As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
UC Berkeley public health Professor Emeritus David Starkweather, known for his expertise in hospital mergers and administration, along with his memorable personality, died March 11 at the age of 87.
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As California moves along its COVID-19 vaccination process, a panel of experts clarified the process and answered common questions about vaccines.
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Devoted parents and cherished friends were among the 35 people who died from COVID-19 in Berkeley over the course of the pandemic. Some were pioneers in their respective fields, and others were passionate social workers with bright futures ahead of them.
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In the last few years, deadly waves of an opioid epidemic have swept across the United States, hitting rural areas especially hard and leaving millions of impacted lives in its wake.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its one-year mark, the coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom has been rapidly spreading throughout the U.S., a recent study found.
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Amid increasing campus cases of COVID-19, UC Berkeley researchers have collaborated in a biosafety level three facility, or BSL-3, to find therapeutics that would help in treating the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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A study conducted by researchers in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health has found that sending body mass index, or BMI, reports taken at school to parents is ineffective in improving student weight status.
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As the 2020 fall semester comes to an end, UC Berkeley professors and students expressed both concern and optimism over the future of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Three UC Berkeley students were selected to participate in a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, or RWJF, leadership program as Health Policy Research Scholars.
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A team of UC Berkeley and UCSF researchers found that unarmed Black men are at an increased risk of being fatally shot by police based on age and mental illness status in the United States.
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