April 6, 2020 Frustrated Gov. Newsom Calls on Task Force to Fix California’s Coronavirus Testing Shortfall By Rachel Becker, CalMatters The goal is to increase high-capacity testing and end a backlog that, at times, has left people waiting as many as 12 days to receive results. Read More 6
April 6, 2020 Santa Clara County Field Hospital Accepts First COVID-19 Patients By Silicon Valley Newsroom The county is also working with local hotels and homeless shelters to isolate and care for people who have nowhere else to go. Read More 18
April 6, 2020 Sunnyvale Factory Finds a Way to Keep Running Amid Pandemic By Emanuel Lee Sierra Circuits provides medical equipment to dozens of customers, including one that makes a quick-turnaround COVID-19 test. Read More 3
April 5, 2020 Santa Clara County Reports More Than 1,200 COVID-19 Cases By Grace Hase No new deaths were reported, so the local death toll remains at 39. Meanwhile, the county reports that nearly 11,000 people have been tested. Read More 14
April 3, 2020 Stanford Researchers Study the Impact of Sheltering in Place By Lauren Villa As data continue to roll in, trends will form and we will know more about how shelter-in-place truly changed our lives. Read More 6
April 2, 2020 ‘Zoom Bombers’ Shout Epithets, Flash Obscene Images in VTA’s Virtual Board Meeting By Grace Hase Hackers logged onto the videoconference call to shout the N-word, project a swastika and broadcast pornography onto the screen. Read More 11
April 2, 2020 Coronavirus Live Blog, April 2, 2020: County Braces for Impact By Silicon Valley Newsroom Santa Clara County is gearing up for a surge of patients as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout Silicon Valley. Read More 7
April 2, 2020 State Sends Out a Rallying Call for New Health Corps Initiative By Lauren Villa Uncertainty looms regarding just how intense the surge may be, but one thing is for sure: the governor is preparing the troops for battle. 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
April 1, 2020 Number of COVID-19 Cases in Santa Clara County Nears 1,000 By Grace Hase Public health officials reported 66 new cases this afternoon, bringing the total up to 956—a 255 percent increase over last week. Read More 9
April 1, 2020 As Panic Buying Ensues, Dispensaries Try to Get Straight Answers in New Regulated Era By Hugh McCormick and Dan Mitchell The Bay Area retail cannabis industry reinvented itself overnight for shelter-in-place, and legal weed may never be the same again. Read More 2
April 1, 2020 Dot Org: Silicon Valley Arts, Entertainment and Cultural Institutions Go Online By Mike Huguenor With social-distancing as the norm for the foreseeable future, museums and other groups are finding ways to connect online. Read More 0
March 31, 2020 New Interactive Model Explores How Various Interventions Would Alter the Spread of Coronavirus By Jennifer Wadsworth The project aims to help the public understand just how important it is to “flatten the curve” of the now-ubiquitous epidemiological graph. Read More 5
March 31, 2020 Santa Clara County Extends Stay-at-Home Order, Finally Discloses Hospitalization Stats By Grace Hase Public health officials announced the revised mandate at a news conference in which they also unveiled new social distancing criteria. Read More 34
March 31, 2020 California Ramps Up Output of Ventilators as COVID Cases Grow By Nigel Duara and Ana B. Ibarra, CalMatters Bloom Energy CEO KR Sridhar said his company had to quickly learn the inner workings of ventilators, a machine they hadn’t made before. Read More 0
March 31, 2020 Coalition of Silicon Valley Landlords Give Renters a Break By Emanuel Lee Whether it’s foregoing rent hikes or reducing payments, a group of property owners says it’s time to support tenants in their time of need. Read More 1