Eden Health District COVID-19 Bulletin
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“The beaches are not the problem. The problem is really enclosed activities, with people who you’ve not had a lot of contact with, doing things where you have to take your masks off.”
Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, UCSF epidemiologist, 9/2/20
"We use Labor Day as a way to take the day off, but unfortunately the virus doesn't."
Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, 9/2/20
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Peninsula teen knits hundreds of hats for sick kids |
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Hannah Levine, 17, has been knitting since she was 8, and with ample time to spare during the pandemic, she’s put her needles to good use.
The San Bruno teen has been running Hannah’s Warm Hugs since middle school, knitting hundreds of hats and giving them to sick children in hospitals. In addition to hats, she’s made scarves, flags and sweaters and anything else you can make with a ball of yard and two needles — and she has ramped up production now that she has a pandemic’s worth of time to kill. In addition to making her own pieces, Levine has enlisted friends and relatives — including her grandma who taught her to knit — to kick in with knitted and crocheted items, too.
There are so many bags of hats waiting for new homes that they fill up a pair of living room chairs, forcing her family to find other places to sit down. She’s dropped off the creations at San Mateo Hospital and at Ronald McDonald House in Palo Alto. Because of the quarantine, she doesn’t get to see which heads her hats end up on.
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A high school senior, she says she plans to attend college and medical school somewhere or other and to keep knitting, even when the course load gets more challenging. The more you knit, she said, the less you need to think about it. Maybe someday, she will work in the same hospitals taking care of patients who once wore her hats.
“If you get a hat from a stranger, it’s different than if you get a hat made by someone you know,” she said. “A hat from a stranger says the community is there, right beside you. That you haven’t been forgotten.”
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Alameda County: 18,445
Contra Costa County: 14,035
Bay Area: 86,986
California: 716,986
U.S.: 6,092,175
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Alameda County: 257
Contra Costa County: 179
Bay Area: 1,139
California: 13,172
U.S.: 185,123
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SF Chronicle, September 2, 2020
While overall coronavirus deaths reached a new statewide high, the average number of deaths per day in California declined from 138 the first week of August to 108 the last week of the month. UC Berkeley infectious disease expert John Swartzberg explained, the deaths reflect where infections were a month ago. Most of the Bay Area’s nine counties saw the highest number of deaths in July and August. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties had the highest number of deaths in the Bay Area in August.
Openings at a Glance
In all cases, physical distancing and face coverings are required
Press Release, August 31, 2020
According to new state rules, hair salons and barber shops can now operate indoors in Contra Costa County with safety guidelines in place. Indoor shopping malls may also reopen at 25% maximum occupancy as long as public congregation points and food courts are closed and the mall has approved a COVID-19 safety plan from Contra Costa Health Services. Gyms and fitness centers may begin operating outdoors in accordance with their own state guidelines and checklist.
Mercury News, September 2, 2020
With another heat wave looming this weekend and in anticipation of stir-crazy Californians flocking to the outdoors for Labor Day, some Bay Area communities are closing down favorite coastal haunts to stem the spread of coronavirus. All Santa Cruz County and city beaches will be shut part of the weekend and all day Monday, with similar restrictions expected throughout Monterey Bay. Up in San Mateo County, all Pacifica beaches and lots will likewise be closed.
But beware of the backyard BBQ, experts say. After the state’s surge of cases earlier this summer, including infection clusters linked to Memorial Day and Fourth of July gatherings, epidemiologists worry the beach closures could divert people towards riskier activities like backyard hangouts and indoor gatherings — while keeping Californians stuck in a cycle of back-and-forth shutdowns. That’s not to say that outdoor spaces are risk-free, but the potential for infection is closely linked to social distancing and face coverings: The more people that are crowded together unmasked, the more likely it is for someone to pass along an infection, UCSF's Dr. George Rutherford said.
SF Chronicle, September 1, 2020
In San Francisco, one of nine counties that started on California's second-most restrictive tier, officials unveiled a plan Tuesday for reopening indoor operations at schools, churches and businesses, building upon relaxed restrictions around outdoor personal services and salons that took effect earlier in the morning. Outdoor gyms and fitness centers will be allowed to open Sept. 9. Indoor gyms — restricted to one-on-one personal training sessions or individual gym sessions — are poised to reopen by the end of the month.
