Health

Kaiser Hospital officials announced Saturday that 43 emergency staff members at Kaiser Permanente in San Jose have tested positive for COVID-19 between December 27 and January 1. A spokesman said in a statement: “Using our infection-proof protocol, we are investigating the outbreak and contacting staff or patients who came out …

Paramedic and EMS Supervisor, 31, Robbie Vargas-Cortes was scheduled to be vaccinated on December 23, and she knew her five-year-old boyfriend was one of the vaccine administrators at Sanford Canton-Inwood Medical Center. “I want it to be a surprise,” Vargas-Cortes told CNN. Registered nurse Eric Wonderley told CNN he had …

A 23-year-old Florida man has now emerged from loneliness after becoming the first person in the state to test positive for a new and more contagious strain of COVID-19, health officials said Saturday. The presence of new tensions in Martin County on Florida’s Treasure Coast, the first Thursday in the …

A new potentially more contagious coronavirus strain of concern in Europe has been found in the Big Bear, bringing the total number of such cases in California to at least six, officials announced Friday. The type was found in two members of the same household tested for the virus on …

King, 87, has been hospitalized at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for more than a week. Due to hospital protocol, King’s three sons were unable to visit him, according to the source. King of Type 2 Diabetes has had a series of medical problems over the years, including …