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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department and the Health and Human Services Agency's Behavioral Health Services division will seek to develop a better way to provide behavioral and physical health services in the county's seven detention facilities. -
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. -
UC San Diego researchers found that breastfeeding mothers who received either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine reported the same symptoms as what has been previously reported in non- breastfeeding women, with no serious side effects in their infants, it was announced Wednesday. -
The summer that was supposed to mark America’s independence from COVID-19 is instead drawing to a close with the U.S. more firmly under the tyranny of the virus, with deaths per day back up to where they were last March. -
KPBS Midday EditionOne of the region's largest health care providers is reporting a single-day COVID-19 death record, nearly all among people who were unvaccinated. -
The cumulative number of infections since the pandemic began increased to 340,709. No new deaths were reported and that number remains 3,922. -
Three federal grants to San Diego State University researchers and community partners totaling more than $9 million are intended to expand the school's role in fighting the spread of COVID-19, officials said Tuesday. -
Monday's numbers, with data through Sunday, increased the county's cumulative totals to 340,222 cases, with the death toll increasing to 3,922 since the pandemic began. -
San Diego County reported 697 new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths, according to the most recent data released. -
Across The COVID-Ravaged South, High-Level Life Support Is Difficult To FindECMO, the highest level of mechanical life support, functions as a temporary heart and lungs for some of COVID-19's sickest patients. But the waitlist is too long for many patients who need it.
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