COVID-19
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Eden Health District to Participate in Hayward Juneteenth Commemoration This Saturday
Organized by the Black Business Roundtable of the Hayward Chamber of Commerce, with the support of the Hayward South Alameda County Chapter of the NAACP, a Juneteenth Jobs, Wellness and Resource Fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, June 19, at City Hall Plaza, next to the Hayward Farmers Market. The Fair organizers and other sponsors and presenters, including Kaiser Permanente, La Familia and Eden Health District, are teaming up to make up to 300 COVID-19 vaccinations available at the event. Vaccine recipients will receive a $50 gift certificate redeemable for purchases at the Farmers Market. Read more
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La Familia Co-Hosts Pop Up Fruitvale Day Laborer Vaccine Clinic
Partnering with the Street Level Health Project, Homies Empowerment Program, Alameda County Public Health and the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency , La Familia is co-hosting pop up vaccine clinics for day laborers in the Fruitvale district of Oakland. The next pop up clinic will take place on Saturday, June 26, from 7 a.m. -1 p.m. at the Home Depot on Alameda Ave. in Oakland. At the first clinic, 222 community members were vaccinated!
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Reopening Forum for Alameda County Employers and Businesses Owners Set for June 21
The Alameda County Health Care Services Agency is holding an online event on June 21, from 6-7:30 p.m., for employers and business owners who are interested in learning about Cal/OSHA requirements, workplace safety measure recommendations, and what it means to return to usual operation now that the economy is fully reopened. Register
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Alameda County Superior Court Announces the Physical Reopening of All Courthouses
Consistent with Governor Newsom’s “Beyond the Blueprint” plan, the Superior Court of Alameda County (Court) announced Monday that it would reopen all courthouses to the public and restore additional in-person services beginning June 15, 2021.
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Back-To-Work Jitters: Bay Area Grapples With COVID Reopening
As the Bay Area continues its bumpy reopening process, going back to work has rarely been so fraught with anxiety. Will you need to wear a mask? What will team meetings look like? Can you have lunch with co-workers in the breakroom? What should you wear? With COVID cases declining and vaccination rates rising, many people who have been working from home for the last 15 months now face the prospect of an imminent return to the office. And those who have been reporting to essential businesses this whole time, toiling behind facemasks, layers of plexiglass and other safety barriers, may soon see some of those protections change - or even vanish entirely. Mercury News Read more
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80% of San Francisco Residents Have at Least One COVID Vaccine Dose
Mayor London Breed announced Friday that 80% of eligible San Francisco residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with nearly 70% of all San Franciscans fully vaccinated. San Francisco is the first major American city to achieve this milestone, and the City’s vaccination rates are among the highest in the nation and the world, Mayor Breed said. In addition, 90% of all residents 65 and older have received at least one dose. KRON4 Read more
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Stores Adjust to Loosened Mask Requirements Across Bay Area
Now that the state has loosened COVID-19 health and safety protocols, stores are following suit. People are hopeful that life is getting a lot closer to normal. Customers at Costco in Concord feel less restricted shopping in public and more comfortable now that about 70-percent of Contra Costa County residents 12 years of age or older are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, allowing them to ditch the mask. “It feels great. It feels freedom,” customer Sharon Dilley said. KRON4 Read more
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San Francisco to Reopen Cable Cars in August - With a Twist
The sound of cable cars running up and down San Francisco's roller coaster hills hasn't been heard since March 2020, when a shelter-in-place order shut down the city at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The clickety-clack will be back the first week in August. Riders will not be required to pay in August and will be invited to provide feedback on customer service and help operators get used to picking people up and dropping them off again.
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Are Bay Area Restaurants Ready For 100% Indoor Capacity?
It’s the day we have been waiting 15 months for - the opportunity to tear off the masks, step into our favorite neighborhood restaurant dining room or saddle up to the bar and break bread again, no matter the indoor capacity. For thousands of Bay Area food business owners, the return to normal couldn’t come soon enough. They planned for this day, despite a national hiring crisis and skyrocketing supply prices. For others, the new lifted restrictions don’t change much. Mercury News Read more
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U.S. Buys 200 Million Additional Doses of Moderna’s COVID Vaccine
The Biden administration has purchased an additional 200 million doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, the biotech company announced Wednesday. Moderna and the Biden administration say the additional doses could be used to vaccinate children or - if necessary - as a booster shot. Axios Read more
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A Third Dose Of COVID Vaccines May Boost Immunity For Transplant Recipients
A small new study offers a glimmer of hope that giving organ transplant recipients a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine could boost their protection against the coronavirus.
