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Harriet Rowan
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Everyone in the Bay Area seems sick. Should you worry about long COVID?
Fewer of us are wearing masks, or getting the new vaccines, and the new JN.1 variant is growing rapidly, triggering the second biggest wave of infections after omicron since the...
Monica Gandhi’s new book combines lessons from HIV and COVID to better prepare for the next pandemic
The infectious disease experts shares her views on COVID-19 and what we could do better next time.
See how COVID deaths are plummeting this spring
On the heels of mask mandates ending in many places, the national COVID emergency is set to end in May -- but experts warn that COVID outbreaks are not a...
California COVID hospitalizations have quadrupled. Who is getting really sick?
COVID hospitalizations are rising again after more than two months of persistently high case rates in the Bay Area and California. But the doctors who treat these patients are seeing...
How did a Kansas grandma just become the first U.S. COVID death? Not even her family knew until this week.
Three months ago, her doctor quietly added “COVID 19 PNEUMONIA” as one of the causes of her death, not only amending her death record but also effectively rewriting the timeline...
COVID spreading fast in well-vaccinated California counties
Why are transmission rates not neatly tracking immunization rates?
Rich Bay Area kids head back to class, others stay home
100 percent of school districts in five wealthy districts have reopened. School administrators and families in districts that haven't opened say higher virus transmission rates and difficulties managing hybrid education...
3 charts explain which Californians are dying from coronavirus
We've known since early in the pandemic that age is a major risk factor for becoming severely ill or dying from COVID-19. Those disparities are becoming more stark