Eden Health District COVID-19 Bulletin
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"When we think of a state, our average numbers look better, but we cannot forget that in the middle of the state, the numbers look worse. And unless we focus our attention on the areas where there are high rates of transmission, we are not going to get either the county or the state under control."
Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, chair of UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
7/29/20
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Alameda County:
10,633
Contra Costa County:
7,714
California:
473,787
U.S.:
4,387,414
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Alameda County:
181
Contra Costa County:
109
California:
8,724
U.S.:
149,873
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SF Chronicle, July 28, 2020
On Tuesday, the Bay Area’s nine counties together recorded 50,230 cases in the midst of a statewide surge in infections. The number of fatalities caused by COVID-19 in the Bay Area stood at 784.
Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of Health and Human Services, said during a video conference Tuesday that Black and Latino people have had higher rates of infection and deaths than other groups, and that the case rate is generally climbing among Latinos. The high rate of infection in the Latino community has been of major concern in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco, where Latinos make up 15% of the population but account for 50% of confirmed COVID-19 cases.
East Bay Times, July 29, 2020
The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday that allows city and county officials to cite people who don’t wear masks, fail to keep a distance of at least six feet, gather in large groups or commit other violations, as well as businesses that ignore rules.
The fines will cost an individual $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second one and $500 for each additional one after that within a year that the public health order is in effect. For businesses, a first infraction will run $250, the second one $500 and each one after that $1,000. Before issuing a fine, an enforcement officer can issue a “notice of violation” and give a person or business up to two days to correct the offense.
Editor's Note
: Contra Costa Health Services has also published a helpful guide (below) to evaluating risks of coronavirus infection.
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East Bay Times, July 29, 2020
The speed at which Covid-19 is detected varies greatly in the Bay Area, from an hour to two weeks or more. As cases climb and supplies plummet, the pandemic is revealing a gulf in the Bay Area testing’s landscape: selective academic labs that are technically and logistically agile, returning results quickly, and facilities that rely on commercial labs with rigid supply chain requirements that can cause results to be significantly delayed.
County labs are typically dependent on public or commercial labs with limited flexibility. For Kaiser, urgent cases are processed in house and the results are ready in two or three days. Less urgent cases, which can be sent to other labs, can take nearly two weeks to get results some Kaiser members report.
Berkeleyside, July 28, 2020
Alameda County salons and barbershops are still closed over four months into the Bay Area’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with nail technicians and massage therapists, hair stylists are among the last group excluded from re-opening during the pandemic. On July 20, the state released updated
guidelines
allowing outdoor operations for all salons, and local stylists seemed to be included, but they learned from Alameda County the next day that they were still prohibited from operating.
SFist, July 28, 2020
As part of a study and in an outreach effort aimed at the San Francisco community hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, free testing will be offered two days a week at the 24th Street & Mission BART station. The tests will be offered Wednesdays and Fridays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the next three weeks, starting July 29.
Press Release, July 28, 2020
In partnership with the Brotherhood of Elders Network, the East Bay Community Foundation announced it will serve as home to the
African American Response Circle Fund (AARC
)
. Established in April 2020 through an initial $50,000 contribution in seed funding from foundations and individual donors,
the AARC Fund
is intended to respond to COVID-19 related needs, which has fast become a public health crisis for African Americans who live, work, and worship in Alameda County.
KQED, July 27, 2020
The Oakland Zoo welcomed people back for the first time on Monday, after being closed since March. To visit, guests now must book tickets online, in advance, for a specific time window. The zoo is also capping attendance at 2,500 people per day.
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Covid-19 Medical News
STAT, July 27, 2020
Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes on the heart, raising the specter of long-term damage after people recover, even if their illness was not severe enough to require hospitalization. It is too soon to say if the damage in patients recovering from Covid-19 is transient or permanent, but cardiologists are worried.
One study
examined the cardiac MRIs of 100 people who had recovered from Covid-19 and compared them to heart images from 100 people who were similar but not infected with the virus. Their average age was 49 and two-thirds of the patients had recovered at home. More than two months later, infected patients were more likely to have troubling cardiac signs than people in the control group: 78 patients showed structural changes to their hearts, 76 had evidence of a biomarker signaling cardiac injury typically found after a heart attack, and 60 had signs of inflammation.
