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The U.S. stands on the verge of adding a second vaccine to its arsenal as the coronavirus outbreak descends deeper into its most lethal phase yet. The Food and Drug Administration is evaluating a shot developed by Moderna Inc., and a decision could clear the way for its use as early as Monday. -
Vice President Mike Pence became the highest ranking U.S. official to receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday in a live-television event aimed at reassuring Americans the shot is safe. He celebrated the milestone as “a medical miracle” that could eventually contain the raging pandemic. -
Science writer Robin Marantz Henig has written about dangerous emerging pathogens for 30 years. But none of what she learned could shed light on her own confusing encounter with this virus. -
All San Diego County restaurants and businesses with restaurant service are exempted from enforcement of California's regional COVID-19 stay-at-home order, a judge said Thursday. -
San Diego County public health officials reported 2,604 COVID-19 infections and 22 deaths Thursday, as hospitalizations continue to set records and restaurants appear poised to reopen. -
KPBS Midday EditionJames Floros, the president and CEO of the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank, said that last year the organization estimated that one in seven San Diego County residents or 450,000 people were food insecure. This year that estimate has doubled. -
KPBS Midday EditionAs we continue to see more coronavirus vaccines available and more people eligible to take them, will vaccinations continue to be viewed as an individual choice? -
KPBS Midday EditionThe staggering new figures released Thursday mean California has seen more than 1,000 deaths in the last five days and nearly 106,000 cases in just two days. -
Intensive care unit capacity is at less than 1% in many California counties, and morgue space is also running out, in what is increasingly resembling the disaster last spring in New York City. -
eachers, first responders, and grocery and restaurant workers are among those recommended to get the next round of scarce vaccines in California
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