COVID Dashboard

News of the week COVID news has been good lately. Omicron-targeting boosters are out, and the Bay Area as a whole is seeing its lowest case counts since April. Locally, cases continue to drop. Monday’s update from the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency listed 778 active cases, 216 fewer than last Tuesday. No new […]

News of the week Weeks of declining COVID numbers have had Bay Area residents breathing sighs of relief after a big summer wave. The same can be said for this week, as case numbers dipped to their lowest levels since April. Good news, of course. But as always, health experts remain cautious, reminding the public […]

News of the week COVID numbers are continuing to trend in the right direction in California just weeks before the anticipated release of Pfizer’s updated, Omicron-targeting vaccine, which could be available as soon as shortly after Labor Day. Four Bay Area counties — Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo — have entered the […]

News of the week Just a couple of months away from the one-year anniversary of Omicron’s emergence, we’ll finally be getting a jab targeting the ultra-contagious variant and its offshoots. Pfizer’s updated vaccine — which will target both the original COVID strain and the Omicron BA.5 subvariant — is set to be available within weeks, […]

News of the week Last week, we reported that COVID-19 case rates in the Bay Area had largely stabilized in recent weeks. That trend has continued, and state numbers have started to follow suit. Wastewater samples from the Bay Area corroborate those trends. But that does not mean we’re out of the woods yet. Cases […]

News of the week The Bay Area COVID surge has showed signs of flattening, with a rate of 37 to 40 cases per 100,000 residents reported at the end of last week. While that number is still high, it is mildly good news, and far beneath the 61 cases per 100,000 recorded in late June. […]

News of the week As the Omicron subvariant-fueled surge continues, people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 have a new option. Last Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for adults ages 18 years and older. Because the jab uses protein subunit technology — the same method used […]

News of the week Now, as the Bay Area continues to see consistently high case rates, hospitalizations have begun to rise. That’s not good news, but healthcare professionals at the frontlines contrast where we are collectively at in the pandemic with that of 2020 and 2021. The hospitalization increase has been much more gradual this […]

News of the week Remember those variants we talked about last week? Well, it looks like they’ll deprive us from our hopeful COVID respite, at least for a little bit. Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are the main causes of cases in the greater Bay Area and across the county right now, and seem to […]

News of the week Another week, another variant, or two. Two Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, are the main causes of cases in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area right now. Though cases in Santa Cruz County have remained fairly stagnant — sitting at 2,022 as of Monday’s update compared to last week’s 2,002 […]