Coronavirus

Gov. Gavin Newsom has said that if as many coronavirus patients as feared need hospitalization, surge capacity could be outstripped by up to 10,000 beds.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says help is on the way to ramp up testing for the coronavirus, which has lagged nationally. So where are we now? Who can get tested for COVID-19, who should — and where exactly should you go? If you do get a test, will it be expensive? Here’s what you need to know. 

The director of California’s Department of Aging said Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic is not only helping inform the state’s evolving Master Plan on Aging but also putting the state’s response to its senior population to its “ultimate stress test.” Kim McCoy Wade made the remarks in a wide-ranging web conversation with CalMatters health care […]

Donna Insalaco had to lay off 40 of the 45 employees at Pizzaiolo, her gourmet pizzeria in downtown Oakland, after sales fell through a “black hole.” “A lot of tears,” Insalaco said, “All of us here live check-to-check.” Responding to a statewide call for restaurants to close their doors to dine-in customers, Pizzaiolo is now […]

Newsom doubts schools will reopen before summer, leaves eviction bans up to local governments. Online learning is put to the test at colleges.

The governor told California parents the SAT and other standardized testing would be canceled and the state would help with supplies to homeschool.

California is about to embark on an enormous, unplanned experiment in remote learning — and no one knows how long it will last.

With wide swaths of the economy shutting down, tenants groups are disappointed by the governor's response.

Bay Area counties "shelter in place" as coronavirus cases grow and state agencies respond at every level to try to contain impact.

As the Bay Area sheltered in place and the death toll from COVID-19 mounted, California's Legislature funded an unprecedented ramp-up of ventilators, hospital beds and potential quarantine hotels.