Tami Cate

University Health Services, or UHS, will offer the Food and Drug Administration approved 2023-24 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to students.

As part of Chancellor Carol Christ’s Reimagining Campus and Community Safety Initiative, the Campus Mobile Crisis Response team was soft-launched in April 2023 and with the goal of serving the calls of students, faculty and staff.

New vaccines are being developed to boost immunity against the XBB.1.5 subvariant of COVID-19. There are no official timelines for the rollout of any of the new boosters yet.

UC Berkeley students recently received reminders to complete their Student Health Insurance Plan, or SHIP, waiver by July 17. That is, to avoid paying the $75 late fee. In total, students pay 16 or more fees in addition to their tuition, according to the campus registrar's website.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA's, approval for the commonly used abortion medication mifepristone was challenged by a federal judge in Texas. 

Where there are gaps in mental health services at UC Berkeley, student organizations are looking to fill them. 

With California’s state of emergency set to expire by the end of the month, all of the city of Berkeley’s COVID-19 testing sites are expected to close.

As cases of COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases reach a recent high, Alameda County’s health officials announce that the county’s transmission level has increased from the CDC’s “low” COVID-19 Community Level to “medium.”

UC Berkeley changed its mask policy by removing the requirement that masks must be worn for those who have not received a flu vaccination.

UC Berkeley updated its mask policy to require that masks be worn by those who have not received a flu vaccination.