Eden Health District COVID-19 Bulletin
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“Our schools are little mini microcosms of our cities that they’re in—what’s happening in cities is what’s going to happen in schools."
Tina Hartert, professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 8/9/20
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Bay Area college student makes 3D face shields for kids with special needs, frontline workers |
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San Jose State University senior Brenden Pragasam started making face shields in his garage to protect his relatives and friends from Covid-19.
Then a phone call changed everything.
“And I was like, ‘Hello?’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah, this is Stanford. Uh, we need about 300 face shields, we heard that you make them,'” remembered Pragasam. “I’m like, ‘Okay.’ So that’s when it all started.”
The industrial design major has given away hundreds of face shields for free to protect frontline workers at Bay Area hospitals and community groups. Working with UCSF, he changed his design to make the shields lighter and more flexible for hospital use. Pragasam is also making face shields for children with special needs.
With his parents, he co-founded InFuse, a San Jose nonprofit supporting kids and adults with different abilities, so he understands they often need more durable equipment.
Thirty face shields went to Friends of Children with Special Needs, which serves adults with disabilities. Program manager Annabelle Foz is grateful. "It’s a labor of love because it’s handmade,” Foz said of the face shield.
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“And I think he really made the design easy and comfortable for others.”
Pauline Vincent agrees. Her 12-year-old son kept the shield on during their cross-country plane trip to a medical appointment. “The shields really helped. We felt so safe,” Vincent said.
Each shield takes more than two hours to produce using 3D printers and materials funded by donations from InFuse. Now the college student is taking orders from schools and reflecting on the journey.
“I think it’s taught me that one person can make a huge difference if they make that first step,” he concluded.
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Alameda County: 13,199
Contra Costa County: 9,404
California: 561,379
U.S.: 5,063,770
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Alameda County: 205
Contra Costa County: 139
California: 10,379
U.S.: 163,156
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Alameda and Contra Costa County’s trends for cases, testing, and positivity rates are likely inaccurate due to incomplete reporting from state databases. Death rates are not affected as they are reported through different systems. Also, Alameda County has launched a new Covid-19 data dashboard at https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page?
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SF Chronicle, August 10, 2020
In six Bay Area counties, people in their 30s or younger make up the largest proportion of cases. In San Francisco, for instance, 18-to-40-year-olds represent 48% of all cases; in Santa Clara County, 20-39-year-olds represent 39% of all cases. Anecdotally, the region’s medical clinics are reporting a major uptick in younger people coming in with Covid-19 symptoms like shortness of breath, fever and cough.
Dr. Aisha Mays, medical director of the Dream Youth Clinic at Roots Community Health Center in Oakland stated, “We have seen our young folks have a false sense of security that make them more susceptible to contracting Covid. In the beginning, we were really concerned about our elderly population because they are so much more susceptible to the negative effects of Covid, including death. At the same time, it might have sent an unintended message to our young people that they were more immune to contracting Covid."
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East Bay Times, August 10, 2020
There have been more than 1,300 Covid-19 cases in Fruitvale’s 94601 ZIP code, which has more infections than any neighborhood in Alameda County, the Bay Area’s hardest-hit county. This tight-knit community, where families with strollers are a common sight and the corner fruit vendor greets people by name, is a painful case study in why the Bay Area’s Latinx residents have been disproportionately affected by Covid: Many here are essential workers who live in crowded homes where it’s impossible to isolate. The ZIP code, which is 50 percent Latinx and one of the poorest in the region, has about 3 percent of the county’s population but 11 percent of all cases. That’s 256 cases per 10,000 residents, nearly four times the county’s overall rate.
Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local, August 10, 2020
Ideally, says Dr. Darpun Sachdev, who heads the Department of Public Health’s contact tracing efforts, it would only take 48 hours between someone developing symptoms and/or contemplating a test and receiving a call from a contact tracer. But that’s not happening. If you want to get a test in San Francisco, the current wait at city sites tends to hover between nine and 11 days. Getting your results can take several days more — or, in all too many instances of late, the better part of two weeks. These glacial turnarounds make a mockery of any attempt at contact tracing.
East Bay Times, August 10, 2020
Sgt. Gilbert Polanco, a San Jose native, had been hospitalized since July 3 and had been intubated for weeks. As dozens of prison guards fell ill with the virus, Polanco worked extra shifts to help out. He commuted each day from his home in San Jose. He started having a cough on Father’s Day, June 17.
