Eden Health District COVID-19 Bulletin
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"If people want the privilege of going out they have to wear a mask. We’re going to be very vigilant."
Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan,
7/23/20
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East Bay couple steps up to care for others affected by pandemic, even as they were stricken
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Jennifer Arrouzet delivered donated hot meals to San Pablo first responders. It’s one of many acts of charity she and her husband Todd have done for others in the East Bay.
In March, the Arrouzets came down with what doctors thought was Covid-19. At the time, widespread testing wasn’t available, so the couple quarantined themselves for weeks, leaving staff to run their restaurant, Cafe Soleil. Todd recovered quickly, but Jennifer did not.
But even while sick, Jennifer was determined to help others so she put the word out over social media and began asking for donations of PPE. Masks and other vital items came pouring in.
Thousands of disposable gloves rounded out the donations and the Arrouzets bought wipes and locally made sanitizer themselves. Then they gave it all away to first responders like the San Pablo and Richmond Police Departments. Hundreds of masks, thousands of gloves, and cases of sanitizer were shared by the two agencies, at a time when those items were nearly impossible to get. Nurses from local hospitals also received PPE and other supplies from the Arrouzets.
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Today Jennifer and Todd are recovered and back at work. Both say their experience with Covid-19 was life-changing, and both hope that sharing their story will inspire others to help those in need.“[My advice would be] check on your neighbors, check on your friends, check on other businesses, check on your community,” Jennifer said. “We could all be a little kinder and maybe have a little more compassion for people that are maybe having a tougher time.”
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Alameda County:
10,214
Contra Costa County:
6,627
California:
431,290
U.S.:
4,084,551
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Alameda County:
178
Contra Costa County:
103
California:
8,208
U.S.:
144,780
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Mercury News, July 24, 2020
As California’s coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise, some Bay Area officials are threatening to crack down on those who refuse to wear masks and practice social distancing — hoping to stop the virus before it overwhelms our health systems. Napa and Marin counties were the first to approve fines of up to $500 for people who refuse to comply with state and local health orders, but officials in some other jurisdictions now say they’d like to see that extended throughout the region.
Alameda County hasn’t prosecuted anyone for violating the health orders, said Teresa Drenick, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney’s Office. Contra Costa County has forwarded one case to its District Attorney,
a Richmond pastor
who insisted on holding services Easter Sunday and is still being investigated. Oakland police haven’t issued any citations either, spokeswoman Johnna Watson said. But San Francisco police have issued 123 warnings and 26 citations.
News Release, July 23, 2020
State Senator Nancy Skinner is hosting a Town Hall today, Friday, July 24th, from 3 to 4 p.m., on the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the Town Hall is "to help make sense of what is guiding our state and local health officials, why there are varying rules depending on where you live, as well as what we can expect in the next few months. Yo watch Friday's Town Hall, there is no need to RSVP, just go to the Senator Skinner's homepage at
https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/
The Town Hall will feature Zoom presentations by:
- Dr. George Rutherford, Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UC San Francisco – who will discuss what science now knows about how the virus spreads and what we can do to stay safe and minimize its spread.
- Contra Costa County Health Services Director of Legislative and Governmental Affairs Dr. William Walker, as well as a public health department official from Alameda County who will provide us updates.
- Dr. Noha Aboelata, CEO of Oakland's Roots Community Health Center. Roots is one of the four clinics Alameda County has partnered with to conduct contact tracing.
East Bay Times, July 24, 2020
A senior deputy with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office died Thursday evening from complications related to Covid-19. Deputy Oscar Rocha, 57, had been in
critical condition
in an area hospital’s intensive care unit for nearly three weeks, and had worked most of his 25-year career in either the courthouse in Oakland or Santa Rita Jail. In a tweet late Thursday, the department said: “It is with tremendous sadness we report Alameda County Deputy Sheriff Oscar Rocha passed away this evening at 6:45pm from complications due to COVID-19. He put up a courageous fight to the end and will never be forgotten. May he rest in eternal peace. [End of watch] 7/23/20.”
