Medical Report: 4 years later, there is no cure for long COVID

Four years after the first cases of long COVID-19, there still isn’t a cure. KYW Medical Editor Brian McDonough has more on the costs of contracting the illness.

Dr. Lucy Jones says Corona earthquake is 'pretty run of the mill'

Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones talked about the 4.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Corona Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Getty Images

COVID school closures may have contributed to a spike in childhood RSV cases

San Francisco kept its kids out of public school for over a year during the pandemic lockdown, the longest of anywhere in the US. Now, doctors are exploring the possibility that this may have contributed to a spike in childhood RSV hospital cases in late 2022 and early 2023.  KCBS Radio news ancho…

Flushing Meadows Corona Park renovating pavillion from 1964 World's Fair

1010 WINS Anchor Budd Mishkin has the story.

The State of San Francisco: Where things stand today after the COVID pandemic

All this week on KCBS, we are taking an in-depth look at San Francisco's post-pandemic recovery. Is the "City by the Bay" spinning in a post-pandemic "doom loop"? Or, is a robust recovery over-shadowed by negative news?  In Part One of our series, "The State of San Francisco," KCBS reporter Matt …

Lessons NOT learned from COVID could now be putting us in a blind spot for H5N1

As public health officials grow increasingly more concerned about the spread of the H5N1 bird virus among cattle stocks in the U.S., there are parallels being drawn to the start of the COVID pandemic. And those parallels aren't exactly hopeful. Dr. Art Caplan heads the medical ethics department a…

Monrovia-based health care firm agrees to pay back millions of dollars in COVID relief aid

A Monrovia based health care firm has agreed to pay millions of dollars in COVID Relief Aid back to the Federal Government and the State of California. KNX News' Pete Demetriou reports the firm admitted to submitting costs to the Government for care of patients who did not wind up contracting the …

Medical Report: How COVID helped shape the present view of vaccines

The COVID-19 pandemic helped put vaccines at the forefront of many people’s minds, and vaccination became a topic of interest and debate in politics and social media. KYW Medical Editor Brian McDonough takes a look at where things stand now.

NEWSLINE: Where COVID left children behind

Dr. Sara Johnson, Director of The Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, joined Newsline with Brigitte Quinn to discuss a study she authored on the impact of COVID on child development. Photo: Getty Images

California COVID cases are down, but Long COVID is still a threat

As California reaches a significant milestone in its fight against COVID, there is still concern about the lingering consequences of the pandemic.  KCBS Radio's Nikki Medoro has this story.