Of the 261 staff members infected by the virus at San Quentin Prison, Polanco is the first to perish and the 9th corrections employee to die of the virus in California. Of the 2,231 San Quentin inmates infected with the virus, 24 have died. San Quentin had been virus-free until state prison officials made an ill-fated decision to transfer 121 prisoners from the state prison in Chino, where an outbreak had taken hold.
SF Chronicle, August 8, 2020
More than 2,000 Bay Area businesses were reported permanently closed since March as the coronavirus damaged the economy, according to data from Yelp. As of July 10, 2,065 businesses in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area had marked themselves permanently closed on the San Francisco company’s business-reviews website, including more than 300 restaurants and 300 retailers. About 3,000 more San Francisco businesses have temporarily closed, according to Yelp listings.
East Bay Times, August 10, 2020
With most indoor museums closed, it's is a great time to enjoy the beauty and variety of nature's flora at a local botanical garden.
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NY Times, August 10, 2020
As schools face the daunting challenge of reopening while the coronavirus continues to spread, at least 97,000 children around the United States tested positive in the last two weeks of July, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. It says that at least 338,000 children had tested positive through July 30, meaning more than a quarter tested positive in just those two weeks.
SF Chronicle, August 7, 2020
An increasing number of children are being infected with Covid-19 and more than 200 of them, including 29 patients in California, are suffering from severe inflammatory reactions that can be life threatening, the CDC reported Friday.
The studies said that although most cases involving young people are mild, there is a significant and growing number of children who suffer from a serious ailment known as multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, which can cause severe abdominal pain, vomiting, rashes, fevers, heart trouble and diarrhea.
The mysterious ailment was found in 203 of 570 children diagnosed with Covid-19 who were studied between March 2 and July 18. Of the 364 young Covid-19 patients hospitalized, 10 died. As with adults, more than 55% of the child patients were male and 40.5% were Latino, the highest percentage of any racial or ethnic category. The most common underlying condition was obesity, but two thirds of the children did not have any pre-existing conditions, according to the reports.
Children might be more vulnerable to Covid-19 than once believed, with new research suggesting that they are able to contract and spread the virus, especially if they don’t take precautions such as wearing a mask. Several studies and reports published in recent weeks found coronavirus infections among children of all ages at places ranging from schools to camps to homes. Other research suggested that kids, especially older ones, can be a driving force behind transmission. And some researchers found children carry high levels of Covid-19’s genetic material in their upper respiratory tract, which doesn’t mean they are transmitting the virus but that they potentially could.
Helen Branswell, STAT, August 10, 2020
Winter means cold and flu season, which is all but sure to complicate the task of figuring out who is sick with Covid-19 and who is suffering from a less threatening respiratory tract infection. While many countries managed to suppress spread of SARS-CoV-2, the United States has failed miserably. Countries in Europe and Asia are worrying about a second wave. Here, the first wave rages on, engulfing rural as well as urban parts of the country. Though there’s been a slight decline in cases in the past couple of weeks, more than 50,000 Americans a day are being diagnosed with Covid-19. And those are just the confirmed cases.
Washington Post, August 8, 2020
When SARS-CoV-2 was first identified on Dec. 31, 2019, public health officials deemed it a “novel” virus because it was the first time it had been seen in humans who presumably had no immunity from it whatsoever. There’s now some very early, tentative evidence suggesting that assumption might have been wrong. One hypothesis is that a segment of the world’s population may have partial protection thanks to “memory” T cells, the part of our immune system trained to recognize specific invaders. This could originate from cross protection derived from standard childhood vaccinations. Or, as a paper published Tuesday in Science suggested, it could trace back to previous encounters with other coronaviruses, such as those that cause the common cold.
Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2020
The pandemic and its economic fallout are taking a toll on the mental health of many Americans. But the burden is perhaps greatest for those on the brink of adulthood, young people who are often seeing their dreams of careers, romances and adventures dashed.
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Mercury News, August 10, 2020
The number of Covid-19 patients hospitalized in California and the Bay Area continued to sink over the weekend — a sign of progress amid a clouded data landscape.