Livermore Independent, September 1, 2020
Area Rotary clubs recently worked together to obtain a $96,850 Rotary International Global Grant for Covid-19 response for community healthcare providers in Alameda County. The grant will fund high priority Covid-19 medical equipment for three local community health centers, including Axis Community Health, Asian Health Services and Eden Medical Center.
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Christina Caron, parenting reporter, NY Times, August 31, 2020
How will you know if your child has Covid-19, the flu or a cold? You likely won’t. Because the symptoms of Covid-19 mimic so many other typical childhood illnesses, it’s really hard to tell. “Unfortunately, there is no one very distinguishing feature,” said Eva Cheung, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist and critical care specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center.
The most common Covid-19 symptoms in children are a cough or a fever, or both, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The doctors we spoke with said they’ve often observed fever, diarrhea or congestion in children who have tested positive.
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Dr. James Hamblin, The Atlantic, September 2, 2020
A flood of headlines over the past few weeks stoked many of our worst fears, warning about instances of people getting infected twice. But despite the way much of the coverage has been framed, so far what we’ve learned about reinfection has been largely reassuring. Globally, more than 25 million people have tested positive for the coronavirus, and we know of very few people who have gotten infected twice. In those that have, the immune system seems to be functioning as we would hope: Antibodies and other protective immune mechanisms are apparently identifying the virus and clearing it before it causes serious illness.
Unfortunately, in keeping with immune responses to other respiratory viruses, coronavirus antibodies are unlikely to last more than a couple of years. If an effective vaccine takes years to reach everyone, you potentially could get sick again. The same could happen if the virus mutates substantially, even if you do have effective antibodies. So everyone has a stake in ensuring that a vaccine is carefully developed, justly distributed, and widely used.
Associated Press, September 2, 2020
Dozens of doctors, nurses and health officials interviewed by Kaiser Health News and The Associated Press expressed concern about the country’s readiness to conduct mass vaccinations, as well as frustration with months of inconsistent information from the federal government. The unprecedented pace of vaccine development also has left many Americans skeptical about the safety of COVID-19 immunizations; others simply don’t trust the federal government.
BBC, September 2, 2020
Cheap steroids can save the lives of patients who are critically ill with Covid-19, new studies show. The findings confirm the results of an earlier trial, which has already led to steroids being used widely for Covid patients in intensive care. The new results, published in JAMA, show eight lives would be saved for every 100 patients treated.
Beth Skwarecki, health editor, Lifehacker, August 31, 2020
There’s a stunningly wrong statistic being passed around, saying that the CDC “admitted” that only 6% of documented COVID-19 deaths were actually from the virus. This is wrong. The deaths were all from COVID, and about 95% of them had the coronavirus as the original cause of illness.
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East Bay Times, September 2, 2020
California has officially put its deadliest month from COVID-19 behind it. Now, will it stay that way? September brings with it a fresh slate and a declining death curve, meaning that if the numbers continue trending in this direction, then yes, August will have been California’s deadliest month of the pandemic.
The 80 new fatalities reported Monday, according to data compiled by this news organization, brought the monthly total to 3,796, 21% more than July, which set the previous record. But when the state set the previous monthly mark in July, the curve of deaths was still going up, and cases had not yet begun to decline, either. Now, it appears both metrics — as well as hospitalizations — are on the decline
Associated Press, September 1, 2020
Californians who haven’t paid their rent since March 1 because of the coronavirus can stay in their homes through at least Jan. 31 under a new state law Gov. Newsom signed late late Monday — one day before statewide eviction protections are set to expire. State lawmakers approved a bill that would ban evictions for tenants who did not pay their rent between March 1 and Aug. 31 because of the pandemic. The bill would also ban evictions for those same tenants through Jan. 31, but only if the tenants pay at least 25% of the rent owed during that time. Newsom signed the bill about an hour after lawmakers passed it. In a news release, Newsom called the law “a bridge to a more permanent solution” from the federal government.
Sacramento Bee, September 1, 2020
About 192,000 California residents now receiving unemployment benefits are unlikely to qualify for the extra $300 a week payment that begins next week, according to a study released Tuesday by the independent California Policy Lab. The federally-funded benefit, created by President Donald Trump’s executive action last month, will nearly double the average state jobless benefit for an estimated 3.79 million claimants in California, the lab said. But it won’t be available to people with a weekly benefit of less than $100 under federal guidelines. They tend to be low-wage or part-time workers.
