Eden Health District COVID-19 Bulletin
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"The virus favors gatherings. It does not distinguish between happy events like a wedding celebration, or sad farewells, like a funeral."
Maine CDC Director Dr. Nirav D. Shah, 9/16/20
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Latino leaders shift Carnaval San Francisco focus to coronavirus community aid |
As the Covid-19 pandemic continually forces Latino heritage celebrations to be canceled, Carnaval San Francisco organizers are turning their attention to addressing the crisis which is disproportionately plaguing the community.
“We took the whole infrastructure of Carnaval and turned it into Covid response,” said Roberto Hernandez, the Executive Producer of Carnaval San Francisco and a Mission District community leader. “Not like other organizations that just shut down, we made a conscious decision that we needed to respond to this crisis.”
In May, Hernandez gathered with other community groups to form the Covid-19 Latino task force, which set up the Mission Hub at 701 Alabama St. in the Mission at the Mission Language Vocational School.
At first, it was a makeshift food bank in the heart of the Latino community. Volunteers handed out a week’s worth of culturally appropriate food once a week. But now it has grown a lot. San Francisco is only 15 percent Latino but 51 percent of those testing positive are Latino, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Officials said many are frontline workers who live in crowded home environments, often multigenerational.
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“We had to expand because the lines kept growing and the need kept growing,” Hernandez said. “We started off with 500 people in May and now here we are in September. It’s seven-thousand-plus families we are providing food for every week.”
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Alameda County: 20,097
Contra Costa County: 15,489
Bay Area: 95,839
California: 768,595
U.S.: 6,607,955
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Alameda County: 356
Contra Costa County: 194
Bay Area: 1,351
California: 14,615
U.S.: 196,254
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East Bay Times, September 16, 2020
In the latest update Tuesday, Sept. 15, four of the nine counties that make up the Bay Area had advanced from the first tier, indicating “widespread” transmission, into the second tier, or “substantial” transmission: San Francisco, Marin, Napa and Santa Clara. Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Solano and Sonoma counties remain in Tier 1, along with the majority of California’s population.
While the state updates its tiers every Tuesday, with data delayed by about two weeks, we’re tracking the progress of all nine counties in the Bay Area in real-time. According to our data, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties meet both Tier 2 thresholds, while Napa‘s case rate has risen back above the cut off. San Mateo and Solano counties have positivity rates eligible for Tier 2 but their case rates remain too high, while Alameda is in the opposite situation. Sonoma is the only Bay Area county not meeting either measure, according to our data.
East Bay Resources
Both Alameda and Contra Costa counties report that the turnaround time for test results from community testing centers has improved substantially. The turnaround time is now down to two to four days.
See below for details on the reopening and case status of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and Cities.
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East Bay Times, September 15, 2020
Alameda County on Monday became the first in the Bay Area to pass the 20,000-case threshold, though Santa Clara County was on its heels with 19,613 and counting. Alameda County, with especially concentrated outbreaks in East Oakland, has reported the highest number of cases (20,002) and deaths (332) in the region, though it ranks ninth in each statewide. However, the number of deaths in the Bay Area remains lower than most of California. Over the course of the pandemic, there have been about 16.5 deaths from the virus for every 100,000 Bay Area residents, compared to a statewide rate of about 36.6 per 100,000.
East Bay Times, September 16, 2020
By aligning its health order with the state’s reopening blueprint, Contra Costa County will allow more businesses to open up this week, according to county health officials. Starting [today], the county’s new rules will allow personal care services that entail close contact with people’s faces to operate outdoors, except for those that do tattoos, piercings and nonmedical electrolysis. Racetracks and cardrooms will be able to operate outdoors, too.
Music, television and film production can begin again, as well as professional sports without a live audience. Contra Costa County still falls within the “purple tier” of the state’s reopening plan, meaning that COVID-19 remains widespread.
SF Chronicle, September 15, 2020
Marin County got the green light Tuesday to move from the state’s purple tier to red, and is moving forward with some of the Bay Area’s most expansive reopening plans for businesses. After getting bumped up to the second-worst label among the state’s four-color-tiered reopening framework, Marin County is immediately opening indoor fitness, movies, personal care, restaurants and places of worship on a limited scale and expanding indoor retail and malls from 25% to 50% capacity.
