COVID 2022

Happy Friday, everyone! It was a day of drawing back the curtains on our county’s — and nation’s — health crisis. If you weren’t already familiar with the names, faces, voices and opinions of Dr. Gail Newel, Dr. David Ghilarducci and Dr. Mimi Hall, a rare Zoom gathering Friday provided essential one-stop processing. You can […]

Hey, Santa Cruz — here’s your nightly pandemic rundown. Our Mallory Pickett and Tulsi Kamath dug into the nursing home vaccination data, and it backs up what most of us had been hearing anecdotally for awhile: Very few of our most vulnerable seniors have gotten their first dose of the vaccine. And while the positivity […]

Howdy, Santa Cruz — welcome back to our daily pandemic roundup. If you are 65 or older, there was vaccine news that perked your ears up today. Officials are calling it a “game changer.” We’ll tell you what we know about how it will affect you or your loved ones in Santa Cruz County. There […]

Hey, Santa Cruz — we outlasted another Monday! Thanks for reading our evening look at the day’s happenings in the pandemic. This one is bittersweet. There’s hope in the higher-ed realm today, where we learned UC Santa Cruz — and the entire UC system — plans to get students back on campus in the fall. […]

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 […]