CalMatters, September 1, 2020
California will soon be launching a new coronavirus data reporting system, after glitches in the current system resulted in inaccurate case totals just over a month ago. The new reporting system will be used specifically for Covid data only, and is expected to be up by October.
San Diego Union-Tribune, September 1, 2020
The state’s top health official confirmed Tuesday that all retail establishments, and grocery stores, must comply with occupancy limits reiterated in the new tiered reopening system released this week. San Diego along with San Francisco are the only metropolitan counties in the state to start out in the second (red) tier of the state's new four color code system for re-opening, a designation that allows both stores to serve customers indoors but to use only 50 percent of their total capacities.
Sacramento Bee, September 1, 2020
You need to make sure your ballot is postmarked by Election Day on Nov. 3. Election officials will continue counting ballots they receive that are postmarked by then for up to 17 days after Election Day. The Postal Service in a statement said domestic, non-military voters should allow “at least one week prior to their state’s due date to allow for timely receipt by election officials.” Ballots are considered first-class mail, and though there is a space to put a stamp voters do not have to pay for postage. The Postal Service website says first-class mail is supposed to be delivered in one to three business days, but there’s an ongoing disclaimer on the site that some deliveries may take longer due to the pandemic.
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Kaiser Health News, September 1, 2020
A Covid-19 vaccine could be available earlier than expected if ongoing clinical trials produce overwhelmingly positive results, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, in an interview Tuesday with Kaiser Health News. Although two ongoing clinical trials of 30,000 volunteers are expected to conclude by the end of the year, Fauci said an independent board has the authority to end the trials weeks early if interim results are overwhelmingly positive or negative.
The Data and Safety Monitoring Board could say, “‘The data is so good right now that you can say it’s safe and effective,’” Fauci said. In that case, researchers would have “a moral obligation” to end the trial early and make the active vaccine available to everyone in the study, including those who had been given placebos — and accelerate the process to give the vaccine to millions.
STAT News, September 1, 2020
A new report that aims to prioritize groups to receive Covid-19 vaccine focuses on who is at risk, rather than using job categories or ethnic groups to determine who should be at the front of the line. When Covid-19 vaccines are approved for use, initial supplies will be tight — potentially in the tens of millions of doses. Most of the vaccines under development will require two doses per person: a priming dose followed by a booster either three or four weeks later. A virtual public meeting on the recommendations will be held Wednesday afternoon, and written comments can be submitted until Friday. The committee’s final report will be submitted later in September.
Associated Press, September 2, 2020
The torrid coronavirus summer across the Sun Belt is easing after two disastrous months that brought more than 35,000 deaths. Whether the outbreak will heat up again after Labor Day and the resumption of school and football remains to be seen. Seven of the nine states along the nation’s Southern and Western rim are experiencing drops in three important gauges — new deaths, new cases and the percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus. Alabama is the only state in the region where all three numbers rising; Mississippi’s deaths are up, but positive rates and cases are dropping.
About 68,000 of the U.S. deaths have come since the start of summer, with the number of infections among Americans nearly tripling during the same period. “It’s been a summer of fire, not ice,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-disease expert at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. “If anything, we’ve learned that this virus is even nastier than we thought it was in the spring.” Texas alone amassed more than 10,000 virus deaths in July and August, Florida added over 7,600, and California recorded nearly 7,000.
Des Moines Register, Sept. 1, 2020
White House coronavirus experts warned Iowa leaders Sunday, Aug. 30, that the state has the country's steepest coronavirus outbreak, and the state should close bars in 61 counties and test all returning college students for the virus. The recommended actions are significantly stronger than ones put in place by Gov. Kim Reynolds, who last week ordered bars closed in six counties.
NY Times, September 2, 2020
A worldwide virus-hunting program allowed to expire last year by the Trump administration, just before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, will have a second life. The program, called Predict, searched for dangerous new animal viruses in bat caves, camel pens, wet markets and wildlife-smuggling routes around the globe. The government agency that let Predict die last October has quietly created a $100 million program with a similar purpose as Predict, but it has a different name. The new program, set to begin in October, will be called Stop Spillover.
