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Medi-Cal is terminating UC Berkeley students’ insurance as a result of automatic enrollment into the Berkeley Student Health Insurance Plan.

University Health Services, or UHS, will offer the Food and Drug Administration approved 2023-24 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to students.

As part of Chancellor Carol Christ’s Reimagining Campus and Community Safety Initiative, the Campus Mobile Crisis Response team was soft-launched in April 2023 and with the goal of serving the calls of students, faculty and staff.

New vaccines are being developed to boost immunity against the XBB.1.5 subvariant of COVID-19. There are no official timelines for the rollout of any of the new boosters yet.

Where there are gaps in mental health services at UC Berkeley, student organizations are looking to fill them. 

With California’s state of emergency set to expire by the end of the month, all of the city of Berkeley’s COVID-19 testing sites are expected to close.

As cases of COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases reach a recent high, Alameda County’s health officials announce that the county’s transmission level has increased from the CDC’s “low” COVID-19 Community Level to “medium.”

UC Berkeley changed its mask policy by removing the requirement that masks must be worn for those who have not received a flu vaccination.

UC Berkeley updated its mask policy to require that masks be worn by individuals who have not received a flu vaccination.

As the monkeypox virus continues to spread through the Bay Area, UC Berkeley has begun preparations for a localized outbreak among students.