San Francisco and Santa Clara County have already been in the red — indicating “substantial” spread of the coronavirus — but they have chosen not to include movie theaters or restaurants in their reopening plans.
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Associated Press, September 16, 2020
A detailed look at Covid-19 deaths in U.S. kids and young adults released Tuesday shows they mirror patterns seen in older patients. The report examined 121 deaths of those younger than 21, as of the end of July. Like older adults, many of them had one or more medical condition — like lung problems, including asthma, obesity, heart problems or developmental conditions. Deaths were also more common among those in certain racial and ethnic groups. The CDC found 54 were Hispanic, 35 were Black, and 17 were white, even though overall there are far more white Americans than Black and Hispanic.
Bloomberg, September 16, 2020
Top U.S. health officials offered conflicting estimates Wednesday of when Americans should expect coronavirus vaccines to be widely available, with one saying in an interview that every American should be able to get a shot by the end of March. That timetable, offered by Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, is more ambitious than those of drug company executives, most public health experts and some other top U.S. health officials.
CDC Director Robert Redfield, was less optimistic than Mango, in Senate testimony given Wednesday. “If you’re asking me when is it going to be available to the American public,” Redfield said at a Senate hearing, “I think we’re probably looking at late second quarter, third quarter 2021,” which would suggest some time in late spring or summer of next year.
Bloomberg, September 16, 2020
Symptoms that prompted the University of Oxford and partner AstraZeneca Plc to pause trials evaluating their experimental coronavirus vaccine probably weren’t related to the shot itself, according to documents sent to participants. Safety reviews were carried out when participants in the Oxford study developed unexplained neurological symptoms including limb weakness or “changed sensation,” a participant information sheet posted online by Oxford shows.
“After independent review, these illnesses were either considered unlikely to be associated with the vaccine or there was insufficient evidence to say for certain that the illnesses were or were not related to the vaccine,” the letter reads. “In each of these cases, after considering the information, the independent reviewers recommended that vaccinations should continue.”
Nature, September 16, 2020
The U.S. leads the world in Covid-19 deaths but lags behind many countries — both large and small — in testing capacity. That could soon change. At the end of August, the FDA granted emergency-use approval to a new credit-card-sized testing device for the coronavirus that costs $5, gives results in 15 minutes and doesn’t require a laboratory or a machine for processing. The U.S. is spending $760 million on 150 million of these tests from health-care company Abbott Laboratories, headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, which plans to ramp up production to 50 million per month in October.
The tests detect specific proteins — known as antigens — on the surface of the virus, and can identify people who are at the peak of infection, when virus levels in the body are likely to be high. Proponents argue that this could be a game changer. Antigen tests could help to keep the pandemic at bay, because they can be rolled out in vast numbers and can spot those who are at greatest risk of spreading the disease. These tests are also a key element in the testing strategies of other countries, such as India and Italy.
Antigen assays are much faster and cheaper than the gold-standard tests that detect viral RNA using a technique called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). But antigen tests aren’t as sensitive as the PCR tests, which can pick up minuscule amounts of the coronavirus.
Washington Post, September 16, 2020
Beyond the staggering U.S. deaths caused directly by the novel coronavirus, more than 134,200 people have died from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia since March. That is 13,200 more U.S. deaths caused by dementia than expected, compared with previous years, according to an analysis of federal data by The Washington Post.
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CalMatters, September 16, 2020
Amid record-breaking fires, apocalyptic orange skies and smoke-choked air, Californians finally have a bright spot of news: Coronavirus positivity rates statewide fell to an all-time low of 3.6% over the past 14 days and 3.3% over the past week.
As a result, travelers from California no longer have to quarantine for two weeks upon arriving in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut, the three states announced Tuesday. The welcoming news comes as hospitalizations and intensive-care admissions have fallen 61% and 56%, respectively, from their peak in mid-July, CalMatters’ tracker shows. It also comes as eight counties showed enough progress in containing the virus to move from the state’s purple tier to the red tier since the new system governing business and school reopenings was introduced three weeks ago, California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said Tuesday.