Statewide, the 5,636 active hospitalizations were its fewest since July 3, while the 670 patients in the Bay Area amounted to the region’s fewest since July 15. Just in the past week, the Bay Area’s count has fallen by more than 100 patients, fueled in large part by significant declines in San Francisco and Alameda County.
San Francisco shed 26.6% of its hospitalized Covid-19 patients since this time last week, down to 77 in the most recent update Saturday.
In Alameda County, there were 163 patients confirmed to have Covid-19 on Saturday — the second-most in the region, behind Santa Clara County, but a 17.6% decrease from a week ago. Statewide, hospitalizations have fallen by nearly 800 patients, or about 11.5%, in the past week. Since its peak July 21, the number of hospital patients has fallen 21%.
Politico, August 10, 2020
California Public Health Director Sonia Angell resigned Sunday evening without explanation, an abrupt departure that came amid a major data glitch affecting hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 test records, which has hampered counties' response to the virus. Her resignation follows a tumultuous week for state health officials. The two top state leaders managing the pandemic — Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly and Gov. Newsom — may have been left in the dark about the test problems despite Angell's department knowing about them.
Mercury News, August 10, 2020
Gov. Newsom on Monday plans to appoint Sandra Shewry, an executive at the nonprofit California Health Care Foundation, to replace Angell as acting director of the Department of Public Health, Health and Human Services Agency spokeswoman Kate Folmar wrote in an email to reporters. Dr. Erica Pan, whom Newsom appointed state epidemiologist in June, will become the acting state public health officer.
LA Times, August 9, 2020
Los Angeles County public health officials on Sunday reported 1,789 new cases of the coronavirus and 10 related deaths but said the numbers still did not include a pending backlog of lab reports that could cause a spike in new cases. Young residents continue to account for an outsize share of the new cases, officials said. Of the infections recorded Sunday, 35% were among residents 30 to 49, and 69% were among residents under 50, the Department of Public Health said in a news release. Hospitalizations continued to trend downward, with a total of 1,514 confirmed coronavirus patients as of Saturday, compared with 2,017 patients two weeks before.
SF Chronicle, August 8, 2020
The coronavirus is spiking in California’s youth prisons, but the state is not releasing young prisoners for their safety as it has done in adult lockups. Sixty-five cases were reported in the state’s three youth prisons as of last week — about 9% of the population — prompting corrections officials to temporarily halt transfers to the facilities in Stockton and Ventura County.
The rapidly growing outbreak has fueled calls to release some youths early and immediately stop shipping young people to the prisons, which house roughly 800 people up to age 25 found guilty of serious and violent crimes. Many rehabilitative programs and family visits have also been paused, forcing youths in custody to languish and wait out their sentences in greater isolation, advocates said.
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Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2020
Fewer than 47,000 new cases were reported in the U.S. Sunday, while the total number of confirmed cases exceeded five million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Thirteen states—Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Virginia—have higher seven-day averages of new confirmed cases than two-week averages as of Aug. 9, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Johns Hopkins data. That held true for 42 states and Washington, D.C., a month earlier, reflecting a decline in reported cases in many parts of the country.
NPR, August 9, 2020
On Sunday, the U.S. hit 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases — just 17 days after crossing the 4 million mark — as lawmakers and states continue to grapple with how to chart a path back to normal as the pandemic continues to rage on.
But those figures do not offer a full picture of the crisis. A dire prognostication released last week by researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation — one of the leading modelers of the pandemic — projected Covid-19-related deaths in the U.S. roughly doubling to 300,000 by December. The researchers behind the model have said that while cases may have peaked in the hardest-hit states, they don't expect dramatic declines anytime soon. That's because of what one researcher described as a "roller coaster phenomenon," meaning when cases go up, individuals wear masks and take precautions, but when cases go down, they ease up, allowing cases to rise again.
Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2020
Black, Latino and Native American populations are among the hardest hit by Covid-19, according to the CDC. Black people account for a fifth of coronavirus cases and Latinos for nearly a third, according to the CDC data, though they represent about 13% and 19% of the U.S. population respectively. Meantime, Native Americans are hospitalized at a rate 5.3 times more than whites after adjusting for age, while Black and Latino people are hospitalized more than 4.5 times than whites.
