COVID variant outbreaks in Santa Clara County including Kaiser San Jose

The California Department of Public Health is seeing increasing numbers of a new Covid-19 variant throughout the state, including in the Bay Area. It is different than the strain detected in the United Kingdom. The new variant has been tied to several large outbreaks in Santa Clara County including one at Kaiser in San Jose.

Man held after shooting at San Jose police

​​​​​​​A suspect was arrested Friday after he opened fire on police and then barricaded himself inside his home in east San Jose, police said.

Official tally of Kaiser San Jose Christmas coronavirus outbreak nears 100 cases

As of Tuesday, a spokesman from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department said that 77 Kaiser employees and 15 patients had now tested positive for the virus. That is 17 more employees than last week and this is the first time that the county had made public the number of patients in the ER that day who tested positive.