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Meanwhile, San Diego County residents are now able to get the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, the county Health and Human Services Agency announced.

The latest county data shows a drop in cases in the city. NBC 7’s Amber Frias has the story.

San Diego County health officials are only recommending wearing a mask indoors when in public, encouraging vaccine doses and boosters, and asking the community to stay home if you are sick and get tested.

Hospitalizations in San Diego are spiking, and health officials have moved our county into the highest transmission risk level. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan shares what the county is doing about it.

San Diego County health officials have been urging caution due to a concerning spike in COVID-19 patients at local hospitals.

NBC 7’s Melissa Adan spoke with a Scripps researcher about the recent data they’ve found in the wastewater research.

South Bay grandmother Rosario Rodriguez spent seven weeks at Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center battling COVID-19, four of which she spent breathing with the help of a ventilator, and is finally telling her survival story after months of recovery.

Ten hospitals around Southern California have had ICUs at or over capacity for 25 weeks or more, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Three hospitals have had full ICUs for over a year.

Coronavirus-related hospitalizations dropped 13% over the weekend in Riverside County, continuing a trend that began three weeks ago. Riverside County’s vaccination rate is higher than the state average of around 50%, according to the county. Yet the county remains in the most-restrictive, purple tier of the governor’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy framework. The purple tier impacts bars, theaters, museums,...

U.S. hospital intensive care units in many parts of the country are straining to handle record numbers of COVID-19 patients.

A permanent bond has developed among a group of nurses working in a COVID-19 intensive care unit. A bond they say will be with them forever in ink.

Dr. Dre took to Instagram Tuesday night to let everyone know that he is on the road to recovery after being hospitalized for a brain aneurysm.

Doctors at San Diego hospitals are worried that a new post-christmas surge will make things even worse. NBC 7’s Ramon Galindo has the story from a respiratory therapist from Sharp Grossmont in La Mesa about what it’s like to work inside the increasingly busy ICU.

Respiratory therapist, Vill Miranda works inside the intensive care unit at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa and has seen the surge in patient throughout the pandemic.

Turkey’s health minister says nine people have been killed in a fire at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients

California state officials has adjusted the nurse to patient ratio to 1:3 to accommodate the current emergency brought upon by the pandemic.

Remaining ICU bed capacity in the Southern California region, which includes San Diego County, fell to 1.7% on Tuesday, down from 2.7% on Monday. “We still have a little bit of space but our ICU nurses are overflowing with patients,” said registered nurse Andrea Muir. Due to the growing amount of ICU patients, nurses now have to care for more…

NBC 7’s Melissa Adan has more on the continued surging COVID-19 cases in San Diego.

No matter how hard nurses work to heal patients, hospital beds in Southern California are getting harder to find. Michael Kennedy is a nurse at UC San Diego Medical Center. “I don’t really see an end in the near future. We just had Thanksgiving,we’re just about to have Christmas holiday, there’s a lot of gatherings going on and I...

After months of anxious anticipation, the first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine are now being shipped out across the country. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso gives us a closer look at the strain on resources and health workers.