COVID hospitalizations in Alameda County have more than doubled in the last month. That has prompted the county to bring back the mask mandate in public indoor spaces starting today. KQED's Brian Watt talks with Arnab Mukherjea, Chair of the Public Health Department at Cal State East Bay. 

COVID hospitalizations in Alameda County have more than doubled in the last month. That has prompted the county to bring back the mask mandate in public indoor spaces starting today. KQED's Brian Watt talks with Arnab Mukherjea, Chair of the Public Health Department at Cal State East Bay.&nbsp;

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Alameda County Reinstates Mask Mandates

KQED newscast for Friday, May 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM

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For the first time in nearly 40 years Nancy Pelosi&rsquo;s name does not appear on the ballot in San Francisco. As the Speaker Emerita serves out her final term, a lively race to replace her is underway between three other Democrats: State Senator Scott Wiener, City Supervisor Connie Chan and former software engineer and political activist Saikat Chakrabarti.&nbsp;With voting underway, Pelosi endorsed Chan &hellip; and she talked about this from Washington, D.C. with KQED&rsquo;s senior politics correspondent, Scott Shafer.

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Amid uncertainty in the race for California governor, Democratic voters are lagging in early voting compared with the 2022 primary, while Republicans have so far cast ballots in greater numbers.

Alameda County Reinstates Mask Mandates

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