As local hospitals continue to reschedule elective surgeries delayed due to COVID-19 and utilize even more blood for standard surgeries, the San Diego Blood Bank on Thursday put out an urgent call for donors to replenish its critically low blood supply.
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Los Angeles Times
Nine great apes at the San Diego Zoo are the first non-human primates to receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, zoo officials said Thursday.
Yahoo
Several orangutans and bonobos have received an experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed specifically for animals.
Washington Examiner
Nine great apes at the San Diego Zoo have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. The vaccine, developed by the veterinary pharmaceutical company Zoetis for use in animals, was given to four orangutans and five bonobos at the zoo.
San Diego ~ Hominidae ~ Interstate 495
ABC 10 News
One day after San Diego leaders announced the launch of the 'No Shots Fired' program, a shooting in a San Ysidro parking lot left a young man wounded Thursday.
HuffPost
The experimental shots were developed specifically for animals and delivered after eight gorillas at the zoo tested positive for the coronavirus in January.
San Diego Union-Tribune on MSN.com
In an era when most cell phone calls are next to free, I had to pay $5, $10 or $15 every time I talked to my loved ones.
San Diego County ~ Opinion ~ Private prison
Charlotte Observer
West Coast Conference Tourney First Round, Orleans Arena, Paradise, Nevada; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: San Diego is set to meet San Francisco in the first round of the WCC tourney. The only meeting between the teams this season came on Dec.
KPBS
This weekend in the arts: a powerful new group exhibition at The Front, Broadway hits from jazz greats, Lauren Gunderson's play "I and You," a city-wide art and architecture event and an exhibition of Mexican border photography at Coffee & Tea Collective.
YAHOO!News
"Do not grab that knife!" A police officer in San Diego, California, shot and injured a 69-year-old man, who appeared to be homeless, after he allegedly pulled a large kitchen knife on cops. Watch the tense moments leading up to the Feb.
The Hill
Four orangutans and five bonobos that reside at the zoo each received two doses of an experimental vaccine for animals.
CNET
Following an outbreak among the zoo's gorillas in January, three orangutans and five bonobos reportedly received a COVID-19 vaccine developed for animals.
San Diego Reader
Billie Holiday that for all the good it did screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, she could just as easily have fabricated a character out of whole cloth based on the life of a famous jazz-singer whose heroin addiction paved the way to an early grave.
CBS News 8 on MSN.com
If you think this pandemic has been challenging, you should have been around in 1918. In this Zevely Zone, I went to Clairemont in San Diego to wish a very special woman "Happy Birthday". That's where I found this lovely lady smiling with her loved ones singing to her.
San Diego ~ Ready ~ Zevely
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The Bozeman-Yellowstone International Airport announced Thursday morning that Alaska Airlines is adding two direct flights to and from California this summer.
WSOC-TV
Great apes at San Diego Zoo are getting something for which many humans have not yet qualified. They’re getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
Daily Mail on MSN.com
Four orangutans and five bonobos at the San Diego Zoo in California were given doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine made for animals last month.
San Diego Zoo ~ Ape ~ Humans
New York Post
As people go ape trying to find COVID-19 vaccines, a group of primates at the San Diego Zoo became the first non-humans to be administered the jab — including an orangutan named Karen. In January,
Positively San Diego: Young man overcomes life-altering crisis to reach dream of becoming UPS driver
ABC 10 News
It was Rene Aranda’s dream to become a UPS driver, just as delivery drivers were about to become more important than ever. But then fate threw down a major roadblock on a road that was filled with obstacles from the start.
CBS News on MSN.com
Several orangutans and bonobos at the San Diego Zoo have received an experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed specifically for animals. Anne-Marie Green has details on "CBSN AM."
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San Diego Union-Tribune
The numbers are finally working in San Diego’s favor with the COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 falling to a modified 10.8, well below the 14.0 needed to resume all youth outdoor sports, including full football practice.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Much credit for beach volleyball's explosive growth goes to former San Diego firefighter and local beach volleyball legend George Stepanof, who died Feb. 8 at age 84. Stepanof wrote the basic rules and created the player ranking system that remain in broad use.
San Diego ~ Opinion ~ Beach volleyball
San Diego Union-Tribune
A sign of the times on the UC San Diego campus is perhaps most evident when walking up to a vending machine. Potato chips and candy bars have been replaced by COVID-19 tests. “It’s free,” UCSD baseball coach Eric Newman said.
University of California, San Diego ~ U-T San Diego ~ Division I (NCAA)
ABC 10 News
Jim Desmond sent a letter to Gov. Newsom's office asking for the governor to allow limited attendance in time for the San Diego Padres opening day, April 1.
FanDuel
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San Diego Union-Tribune
He was general manager of the North American Soccer League’s Tulsa Roughnecks, known for wild promotions and hyperbole, trying to sell the beautiful game to middle America in the 1970s. In later years he organized international games,
San Diego Reader
City of San Diego parks that had been closed since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic began to re-open. As gyms stayed shutdown and tennis and basketball courts remained off-limits, people began to flock to the open-space areas to stay in shape.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Despite being designed primarily as a football-baseball palace, the Mission Valley stadium over the years became the leading motorsports venue in San Diego County. The field itself hosted motorcycle Supercrosses,
Qualcomm Stadium ~ Schedule ~ John Johnson
Fox 5 San Diego
Last season, Collin Martin said he found his love of soccer again. He also drew some hate, which he and the San Diego Loyal used to make a statement to make the game better.
The Spokesman-Review
When Gonzaga’s turnovers stopped and San Diego’s started, the track meet was on and the basketball game was essentially over.