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After days of bargaining over safety precautions, the Chicago Teachers Union and city officials have reached an agreement to restart in-person teaching. -
Some are reporting waiting up to 13 days for COVID test results. The transit testing site operator is apologizing and promising to fix turnaround times. -
At least 70 National Guard members are working at COVID-19 test sites around Southern California to help with burned-out health care workers. -
Rady Children’s Hospital is seeing a record number of children testing positive for COVID-19. But most went to the hospital for a different reason. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego area homeless shelters are struggling to find space to isolate residents who test positive. -
Millions of workers whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck as the omicron variant of COVID-19 rages across the nation. -
Hospitals around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe difficulty finding coronavirus test kits in many parts of California and delays in getting results are causing increasing frustration and helping drive the surge of infections. -
A total of 23,043 tests were reported Friday, and the seven-day average positivity rate was 25.8%, up from 25.4% on Thursday. -
Military medical teams have been dispatched to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19. Two of those teams are from San Diego.
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