Mercury News, July 23, 2020
Dr. Grant Colfax, San Francisco’s director of public health, said it was a “critical time for all of us” amid a surge that has increased hospitalizations and the average number of daily cases to new highs in the city. Still, the city remains better positioned than others in California and well shy of the crisis in New York City. “I’m very concerned that as cases increase, it’s plausible we could get in a New York-like situation in the late summer or early fall,” Colfax said at a virtual news conference Wednesday, though he noted San Francisco was testing at a higher rate than other major metros like Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Boston and New York, while having the lowest rate of cases and deaths among them. “Therefore we have a strong foundation to build upon, and we are doing exactly that.”
East Bay Times, July 24, 2020
Following major outbreaks at nursing homes in Walnut Creek and Concord, long-term care facilities now account for 71 of the 102 Covid-19 deaths that have occurred in Contra Costa County. Twelve patients died from Covid-19 at the ManorCare Health Services-Tice Valley nursing home in Walnut Creek, state health department information shows. In all, 92 patients and 38 health care workers were infected, and 25 patients are still sick. At San Miguel Villa nursing facility in Concord, 20 patients and at least one health care worker have died, according to the state’s information.
San Leandro Times, July 23, 2020
With Covid-19 on the rise in Alameda Count, two local political figures stepped up and got the test for Covid-19 last Friday at the San Leandro Marina Community Center. Mayor Pauline Cutter and Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan came out of the building after their tests and talked with reporters. It’s not that bad, Cutter answered when asked about the test. “It does go up your nostril but it’s not that uncomfortable,” Cutter said.
There’s been a backlog at the labs and it’s taking a week or longer to get the results of the tests. Chan and Cutter acknowledged that’s a problem. “We’re going to be working with the state to speed things up, and the state will be working with the federal government,” Chan said. Because there’s a backlog at the lab, that doesn’t mean we don’t want people to get tested, Chan said. She also reminded people to wear a mask in public and practice social distancing.
SF Chronicle, July 23, 2020
Most Bay Area counties are currently on the state’s coronavirus watch list. That designation can have a huge impact on the restrictions a county must impose on businesses, schools and other areas, and just what those restrictions include has changed dramatically in recent weeks. The SF Chronicle explains what the state measures, what restrictions the watch list triggers, and how a county can be removed.
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NY Times, July 23, 2020
Labs across the country are facing
backlogs in coronavirus testing
thanks in part to a shortage of tiny pieces of tapered plastic. Researchers need these little disposables, called pipette tips, to quickly and precisely move liquid between vials as they process the tests. As the number of known coronavirus cases in the United States
passes 4 million
, these new shortages of pipette tips and other lab supplies are once again stymieing efforts to track and curb the spread of disease. Some people are
waiting days or even weeks for results
, and labs are vying for crucial materials.
Reuters, July 24, 2020
A new government study shows that nearly 40% of people who have died with Covid-19 had diabetes. Among deaths of those under 65, half had the chronic condition. America’s mortality rates from diabetes have been climbing since 2009 and exceed most other industrialized nations. Blacks and Latinos suffer from diabetes at higher rates than whites and have disproportionately suffered from Covid-19.
“Diabetes was already a slow-moving pandemic. Now Covid-19 has crashed through like a fast-moving wave,” said Elbert Huang, a professor of medicine and director of the University of Chicago’s Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy.
Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2020
In a
paper published in the journal Nature
this month, researchers at the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine examined the medical records of 17 million English residents to see which factors are linked to a higher risk of death from Covid-19. Age was far and away the most significant factor, the authors reported, with patients in their 80s more than 20 times more likely to die of Covid-19 than someone in their 50s, after accounting for all other factors. But those suffering from chronic illnesses were at higher risk of death than those without those conditions, the analysis showed. Diabetics with high blood-sugar levels were found to be almost twice as likely to die as nondiabetics. Disease of the heart, kidney and liver were also associated with a higher mortality risk.
