Updated on February 25, 2021 at 2:20 pm
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Mayor Todd Gloria on Thursday announced new partnerships between the city and three nonprofit organizations to bolster programs helping young people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
The new shelter and outreach opportunities will specifically target transition-age youth people between the ages of 18 and 24 who are experiencing homelessness or transitioning from state custody or foster care.
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The caution is due to the increase of the U.K. variant, also known as the B117 variant.
“This will be the most prevalent in San Diego, likely by the end of March, he said.
Given the increase, Dr. Bakhtar said scientists know B117 can be easily transmitted, but he said it is not clear at this point if the variant makes people sicker and causes more deaths than other COVID variants that have caused the majority of infections over the last nine months.
More data will be forthcoming and Dr. Bakhtar said people need to be open minded.
“I think we should be willing to learn from the data that we collect over the course of the next few weeks to a month and I think we’re going to have a lot more information ahead of us that will allow us to make the best decision when that time comes around, he said.
A former "American Idol" contestant and San Diego resident is now facing surgery to remove a brain tumor, which doctors have told her is the size of a large.
Updated on February 26, 2021 at 5:10 pm
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After a cool start to Friday with temperatures in the 20s and 30s, high temperatures will climb into the low-40s under nice, sunny skies. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Clouds will begin to increase later tonight ahead of a wet start to the weekend.
A few towns, especially in western Connecticut, may start off as a quick burst of wet snowflakes prior to sunrise Saturday morning. Nothing will accumulate or cause any issues and we ll quickly see a flip to rain.
It s invigorating. It s humbling, Ninberg said.
Nurse Ninberg was at MCAS Miramar to help U.S. citizens who evacuated from Wuhan, China, in the early days of the pandemic.
She treated patients on the Grand Princess cruise ship in San Francisco Bay; Show Low, Arizona; and Medford, Wisconsin.
Each deployment was another step into the COVID-19 unknowns at that time. The uncertainty. The uncertainty, what we were going to walk into or what we would receive, Ninberg said.
Ninberg and the other 34 members of D-MAT were charged with backfilling the exhausted resources at hospitals in some of the worst-hit communities.