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City Employees to Complete Mandatory Reporting of COVID-19 Vaccination Status Form – NBC 7 San Diego

The city of San Diego is requiring all employees, regardless of vaccination status, to complete a COVID-19 vaccination status form by next week. In a letter obtained by NBC 7, the city sent all city employees a letter on Aug. 2 informing them that they need to fill out the “Mandatory Reporting of COVID-19 Vaccination […]

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Viral video on San Diego deputy’s fentanyl exposure raises questions

SAN DIEGO — Sheriff’s body camera video of a deputy apparently passing out after a superior cautioned him that the drugs he had seized were “super dangerous” went viral with national news coverage Friday, but not before some experts expressed doubts about the scenario. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department released body camera video of […]

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Turquoise Health Raises $5 Million in Seed Funding

Local startup, Turquoise Health, raised $5 million in seed funding to back its healthcare price transparency and provider-payer contract negotiation platform that generates cost certainty for patients.   The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with Bessemer Venture Partners, Box Group, individual investors Henry Ward, Megan Callahan, Jonathan Bush and NBA Champion Klay Thompson. […]

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California order will limit hospital visitors to vaccinated, those with a negative COVID-19 test

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Visitors to any of California’s hospitals will only be allowed access if they are vaccinated against COVID-19, or provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test, according to an order about to come into effect by the California Department of Public Health. The measure, published on Thursday, is designed to help control […]

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Clairemont Mesa Man Carjacked in his own Driveway – NBC 7 San Diego

A 63-year-old man was carjacked at gunpoint in his own driveway Thursday. He survived to tell the story to NBC 7. Randy Meade’s 2008 Nissan Rogue was all ready to sell and certainly not worth dying over. “‘Don’t shoot me! don’t shoot me!’ ‘Get out of the car! get out of the car!’” Meade said […]