LA Times, September 15, 2020
LA Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Tuesday warned that lifting restrictions before getting an accurate picture on infection rates following the Labor Day holiday weekend could prove detrimental. “It would be foolish to start reopenings now, only to have to close down because our numbers are moving in the wrong direction,” said Ferrer at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting. She was addressing questions from supervisors and the public regarding the ongoing closures of indoor malls and other businesses that, under state guidelines, are allowed to reopen with restrictions. The increasing pressure to reopen comes amid signs that the pandemic is in retreat. But the county has yet to show enough progress to lift most restrictions.
Mercury News, September 16, 2020
California unemployment claims are at “startlingly high” levels and the brutal trends in jobless filings point to a “mixed” recovery for the state’s suddenly wobbly economy amid the coronavirus, a report Tuesday from University of California researchers has found. Jobless claims have remained at high levels in California, and have even been increasing in recent weeks, which suggests that the statewide job market is bouncing back unevenly from the effects of business shutdowns ordered by state and local government officials to combat the coronavirus, the California Policy Lab reported.
SF Chronicle, September 15, 2020
Californians who were laid off after shelter-in-place orders took effect in mid-March and haven’t worked since then have already begun to exhaust their first 26 weeks of regular state unemployment benefits. Millions more will run out in the weeks ahead. The good news is that most of these people will be automatically transitioned to a federal program known as Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, or PEUC, which provides up to 13 additional weeks of benefits through the end of this year. When PEUC ends, they could transition to another round of benefits known as Fed-Ed, which could last up to 20 additional weeks.
Mercury News, September 16, 2020
With Halloween just six weeks away, children and parents who are already planning their costumes and their candy-collecting routes should instead gear up for an unusual, quieter holiday, a top state health official said Tuesday.
The coronavirus pandemic means this Oct. 31 will “be quite a different Halloween,” said California Health and Human Services Director Dr. Mark Ghaly during his weekly media briefing — though he stopped short of explaining what exactly that means.
It was not clear whether health officials plan to prohibit trick-or-treating or allow it with mask-wearing and social distancing. In the coming weeks, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom will clarify rules for Halloween statewide, Ghaly said.
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Associated Press, September 16, 2020
The federal government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for Covid-19 available for free to all Americans, assuming a safe and effective shot is established and widely accepted, although polls show skepticism remains across the country.
In a report to Congress and an accompanying “playbook” for states and localities, federal health agencies and the Defense Department sketched out complex plans for a vaccination campaign to begin gradually in January or even later this year, eventually ramping up to reach any American who wants a shot. The Pentagon is involved with the distribution of vaccines, but civilian health workers would be the ones giving shots.
Among the highlights of the plan:
· For most vaccines, people will need two doses, 21 to 28 days apart. Double-dose vaccines will have to come from the same drugmaker. There could be several vaccines from different manufacturers approved and available.
· Vaccination of the U.S. population won’t be a sprint but a marathon. Initially there may be a limited supply of vaccines, and the focus will be on protecting health workers, other essential employees, and people in vulnerable groups. A second and third phase would expand vaccination to the entire population.
· The vaccine itself will be free of charge, thanks to billions of dollars in taxpayer funding approved by Congress and allocated by the Trump administration.
NPR, September 16, 2020
Juan Quezada doesn't know anyone who has gotten Covid-19, but the pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of his life. "I am just draining my savings — draining and draining and draining," he tells NPR. "I have to sell my car. Uber is a luxury." Mostly, he now bikes or rides the bus to his part-time job.
Quezada is one of hundreds of people who responded in a newly published poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Among other things, the poll, which surveyed people from July 1 to Aug. 3, found that a whopping 71% of Latino households in Los Angeles have experienced serious financial problems during the pandemic, compared with 52% of Black households there and 37% of whites. Many are burning through their savings and are having a hard time paying for necessities such as food.
Bloomberg, September 15, 2020
New York City officials know Covid-19 cases will climb this fall. The question they are watching as the city moves to reopen is, just how much? In interviews, experts from two academic groups working with New York described what’s likely to be a significant increase in cases this fall, but with the opportunity to stop the worst with careful public-health measures like masks and social distancing. That likely means continued social distancing practices, mask-wearing and limited capacity, said Scott Braithwaite, a professor at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine.
CNN, September 16, 2020
A wedding in Maine is linked to 176 Covid-19 cases and the deaths of 7 people who didn't attend the celebration, demonstrating just how easily and quickly the virus can spread at social gatherings, public health experts say.
