How Effective Are KF94 Masks in Protecting Against COVID-19 Infection?
August 29, 2022 - Of all the face masks, N95 is king. But these masks can be hard to come by in a worldwide pandemic. At the start of the pandemic ...
State provides updates on Monkeypox
August 26, 2022 - On Aug. 19, California Department of Public Health director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon hosted a teleconfere...
How to navigate COVID-19 with kids and as a family
August 25, 2022 - With the COVID variant, BA.5, surging through the region and the nation, what makes this viral wave so different from the others...
Riverside County Reports 15 More Monkeypox Cases, Total Now 124, 2nd Female Case Confirmed
August 19, 2022 - Riverside County reported 15 more confirmed or probable monkeypox cases Friday, raising the overall number to 124. Jose Arballo, ...
LA County’s COVID-19 Hospitalizations Continue To Stabilize
August 18, 2022 - Los Angeles County’s coronavirus hospitalizations have dropped by six people, with 1,059 COVID-positive patients in local hospita...
King and Pierce counties move to “low” CDC community level, masks are recommended
August 16, 2022 - The University of Washington’s mask policy continues to be guided by the Centers for Disease Control’s community level assessment...
Routine COVID-19 testing ends at Sacramento City Unified for upcoming school year
August 15, 2022 - Sacramento City Unified School District students shuffled through COVID-19 testing once a week last school year, regardless of th...
STATE OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE LATEST COVID-19 FACTS
August 12, 2022 - Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19 and updates on the state...
New variants, wastewater data, long COVID
August 9, 2022 - As summer temperatures have risen, so have COVID-19 case levels across the Sacramento region and California. That’s all happening ...
How long does coronavirus stay in the air after someone with COVID leaves the room?
August 8, 2022 - Coronavirus case levels in the Bay Area are still high as the highly infectious BA.5 variant makes its rounds, and local officials...
Symptoms and More: Latest on Super Contagious Omicron Subvariant BA.5
August 5, 2022 - A highly-transmissible mutation of the omicron COVID variant known as BA.5 is raising concerns globally as it continues to gain tr...
What to know about monkeypox’s spread and finding a vaccine in Sacramento
August 4, 2022 - As monkeypox cases grow to the thousands in the United States, California is the third state in the country — following New York a...