Note: This new assessment prompted San Jose Inside to take a fresh look at two years of compensation for employees in California cities.

COVID-19 tests are to be offered free of charge, and tests do not affect immigration status or require a physician’s note.

The financial disclosures come three months after the county declared a state of emergency, which expanded its authority to fight the crisis.

Two county supervisors want a COVID cost tracker so the public can see precisely what’s being invested to pull through this crisis.

Santa Clara County health officials are looking to increase testing capacity to 1,300 a day. But they’ve hit a road block getting there.

Though they’re among the most vulnerable, unhoused people struggle to get tested for the coronavirus and find shelter for quarantine.

As part of its sweeping public health order, Santa Clara county has made recreational cannabis dispensaries illegal again.

Despite living in San Francisco’s shadow, South Bay health officials were always one step ahead of the City by the Bay.

The county’s chief health officer talks about what would have happened had she not issued the nation’s first sweeping stay-at-home order. 

The county is also working with local hotels and homeless shelters to isolate and care for people who have nowhere else to go.