The wedding held in Millinocket on August 7th had about 65 guests, in violation of the state's 50-person cap for indoor events, Maine CDC said. The event is linked to outbreaks that have unfolded at a nursing home and a jail, both more than 100 miles away from the wedding venue, and among people who had only secondary or tertiary contact with an attendee. Residents at Maplecrest Rehabilitation and Living Center accounted for 39 cases tied to the wedding and six of the seven deaths thus far.
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SF Chronicle, September 15, 2020
Single mom Shashona Holmon couldn’t stop smiling as she dropped off her daughter Brooklynn at the Merced Heights Playground on Monday morning. For the first time in six months, Brooklynn Holmon, 9 — and 800 other San Francisco students — got dressed, pulled on a backpack and left home to learn.
They didn’t go to school. Instead they headed to their first day at a learning hub, a safe space for families struggling without child care since schools shut down in mid-March because of the coronavirus. The hub means Holmon, who lives in public housing, can go back to work.
At the city’s 45 learning hubs at parks, libraries and recreation centers across the city, kids had access Monday to Wi-Fi, academic support, three meals, play time with friends — and something close to normalcy from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. An additional 55 hubs are scheduled to open in the coming weeks, eventually serving up to 3,000 students, with capacity depending on evolving health guidelines.
LA Times, September 15, 2020
Six months after schools closed amid the coronavirus crisis and with online learning in full swing, tens of thousands of students remain without adequate digital access and school districts in LA County report they still need nearly 50,000 computers and Wi-Fi hot spots. The numbers are a stark reminder that technology access continues to pose a significant barrier to distance learning as schools in LA County will not be allowed to fully reopen until at least November.
LA Times, September 15, 2020
The Los Angeles Community College District, the largest in the nation, will remain online-only for the rest of the academic year amid the region’s ongoing coronavirus public health crisis, the system’s chancellor has announced. There will be a few exceptions for classes that support the “essential infrastructure workforce,” such as those training respiratory therapists, certified nurse assistants and electricians, among others.
The decision will affect mainly low-income students and students of color, who make up the majority of community college students in the district and who rely on their campuses not only for academic instruction, but also for food, healthcare, childcare, libraries and other support services. Roughly one-quarter of these students lacked regular access to a computer and internet in the spring, according to a survey administered by the district, and an even larger share said they didn’t have a quiet study space.
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USA Today, September 16, 2020
Principal Shelley’s top goal this year is creating a safe environment so COVID-19 doesn’t spread and parents feel comfortable sending their child back to school at Brooker High School in Florida. To do that, like all principals, she has had to be resourceful. Each hallway in Booker has homemade dividers to keep traffic moving one way, made out of rope strung between PVC pipes mounted in buckets with cement. Shelley got Lowe’s to donate the materials and a team of volunteers and students assembled them and set them up. She solicited donations to buy each teacher a sturdy plexiglass shield, and donors bought the school seven air purifiers, which went to the most at-risk teachers.
Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2020
Teaching outdoors could be a new option for Jocelyn Witherell and the teachers at PS 209, a prekindergarten to second grade school of 270 students, when school doors reopen. For teachers worried about school ventilation, the playgrounds offer a safer option than school buildings. At PS 209, the two main exhaust fans are broken, and none of its bathrooms have windows or ventilation, teachers said. Witherell is among the many New York City teachers pressuring the Department of Education to fix ventilation problems and deliver all the necessary safety supplies before doors open. Their union doesn’t believe schools are ready and warned Monday that it will not send staffers into buildings next week if deemed unsafe.
Axios, September 16, 2020
The Big Ten announced Wednesday that it will resume its football season in October, backed by daily coronavirus testing for all on-field personnel and enhanced cardiac screenings. Much of the pressure to suspend college football had been fueled by concerns about myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle. The condition has been found in at least one-third of Big Ten athletes who have had the virus.
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Covid-19 survivor meets woman who donated plasma |
The coronavirus pandemic has brought together strangers in countless, unexpected ways. For Shanti Minkstein, it was a donation of Covid-19 convalescent plasma made at the Stanford Blood Center and given to Lance Becker, roughly 1,800 miles away in Des Moines, Iowa. The donor and recipient, both Covid-19 survivors, recently met through a virtual meeting set up through the blood center earlier this month.
