up progress? They are the minority. True, but just barely, and too many things require a super majority to get passed. Plus, they are working for the top 2%. Though the super-rich are a minority, they have the financial power to make changes...

Less than a decade ago, the United States had some 20 million doses of a new smallpox vaccine — also effective against monkeypox — sitting in freezers in a national stockpile. Such vast quantities of the vaccine, known today as Jynneos, could have slowed the spread of monkeypox...

REDWOOD CITY — After a nearly two-week-long strike by hundreds of Sequoia Hospital workers, management and strikers reached an agreement for a 16% raise effective immediately and provisions that could make healthcare benefit costs more predictable. Over 300 nurses’ assistants, aides, surgical techs and other essential workers walked out...

When President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on July 21, his physician recommended he take the antiviral drug Paxlovid. The drug significantly reduces the likelihood of hospitalization or death for someone at high risk of developing severe covid. Biden started the five-day course that day, according to the White House, and within six days he tested negative for the virus and was cleared to leave isolation.

Tony Fong never expected the pandemic to linger so long. When Fong closed his 7,000-square-foot Buffet Fortuna — an Oakland Chinatown staple for Chinese New Year celebrations, baby showers and birthday parties — in March 2020, he figured it might take a month or two to get back in business. He told workers not to go far, because “soon they will be back to work again.”

California officials are pressing for more vaccine and acting with “utmost urgency” to slow the spread of the monkeypox virus, but they have not decided whether to declare a statewide emergency as the city of San Francisco announced on Thursday, the state’s public health officer said Friday.

Have you had COVID a second time? Or a third? If so, you are in good company. New data from California’s public health department show that in the first three weeks of July there were more than 50,000 documented reinfections, accounting for 1 in 7 new COVID cases through the middle of the month.

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday morning, per a letter from presidential physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor, in what is likely a “rebound” COVID-19 positivity that the doctor noted is “observed in a small percentage of patients treated with Paxlovid.”. Biden, who tested positive...