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Ed Source, September 1, 2020
The Legislature adjourned Monday without having resolved what school districts say is a huge barrier to returning to in-school instruction: legal protection from Covid-19-related lawsuits. School districts were counting on passage of legislation that would shield them from being sued over an alleged transmission of Covid-19 at school as long as schools made reasonable efforts to follow local, state and federal coronavirus health and safety regulations and guidance. It would have placed the burden of proof that the transmission happened at school on the plaintiff, not the district. The California Teachers Association took no position on the bill, since teachers and other district employees who get the coronavirus are separately covered through workers’ compensation, under an executive order that Gov. Newsom signed in May.
KQED, September 1, 2020
Avi Zellman was supposed to be teaching an advanced math class at Bret Harte Middle School this year; it would have been his 12th year teaching in the Oakland Unified School District. Instead, he has a new job: tech support guy. He’d been doing some IT work on top of his teaching duties for years, but now it’s all tech support, all the time.
He spends his days on the phone and on video chats helping staff, students and their families navigate the transition to distance learning. As online school rolls out in Oakland and across much of the country, kids are being forced to contend with the bane of every office worker’s existence: tech issues. And in Oakland, in some cases, it’s teachers like Zellman who’ve been tasked with doing IT.
SF Chronicle, September 1, 2020
San Francisco health officials will require schools to apply for permission to reopen, despite the state’s blessing to reopen classrooms for in-person learning, city officials said Tuesday. First priority will be given to elementary schools in September, with middle schools eligible to reopen in October and high schools in November. Approvals will be granted on a rolling basis. Private and public charter schools are expected to reopen first, providing data on safety and case counts.
Sacramento Bee, September 1, 2020
Teachers around the Sacramento region are returning to the virtual classroom once again, rebooting their laptops and logging onto Zoom or Google Classroom. But just out of their students’ view, often sitting at the same table or within earshot, are more children – their own children.
Nearly 11,000 teachers in Yolo, Placer, Sacramento and El Dorado counties – or roughly 40 percent – have at least one child younger than 16 years old living with them, according to the latest census figures, which cover the period from 2014 through 2018. Most of those children are between the ages of 5 and 15, meaning they’re likely spending their days in online learning settings as their parents teach.
LA Times, September 1, 2020
The University of California must immediately suspend all use of SAT and ACT test scores for admission and scholarship decisions under a preliminary injunction issued by an Alameda County Superior Court judge. Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman said in his Monday ruling that plaintiffs had shown sufficient cause to stop the tests for now because applicants with disabilities had virtually no access to test-taking sites or legally required accommodations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Washington Post, September 1, 2020
Researchers have long found that there is less to homework than many might think; they have found that it has little to no effect on test scores in elementary school and a marginal positive effect in the later grades. That was when kids were in school for classes and went home to do homework. But now, school for millions of students means working at home doing school work all day, because school buildings are closed to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
NY Times, September 2, 2020
After a flurry of late-night negotiations, the mayor reached a deal early Tuesday with unions representing teachers and principals, clearing the path for New York City to become the only major school district in America to welcome children back into classrooms this fall. The city’s 1.1 million schoolchildren will now start both remote and in-person classes on Sept. 21, 10 days later than originally scheduled. The new timeline gives educators more time to prepare for the country’s most closely watched reopening effort, and provides the mayor with a longer runway to pull off one of the most ambitious, and riskiest, city initiatives in decades.
USA Today, September 1, 2020
Almost all colleges offer some online instruction, even if they publicly say their classes are all in person, said Katie Felten of the Davidson College Crisis Initiative, a group tracking colleges’ responses to coronavirus. The fine print may be buried on colleges' websites, and some students said they were blindsided by the details after they signed leases or moved on campus.
Families and students should check the course catalogs, most of which are online, to get a better sense of what to expect, Felten said. But, she said, view that information with skepticism. Some colleges have quickly pivoted their course offerings, and more will follow. Institutions that thought they could open safely are realizing they lacked the resources they need to effectively control the virus’s spread, she said.
Washington Post, September 2, 2020
University of Alabama faculty members were threatened by department leaders Aug. 24 with “serious consequences” if they shared news of coronavirus infections on campus. Arizona State University, which boasts one of the largest student enrollment numbers in the country, divulged its first case count in the past week amid public pressure after the school’s president refused to.
As students file onto campuses across the country for in-person classes, these universities and others tightened transparency wielding one or a combination of two significant federal laws: FERPA, a federal law protecting the privacy of student education records and HIPAA, a federal health privacy rule. But these laws do not apply to withholding overall coronavirus campus data, three legal experts told The Washington Post.
