San Jose Inside

Council members Raul Peralez and Magdalena Carrasco opted to withdraw their proposal to instead pursue a citywide rent freeze.

Santa Clara has joined a long list of government bodies putting public records requests on the back burner amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

County Supervisor Mike Wasserman emphasized that the order is about “protecting the people who protect us.”

Engineers from Maker Nexus—a 3D printing company in Sunnyvale—channel their ingenuity to address a shortfall of protective equipment.

In addition to making shelter-in-place kits, the nonprofit has teamed up with a manufacturer to make 3,000 gallons of FDA-grade hand sanitizer.

The city manager is expected to roll his budget proposal in May before the council approves the final 2020-21 spending plan in late June.

The county’s chief health officer talks about what would have happened had she not issued the nation’s first sweeping stay-at-home order. 

There is a wide variety of face masks anyone can use, including rudimentary paper dust masks, often used for home DIY projects.

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. 

The county is also working with local hotels and homeless shelters to isolate and care for people who have nowhere else to go.

Sierra Circuits provides medical equipment to dozens of customers, including one that makes a quick-turnaround COVID-19 test.

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.

As data continue to roll in, trends will form and we will know more about how shelter-in-place truly changed our lives.

The good news is that there are many easy things you can do right now at home to care for your mental health. 

Hackers logged onto the videoconference call to shout the N-word, project a swastika and broadcast pornography onto the screen.