The
other study
, which analyzed autopsy results from 39 people who died early in the pandemic and whose average age was 85, found high levels of the virus in the hearts of 24 patients.
The Conversation, July 28, 2020
The evidence clearly shows that all people, regardless of age, can get infected by SARS-CoV-2. While research shows that kids are more resistant to severe illness from the coronavirus, they are still at risk and can spread the virus even if they themselves are not sick.
Washington Post, July 29, 2020
Evidence is growing that young people who work outside the home, or who surged into bars and restaurants when states relaxed shutdowns, are infecting their more vulnerable elders, especially family members. Sooner or later, doctors said, most older people and those with underlying health problems will mix with the younger generation.
Personal Health
KCBS Radio, July 28, 2020
While health officials have been urging us to wear masks to protect those around us, research out of the University of California, San Francisco suggests masks insulate the wearer from the coronavirus more than previously thought. Think of it like an umbrella that can keep you from getting too wet, as this new study suggests masks can keep you from getting too sick. The paper - to be published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine - concludes masks limit the wearer's exposure to the virus and with less exposure, the less sick you're going to get.
Bloomberg News, July 28, 2020
A January 24 flight from Singapore to Hangzhou, China is the most thoroughly documented case of a likely passenger-to-passenger infection of Covid-19 to date. The team in China concluded that one man most likely became infected by fellow passengers after ruling out other possible contacts and noting the timing of when he became ill.
For an hour of the flight, he went to talk with his wife and son, who were in a different row. “While he talked, he reported that he did not wear his mask tightly, and his nose was outside of mask,” the authors wrote. Two people adjacent to him in the same row and two more across the aisle in the row directly behind tested positive for Covid-19, including one was already showing symptoms, the study found.
Consumer Reports, July 24, 2020
In addition to wearing your mask properly at all times, Consumer Reports recommends:
- Bring snacks and cleaning supplies: the TSA allow passengers to bring up to 12 ounces of hand sanitizer. Bring multiple masks, too, in case one gets damaged or soiled.
- Use the restroom before you get on the plane.
- But if you have to use the airplane toilet, keep your mask on and bring your disinfectant wipes with you to wipe down any surface you touch. Follow up by using hand sanitizer.
- Clean your space. Once you’ve settled in, wipe down the area around you—armrest, tray table, window shade, even the air nozzle above you. And when you’ve finished, sanitize your hands.
- Avoid crowding when boarding and deplaning.
- Blast purified air from the air vent above you directly on your face for the entire flight.
Vaccine News
Kaiser Health News, July 29, 2020
Many public health experts are concerned that early evidence that any vaccine works would lead to political pressure from the administration for emergency approval by the FDA. That conflict between science and politics might cause some people to not trust the vaccine and refuse to take it, which would undermine the global campaign to stop the pandemic.
Washington Post, July 29, 2020
With
some coronavirus vaccine trials
in their much-anticipated final stage, U.S. officials and experts are wrestling with one of the most difficult issues facing the country: Who should be first to get limited doses of a vaccine during one of the worst
public health crises
in a century?
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LA Times, July 29, 2020
California has again broken a new record for the most coronavirus-related deaths in a single day, with 167 deaths reported on Tuesday. It’s the third time this month that California has broken a single-day record for deaths and the second time in just a week. The daily average of coronavirus-related deaths over the previous seven days has never been higher, now at 118.
The San Joaquin Valley is one of the regions where pandemic conditions have deteriorated dramatically. In the week-long period that ended on Memorial Day, 42 residents of the San Joaquin Valley died from the coronavirus; in the seven-day period that ended Monday, 105 residents died. The nine-county San Francisco Bay Area has seen its weekly death toll nearly triple in the same time period — from 20 to 57.
However, there are signs that California’s most recent surge in coronavirus cases — while still growing — has started to slow down. On Tuesday, California was recording an average of 9,157 new confirmed cases daily over the past week, a 2% increase from the previous week. That’s a much slower increase than what happened on July 14, when the daily average of new cases over the past week was 8,902, a 20% jump from the previous week.
Politico, July 28, 2020
After the state reopened in May and June, California’s vast Central Valley became the state's biggest problem spot — with some metrics now worse than even Los Angeles. That has prompted new attention and $52 million from Gov. Newsom to fund strike teams and stop disease spread.