"I thought you might have been Tom Hanks. I'm not disappointed, but they wouldn't give me your name at first so I'm like 'OK, it's a movie star!'" Minkstein told Becker. (On March 11, Hanks announced his Covid-19 diagnosis.)
The pair described their experiences with the disease. Minkstein said she felt fatigued after a trip to Mexico and later tested positive for Covid-19. The photographer and San Francisco mother of two quickly recovered and made her plasma donation in early April, becoming the second patient to donate convalescent plasma at the center. She was inspired to give after learning her friend's husband had become critically ill from Covid.
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Becker tested positive for the virus after a business trip and was hospitalized on April 1. After receiving Minkstein's convalescent plasma on April 10, Becker's lungs began to clear and he returned home by month's end.
"The fact that the symptoms range from a couple days of discomfort to full blown hospitalization ... it's a gamble if you don't take it seriously," he said. "You're gambling with your life."
Becker's now paying it forward by donating his own plasma.
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NY Times, September 15, 2020
Having abandoned hopes of eradicating the virus or developing a vaccine within weeks, Europeans have largely gone back to work and school, leading lives as normally as possible amid an enduring pandemic that has already killed nearly 215,000 in Europe.
Europeans, for the most part, are putting to use the hard-won lessons from the pandemic’s initial phase: the need to wear masks and practice social distancing, the importance of testing and tracing, the critical advantages of reacting nimbly and locally. All of those measures, tightened or loosened as needed, are intended to prevent the kind of national lockdowns that paralyzed the continent and crippled economies early this year. “It’s not possible to stop the virus,” said Emmanuel André, a leading virologist in Belgium and former spokesman for the government’s Covid-19 task force. “It’s about maintaining equilibrium. And we only have a few tools available to do that.”
Associated Press, September 16, 2020
India’s confirmed coronavirus infections passed 5 million on Wednesday, still soaring and testing the feeble health care system in tens of thousands of impoverished towns and villages. The world’s second-most populous country has added more than 1 million cases this month alone and is expected to become the pandemic’s worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States, where more than 6.6 million people have been infected.
The Guardian, September 16, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has peaked earlier than expected in many African countries, confounding early predictions. Scientists do not yet know why, but one hypothesis is the possibility of people having pre-existing immunity to Covid-19, caused by exposure to other infections.
It was possible that the population had accrued some sort of “herd immunity” at least temporarily, Prof Francesco Checchi, a specialist in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said. While that was “very good news,” Checchi said he was unable to say whether it had been less lethal or less severe on a per capita basis. In many developing countries, where testing is poor and deaths are not notified to the authorities, the rate of reported deaths is very low.
Luciana Zorzoli, Cardiff University, Latino USA, September 14, 2020
Coronavirus has hit the healthcare systems and societies of the global south even harder than the rest of the world due to their already weak economies and high debt levels. Latin America is no exception, and has been particularly affected due to very high infection numbers. With more than 7.9 million cases and more than 300,000 deaths, the region has been described as the world’s worst hit region. That is why, according to the World Bank’s June assessment, the Latin American economy will contract 7.2% in 2020 as a whole.
What’s more, some of the promising, if modest, trends of the last two decades are being reversed by the pandemic. Within this context, younger people are being especially badly hit. School closures are hurting education and, as in many countries, job prospects for them are particularly bad. If the region cannot control the virus and kickstart its economy, we will see the growth of a “lockdown generation,” trapped in unemployment, informal jobs and in-work poverty.
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Megan Molteni, Wired, September 15, 2020
Most people who contract the virus experience a spectrum of less-severe symptoms. As many as one in three never feel sick. But now, evidence is emerging that the virus can cause heart damage even in people who’ve had mild symptoms or none at all, especially if those people exercise while they’re infected. Athletes especially need to heed the warnings.
Strenuous activity while the heart is weakened can cause swelling in the legs, dizziness, shortness of breath, and—in serious cases—irregular heartbeat, cardiac arrest, and sudden death.
USA Today, September 16, 2020
As the virus raced across America, state and local authorities sought help from the CDC, the $7 billion federal agency established to lead the nation through a pandemic like this.