Among the big factors behind the disproportionate impact, said Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, many community members work in essential jobs like farming, food processing and construction that can’t be done remotely or by social distancing. Cases are also more likely to spread because sizable numbers live relatively close to each other, if not in the same house or apartment.
Associated Press, August 10, 2020
President Trump announced an executive order Saturday that extends additional unemployment payments of $400 a week to help cushion the economic fallout of the pandemic. Congress had approved payments of $600 a week at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak, but those benefits expired Aug. 1 and Congress has been unable to agree on an extension. Under Trump’s plan, the $400 a week requires a state to commit to providing $100. Many states are already facing budget crunches caused by the pandemic.
Kaiser Health News, August 10, 2020
The federal government has not established any enforceable rules either to protect farmworkers from the coronavirus or to instruct employers what to do when their workers get sick.
Nationally, there have been at least 3,600 cases of farmworkers testing positive for Covid-19.
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EdSource, August 7, 2020
On Friday, Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s secretary of Health and Human Services, noted that California expects to fix its statewide Covid-19 data tracking system within 48 hours. In the meantime, the state has frozen its county “monitoring list” that determines whether businesses and schools can reopen, the state’s top health official said Friday. Many counties have been waiting for the state to correct its data so their public health departments can make decisions about whether to approve elementary school waivers. Based on state guidance, no public or private school can receive a waiver for in-person instruction if its county is on the state’s monitoring list.
LA Times, August 7, 2020
As California colleges and universities reopen this fall they must adhere to strict limits on in-person classes and greatly restrict dorm and campus life, state public health officials said Friday in long-awaited guidance for how campuses can operate amid a surge in Covid-19 cases.
State officials said campuses also would need to demonstrate a plan for safe distancing, a priority on single-occupancy dorm rooms, availability of takeout meals, the closure of nonessential shared spaces such as lounges and Covid-19 prevention training.
SF Chronicle, August 7, 2020
More than 300 graduate students have signed an open letter to the university president and other top officials calling for periodic testing throughout the semester and isolation options for students awaiting test results. While the university has a specific testing and quarantining plan for when undergraduates return to campus, graduate students say there is no uniformity in plans for them.
Mercury News, August 9, 2020
Many universities across the country are still figuring out if and how they’ll be able to reopen this fall, even as the start of the academic year looms, and thousands of Bay Area students are stuck in limbo until they do. “I almost feel like a lot of (the universities) were trying to push off the decision making,” USC junior Nolan Jimenez said. He’s decided it’s safer to stay home and take online classes this year rather than worry about possible outbreaks and what the school will do to protect him.
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Associated Press, August 10, 2020
As they plan or contemplate reopening this fall, schools around the country face aging air conditioning, heating and circulation systems that don’t work well or at all because maintenance and replacement were deferred due to tight budgets. Concerns about school infrastructure are adding momentum to plans in some districts, even in colder climates, to take classes outdoors for the sake of student and teacher health. Nationwide, an estimated 41% of school districts need to update or replace their heating, ventilation and cooling systems in at least half their schools.
Washington Post, August 9, 2020
Plans are changing so fast that students and parents can hardly keep up. Districts that spent all summer planning hybrid systems, in which children would be in school part of the week, ditched them as cases surged. Universities changed their teaching models, their start dates and their rules for housing, all with scant notice.
Associated Press, August 9, 2020
As the new academic year arrives, school systems across the United States are struggling to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. Roman Catholic educators have an extra challenge — trying to forestall a relentless wave of closures of their schools that has no end in sight. Already this year, financial and enrollment problems aggravated by the pandemic have forced the permanent closure of more than 140 Catholic schools nationwide.
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Atlanta Constitution Journal, August 8, 2020
The high school that became infamous for hallways crowded with unmasked students will retreat online for at least a couple days this week after revealing that a half-dozen students and three staffers were diagnosed with Covid-19.
Bleacher Report, August 10, 2020
The Big Ten and Pac-12 have reportedly decided to cancel their 2020 football seasons and are set to announce the news Tuesday, according to Dan Patrick.
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San Diego Woman to Turn 100 After Surviving Covid-19 |
A San Diego woman is celebrating two major milestones: her 100th birthday and beating Covid-19. Elinor Lamade is among San Diego's oldest coronavirus survivors. Her daughter Sarah Lamade said the secret is all in her mother's attitude.