NY Times, July 22, 2020
Most Americans recovering from Covid-19 can come out of isolation without further testing to show they no longer carry the coronavirus, federal health officials said on Wednesday. Instead, patients may be judged to have recovered if 10 days have passed since they first felt ill; they no longer have any symptoms, such as shortness of breath or diarrhea; and they have not had a fever for 24 hours without taking fever-reducing medicine. The
new recommendations
are not rules but guidelines intended for patients, doctors and health policymakers. The revisions should help relieve the burden on the country’s testing system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Axios, July 24, 2020
Six months into the pandemic, we’re still figuring out how the virus works, how it kills people and the implications for the people who survive it. Some coronavirus patients still have symptoms months after they are first infected, challenging the narrative that most people will survive the disease and move on. Symptoms range from neurological issues like “brain fogs” to an elevated heart rate.
Bloomberg, July 23, 2020
Mothers with Covid-19 are unlikely to pass the virus to their newborns as long as hygiene precautions are followed, new research from the U.S. suggests.
An observational study involving 120 babies born to infected mothers in New York found no cases of transmission during childbirth or after two weeks of breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact, according to findings published in
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
journal. All of the babies were allowed to share a room with their mothers and breastfeed as long as the women wore surgical masks and followed frequent hand- and breast-washing procedures.
Personal Health
Bloomberg, July 23, 2020
Homemade face masks should ideally be made from multiple layers of fabric to trap the viral-laden droplets from the nose and mouth associated with the spread of Covid-19, a study found.
Scientists in Australia compared the effectiveness of single and double-layer cloth face coverings with a surgical mask. Using a tailored LED lighting system and high-speed video camera, they showed a single layer reduced the spread of droplets from speaking, but less than a double layer.
NY Times, July 22, 2020
The anecdotes are alarming. But the anecdotes are just that, stories without evidence of reinfections, according to nearly a dozen experts who study viruses. “I haven’t heard of a case where it’s been truly unambiguously demonstrated,” said Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Reports of reinfection instead may be cases of drawn-out illness. A decline in antibodies is normal after a few weeks, and people are protected from the coronavirus in other ways.
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East Bay Times, July 24, 2020
For a second consecutive day Thursday, California recorded more deaths from COVID-19 than any previous day of the pandemic, pushing its average daily death toll from the virus to its highest level yet. There were 156 new fatalities reported around the state Thursday, one more than the record set the previous day, according to
data compiled by this news organization
. Four counties in Southern California each reported at least 20 deaths, while the entire Bay Area recorded seven. The statewide seven-day average rose over 100 for the second time of the pandemic to 101 deaths per day over the past week, 60% higher than a month ago.
SF Chronicle, July 23, 2020
As California posted its highest Covid-19 daily death toll and case counts soared beyond those of other states, politicians and public health experts turned to the next logical question: What to do about it? Acknowledging that there is no formula for eradicating the coronavirus, some recommended staying the course. Others suggested fine-tuning the state’s approach based on what new data reveal. And at least one state lawmaker is urging Gov. Newsom to tightly shut down the economy amid the alarming and deadly surge.
LA Times, July 24, 2020
Public health officials said they had sent about 500 inspectors to the state’s roughly 1,200 skilled nursing facilities. Some with the worst outbreaks were visited multiple times. California was inspecting homes at triple the rate of other states, officials said. Yet, despite requiring routine testing of residents and employees, California health officials have knowingly sent state inspectors from nursing home to nursing home without first testing them for the lethal virus.
Sacramento Bee, July 23, 2020
Amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, a federal judge has ordered the state to set aside space for isolation and quarantine in its prisons. That space will be used to help tamp down the spread of a virus that’s infected thousands across the prison system and killed 42 inmates this year, according to a state count. The judge’s decision mandates that the state take into account the needs of disabled and mentally ill inmates when planning for isolation and quarantine space.
