Restaurants face uphill battle of finding enough workers

In addition to raising prices, industry watchers say restaurants may offer more counter services instead of traditional servers, along with smaller menus to deal with the ongoing worker shortage.

Many still masked at San Mateo County 'reopening' party

At a community barbecue in Colma, many people stood face-to-face perhaps for the first time in a while. Not just with families, or in pods, but they stood stranger-to-stranger.

Some hospitals seeing no new COVID-19 patients, but delta variant could undo progress

Some hospitals are going days without any new COVID-19 patients for the first time in more than a year, but the milestone could be undone by the delta variant becoming more dominant in the U.S., putting unvaccinated Americans at risk.

As California reopens from pandemic, Bay Area residents describe life changes

California is emerging from 15 months of pandemic restrictions. Here's how residents say their lives have been changed and what makes them optimistic.

US COVID-19 death toll reaches 600,000 as cases, vaccinations slow

More than 600,000 Americans have now died of COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.

Pakistan officials threaten to block phone service for unvaccinated

Pakistan officials in the country’s two largest provinces have announced those who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine may have their cell phone service blocked.

White House July 4 party will celebrate independence from COVID-19

President Biden wants to give July 4th new meaning this year and is also encouraging nationwide celebrations to mark the country’s effective return to normalcy.

COVID-19 likely in US by Christmas 2019, new blood samples suggest

Thousands of new blood samples suggest COVID-19 popped up in the U.S. in December 2019 — weeks before cases were first recognized by health officials.

San Francisco's Musée Mécanique ready to reopen after 15-month pandemic closure

In San Francisco, the Musee Mecanique at Pier 45 will open Tuesday for the first time, exactly 15 months after it was forced to shut down due to the pandemic.