COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 cases are down, and vaccination rates are up across San Diego County. It’s encouraging news after a summer surge greater than last year’s, but healthcare workers are still urging the unvaccinated to get the shot, before giving the virus another chance to mutate. “We’re seeing the numbers start to trend down,” said Joshua McCabe MSN, RN, BC-NE. He’s the...

A health-care expert tells NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado that he believes the peak of the delta surge is behind us.

An upstate New York hospital will stop delivering babies later this month, in part because of employee resignations over a requirement they be vaccinated against COVID-19

NBC 7’s Rory Devine spoke to the county’s former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Nicholas Yphantides about his lawsuit.

Former San Diego County Chief Medical Officer Dr. Nicholas Yphantides filed a lawsuit against the county Wednesday alleging he was discriminated against and wrongfully fired after taking a medical leave of absence due to the strain and stress of his duties handling the county’s COVID- 19 response.

An innovative program to help people with mental health and substance abuse problems is being primed for a major expansion as the COVID-19 pandemic deepens struggles with drug use, depression and anxiety for many Americans.

Career advisers say a lot of businesses are looking for workers, and there’s not as many applicants as there were before the pandemic.

The key is timing, and the time to apply is now, reports NBC 7’s Consumer Bob.

Here’s one more lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: It appears safe to relax restrictions on methadone, the oldest and most stigmatized treatment drug for opioid addiction

NBC 7 has learned that both the 127th and 128th classes at the Miramar College-based public safety training program have been suspended following outbreaks of COVID-19 among its students and staff.

The employee tested negative, but the recent surge of COVID-19 cases prompted the owner of De Nada Kitchen and Market to temporarily shut its doors as a precaution, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda

The De Nada Kitchen and Market in University Heights temporarily closed its doors after one of its employees reported a close contact with a positive COVID-19 case, though the employee eventually tested negative.

The Justice Department says it has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response

Another San Diego County resident has succumbed to COVID-19 in a second so-called local “breakthough” case.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation requiring general hospitals in the state to seek input from nurses and other staff in creating staffing plans that are to include specific guidelines on how many patients each nurse is assigned

Radio City Music Hall will host Tribeca’s closing night on June 19 before a full capacity, 100% vaccinated, mask-free audience.

San Diegans are coming out in groups as the city’s restaurants, bars and breweries are now fully open. NBC 7’s Amber Frias reports.

San Diegans are coming out in groups as the city’s restaurants, bars and breweries are now fully open.

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming details the deadly case, and spoke to another “breakthrough” COVID-19 patient.

On the same day that local health officials announced that San Diego County would be shifting on Wednesday to the state’s least restrictive, yellow tier, they also said a San Diegan who was fully vaccinated had died from COVID-19-associated illness in a “breakthough” case.