Eden Health District COVID-19 Bulletin
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Alameda County:
270
Contra Costa County:
175
California:
6,358
U.S.:
144,672
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Alameda County:
7
Contra Costa County:
3
California:
132
U.S.:
2,575
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The Eden Health District is proud to partner with the
East Bay Community Foundation
to publish this COVID-19 Bulletin for the residents of the Eden Area and East Bay.
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SF Chronicle, March 30, 2020
At least 73 California health care workers have been confirmed to have the virus. Last week San Francisco also saw a string of its own positive cases among people in health care settings, including
an emergency room worker
at San Francisco General Hospital and five nurses, two porters and two residents at
Laguna Honda Hospital
, a massive, city-run nursing home.
SF Chronicle, March 29, 2020
The Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order will be extended to May 1 to curb a still-growing coronavirus pandemic, San Francisco City Hall sources said Sunday evening, with an announcement likely as soon as Monday.
East Bay Times, March 30, 2020
At least 1,400 hotel workers in Northern California have lost jobs or been shoved into indefinite furloughs amid the coronavirus fallout, but these might just be a grim vanguard of further economic reductions.
East Bay Times, March 29, 2020
Sara Cody, Santa Clara County’s Public Health Officer since 2013, is the Bay Area’s Anthony Fauci, the one who banished us from Sharks hockey games, canceled her own daughter’s high school prom — and eventually shut in 6 million Bay Area residents in six neighboring counties to slow the stampede of a deadly pandemic. It’s too early to know whether the extreme measures will make a major difference. The number of infected people and deaths in Santa Clara County and the rest of the Bay Area continue to accelerate at eye-popping rates, as they are across the country, and fears are real that hospitals won’t be able to keep up with a tsunami of patients. Already, the Santa Clara Convention Center is being outfitted as a makeshift hospital ward, just in case.
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LA Times, March 30, 2020
The California death toll from coronavirus has risen to 132, with officials warning of tough weeks ahead as the number of confirmed cases of the virus continues to surge.
Experts say California will likely continue to see a surge in new cases and deaths for the next few weeks but hope that the social distancing measures imposed could slow the spread.
Politico, March 28, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday held up a Silicon Valley manufacturer that instantly switched gears to help avert a shortage of ventilators as a model of California's "innovative spirit" as the state responds to the coronavirus pandemic. The governor spoke as California braces for a surge in serious coronavirus cases that could test the state's hospital capacity limits, even as he acknowledged the state's social isolation orders seem to be bending the curve of disease spread in the state.
SF Chronicle, March 29, 2020
After seeing another surge of visitors at California’s state parks over the weekend, state officials announced Sunday that they are temporarily closing vehicular access to all 280 state parks in hope of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. While trails and bathrooms remain open in most state parks, officials said they would continue to monitor crowds, and if visitors can’t maintain safe distances, they would take additional measures, which could include fully closing parks.
Sacramento Bee, March29, 2020
A review of the data and demographic figures show that Californians in poor, rural areas are far less likely to have stayed put than those in wealthier, urban counties in response to calls to stay home and slow the spread of COVID-19. The data also shows that some regions heavily dependent on tourism — an industry not deemed an “essential service” — have effectively stopped most travel.
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Bloomberg, March 29, 2020
President Donald Trump abruptly abandoned his ambition to return American life to normal by Easter, heeding advice from the government’s top doctors that re-opening the U.S. economy in two weeks risks greater death as the coronavirus outbreak accelerates. In a stark shift from two weeks of measured optimism, the president said his guidelines for Americans to practice “social distancing” would remain in place until at least April 30, and he warned that 100,000 or more people may die.
NPR, March 29, 2020
The nation's leading expert on infectious diseases and member of the White House's coronavirus task force says the pandemic could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans and infect millions. Dr. Anthony Fauci said based on modeling of the current pace of the coronavirus' spread in the U.S., "between 100,000 and 200,000" people may die from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Fauci said the 100,000-to-200,000 death figure is a middle-of-the-road estimate, much lower than worse-case-scenario predictions.
LA Times, March 29, 2020
Sixty church members attended choir practice on March 10, 2020, in small city south of Seattle. Forty-five members now have COVID-19. Experts said the choir outbreak is consistent with a growing body of evidence that the virus can be transmitted through aerosols — particles smaller than 5 micrometers that can float in the air for minutes or longer. Jamie Lloyd-Smith, a UCLA infectious disease researcher, said it’s possible that the forceful breathing action of singing dispersed viral particles in the church room that were widely inhaled.
