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San Francisco on Friday launched the city’s first high-volume COVID-19 vaccination site at San Francisco City College — set to help the city reach its goal of vaccinating all residents by June.

San Francisco launched its first mass vaccination site Friday, where 500 people rolled up their sleeves to get their first dose. What they didn’t get is their next appointment to get that necessary second shot. Melissa Colorado reports.

Just a handful of schools in the Bay Area have reopened for on campus instruction, including Carondelet High School in Walnut Creek, and they say they’re proof it can work.

Just a handful of schools in the Bay Area have reopened for on campus instruction, including Carondelet High School in Walnut Creek, and they say they’re proof it can work. Jodi Hernandez reports.

On his first full day in office, President Joe Biden signed 10 executive orders aimed at combating the coronavirus pandemic, including one broadening the use of the Defense Production Act to expand vaccine production.

Dr. Deborah Birx, who had been one of the White House’s chief coronavirus response coordinators, said Friday she considered quitting under former President Donald Trump, whose cavalier attitude toward combatting the disease created consternation among public health officials. Birx, in a clip of released by CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” said she “always” considered quitting, particularly once colleagues began to view her differently...

Santa Clara County opened a mass vaccination site in Mountain View, but residents are confused about who is at the front of the line for the COVID-19 vaccine. Robert Handa reports.

A shortage of oxygen tanks and a fourfold increase in prices for the gas means people are having to wait in line for hours to rent one for family members with COVID-19.

A growing number of children are getting infected with the coronavirus and are showing symptoms.

California is strongly considering doing away with the vaccine tiers, going solely to an age-based distribution starting with 65 and older.

President Joe Biden is taking executive action to provide a stopgap measure of financial relief to millions of Americans

The Biden administration sets a new goal for vaccine distribution as states face shortages and new strains of the COVID-19 virus emerge.

The CDC says the two products are not interchangeable, but it added in updated guidance posted Thursday that it’s OK to mix the shots in rare circumstances.

As California emerges from its worst surge, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration won’t disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order will be lifted.

Church leaders with Calvary Chapel San Jose were in court Thursday for an ongoing contempt of court trial connected to services the church held in defiance of public health and court orders.

A fight broke out during a Czech parliament debate over coronavirus restrictions. One lawmaker who refused to wear a mandatory face mask became aggravated after another lawmaker turned off his microphone.

Six people have died – including three in the first week in January – in a post-holiday COVID-19 outbreak at Laguna Honda hospital in San Francisco, which had been spared from any deaths during two earlier waves of the deadly virus.

Public health experts blamed COVID-19 vaccine shortages in the U.S. in part on the Trump administration and its push to expand vaccination drives without meeting demand.

While pharmacies participating in the federal Pharmacy Partnership Program say they are on schedule to vaccinate at long-term care facilities, data obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit show only about 12% in CA have had a vaccination clinic and more than half don’t have a first clinic date on the calendar.

A San Jose church Thursday evening plans to hold an indoor Christmas Eve service despite public health and court orders against it, as well as fines that are stacking up with each violation.