“As far as I was concerned, I would be a survivor. And damn it, I was too,” said Elinor on Wednesday, two days ahead of her 100th birthday.
Elinor first came to San Diego as a Naval officer's wife during World War II. Decades later she returned to support her daughter's successful battle with breast cancer.
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In April, Elinor and her family were surprised when she tested positive for COVID-19.
Immediately she was moved to the assisted living center's isolation floor. Sarah Lamade worried as her mother has a lung condition, but Elinor was asymptomatic.
“The lung condition makes her subject to pneumonia and that was another reason why I was concerned because of the damage COVID does to the lungs,” said Sarah Lamade.
After spending time in isolation Elinor then tested negative twice and now is considered a COVID-19 survivor.
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MedicalXpress, August 10, 2020
As the world continues to closely monitor the newest coronavirus outbreak, the government of South Korea has been able to keep the disease under control without paralyzing the national health and economic systems. In a new research article published in the American Review of Public Administration, University of Colorado Denver researcher Jongeun You reviewed South Korea's public health policy to learn how the country managed coronavirus from January through April 2020. The critical factors in South Korea's public health administration and management that led to success include national infectious disease plans, collaboration with the private sector, stringent contact tracing, an adaptive health care system, and government-driven communication.
NPR, August 10, 2020
New Zealand has now gone 101 days without any community transmission of the coronavirus, and life in the country has largely returned to normal – an experience far different from the havoc that the virus is causing elsewhere in the world. "Achieving 100 days without community transmission is a significant milestone, however, as we all know, we can't afford to be complacent," Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand's director-general of health, said in a statement Sunday.
Bloomberg, August 10, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing India’s children out of school and into farms and factories to work, worsening a child-labor problem that was already one of the most dire in the world. It’s difficult to quantify the number of children affected since the pandemic erupted, but civil society groups are rescuing more of them from forced labor and warn that many others are being compelled to work in cities because of the migrant labor shortage there.
NY Times, August 10, 2020
Mexico is battling one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world, with more than 52,000 confirmed deaths, the third-highest toll of the pandemic. And its struggle has been made even harder by a pervasive phenomenon: a deeply rooted fear of hospitals. As the pandemic crushes an already weak health care system, with bodies piling up in refrigerated trucks, many Mexicans see the Covid ward as a place where only death awaits — to be avoided at all cost. The consequences, doctors, nurses and health ministers say, are severe. Mexicans are waiting to seek medical care until their cases are so bad that doctors can do little to help them.
Washington Post, August 10, 2020
It was Jan. 13, and Chuang Yin-ching, an infectious-disease specialist with the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, was sitting in a conference room in Wuhan, China, listening to local health officials describe a mysterious new virus.
Chinese health officials had linked the outbreak to a seafood market in Wuhan, and claimed it was not spreading between people. Now the local officials were describing clusters of cases that seemed to suggest human-to-human transmission — but were hesitant to say so. By the time Chuang returned to Taiwan two days later, he was convinced that China was hiding critical information. The next day, he held a news conference to warn the world. Taiwan took immediate action. The United States did not. Taiwan was able to stop the coronavirus in its tracks, while the United States was overrun.
BBC, August 9, 2020
Brazil has recorded more than 100,000 deaths linked to Covid-19, the world's second-highest figure, as the outbreak in the country shows no sign of easing.
The virus killed 50,000 people in three months, but that number doubled in just 50 days. There have been more than three million confirmed cases so far. The pandemic is yet to peak but shops and restaurants have already reopened.
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Michael T. Osterholm and Neel Kashkari, NY Times, August 7, 2020
In just weeks we could almost stop the viral fire that has swept across this country over the past six months and continues to rage out of control. It will require sacrifice but save many thousands of lives.
We believe the choice is clear. We can continue to allow the coronavirus to spread rapidly throughout the country or we can commit to a more restrictive lockdown, state by state, for up to six weeks to crush the spread of the virus to less than one new case per 100,000 people per day. That’s the point at which we will be able to limit the increase in new cases through aggressive public health measures, just as other countries have done. But we’re a long way from there right now.
CalMatters, August 10, 2002
While Republicans and Democrats disagree whether President Trump’s executive order for $400-a-week enhanced unemployment benefits will work, pressure mounts for both parties to act. Without an expired federal $600 weekly boost, unemployed Californians are living on the brink by making candy and emptying out their 401(k)s.
