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Oakland Coliseum Mass Vaccination Site Expected to Stay Open, Officials Say Federal officials are confident that the East Bay's mass vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum will stay open, but details of just how that will happen are still up in the air. Vice President Kamala Harris told the San Francisco Chronicle that FEMA will keep the site open. At a separate press conference at the Oakland Coliseum, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla said officials on the federal state and local level would “continue to work together to extend the life of this facility.” The news comes as California is set to e...

"It was a bit surprising that it was already here," he said. The new variant is responsible for a surge in coronavirus cases in a a region of India that includes Mumbai, and experts are worried the variant is spreading rapidly setting up an increasingly urgent race between variants and vaccines. "The vaccines may be slightly less effective in preventing moderate disease or moderate illness with this particular variant," Dr. Pinsky said, "but the vaccines are still very effective and people should get vaccinated as soon as possible." UCSF Doctor Peter Chin-Hong says the variant contains one ...

Researchers at Stanford’s Clinical Virology Laboratory have confirmed one case of a variant first reported in India, and are now waiting to hear back on the status of seven more presumptive cases.

Medical experts are concerned a newly found COVID-19 variant will be responsible for another surge in coronavirus cases in the region.

New ‘double mutant’ COVID variant detected for first time in United States Updated 10:00 AM; Another coronavirus variant has emerged in the United States, a so-called “double mutant” strain detected for the first time in California, news outlets reported. The San Fransisco Chronicle reported that one case of the emerging strain, which originated in India, was confirmed in the Bay Area by the Stanford Clinical Virology Lab through genomic sequencing. Lab director Dr. Benjamin Pinsky told the newspaper the lab is screening seven other presumptive cases. The results from those tests sho...