Tracking COVID-19

The coronavirus has spread rapidly across California, including here in San Diego. To better help visualize the pandemic, KPBS has compiled COVID-19 data into a series interactives.

San Diego is starting to come off the current surge in COVID-19 cases, according to wastewater data from across the region.

For weeks we’ve been hearing warnings about hospitals being stretched to their limits. On Tuesday, the South Bay’s two main medical facilities declared internal disasters because of a flood of patients.

As omicron infections continue to surge at unprecedented rates, experts are raising the possibility that the pandemic could soon enter a new, slightly more manageable phase.

Now researchers in the U.K. have the first estimates for how long a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine will last. The findings are mixed.

Three doctors present their proposal to get vaccines to everyone in the world. "We already have the resources, knowledge and systems," they write. Global leaders just have to make it happen.