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Hopefully overwhelmed hospital staff will have a chance to breathe in a few weeks. Author: Brandon Lewis Updated: 6:35 PM PST January 20, 2021 SAN DIEGO — Health officials are cautiously optimistic San Diego County may have passed the peak of daily new coronavirus cases from the holiday surge. The county set a record on Jan. 7 when it reported 4,550 new cases. On Tuesday there were 2,498 new cases.  “I suspect we're probably a couple of weeks out before we start to see the ICU numbers go down. Unfortunately, in that time, I suspect the overall number of de...

Updated on December 29, 2020 at 10:23 pm Sharp Healthcare More than 300 first responders from the San Diego Police Department and the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department were early beneficiaries of the Pfizer vaccine overnight Monday after it was discovered that there were leftover doses at the staff vaccination clinic at Sharp Memorial Hospital. As Monday came to a close, clinic workers found they had doses that would otherwise go to waste, since Pfizer's Instruction sheet for care providers instructs them to discard any doses six hours after they are thawed and diluted. Sharp contacted San Di...

Local students feed healthcare workers with Operation Nourish Mira and Bela Gowda make a food delivery to Scripps Memorial Hospital. (Courtesy) Print Mira Gowda and her sister Bela, local students at The Bishop’s School, are running Operation Nourish to support healthcare workers through their fight against COVID-19. The Rancho Santa Fe sisters raise funds to provide high-quality meals, supplied at or below cost by local restaurants, to healthcare workers at hospitals. Since March 2020, they have provided nearly 1,000 meals. “Our mission has two parts: first, we support local rest...