New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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COVID-19 continues to pummel crowded Bay Area ERs and things could only get worse
The news you need to know today about COVID-19 in Santa Cruz County, including deaths, hospitalizations, positivity rate…
Posted inCOVID 2022
Join us for ‘COVID 2021: The Experts Answer Your Questions’ event in English and Spanish
Santa Cruz County Health Officer Gail Newel and other experts headline Lookout’s free community conversation about COVID-19 at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21. For the first time, we’re offering simultaneous Spanish interpretation, through a separate Zoom audio channel.
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Santa Cruz County halts elective surgeries as hospitals face surging COVID-19 demand
County Health Officer Gail Newel signed off on the order Tuesday, which dictates that hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers forego certain surgeries and procedures, starting at 5 p.m. Thursday.
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QUIZ: Which vaccine distribution tier do you belong to?
Take our COVID-vaccine tier quiz to find out which vaccine tier you’ll likely fall under based on Santa Cruz County’s distribution plan.
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COVID PM: County surpasses 100 deaths, racial inequities of virus and more
Welcome to the kickoff edition of COVID PM, part of Lookout’s COVID 2021 initiative announced today. The goal here is simple: To fill you in on the day’s most important COVID-related developments we’re writing about, or learning of via our content partners. Today our correspondent crew here in Santa Cruz County was writing about the […]
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California suspends payment on 1.4 million unemployment claims while searching for fraud
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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Santiago Tehandon, 80, retired Watsonville maintenance technician, food bank volunteer dies of COVID-19
In March 2020, Tehandon was named “Hunger Fighter of the Year” by the U.S. House of Representatives, and was honored by the city of Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in response. He died of COVID-19 related complications on Christmas Day.
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Lookout unveils ‘Covid 2021,’ including new COVID PM newsletter and COVID Text Alerts
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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California sets a new goal: Vaccinate a million people over course of 10 days
Acknowledging that vaccinations have been too slow, state officials aim to ramp up the pace. But many questions remain about expanding to the next groups of Californians, and, in the meantime, some doctors complain that they still haven’t been vaccinated.