The quick-moving Silverado Fire, which is now getting help from Piedmont fire crews, forced 70,000 Irvine residents to evacuate and critically injured two firefighters.
The volume of virtual medical appointments has exploded during the pandemic as patients and doctors have sought to avoid infection through in-person visits.
The pandemic had limited loved ones to window or patio visits - if at all - but new guidance lifts restrictions in those 46 counties (incl Alameda) with better virus control.
Health officials in San Francisco and Alameda counties have cut ties with Verily's state-funded COVID testing sites amid concerns about data collection and privacy.