Washington Post, March 28, 2020
The federal cache has been overwhelmed by
urgent requests for masks
, respirators, goggles, gloves and gowns in the two months since the first U.S. case of COVID-19 was confirmed. Many state officials say they do not understand the standards that determine how much they will receive.
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Reuters, March 30, 2020
Spain overtook China in the number of those infected with coronavirus on Monday, as the government tightened restrictions on a population entering its third week under one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe. The total number of infections rose to 85,195 on Monday, above the 81,470 registered in China where the disease originated. An overnight death toll of 812 people brought fatalities in Spain from the virus to 7,340.
Sacramento Bee, March 30, 2020
The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year's games. Tokyo organizers said Monday the opening ceremony will take place on July 23, 2021 — almost exactly one year after the games were due to start this year.
Associated Press, March 28, 2020
Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has staked out the most deliberately dismissive position of any major world leader, calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary.
The Atlantic, March 26, 2020
On March 24, 2020, filmmaker Olmo Parenti went inside Milan’s Polyclinic, one of the major hospitals fighting the coronavirus pandemic in the country. All 900 beds were occupied with patients suffering from complications of the virus. There were older patients struggling to breathe on ventilators, plus many younger people, too—patients in their 30s and 40s, lying in bed alone “with teary and fearful eyes.”
BBC, March 30, 2020
Streets around the Indian capital Delhi have been filled with people walking to reach their villages in neighboring states. Most of them are daily-wage workers who are now out of work after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a complete lockdown of the country on 24 March to halt the spread of coronavirus. In the absence of money and jobs, they are desperate to reach their villages.
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NY Times, March 29, 2020
Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to build a large fleet of inexpensive portable ventilators to deploy in a flu pandemic. A federal contract was signed. Work got underway. And then things suddenly veered off course. Covidien, a multibillion-dollar maker of medical devices, bought Newport, the small California company that had been hired to design the new machines. The project produced zero ventilators. Government officials and executives at rival ventilator companies said they suspected that Covidien acquired Newport to prevent it from building a cheaper product the would undermine Covidien's profits from its existing ventilator business.
New York Times, March 29, 2020
As the deadly virus spread from China with ferocity across the United States between late January and early March, large-scale testing of people who might have been infected did not happen. The result was a lost month, when the world’s richest country — armed with some of the most highly trained scientists and infectious disease specialists — squandered its best chance of containing the virus’s spread.
The Guardian, March 28, 2020
The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions.
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Knvul Sheikh, Science Reporter, New York Times, March 27, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, experts have started to question official guidance about whether ordinary, healthy people should protect themselves with a regular surgical mask, or even a scarf.
Jeremy Howard, Research Scientist, Washington Post, March 28, 2020
It’s time to make masks a key part of our fight to contain, then defeat, this pandemic. Basic masks can be effective in reducing virus transmission.
Washington Post, March 27, 2020
If you are quarantined at home and no one in your house is infected or showing symptoms, then regular good household hygiene should be sufficient.
Mercury News, March 27, 2020
“Shelter in place” gets a lot more complicated when we start thinking about the many ways we might cross paths with the COVID-19 virus in day-to-day life.
The Athletic, March 27, 2020
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Last weekend a San Leandro nurse
came home from her shift at a local hospital to find this sign placed in her front yard by her neighbors. This is community at its best - the service and dedication of our health care professionals and the kindness and support they receive from their neighbors.
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Support Local Restaurants
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Hospitals throughout the East Area are experiencing, or projecting,
a shortage of medical supplies. They are seeking business and community donations of new items in original packaging of protective masks, protective gowns and protective gear. For more information on what is needed and how to donate visit these links:
Additional lists of SF Bay Area hospitals, neighborhood clinics and hospices accepting donations can be found
here
and
here
. Also a group of SF Bay women have launched a new website
Mask-Match.com
to connect donors with medical facilities that need masks and other protective equipment.
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We Welcome Your Feedback and Please Share
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.
Please contact Barbara Adranly, EHD Clerk, at
badranly@ethd.org
to provide us feedback and stories on the local response to the COVD-19 outbreak that we have missed.
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