It is not just a question of health, but equity. The Central Valley has a disproportionate share of essential blue-collar workers and Latino residents, many working on farms and in factories to provide food for the nation. Latino residents make up 56% of the state's coronavirus cases but 39% of the population, drawing calls from state lawmakers for urgent action.
Associated Press, July 29, 2020
Gov. Newsom is using new powers to withhold money from two cities in California’s Central Valley that are defying his health orders by allowing all businesses to open during the pandemic. Newsom blocked nearly $65,000 from Atwater in Merced County and more than $35,000 from Coalinga in Fresno County, the first installments of $2.5 billion in federal funds that cities and counties across the state risk losing if they don’t toe the line on coronavirus safeguards. The cities lost the first one-sixth of their money but can get the rest if they rescind their resolutions, Office of Emergency Services spokesman Brian Ferguson said.
LA Times, July 28, 2020
With the end of the federal supplement on July 25, state unemployment checks will go back to the weekly average of $340 unless the state or federal government restore supplemental benefits. State lawmakers are weighing whether to provide a supplemental unemployment benefit with the extra $600 per week provided by the federal government expiring this month.
Mercury News, July 28, 2020
The state is requiring labs and health care providers that conduct Covid-19 tests to report data on patients’ race, ethnicity and sexual orientation to the California Department of Public Health. According to Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, a third of positive Covid-19 tests currently don’t come with race and ethnicity data, though available data does show a disproportionate increase in positive cases among the state’s Latino community.
KQED, July 28, 2020
Over 40% of San Francisco's roughly 1,100 child care providers are currently closed. This includes larger centers, often run by companies out of a specific site, and family day cares, which are smaller and typically based in a provider's home. Strict Covid guidelines mean "the majority of the sites in San Francisco are operating at half capacity," as they must adhere to social distancing, smaller group sizes, and fewer children returning out of family choice. Some of these providers won’t open back up again, which is not just a problem for children, families, and the child care industry.
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NY Times, July 29, 2020
More than 150,000 people have died in the United States from the coronavirus,
according to a New York Times database
, as the rate of deaths continues to rise on the heels of ballooning infections and hospitalizations in many areas. An average of about 1,000 virus-related deaths a day have been reported over the past week, the worst rate since early June, when the number of people dying seemed to be falling. Now, daily death counts are rising in 24 states and Puerto Rico.
CNN, July 29, 2020
Despite the grim numbers and stern warnings, some Americans have chosen to return to pre-pandemic habits, ditching guidelines and attending parties. In Jackson, New Jersey, it took police more than five hours Sunday to break up a house party with about 700 guests. Meanwhile in Middletown, New Jersey, a party earlier in July led to a cluster of cases in the area with more than 20 teens testing positive for the virus. The partygoers ranged in age from 15 to 19 years old, officials said. In New York, authorities are investigating a drive-in concert at the Hamptons after footage appeared to show large groups of people not following social distancing guidelines.
USA Today, July 29, 2020
In 20 of 27 states that report positive coronavirus cases by ethnicity, growth among Latinos has outpaced overall growth since Memorial Day. Nationwide, Latinos have been four times as likely as whites to be hospitalized, according to data from the CDC. Government agencies have failed to adequately distribute testing or educational resources to Latino communities. Limited testing meant local officials couldn’t intervene or offer support services designed to slow spread and minimize the economic harms of isolating.
Washington Post, July 28, 2020
The mask is the simplest and among the most effective weapons against the coronavirus in the public health arsenal. Yet from the start, America’s relationship with face coverings has been deeply fraught. Faulty guidance from health authorities, a cultural aversion to masks and a deeply polarized politics have all contributed. So has a president who resisted role modeling the benefits of face coverings, and who belittled those who did. The result, experts say, is a country that squandered one of its best opportunities to beat back the coronavirus pandemic this spring and summer. In the process, the United States fell far behind other nations that skipped the fuss over masks, costing lives and jeopardizing the recovery heading into the fall.