Associated Press, July 24, 2020
California’s legislative leaders said Thursday they will let absent lawmakers vote on bills during the final month of the legislative session after at least seven people who work in the state Capitol became infected with the coronavirus, including one assemblyman who had to be hospitalized.
CalMatters, July 22, 2020
Months into the coronavirus pandemic, California is stockpiling masks for a future wave of infections even as hospitals say they still don’t have enough to protect workers from the deadly virus.
Gov. Newsom blamed the shortage on hospitals, saying they are not adequately distributing supplies the state has provided, and vowed to more aggressively track deliveries in the health care system. Newsom said the state is buying an additional 420 million masks. Most will go toward the state stockpile, intended to help California avoid the problems it faced this spring amid a tumultuous global marketplace for medical supplies and what Newsom called “the lack of a national strategy.”
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Vox, July 24, 2020
More Americans are currently hospitalized with Covid-19 than at any prior point in the pandemic, a grim milestone that indicates the coronavirus pandemic is not slowing down in the US. Covid-19 has migrated across the country to many regions. Hospitalizations were overwhelmingly concentrated in the Northeast in the spring, but now more than half of hospitalized Covid-19 patients (35,624) are in the South. The West has also seen the number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients double since April, while the Northeast now accounts for fewer than 5,000 of the nearly 60,000 current hospitalizations.
CNN, July 24, 2020
More than 150 prominent US medical experts, scientists, teachers, nurses and others have
signed a letter
urging political leaders to shut down the country and start over to contain the surging coronavirus pandemic. The only way to reopen the economy and the country safely is to follow a set of protocols that public health experts deem necessary for controlling the spread of Covid-19, the letter contends.
They include: enough daily testing to test everyone with flu-like symptoms, a work force of contact tracers large enough to track all current cases, and more personal protective equipment to keep essential workers safe. In addition, all non-essential businesses should be closed and restaurants nationwide should only provide takeout service.
Washington Post, July 23, 2020
The U.S. on Thursday passed the grim milestone of 4 million confirmed coronavirus infections. The rapid spread of the virus this summer is striking, taking just 15 days to go from 3 million confirmed cases to 4 million. By comparison, the increase from 1 million cases to 2 million spanned 45 days from April 28 to June 11, and the leap to 3 million then took 27 days.
USA Today, July 24, 2020
Crowded housing arrangements and high-risk jobs in industries like meatpacking, poultry and hospitality are among the major reasons Latinos have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, according to
a new study published Thursday
, the first nationwide analysis of Covid-19 cases and deaths among Latinos. The study found Latinos accounted for a much higher number of Covid-19 cases than their percentage of the population in the Northeast, Midwest and West. On a national basis, reports cited by the study indicated Latinos accounted for 33% of the cases even though they make up just under 18% of the population.
The Guardian, July 24, 2020
Florida’s failure to contain coronavirus cases has put the state on track to rival New York’s peak for sheer volume of infections. But unlike the spring outbreak in New York, which was met with some of the strictest shelter-in-place orders in the country, Florida is open for business. “We’re not going to restrict the businesses,” the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, said on Thursday, where he also claimed the outbreak in south Florida had “stabilized.”
NPR, July 24, 2020
Upwards of 25 million Americans who've lost their jobs have been getting those extra unemployment benefits. That $600 per week has helped many to afford to pay their rent and other bills. But that federal money stops this weekend.
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EdSource, July 24, 2020
Most California schools are preparing for a new reality of entirely remote classes this fall, after Gov. Newsom last week announced that schools cannot offer in-person instruction if they are in counties the state is closely monitoring for coronavirus spread. That means it is back to the drawing board for the many districts that were previously planning on offering a variety of options to students and parents, ranging from in-person classes and online instruction to hybrid approaches that involve a blend of both.
District officials interviewed by EdSource said they felt relieved to now have a clearer set of expectations from the state about when and how to bring students back to campus. At the same time, they said the future is still uncertain, and they are trying to be prepared for to make further pivots should they be necessary.
