El Estoque

Keeping up with COVID

Corinna Kuo and Kaia Yuan • September 23, 2023

This past summer, COVID cases have increased by 95% in Santa Clara County compared to 6 months ago, due to new viral strains nicknamed Eris and Pirola, both of which are sub-variants of Omicron. Despite...

Triple Threat

Aidan Ruan, Staff Writer • February 24, 2023

Two years and two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA passed authorization for the administration of a fourth COVID booster shot on Jan. 17, 2023. However, according to data from the CDC, only 15.7%...

Taking careful precautions

October 17, 2022

Social Studies teacher Scott Victorine still believes the U.S. is in a pandemic based on the number of cases and deaths. "It's certainly a lot closer to being endemic than it is pandemic, but it's not...

Is the pandemic over?

Mikaylah Du and Megha Mummaneni • October 17, 2022

Exploring why people do or don't take precautions against COVID-19

Student Athletic Senate: Revamped

Chiran Arumugam, Darpan Singh, and Vincent Zhao • October 3, 2022

Looking at how the Athletic Senate changed after COVID-19

Unvaccinated staff no longer required to undergo COVID-19 testing

Jason Chu and Lillian Wang • September 17, 2022

The California Department of Public Health announced that it would be ending its COVID-19 testing mandate for unvaccinated individuals in high-risk settings on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Starting Sept. 17, unvaccinated...