Kyle Whitmire, commentator, AL.com, September 2, 2020
Ahead of the fall semester, Alabama set up a screening program for students before returning to campus. With a lot of fanfare, they announced that less than one percent of students had tested Covid positive. But then students returned to campus and all that changed. Since then, the University of Alabama has had more than 1,000 students test positive for the virus. On Tuesday, Auburn University reported 517 new cases in the last week, more than twice as many as the week before.
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DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh nearly died from Covid-19. FaceTiming with his family kept him alive |
As Mark Mothersbaugh lay in a Cedars-Sinai hospital bed in early June after contracting the novel coronavirus, a ventilator tube snaking into his throat to help him breathe, the Devo cofounder and acclaimed film and TV composer came to believe that he was recovering from a vicious beating in downtown Los Angeles.
“There’s a bookstore I love there where I get stationery supplies, and in my mind I had been there,” Mothersbaugh, 70, said Thursday afternoon, sitting on the patio of the Hollywood Hills home he shares with his wife, Anita Greenspan, and two teenage daughters. “I was convinced for about two weeks that I had been hit by a brick by somebody in Little Tokyo.”
Mothersbaugh’s delusions lasted more than two weeks during his time both on and off the ventilator. In fact, the artist didn’t contract the virus that causes Covid-19 while shopping in Little Tokyo. He caught it shuttling between his house and his Sunset Strip offices and studios in late May. His family was in Palm Springs. After he tested positive, he insisted on isolating by himself.
Three harrowing months later, Mothersbaugh and his family are back together and virus free. His experience, he says, was devastating. It was also unfortunately instructive, as it confirms an argument that he and his groundbreaking band, Devo, have been making for nearly 50 years.
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“Everything’s become more devolved than I would have imagined possible,” he said. “For anybody that’s doubting whether the coronavirus and Covid-19 is real, it’s really real.
Mothersbaugh's wife Anita Greenspan and their daughters kept a constant vigil through video calls. During one crucial moment, Mothersbaugh believes they helped him stay tethered to the present.
His voice turning soft, he remembered “a time where I just felt exhausted. Like, ‘I could just float down this river right now, and it would be really peaceful. It wouldn’t be a freak-out. It wouldn’t be something I’d be scared of. I could really just do that.’ I really thought about it.
“And then it just happened that [Greenspan] called me, and she and the kids were on my phone, saying, ‘You’re getting out of there soon. Get off of that machine.’ I don’t know if everybody is lucky enough to have somebody do that for them.”
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The Hill, September 1, 2020
The United States will not join a global effort led by the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop, manufacture and distribute a vaccine against the coronavirus, the White House said Tuesday. Almost every nation in the world is participating in initial talks on the joint COVAX project involving the WHO, the European Union, Germany, Japan and several major nongovernmental organizations.
Nature, September 1, 2020
Researchers are struggling to tally the true toll of the coronavirus outbreak. Nature gathered figures from several databases maintained by demographers, as well as from trackers run by The Financial Times and The Economist, two of the most comprehensive data sets on excess deaths.
The Nature analysis shows that there are huge variations in excess deaths between countries (see ‘More than expected’). In the United States and Spain — two of the hardest-hit countries so far — about 25% and 35%, respectively, of the excess death toll is not reflected in official COVID-19 death statistics. But in other places, the mismatch is much greater, such as in Peru, where 74% of the excess deaths are not explained by reported COVID-19 deaths. And some countries, such as Bulgaria, have even experienced negative excess deaths during the pandemic so far — meaning that, despite the virus, fewer people have died this year than expected.
Financial Times, August 31, 2020
More than five months after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, the state of cross-border contact tracing across Europe remains deeply fragmented as travel has resumed. With holidaymakers moving across the continent, experts are forecasting another coronavirus peak. Several countries have already seen an uptick in new cases, with many linked to travellers, both domestic and international.
Japan Times, September 2, 2020
The Japanese government is considering offering Covid-19 vaccinations for free to all residents, sources close to the matter said Wednesday. Last week, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government wants to secure vaccines for all citizens by the first half of 2021 as part of a set of measures against the virus, which causes Covid-19. The government is considering prioritizing medical workers, the elderly and people who have underlying illnesses.