New York Times, August 9, 2020
Radhika Kumar goes to work every morning hoping to save lives. As a contact tracer for Los Angeles County, her job, at least on paper, entails phoning people who have tested positive for the coronavirus, along with others they may have exposed, and providing them with guidance on how to isolate so as not to infect others. If that sounds easy, it is not. To convince people to cooperate, she has to get them to trust her. She has to convince them that they might be infected, even if they have no symptoms. “Oh yes,” she’ll say, “I’ve been hearing that a lot.” She has to let people curse at her and hang up, then she has to call them back the very next day. And if she wants them to heed her advice, she has to listen, really listen, to how scared they are that if they stay home from their jobs, they might not be able to feed their families.
NY Times, August 9, 2020
The last time the economy went over the cliff’s edge, in 2008, the federal government encased the banking system in plastic Bubble Wrap and allowed millions of Americans to lose their homes. It’s about to make the same mistake all over again.
As the coronavirus spread around the country in the spring, federal policymakers and authorities in many states announced temporary bans on evictions, part of a broader effort to weather the pandemic by suspending economic activity. The federal government also expanded unemployment benefits for people who lost jobs, providing many with the means to keep paying the mortgage or rent. But the federal aid ended last month. More than 20 percent of households say that they don’t expect to be able to make their next monthly rent or mortgage payment, according to a Census Bureau survey. Some eviction bans have ended, and others will end soon. Americans once again are beginning to lose their homes.
Washington Post, August 8, 2020
If the administration’s initial response to the coronavirus was denial, its failure to control the pandemic since then was driven by dysfunction and resulted in a lost summer, according to the portrait that emerges from interviews with 41 senior administration officials and other people directly involved in or briefed on the response efforts. Many of them spoke only on the condition of anonymity to reveal confidential discussions or to offer candid assessments without retribution.
Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology, Rolling Stone, August 6, 2020
In a single season, civilization has been brought low by a microscopic parasite 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. Covid-19 attacks our physical bodies, but also the cultural foundations of our lives, the toolbox of community and connectivity that is for the human what claws and teeth represent to the tiger.
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Over the last two weeks, Alameda County officials have confirmed 2,828 new cases, which amounts to 172 cases per 100,000 residents. The number of confirmed infections is doubling every 34.5 days. This data may be inaccurate due to technical issues with state data system. |
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Over the last two weeks, Contra Costa County officials have confirmed 2,107 new cases, which amounts to 186 cases per 100,000 residents. The number of confirmed infections is doubling every 29.9 days. This data may inaccurate due to technical issues with state data system. |
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Alameda County, cases as of 8/9/20
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Oakland: 5,232
Hayward: 1,854
Fremont: 817
Eden MAC: 778
San Leandro: 661
Livermore: 583
Union City: 418
Castro Valley: 364
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Contra Costa County, cases as of 8/10/20
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Richmond: 1,940
Antioch: 1,184
Concord: 1,108
Pittsburgh: 933
San Pablo: 830
Bay Point: 438
Walnut Creek: 408
Brentwood: 381
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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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Gordon Galvan, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Eden Health District, announced yesterday that the District has launched a public education campaign to encourage the use of masks and face coverings in public to counter the spread of the coronavirus.
Working in collaboration with the Alameda County Public Health Department and the Cities of Hayward and San Leandro, the District has printed “Mask On” posters for each city and community in the Eden Health District area. The posters are free and intended for businesses, health clinics, schools, churches, public agencies and nonprofit organizations to display in their entrances.
Posters may be retrieved during business hours from the lobby of the Eden Health District office building located at 20400 Lake Chabot Road, Castro Valley. The public is also welcome to download and print or share “Mask On” posters from the District’s website. Posters are available in English, Spanish and Chinese languages.
“Wearing a mask is the easiest and most effective way for individuals and families to prevent transmission of Covid-19 in public settings,” said Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan. “As the virus continues to spread throughout Alameda County, I implore all residents to take this simple yet essential precaution to help keep our communities safe.”
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Eden Health District Director Mariellen Faria and Hayward Chamber of Commerce CEO Kim Huggett |
Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan |
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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 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, education 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.
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