Instead of answers, many received slow, confusing and conflicting information – or no response at all – a USA Today investigation has found. Reporters reviewed 42,000 pages of emails and memos obtained from local health departments and interviewed more than 100 community leaders and public health experts, including current and former CDC officials.
The agency has received widespread scrutiny for yielding to political pressure from the White House. But these interviews and records provide the most extensive look yet at how the CDC, paralyzed by bureaucracy, failed to consistently perform its most basic job: giving local public health authorities the guidance needed to save American lives during a pandemic.
Caitlin Owens, Axios, September 16, 2020
Racial disparities exist at every stage of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report by Epic Health Research Network and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The more we learn about the coronavirus's disproportionate impact on people of color, the clearer it becomes that this is much more than just a health care problem. Non-white Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with the coronavirus, more likely to suffer serious illness, more likely be hospitalized because of the virus, and more likely to die from it, the report found.
The study analyzed Epic's electronic health record data for around 50 million patients across 21 states. Death rates for Black and Hispanic coronavirus patients were more than twice as high as the rate for white patients, and were at least twice as likely to test positive, even though testing rates didn't vary much by race or ethnicity.
Gustavo Arellano, LA Times, September 16, 2020
Standing among barren shelves and empty bins at Pancho’s Mini Market in a barrio near USC, Teresa Gonzalez had a simple message for anyone who still thinks the coronavirus is a joke. “Cuídense,” the 63-year-old said, repeating it thrice. Take care of yourselves.
Sales began to plummet in February as customers lost their jobs. But in mid-July, Covid-19 hit all four of the Gonzalezes. Teresa, Mabel and Camila quickly recovered. But Pancho — who didn’t show any symptoms, until he seemingly had them all at once — spent more than a month in the hospital. A barrel-chested, regal man, the 63-year-old was left so weak that a task as simple as sipping soup with a plastic spoon leaves him exhausted.
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Widespread (Purple)
- 6.0 New Covid-19 positive cases per day per 100,000 residents
- 5.6 Adjusted case rate
- 3.4% Positivity rate
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Contra Costa County Metrics |
Widespread (Purple)
- 7.1 New Covid-19 positive cases per day per 100,000 residents
- 7.1 Adjusted case rate
- 4.7% Positivity rate
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Every county in California is assigned to a tier based on its test positivity and adjusted case rate. At a minimum, counties must remain in a tier for at least 3 weeks before moving forward. Data is reviewed weekly and tiers are updated on Tuesdays.
To move forward, a county must meet the next tier’s criteria for two consecutive weeks. If a county’s metrics worsen for two consecutive weeks, it will be assigned a more restrictive tier.
For Alameda and Contra Costa Counties to move down to the next tier (red), daily new cases (per 100k) must be between 4-7 and positive tests must be between 5-8% for two consecutive weeks.
As of this week, 30 of the state’s counties are in purple (widespread); 17 are in red (substantial); nine are in orange (moderate); and two are in yellow (minimal). The next update, Tuesday, September 22, will be the first time counties are eligible to move between the second, third and fourth tiers because of the three-week minimum at each tier.
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Over the last seven days, Alameda County officials have confirmed 601 new cases, which amounts to 37 cases per 100,000 residents.
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Over the last seven days, Contra Costa County officials have confirmed 777 new cases, which amounts to 69 cases per 100,000 residents. |
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Alameda County, as of 9/15/20. Alameda County does not publish cases per 100,000 in the last 14 days by city.
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Oakland: 7,977
Hayward: 2,880
Fremont: 1,361
Eden MAC: 1,268
San Leandro: 1,095
Livermore: 842
Union City: 725
Castro Valley: 504
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Top 8 Locations of Cases in Contra Costa County plus (in parentheses) cases per 100,000 in last 14 days, as of 9/15/20
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Richmond: 2,990 (201)
Antioch: 2,095 (189)
Concord: 2,049 (179)
Pittsburgh: 1,735 (220)
San Pablo: 1,350 (343)
Bay Point: 822 (459)
Brentwood: 564 (60)
Walnut Creek: 560 (6389
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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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Public Education Covid-19 Flyers |
Contra Costa County Health Services has recently published highly informative flyers addressing the risks of becoming infected in certain settings and activities. |
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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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