Bloomberg, September 1, 2020
Thailand has reported zero locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases for 100 days in a row, joining a small group of places like Taiwan where the pathogen has been virtually eliminated. The Southeast Asian country hasn’t recorded any community transmission since May 26. Authorities are still finding infections among travelers arriving at the tourist hotspot’s borders, but these people are quarantined and only allowed into the community after they’re recovered.
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Sandee LaMotte, medical journalist, CNN, September 2, 2020
Memorial Day came. We celebrated. We burst out of our suffocating homes with a damn-the-torpedoes surge, eager to see the places, family and friends we'd been yearning for during those smothering weeks of isolation.
Then we paid the price. Two or so weeks later, after the virus had incubated, cases of Covid-19 spiked, with 4 million more cumulative cases since Memorial Day. The surge ignited an upward trend we've been battling ever since. Will Labor Day be any different? That, experts say, depends entirely on us.
"I'm worried about Labor Day because people may have the impression that cases are coming down," said epidemiologist Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. "Despite the fact that Covid-19 is now the third leading cause of death, people still doubt that we have a problem. They may think they are out of danger and behave as they did around Memorial Day," said Mokdad.
Dan Walters, political columnist, CalMatters, September 2, 2020
Gov. Newsom won widespread praise for his earliest efforts at preventing spread of the sometimes fatal coronavirus six months ago, ordering widespread shutdowns of consumer businesses such as restaurants and bars. Newsom issued what appeared to be tight guidelines for reopening, but as the economy slowed and hundreds of thousands — later millions — of workers lost their jobs, Newsom felt the political heat and relented, allowing many of the shuttered businesses to reopen, even though infections were still increasing. In early July, Newsom reversed course again, citing alarming increases in infection rates and deaths.
Last week, two months after the second economic crackdown, Newsom announced still another approach, claiming — as he always does — that it’s driven by scientific advice on how best to balance fighting infection and minimizing economic damage. The new system appears to be top-down and rigid, removing much of the wiggle room for local officials. Most of the counties and most of the state’s population are in the high infection category with the most restrictive curbs on economic activities. Counties must remain in their tiers for at least three weeks and can move to less restrictive tiers only if they meet their tighter criteria for two consecutive weeks. If a county’s numbers worsen for two weeks in a row, it will be moved to a more restrictive tier.
Harold Varmus, former director of National Institutes of Health, & Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, NY Times, August 31, 2020
We were startled and dismayed last week to learn that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a perplexing series of statements, had altered its testing guidelines to reduce the testing of asymptomatic people for the coronavirus. These changes by the C.D.C. will undermine efforts to end the pandemic, slow the return to normal economic, educational and social activities, and increase the loss of lives.
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Over the last two weeks, Alameda County officials have confirmed 3,008 new cases, which amounts to 183 cases per 100,000 residents. |
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Over the last two weeks, Contra Costa County officials have confirmed 2,367 new cases, which amounts to 209 cases per 100,000 residents. |
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Alameda County, cases as of 8/27/20
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Oakland: 7,448
Hayward: 2,612
Fremont: 1,230
Eden MAC: 1,155
San Leandro: 1,016
Livermore: 786
Union City: 650
Castro Valley: 473
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Contra Costa County, cases as of 9/1/20
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Richmond: 2,735
Antioch: 1,882
Concord: 1,838
Pittsburgh: 1,564
San Pablo: 1,240
Bay Point: 722
Walnut Creek: 518
Brentwood: 510
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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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Working in collaboration with the Alameda County Public Health Department, the Cities of Hayward and San Leandro, and the Castro Valley and Eden Area Municipal Advisory Councils, 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.
“Wearing masks in public or any gatherings, including events with friends and extended families, is essential for slowing the spread of the virus,” stated Eden Health District Director Pam Russo. “We are seeing signs of progress in California, Alameda County remains a Covid-19 'hot spot' in the Bay Area. Please wear a mask to protect yourself while protecting others.”
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The public is welcome to download and print or share “Mask On” posters from the District’s website. Posters are available in English, Spanish and Chinese languages.
Posters may also be retrieved during business hours from the lobby of the Eden Health District office building located at 20400 Lake Chabot Road, Castro Valley. Posters for the City of Hayward are also available from the Hayward Chamber of Commerce located at 22561 Main Street, Hayward.
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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, unless the day fall on a public holiday.
We welcome your feedback on our bulletin. Please contact editor Stephen Cassidy.
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