That's important because prior research has shown that nearly half of organ transplant recipients failed to show any antibody response even after two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. And even in transplant recipients who showed an antibody response to vaccination, that response was often more muted than in people with healthy immune systems. NPR Read more
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Coronavirus Vaccine: "We Don’t Even Realize How Lucky We Are" in America
America's COVID-19 vaccine rollout is at 52.6% of the population inoculated with at least one dose and 43.9% considered fully vaccinated, according to CDC data. However, other areas around the world are still lagging far behind. Many countries, particularly in Africa, have administered a paltry number of vaccines compared to their overall populations. “We have a long way to go as a globe,” Dr. Suzanne Judd, an epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, said. “The United States - we don’t even realize how lucky we are here because we’ve had access to the vaccine early on. We basically have people turning the vaccine away. We think the whole world behaves that way, but that’s not the case.” Yahoo Read more
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Maybe We’re Asking Vaccine Skeptics the Wrong Question
Mike Fesi, a Republican state senator in Louisiana, didn’t trust coronavirus vaccines. So earlier this year, when his colleagues seized their chance to get inoculated against the virus, Fesi refused. He figured he didn’t need the vaccines, and he claimed, without evidence, that they had killed a friend of his family. But then Fesi got a nasty surprise: A month ago, he was abruptly vaccinated, and the vaccine made him sick. That’s because the vaccine he got wasn’t Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson. It was COVID-19. So if you haven’t been vaccinated, or if you’re talking to someone who hasn’t been vaccinated, the right question to ask isn’t whether to get vaccinated; it’s which vaccine to take. Would you rather come in, at a time of your choosing, to get a vaccine that’s been carefully tested for safety? Or would you rather be ambushed with a vaccine that has killed millions of people? Slate Read more
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Vaccines Will Be The"Most Important" Economic Policy This Year, IMF Chief Says
Vaccine policy will top all other economic polices this year as the world tries to recover from the coronavirus crisis, International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said. CNBC Read more
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Pediatricians Work to Close Gaps in COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage By Vaccinating Adults
As pediatricians vaccinate newly eligible children and teens against COVID-19, some of them say they are giving just as many shots to adults. Pediatrician Christoph Diasio said he offers the vaccine to most patients and their family members.
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The U.S. Has Hit 600,000 COVID Deaths, More Than Any Other Country
More than 15 months since the first confirmed death due to COVID-19 in the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 600,000 lives across the country. But that trend has slowed from thousands to hundreds per day in recent weeks, thanks largely to the ready availability of vaccines. Worldwide, the U.S. still is reporting the greatest total deaths, followed by Brazil, India and Mexico. The total global death toll stands at 3.8 million. NPR Read more
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Newsom Says Vaccine Verification is Coming in California, But "It's Not a Passport"
As California reopened this week, freeing people fully vaccinated for COVID-19 from most pandemic restrictions, Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled again that the state would soon introduce an electronic vaccination verification program. Such digital health certificates, also referred to as “vaccine passports,” have become a hotly debated issue. Opponents raise privacy and equity concerns, while supporters say the digital certificates will enhance public safety and speed economic recovery.
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As California Reopens, 6 Things You Need to Know About COVID-19
Fifteen months after Californians faced their first COVID-19 stay-at-home order, most mandates were lifted on Tuesday. And what a journey it’s been - just months ago, hospitals were overwhelmed with severely sick people seeking scarce beds.
But while California’s outlook is brighter, COVID-19 remains a very real threat. Even though the state's infection rate and hospitalizations are at an all-time low, the pandemic isn’t over. People are still dying from COVID-19, just at lower rates than six months ago. CalMatters Read more
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Living with COVID-19 - Just Like We Do With Influenza
Even as California throws open its economy, it’s too early to declare victory against COVID-19. Instead, say scientists, we’ll learn to live in an uneasy détente.
The virus is here to stay, yet will pose less danger over time, they predict. While risk remains, it’ll be tolerably low. The virus will join the ranks of other coronaviruses that circulate in humans. We’ll learn to co-exist without lockdowns, masks and social distancing. “We’re going to incorporate COVID-19 into our lives, just like we’ve incorporated influenza into our lives,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology at UC Berkeley.