SF Chronicle, July 23, 2020
Starting in September, dozens of recreation facilities, libraries, and community centers across San Francisco will be transformed into “learning hubs,” spaces where young students who may struggle with remote instruction can go each day to access their digital classwork and the social interactions that virtual schooling cannot provide. The city is planning to open up to 40 hubs by Sept. 14, just under a month after the school year begins on Aug. 17.
Officials are prioritizing low-income families, children in public housing or the foster care system, homeless youth, and others in living situations that make remote learning particularly challenging. At first, the hubs will serve students in kindergarten through sixth grade, a group that has lower rates of infection, but officials will consider making the hubs available to older students. They will operate five days a week during ordinary school hours and will be staffed by experienced nonprofits and other organizations, many of which already partner with the city to provide after-school programs.
LA Times, July 23, 2020
School districts, charters and private schools in L.A. County may begin applying within days for waivers that would allow them to reopen elementary schools in person, but public schools will have to show they have union support, county public health officials said Thursday. The requirement to show union support will likely give some charters and private schools, most of whose teachers are not unionized, an advantage in qualifying for a waiver, potentially exacerbating the divide between well-off students and their more disadvantaged peers, which has only grown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
SF Chronicle, July 23, 2020
Sadie Fleig, who graduated from Berkeley High School last month, decided to take a gap year rather than start at Colorado College in 2020. Her plan illustrates an increasingly popular option for recent high school graduates amid the pandemic. Many students, wary of the virus forcing schools to pivot to distance learning, are choosing to delay the start of their college careers, even as the pandemic also has curtailed traditional gap-year adventures, such as international travel, and made jobs harder to land.
CalMatters, July 22, 2020
Many students appealing their financial aid awards are coping with unemployment. About 71% of returning college students in California say they have lost some or all of their income due to the pandemic, according to a recent
survey
of 76,000 students by the California Student Aid Commission. Thirty-four percent say they’ll need to work more in the fall to afford educational and living expenses, while 21% think they should attend a college that is less expensive.
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US & International Education News
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SF Chronicle, July 24, 2020
In the last week alone, tens of thousands of families across the country have found each other on Facebook, created contact lists organized by city or school, and formed “pandemic pods,” in some cases offering educators $100 an hour or more to tutor or teach small groups in the homes of the children or the teachers. Then came the backlash.
What about children whose families can’t afford to participate, usually the students most at risk of falling behind, critics asked. The ability of those with means to form pods would probably exacerbate the wide gap between the haves and have-nots, they said. In recent days, the discord over pods has grown as fast as the movement itself.
NPR, July 23, 2020
Public schools should delay reopening in coronavirus hotspots, but should open fully if they want to receive tens of billions of dollars in new federal aid, President Trump said in a White House briefing. Standing in front of a United States map covered in dark red splotches to symbolize the many regions of the country with virus spikes, Trump acknowledged the scientific consensus that in those hotspots, public schools might have to delay opening in person for "weeks."
Chronicle of High Ed, July 23, 2020
As more colleges renege on promises of an in-person fall and
move to a virtual format
, student fees, charges earmarked for athletics and other extracurricular programming, are coming under scrutiny. Activity fees tend to fund student-organization budgets or recreation centers. Colleges must decide if the fees are still relevant when student organizations can’t meet in person this fall.
Nature, July 24, 2020
More than 150 students at an Israeli secondary school were infected by the new coronavirus after students were allowed to remove their masks during a heat-wave. Roughly 10 days after Israeli schools fully reopened on 17 May, two students at a secondary school in Jerusalem were diagnosed with Covid-19. Chen Stein-Zamir at the Ministry of Health in Jerusalem and her colleagues investigated the resulting outbreak and found that 153 students and 25 members of staff had become infected By mid-June, a further 87 cases had occurred among the close contacts of people infected through the school outbreak.
