An infectious disease’s transmissibility is defined as its reproduction rate. And the novel coronavirus virus is very good at reproducing.

Forty-two more people have also tested positive for the highly contagious virus, placing the total number of confirmed cases at 1,484.

The project serves as a reminder about how even in the most difficult circumstances, people are coming together to serve others in need.

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.

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.

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.

Santa Clara County is gearing up for a surge of patients as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout Silicon Valley.

Local health officials finally released data about the total number of people tested and other critical data related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Public health officials reported 66 new cases this afternoon, bringing the total up to 956—a 255 percent increase over last week.

The Bay Area retail cannabis industry reinvented itself overnight for shelter-in-place, and legal weed may never be the same again.