Long-simmering disputes with hospital employee unions over staffing are reaching crisis points, as almost a third of California hospitals report insufficient numbers of critical workers, including nurses, technicians and janitors.

New tax credits are also expected to lower premiums by an average of $180 per month for roughly 280,000 Bay Area residents.

After a year of planning, the multi-pronged strategy to house more people was announced at a virtual news conference on Tuesday.

Kaiser and the county have played the blame game for months, each accusing the other of mishandling Covid testing and inoculation.

A look back at some of the events—big and small—that shaped the past 12 months of tumult during the pandemic.

About 8,500 appointments scheduled through the county between now and March 21 will be transferred to the Oakland-based hospital chain.

The country’s most populous state averaged more than 560 deaths a day at its peak in January, according to The New York Times.

According to Cal-OSHA, Kaiser’s San Jose Medical Center is one of the top pandemic-safety violators in the state.

Over the course of a month the variant has increased from 3.8 percent of the cases in California to 25.2 percent.

The county has launched an investigation into the hospital’s handling of the superspreader event that infected at least 60 people and killed one.

The South Bay hospital outbreak comes amid a post-holiday season explosion in coronavirus cases throughout California.

The medical center is using contact tracing and will personally notify and test any staff member or patient who were potentially exposed.

California registered 32,659 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of positive cases to nearly 2 million.

State leaders believe the rich and influential will have a hard time cutting in line to get the first precious doses of the vaccine.

In the worst-hit counties, hospitals are sending critically ill patients elsewhere. Others are keeping ICU patients in crowded ER wards.

Since the initial amount will be limited, vaccines will be prioritized for health care workers, who are most at risk of contracting the disease.