Courtesy West Alameda Business Association

Bay Area counties issue mask mandate in indoor public settings for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, to end summer surge and maintain hospital capacity.

A jury of 12 Minneapolis residents’ five men and seven women, four Black, six White and two multi-racial found Derek Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder for the killing of George Floyd.

If you get Social Security or Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) benefits, your Part B (Medical Insurance) premium will get deducted automatically from your benefit payment.

If you don’t get benefits, you’ll get a bill to pay your premiums for:

1. Part B (Medical Insurance)

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), people who are fully vaccinated, can resume activities that they did prior to the pandemic.

Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is reminding unvaccinated Californians that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe, free and provides excellent protection from severe COVID-19 illness, hospitalization and death.

On Thursday, June 17, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards (Cal/ OSHA) board of directors adopted revisions to the COVID- 19 prevention emergency temporary standards. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order enabling the revisions to take effect immediately.

I have written a few articles since the pandemic began. This is not the first one to address the emotional response to this event. We have all been affected, and no professional is able to anticipate how it will resolve. This is new.

Dennis Evanosky

On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom ended the state’s stay-at-home order and its Blueprint for a Safer Economy. He also phased out most of the actions that his office has put in place since March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

On this World Blood Donor Day, Vitalant — which supplies donated blood to more than 900 hospitals across the U.S, including some 45 in the Bay Area — announced that it has a critical blood shortage.

The Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD) has launched a new program that will inform Californians about reopening the state procedures after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.