The list notes the age, gender and health issues of everyone killed by the virus since the first known South Bay fatality in early February.

Customers venturing out to reopened businesses should be prepared to make their own safety assessments, health officials say.

The financial disclosures come three months after the county declared a state of emergency, which expanded its authority to fight the crisis.

An extended repayment plan is also expected to be developed after the county was told to look at the city of San Jose as an example.

Two county supervisors want a COVID cost tracker so the public can see precisely what’s being invested to pull through this crisis.

Nearly half of all deaths related to COVID-19 in California are linked to elder care facilities. That figure is more than 40 percent in the South Bay.

Though they’re among the most vulnerable, unhoused people struggle to get tested for the coronavirus and find shelter for quarantine.

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. 

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.

The colossal coronavirus failure of 2020 is a clear sign that politics needs to be decoupled from a healthcare system meant to keep us safe.