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A health-care company doing business in San Diego County could face repercussions in coming weeks as a congressional committee overseeing the COVID-19 pandemic has opened an investigation over reports it administered vaccines to wealthy people who were not eligible to receive them. -
San Diego County public health officials reported 352 new COVID-19 cases and 25 additional deaths Wednesday as health care sites await more vaccines, including the one-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. -
Teresa Parada is exactly the kind of person equity-minded California officials say they want to vaccinate: She's a retired factory worker who speaks little English and lives in a hard-hit part of Los Angeles County. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe San Diego Zoo Global is changing its name to San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance in an effort to reflect the organization’s new mission. -
KPBS Midday EditionImperial County’s farmworkers have long struggled with insufficient housing options, low wages and barriers to health care. Our partners at inewsource report that COVID-19 worsened those conditions and caused major outbreaks in the industry. -
County supervisors Tuesday voted unanimously to direct the chief administrative officer to present guidance on how to spend future federal or state money to help those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. -
KPBS Midday EditionDespite considerable improvement in handling the COVID-19 pandemic in recent weeks, San Diego County will remain in the state's "Purple Tier" for at least one more week. -
President Joe Biden says the U.S. expects to take delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all adult Americans by the end of May, two months earlier than anticipated. -
KPBS Midday EditionStarting Tuesday, low-income renters throughout the San Diego region who have experienced COVID-19-related loss of income will be able to apply for additional rental and utility assistance grants. -
County officials tell our partners at inewsource that other similar-sized regions with lower poverty rates, higher household incomes and fewer positive COVID-19 cases and deaths have received more doses.
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