San Antonio Metro Health

San Antonio's Metropolitan Health District was set to halt its regular childhood vaccination clinics starting July 1 due to federal funding cuts but it announced Monday that it 'retained sufficient staffing to support both ongoing disease response efforts and the upcoming back-to-school immunization campaigns.'

The Metropolitan Heath District confirmed more than 2,600 new COVID cases in the week ending Sept. 18.

COVID cases are surging again in Bexar County and nationwide as a new omicron variant takes hold.

San Antonio Metro Health, the Alamo Colleges District and Community Labs have partnered in opening three new mass testing sites at two Alamo Colleges campuses and the district headquarters.

San Antonio health officials are doubling down on the urgency to get vaccinated as hospitalizations reach 418 people, a sharp increase compared to the beginning of July.

San Antonio Metro Health has a new public health director. Claude Jacob joined the city earlier this month and will lead the countywide response to the pandemic at a time when cases are beginning to rise.

President Biden’s goal of fully vaccinating 160 million adults by July 4 may not be achieved, but the administration is sending surrogates to continue the push. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was in San Antonio Tuesday to tour University Health’s vaccination site at Wonderland Mall.

Dr. Colleen Bridger — assistant city manager, interim director of San Antonio’s Metropolitan Health District and head of the city's coronavirus response efforts — has submitted her plan to step down in January.

San Antonio ha llegado a un nefasto hito. El departamento de salud local confirmó este domingo el fallecimiento número 1,000 relacionado con el COVID-19.…

San Antonio has arrived at a grim milestone. The local health department confirmed the 1,000th death from COVID-19 on Sunday. In total, Metro Health has…