As K-12 students, teachers and staff return to in-person classes, community members are feeling nervous but encouraged by the increased access to testing and improved quality of masks. While UC Santa Cruz is starting with remote instruction this week, Cabrillo College, with its later start date of Jan. 24, is planning a regular start but still closely monitoring cases.
If you're treating the Omicron moment as you did Delta or pre-Delta, "you're virtually guaranteed to get infected," the county's deputy health officer says. Since young adults became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year, they’ve continued to lag in receiving the shots, nationally and in Santa Cruz County, a topic of concern for public health officials.
As we enter the second Thanksgiving in the midst of a global pandemic, many American families and friends are coming together to celebrate the holiday for the first time since 2019. How can they stay safe and what precautions can they take to ensure they need to focus on only the meal? We asked Dr. David Ghilarducci.