Reuters, July 27, 2020
Deaths in the United States from Covid-19 rose for a third week in a row to more than 6,300 people in the 7 days ended July 26, though the number of new cases fell 2%, dropping for the first time after rising for five weeks. Fifteen states reported weekly increases in deaths for at least two consecutive weeks, according to the Reuters tally of state and county reports. In Texas, more than 1,000 people died in the previous seven days, or 20% of the state’s more than 5,000 total deaths. Deaths are a lagging indicator and can continue to rise weeks after new infections drop.
Associated Press, July 29, 2020
President Trump defended his decision to promote Dr. Stella Immanuel, who pushed hydroxychloroquine as a cure for the coronavirus. “I was very impressed with her and other doctors that stood with her,” Trump said Wednesday before leaving the White House for Texas. Trump lashed out at social media companies for labelling her comments misinformation and removing the video that featured her.
Recode, July 28, 2020
On Monday night, President Trump retweeted multiple accounts that posted a video falsely claiming that hydroxychloroquine cured Covid-19, including one tweet from his son, Donald Trump Jr. Many of those tweets were later removed, and Twitter suspended several of the users behind them, including Trump’s son, for 12 hours.
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SF Chronicle, July 28, 2020
San Francisco students will spend several weeks if not months in distance learning, followed by a limited return to in-person instruction, with no more than a third of the district’s 53,000 school children allowed back on any given day. A 61-page plan was approved unanimously by the city’s school board Tuesday evening after five hours of public feedback, questions and discussion. The plan includes “daily live interactions between students and their teachers,” although that could mean telephone calls, full class video sessions or individual or small group time online. The number of hours of required instruction each day has not yet been decided.
EdSource, July 29, 2020
Four charter school organizations are suing Gov. Newsom charging that the state’s formula for funding K-12 schools during the pandemic will illegally deny payments for additional students in their schools. Their schools are being underfunded by millions of dollars and their students’ constitutional rights are being violated, the lawsuit claims. The schools and parents of their prospective parents called for the courts to immediately force the state to reimburse the schools for newly enrolled students.
Voice of San Diego, July 28, 2020
In March, as it became clear California was on the edge of a wide scale outbreak, no one was very sure what schools should do. Closing schools would be bad for vulnerable students. Not closing schools might be bad for everyone. If schools must close, when is the right moment? School districts were scrambling — and they were getting very little guidance from state officials. Los Angeles and San Diego school officials started a dialogue. Ultimately, both districts decided it would be better to close sooner rather than later. In a vacuum of no clear state guidance, Los Angeles and San Diego discovered they could set the tone.
SF Chronicle, July 28, 2020
As coronavirus numbers continue to rise in California, Bay Area universities are making — and constantly revising — plans for the fall term. Berkeley, Stanford, St. Mary’s College, Santa Clara University, and San Jose and Sonoma state universities are all planning to bring at least some students back to campus, but with a host of new rules and restrictions. In their detail and complexity, they bring to light the practical challenges that come with reopening colleges.
Berkeley’s logistics for new arrivals come after the university decided this month to conduct all classes online in the fall. Students who opt to live on campus will have fewer neighbors. All dorms will be single-occupancy only, restricting the number of students living in university housing to 3,200, a little more than half the typical number.
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NY Times, July 29, 2020
In a new analysis, pediatric researchers have estimated that the states’ decisions to close schools last spring
likely saved tens of thousands of lives from Covid-19
and prevented many more coronavirus infections. Still, the authors acknowledged that their findings are not broadly applicable today. The study,
published Wednesday in JAMA
, focused on a six-week period in the spring, when there were still many unknowns.
“At the time, there wasn’t any masking in schools, there wasn’t physical distancing, there wasn’t an increase in hygiene and that sort of thing,” said Dr. Katherine Auger, an associate professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the lead author of the study.
Axios, July 29, 2020
Children of color have the most to lose if schools remain physically closed in the fall. Their families also have the most to lose if schools reopen.
The child care crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic is horrible for parents regardless of their race or income, but Black and Latino communities are bearing the heaviest burden. Racial inequality is a defining feature of the pandemic, both in terms of its health impact and its economic effect. This is no less true when it comes to education.
USA Today, July 29, 2020
Call it coronavirus déjà vu. After planning ways to reopen campuses this fall, colleges are increasingly changing their minds, dramatically increasing online offerings or canceling in-person classes outright. This sudden shift will be familiar to students whose spring plans were interrupted by the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
Now, Covid-19 cases in much of the country are much higher than in the spring, and rising in many places. In many cases, the colleges had released plans for socially distant in-person classes only a few weeks ago, hoping to beat the coronavirus. “Instead,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall University, “the virus beat us.”
