SARATOGA, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 10: Foothill Elementary School 1st graders study inside the multipurpose room at Foothill Elementary School on Feb. 10, 2021 in Saratoga, Calif. On Wednesday, some students returned to classrooms in the Saratoga Union Elementary District, which includes Foothill Elementary School, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic forced their closure in March, 2020. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)As children in the tony enclave of Piedmont trotted into classrooms Wednesday, Jolanka Nickerman and her daughters gathered outside a shuttered elementary school in...…SARATOGA, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 10: Foothill Elementary School 1st graders study inside the multipurpose room at Foothill Elementary School on Feb. 10, 2021 in Saratoga, Calif. On Wednesday, some students returned to classrooms in the Saratoga Union Elementary District, which includes Foothill Elementary School, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic forced their closure in March, 2020. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)As children in the tony enclave of Piedmont trotted into classrooms Wednesday, Jolanka Nickerman and her daughters gathered outside a shuttered elementary school in...WW…

By | | Bay Area News GroupWe’ve been hearing for weeks about the crush of patients crowding intensive care units in hospitals as California copes with the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. But when the Golden State’s official calculation for statewide ICU capacity dropped to 0% late last week, it raised a question that anyone with a basic understanding of math would find perplexing:How could something be at “zero percent” — for example, ICU beds — when some are still available?Turns out, as with so many metrics tracking the COVID-19 outbreak, the state’s definition of “capacity” is...…By | | Bay Area News GroupWe’ve been hearing for weeks about the crush of patients crowding intensive care units in hospitals as California copes with the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. But when the Golden State’s official calculation for statewide ICU capacity dropped to 0% late last week, it raised a question that anyone with a basic understanding of math would find perplexing:How could something be at “zero percent” — for example, ICU beds — when some are still available?Turns out, as with so many metrics tracking the COVID-19 outbreak, the state’s definition of “capacity” is...WW…

By | | Bay Area News GroupWe’ve been hearing for weeks about the crush of patients crowding intensive care units in hospitals as California copes with the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. But when the Golden State’s official calculation for statewide ICU capacity dropped to 0% late last week, it raised a question that anyone with a basic understanding of math would find perplexing:How could something be at “zero percent” — for example, ICU beds — when some are still available?Turns out, as with so many metrics tracking the COVID-19 outbreak, the state’s definition of “capacity” is...…By | | Bay Area News GroupWe’ve been hearing for weeks about the crush of patients crowding intensive care units in hospitals as California copes with the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. But when the Golden State’s official calculation for statewide ICU capacity dropped to 0% late last week, it raised a question that anyone with a basic understanding of math would find perplexing:How could something be at “zero percent” — for example, ICU beds — when some are still available?Turns out, as with so many metrics tracking the COVID-19 outbreak, the state’s definition of “capacity” is...WW…