The virus’s spread was probably aided by a heat-wave that occurred between 19 and 21 May, prompting heavy use of air-conditioning and a suspension of the requirement that students wear face masks. Crowding might also have contributed: each of the school’s classrooms held 35 to 38 students, resulting in space allotments of 1.1–1.3 square metres per student.
Dana Stevens, Washington Post, July 24, 2020
The implicit bargain of the spring was that if everyone complied with the shutdowns, the isolation, the social distancing, the working-while-parenting disasters and the rest, the government would use that time to build enough testing, tracing and public health infrastructure so that students could safely go back to school in person in the fall.
Instead, having utterly failed to contain the virus, the administration is now employing the crafty tactic of attempting to
draw attention away
from the pandemic, as if we could be distracted out of noticing that we can no longer safely leave our homes, we have no functioning public institutions (libraries, museums, schools), and we have
lost
more than 139,000 American lives.
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Woman battling coronavirus delivers healthy baby girl
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Giving birth is frightening for anyone, but giving birth while positive for Covid-19?
Kate Glaser of Buffalo, New York, says it was the scariest experience of her life.
The 32-year-old wife and mother of 3-year-old twins considers herself very healthy. She runs half-marathons, exercises frequently, and has no underlying medical conditions. Glaser was tested for coronavirus at 39 weeks pregnant after exhibiting flu-like symptoms, a sore throat, and fever.
"I thought to myself, there's no way I have Covid. There's absolutely no way because I've taken every precaution," she said. "I was masking up. I was self-isolating. I hadn't left my house in so long. So I thought there's no way this virus could find me. But it did find me."
So for 8 days, Glaser isolated at home away from her husband and twins. She hoped to wait as long as possible for the baby to arrive, knowing the baby would be healthier in utero. But as Glaser's symptoms worsened, so did her emotional state.
"I felt like I was going down a rabbit hole of anxiety so I really had to remain positive," she said.
On July 11, a week after her due date, baby Isla Alice entered this world. Kate was grateful her husband could be by her side for the delivery.
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At 2 days old, Isla had her first coronavirus test and thankfully it was negative. Brian and the twins have also remained Covid free.
But almost a month after her initial diagnosis, Kate is still testing positive, and doctors are closely monitoring the health of both mom and baby.
Kate is sharing her story to send this message to others: "People need to take this virus seriously. It is not a hoax," she said. "Socially distancing and wearing a mask and hand sanitizing, it's all very, very important, and I think we all have to care enough about each other to not have an issue doing so."
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The Guardian, July 24, 2020
Mexico performs just three tests per 100,000 people,
according to
Johns Hopkins University’s dashboard; 66.9% of the results were positive on 15 July, the last day data was available. Such a high positivity rate means “a government is only testing the sickest patients who seek out medical attention and not casting a wide enough net,” according to Johns Hopkins. By comparison, the United States performs 168 tests per 100,000 people
Exactly why Mexico refuses to test widely mystifies public health experts.
Associated Press, July 24, 2020
New rules on wearing masks in England came into effect Friday, with people going to shops, banks and supermarkets now required to wear face coverings. The move came a day after Belgium imposed its own mask requirement to slow increasing coronavirus infections.
The Guardian, July 24, 2020
Less than a month ago, Australia was the envy of much of the world. With daily new coronavirus cases in the single digits, it was feted as part of a group of “first mover” nations — countries like Taiwan, Singapore and New Zealand that acted decisively to quash coronavirus. Just weeks later, the country has more than 3,000 active cases and daily new case numbers that are almost as high as the UK, with less than a third of the population. Five million residents of Melbourne have been thrown into their second lockdown, with no real sense of when it might end.
Folha De S.Pablo, July 23, 2020
Brazil registered a record number of new cases this Wednesday. 65,339 infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number to 2,231,871. The number of deaths remained above a thousand, with 1,293. As a result, deaths reached 82,867.