Washington Post, July 29, 2020
As the dates approach for students to arrive on campuses and begin classes, colleges and universities are still figuring out the best way to make that happen. They have issued plans and then changed them in response to a multitude of factors. Residents of college towns fret that the influx of thousands of young adults will further spread the coronavirus.
And even if everyone does everything right, it could still all go wrong. As the schools refine their plans, students wait and wonder. Should they take a gap year? Should they find a different school? Should they stay or should they go?
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Red carpet homecoming for young Covid-19 survivor on brink of death
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A young coronavirus survivor is back home after spending 54 days in the hospital, 22 of which were on a ventilator. Now she's back home, and dancing.
Yuli Diaz spent her 23rd birthday in the hospital fighting Covid-19.
Because she didn't get a celebration, Diaz's family held a party complete with Mariachis, a red carpet, balloons, wine glasses, wine, and, according to her grandpa, tequila. They waited weeks to celebrate, especially after she came eerily close to dying.
Diaz got a severe headache and fever on April 14, according to her mom. Her family says she was admitted to Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois later that month.
Because she's studying to be a X-ray technician, Diaz said she saw "familiar faces" at Loyola. Her medical training, which she hoped to complete in May, gave her some basic medical knowledge as well.
But her family worried she was on the brink of death. "It got to the point where we were allowed to say our farewells. Things got...she doesn't know how bad it got," said Denise Sandoval, Diaz's aunt.
Diaz eventually improved, even celebrating her 23rd birthday in the hospital on June 2.
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"I got a popsicle on my birthday. I was barely starting to be able to eat and they were like, 'What do you want?' I'm like, 'I just want a popsicle, something cold,'" she recalled.Diaz was eventually transferred to rehab, where she learned to walk, drink, eat and talk again. She spent nearly three weeks recovering.
When she was discharged earlier this month, Diaz's family threw a huge party, complete with a parade and tears.
Diaz plans to spend the next few months cautiously recovering, warning that Covid-19 can impact anyone." You really have to take it seriously at any age," she said.
Now she is focused on looking ahead to complete her goals.
"I want to finish school and travel," she said, choking back tears. "And be around my family. I just want to let everyone out there know that you can fight it, you can win it, like me, back out here dancing again."
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Washington Post, July 29, 2020
An unforeseen summer surge of coronavirus cases in countries that had seemingly quelled their outbreaks is helping to drive the unrelenting growth of the global pandemic, undercutting predictions that a "second wave" would not occur until the fall. Japan, Israel, Lebanon and Hong Kong are among dozens of places reporting record numbers of new cases in recent days, many weeks after they had crushed the curve of infections, reopened their economies and moved on.
Agence France-Presse, July 29, 2020
Over half the people living in the slums of Mumbai have had the coronavirus, according to a city-commissioned study that raises fresh doubts about India’s official case numbers.
India is the third-worst hit country after the US and Brazil, with nearly 1.5 million cases, though experts have previously said the lack of testing could mean the true tally is much higher.
Blood tests on 6,936 randomly selected people conducted by Mumbai’s city authorities found that 57% of slum-dwellers and 16% of non-slum residents had virus antibodies, the study released on Tuesday said.
Mumbai, where about 40% of the population lives in slums, has reported just over 110,000 infections and more than 6,000 deaths so far.
Associated Press, July 29, 2020
China reported more than 100 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday as the country continues to battle an outbreak in Xinjiang. Vietnam’s government said Wednesday it is stepping up measures against the coronavirus as the country’s first domestic outbreak in more than three months continues to spread. As Japan battles a surge in coronavirus cases, some areas may be running out of isolation facilities to monitor infected people. South Korea reported 48 additional cases, maintaining an uptick in new infections.
Mexico News Daily, July 28, 2020
A study found that deaths among Mexico City residents between April 19 and June 30 were 161% above their normal level. Even though Mexico City had the largest coronavirus outbreak in that period, the researchers found that Covid-19 was only the fourth most common cause of death between April and June. The infectious disease ranked behind arterial hypertension, diabetes and pneumonia.