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To Return to a Post-COVID Normal, We Must Learn to Trust One Another Again
Since the coronavirus invaded our lives 15 months ago, we’ve been on an emotional journey that took us through isolation and despair, anger and grief. Some of us felt envy when others got vaccinated before us, others encountered anxiety as the restrictions that kept us safe for a year were slowly lifted. Now we must confront yet another emotional hurdle: our willingness to trust others. LA Times Read more
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California Offers "Dream Vacation" Prizes to People Who Get Vaccinated
Gov. Gavin Newsom added another lure Monday for Californians debating whether to be vaccinated against COVID-19, with a new incentive program promising vacations to people who step up to get inoculated. State officials will provide six people who get at least one shot with trips to destinations including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Palm Springs.
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Many Post-COVID Patients Are Experiencing New Medical Problems
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought medical care for post-COVID health problems that they had not been diagnosed with before becoming infected with the coronavirus, according to the largest study to date of long-term symptoms in COVID-19 patients. Post-COVID health problems were common even among people who had not gotten sick from the virus at all, the study found. NY Times Read more
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Collecting FEMA Funeral Money Takes Some Tenacity - And Help
As a funeral director at Ingold Funeral and Cremation in Fontana, California, Jessica Rodriguez helps families say goodbye to their loved ones. “We serve predominantly Latino families, most of them second- and third-generation” residents, said Rodriguez. “We do have quite a few that are first-generation, that don’t speak any English.” Most are unaware of a federal program that offers up to $9,000, she said.
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Confirmed Cases
Bay Area: 447,149
California: 3,804,348
U.S.: 33,491,149
Alameda County
Vaccines Administered: 1,993,142
Cases: 89,499
Deaths: 1,271
Test Positivity: 1.0%
Hospitalized Patients: 73
ICU Beds Available: 104
Cases have stayed about the same over the past week and are at a moderate level. The number of hospitalized COVID patients has fallen in the Alameda County area. Deaths have increased. The test positivity rate in Alameda County is relatively low, suggesting that testing capacity is adequate for evaluating COVID-19 spread in the area. NY Times
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Reported Deaths
Bay Area: 6,241
California: 63,217
U.S.: 600,478
Contra Costa County
Vaccines Administered: 1,394,680
Cases: 70,428
Deaths: 808
Test Positivity: 1.3%
Hospitalized Patients: 28
ICU Beds Available: 39
Cases have increased over the past week and are high. The number of hospitalized COVID patients has fallen in the Contra Costa area. Deaths have increased. The test positivity rate in Contra Costa County is relatively low, suggesting that testing capacity is adequate for evaluating COVID-19 spread in the area. NY Times
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Managing Your Re-Entry Anxiety
On June 15, the California Department of Public Health lifted most of the COVID-19 restrictions in the state. But after 15 months of stay-at-home orders, mandatory masks and social distancing, are we ready to pivot and return to the behaviors that used to be normal? UC Davis Health Read more
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- COVID-19 testing is a good idea, but keep in mind, people who test negative can still harbor the virus if they are early in their infection.
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A viral test tells you if you have a current infection.
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An antibody test might tell you if you had a past infection.
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COVID Test Resources
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Over the last seven days, Alameda County officials have reported 298 new coronavirus cases, which amounts to 18 cases per 100,000 residents. |
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Over the last seven days, Contra Costa County officials have reported 341 new coronavirus cases, which amounts to 30 cases per 100,000 residents. |
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Top 10 Locations of Cases in
Alameda County, as of 6/16/21
Oakland: 27,933
Hayward: 13,832
Fremont: 8,136
Eden MAC: 6,010
San Leandro: 5,564
Livermore: 4,345
Union City: 4,059
Berkeley: 3,634
Newark: 2,821
Castro Valley: 2,608
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Top 10 Locations of Cases in
Contra Costa County, as of 6/16/21
Richmond: 11,790
Antioch: 9,878
Concord: 8,170
Pittsburg: 6,998
San Pablo: 5,354
Brentwood: 3,920
Oakley: 3,315
Walnut Creek: 2,912
Bay Point: 2,819
San Ramon: 2,148
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Mask On!
Protect Yourself While Protecting Others
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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 in the Eden Health District area. These posters are free of charge and intended for businesses, health clinics, schools, churches, public agencies and nonprofit agencies to display in their entrances. The posters are available in English, Spanish and Chinese languages. The public is welcome to download and print or share "Mask On" posters from our website. |
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About Eden Health District |
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The Eden Health District Board of Directors are Chair Mariellen Faria, Vice Chair Pam Russo, Secretary/Treasurer Roxann Lewis, Gordon Galvan and Varsha Chauhan. 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.
We welcome your feedback on our bulletin. Please contact editor Lisa Mahoney.
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