The impact of novel coronavirus on Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista is being felt with increasing intensity as significant numbers as the number of new cases steadily increases due, at least in ...

Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego in Hillcrest and UC San Diego Health facilities are among a growing number of hospitals nationwide offering COVID-19 patients free, one-on-one private concerts ...

Rick Malacas, a nursing assistant at Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista, first felt sick in late June. He suffered body aches, followed by a headache, fever, and a positive COVID-19 test.

“We had 43 employees with COVID in October ... and probably twice that many at Mercy and at La Jolla waiting for beds.” Scripps La Jolla was forced to cancel all in-patient surgeries Tuesday ...

Today the number of COVID-19 patients admitted into Scripps Mercy is down to the single digits. "Everybody now is calm about it, oh it's just another covid patient. Everybody puts their gowns on ...

A registered nurse wearing protective equipment treats a COVID-19 patient in Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista's intensive care unit in June 2020. Ten beds in the hospital’s 12-bed ICU were ...

Moreno contracted COVID-19 sometime in either late June 2020 or early July 2020. He was first hospitalized on July 13, 2020, at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista. Six days later, he was ...

Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.

San Diego-based Scripps Health dusted off an initiative it used during COVID to help manage increased patient loads during flu season — internal patient transfers. When patient levels returned ...

Five years since the pandemic began, millions of people are still grappling with long covid, even as new patients ... and the executive vice president of Scripps Research. But researchers are ...