The Hill, July 23, 2020
Hong Kong
announced a new coronavirus policy
this week that would impose travel restrictions on those coming from the U.S. The policy would require travelers to show proof that they tested negative for Covid-19 within three days of their flight to Hong Kong. However, in many parts of the U.S., test results take much longer than that timeframe.
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The Atlantic, July 24, 2020
Biologically, a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus is unlikely to offer complete protection. Logistically, manufacturers will have to make hundreds of millions of doses while relying, perhaps, on technology never before used in vaccines and competing for basic supplies such as glass vials. Then the federal government will have to allocate doses, perhaps through a patchwork of state and local health departments with no existing infrastructure for vaccinating adults at scale.
Alan Kadish and John Loike, STAT, July 24, 2020
The sweep of Covid-19 across the globe has raised a fundamental question about medical ethics: Do physicians, nurses, EMTs, and other health care workers have moral and legal obligations to risk their health and lives to treat patients during a pandemic?
Kevin Baxter, LA Times, July 23, 2020
Covid-19 has ravaged Florida, with more than 237,000 people testing positive and 2,013 dying from the virus in July alone. A record 173 Floridians died from the virus Thursday, an average of more than one every eight minutes. And that has taken a heavy toll on residents older than 65, who account for just 13% of the state’s coronavirus cases but 82% of the fatalities. For residents of the Villages, contracting the virus reads like a death sentence.
Nicole Narea, Vox, July 23, 2020
Because Texas had imposed one of the shortest lockdowns nationwide, it hadn’t had much time to suppress cases and build up testing capacity. There have been more than 285,000 new cases reported since Memorial Day; over 4,000 Texans have died from the virus.
New England Journal of Medicine, July 22, 2020
Black persons constitute 13% of the U.S. population but account for 20% of Covid-19 cases and more than 22% of Covid-19 deaths, as of July 22, 2020. Hispanic persons, at 18% of the population, account for almost 33% of new cases nationwide. These racial and ethnic disparities constitute a new crisis compounding the long-standing failure of our health system to care adequately for persons of color.
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Alameda County Data
: 2,462 n
ew cases have been recorded over the last 14 days. The number of confirmed infections is currently doubling every 42.8 days.
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Contra Costa County Data
: 2,068 new cases have been recorded over last 14 days. The number of confirmed infections is currently doubling every 23.8 days.
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Alameda County
, cases as of 7/24/20
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Oakland:
4,026
Hayward:
1,484
Eden MAC: 606
Fremont: 560
San Leandro: 527
Livermore:
427
Union City: 312
Castro Valley:
290
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Contra Costa County
, cases as of 7/24/20
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Richmond: 1,412
Antioch: 808
Concord: 755
Pittsburgh:
627
San Pablo: 582
Bay Point: 303
Walnut Creek: 301
Brentwood: 262
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Here are links to recent Covid-19 parody songs to hopefully put a smile on your face and give you a laugh this weekend.
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We are proud to partner with the
East Bay Community Foundation
in publishing this bulletin. Through donations to its
COVID-19 Response Fund
,
the EBCF provides grants to East Bay nonprofit organizations delivering essential services to those most impacted by the economic fallout from the pandemic.
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We have posted information on food pantries and food services in the cities of Hayward and San Leandro and unincorporated Alameda County including Castro Valley and San Lorenzo. You can access the information
here on our website
. Alameda County has also released an
interactive map
listing food distributions and other social services.
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The
Eden Health District Board of Directors
are Gordon Galvan, Chair, Mariellen Faria, Vice Chair, Charles Gilcrest, Secretary-Treasurer, Roxann Lewis and Pam Russo. The Chief Executive Officer is Mark Friedman.
The Eden Health District is committed to ensuring that policy makers and community members receive accurate and timely information to help make the best policy and personal choices to meet and overcome the challenges posed
by
the Covid-19 pandemic.
Each bulletin includes a summary of the top health, Bay Area, California, national and international news on the pandemic plus links to a diverse range of commentary and analysis. We publish the Bulletin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
We welcome your feedback on our bulletin. Please contact editor
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