Amgen collaborating with Adaptive to create COVID-19 medicine
Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen announced April 2 that it is collaborating with Adaptive Biotechnologies to discover and develop antibodies that can be used to prevent or treat COVID-19. Amgen shares gained 4 percent to $205.88 as of 10:25 a.m and Adaptive’s stock was up 0.8 percent to $27.72. Year-to-date, Amgen’s stock is down 14 Read More →
Most tri-county stocks up as national indices dip
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Gerhardt and Wilson: Everyone must fight COVID-19
By Drs. Nels Gerhardt and Brett Wilson We are emergency physicians at Cottage Health. We live and work in this community, so we are also your neighbors, friends, and the local doctors who may diagnose your child’s ear infection at 3 a.m., or fix your broken wrist. These are trying times and nowhere is the Read More →
Most tri-county stocks rise along with national indices
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Tri-county hospital rebuilds make room for beds
The tri-county region, like the rest of California, is likely to face shortages of hospital beds and other medical resources during the coronavirus pandemic, but the bed shortage could be made less severe by the region’s recent hospital building boom. Until the pandemic, parts of the region had an oversupply of potential hospital beds — Read More →
COVID-19 challenging for tri-county spas and salons
Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, the region’s salon and spa businesses had witnessed a transformation of their business model, moving toward memberships and express services as customers integrated them into a broad approach to wellness. In recent weeks, though, the heavily touch-based businesses have been among the hardest hit by shelter-in-place orders Read More →
Hair: Evictions might be on hold but landlords still want rent
As the end of the month approaches, the question of rent looms — who can pay it, and what happens when people don’t? The answer depends on where you live. On March 24, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place a ban on evictions through May 31. On the same day, Read More →
