Category: covid-19
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Week 4 in the ICU: ‘It Feels Like the Surge Is Happening Right Now’
COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the county receive only the most limited contact and can only receive visitors in extremely limited circumstances. Nurses like UCSD’s Shannon Cotton are their only tangible connection to the living world.
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As COVID-19 Pandemic Takes Hold, Governments And Schools Face Budget Challenges
The coronavirus outbreak is creating big-budget unknowns for cities, the county and schools. The future of billion-dollar budgets is unclear as local governments, schools respond to the virus.
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Convention Center Will Transform From Economic Powerhouse to Homeless Refuge
The opening of the Convention Center is part of a larger plan to open up additional shelter options for homeless San Diegans, including more than 240 new shelter beds at Golden Hall in the City Hall complex.
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Here’s the Deal With Going Outdoors in Coronavirusland
San Diegans are being encouraged to work from home and to avoid all kinds of indoor spaces. Guidance about going outdoors while the coronavirus rages, however, has been less clear.
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Local Governments Struggle to Obey Their Own Social Distancing Mandates
San Diego County now allows some non-essential employees to telecommute, but the implementation has been slow and uneven. And though the city of San Diego is shuttering many of its non-essential services, some of those employees are still reporting to an office.