But the study said that Covid-19 fatalities have likely been undercounted in Mexico City because the official death toll only includes deceased patients who tested positive for the infectious disease. A growing number of studies have concluded that there have been tens of thousands of deaths in excess of Mexico’s official death toll, which currently stands at 44,022, the fourth highest in the world.
LA Times, July 29, 2020
Public health officials across Europe are sounding the alarm over a resurgence of coronavirus cases as the continent’s countries ease lockdowns and international travel ramps up, with some experts warning that citizens have become too complacent. The increase is marked in countries such as Spain, while Eastern Europe and the Balkans, which were largely spared the worst of the early pandemic, are seeing a steep increase in recorded cases.
Officials said the gradual lifting of restrictions on public life across the continent over the past couple of months had lulled people into a false sense of security. Many are no longer observing strict hygiene rules, wearing masks in public or maintaining social distancing.
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NY Times July 29, 2020
As infections mount across the country, it is dawning on Americans that the epidemic is now unstoppable, and that no corner of the nation will be left untouched. Each state, each city has its own crisis driven by its own risk factors: vacation crowds in one, bars reopened too soon in another, a revolt against masks in a third.
“We are in a worse place than we were in March,” when the virus coursed through New York, said Dr. Leana S. Wen, a former Baltimore health commissioner. “Back then we had one epicenter. Now we have lots.” Not only are American cities in the South and West facing deadly outbreaks like those that struck Northeastern cities in the spring, but rural areas are being hurt, too. In every region, people of color will continue to suffer disproportionately, experts said.
In most states, contact tracing is now moot — there are simply too many cases to track. And while progress has been made on vaccines, none is expected to arrive this winter in time to stave off what many fear will be a new wave of deaths.
Ruben Vives, LA Times, July 28, 2020
As most of California begins a second shutdown over the pandemic, no place has been hit as hard as Imperial County. Imperial County was already at a disadvantage when the pandemic hit. For years, the county led the state with the highest rates of diabetes, heart disease, asthma hospitalizations and obesity, high-risk factors that make people susceptible to catching Covid-19 and become severely ill or die.
But health experts say other factors contributed to the spread of the disease. The county lacked contact tracers. Covid-19 stigma led some residents not to alert others of their infection. Gatherings were also problematic as were residents traveling to and from neighboring counties, including those in Arizona.
Annie Vainshtein, SF Chronicle, July 28, 2020
As reopening has begun, life has become more expansive but in many ways far more complicated and confusing. There are more things to do, but risk is ever present. Put simply, it can be hard to know what to do. In part, experts say, that’s because humans are notoriously bad at assessing their own risk. A variety of psychological biases — ingrained neurological and social patterns — influence our judgment as we assess our risks and try to make logical decisions.
Lisa Ishii, Vox, July 29, 2020
Over the past few months, most US hospitals and health systems have responded by turning to domestic suppliers. They are more reliable given the difficulties with transportation and trade, which have become worse since the pandemic began. But this new domestic strategy has a particular disadvantage: In general, it is much more expensive. And this puts hospitals, and potentially their patients, in financial jeopardy.
Erin Brodwin, STAT, July 28, 2020
Since the outset of the pandemic, vaccine-related falsehoods have ballooned on the platform — and recent research suggests some of those inaccurate posts are gaining traction among people who weren’t previously opposed to vaccinations. Part of the problem appears to be the way Facebook’s algorithms
capitalize on divisive or extremist content
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Alameda County Data
: 2,312 n
ew cases have been recorded over the last 14 days. The number of confirmed infections is currently doubling every 46.1 days.
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Contra Costa County Data
: 2,281 new cases have been recorded over last 14 days. The number of confirmed infections is currently doubling every 26.7 days.
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Alameda County
, cases as of 7/28/20
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Oakland:
4,218
Hayward:
1,536
Eden MAC: 628
Fremont: 584
San Leandro: 551
Livermore:
443
Union City: 324
Castro Valley:
303
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Contra Costa County
, cases as of 7/29/20
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Richmond: 1,595
Antioch: 957
Concord: 890
Pittsburgh:
748
San Pablo: 670
Walnut Creek: 361
Bay Point: 358
Brentwood: 318
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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.
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