COVID-19
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La Familia Co-Hosts Pop Up Fruitvale Day Laborer Vaccine Clinic
Next Clinic Set for This Saturday, June 26
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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Many Bay Area Residents Keeping Their Masks On
As the Bay Area snaps back to life with almost all pandemic restrictions now in the rearview mirror, residents can’t seem to shake off the mask-wearing habit. When the state fully reopened last Tuesday, allowing vaccinated people to go out to restaurants, gyms, movie theaters and bowling alleys without face coverings for the first time in more than a year, many who viewed masks as a necessary evil greeted the news with a welcome sigh of relief. But for others, masks have become a social norm and habit that will be hard to kick, as evidenced inside Bay Area grocery stores teeming with shoppers who continue to hide their noses and mouths behind face coverings while pushing their sanitized carts down the aisles. Mercury News Read more
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McDonald's Offers COVID-19 Vaccines, Free Food at Select Bay Area Locations
You can get a COVID-19 vaccine and some free food at some Bay Area McDonald's locations. McDonald's is teaming up with the California Department of Public Health to offer shots at more than 70 of its restaurants across the state, including 30 pop-up clinics in high-traffic, high-visibility areas in Northern California. ABC7 News Read more
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18 Cases of The Highly Transmissible Delta COVID-19 Variant Detected in Sonoma County
Sonoma County public health officials on Monday said they have detected 18 cases of the delta strain, a more contagious mutation of the coronavirus that is spreading rapidly across the United States and has already led to some European officials reinstating or extending pandemic restrictions. The delta variant, first identified in India in December, is believed to be 50% more transmissible than the UK variant, which itself was 50% more transmissible than the early strain of coronavirus, said Dr. John Swartzberg, a UC Berkeley infectious disease expert. The Press Democrat Read more
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Bay Area Sees Post-COVID Summer School Enrollment Boom After Year of Distance Learning
Across the Bay Area, after more than a year of online learning, families are clamoring like never before for space at summer schools, which are bursting with record enrollments in the urgency for kids to catch up academically and socially from the COVID school shutdowns. Mercury News Read more
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Marin County: 90% of Eligible Residents Vaccinated
Marin County has now vaccinated 90% of eligible residents with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. As of Tuesday, nearly 201,000 of Marin’s approximately 223,000 eligible residents have received at least one dose. Some 81.6% of eligible residents have completed their vaccine series. The Press Democrat Read more
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Santa Clara County Had The State’s First COVID-19 Rules - It Just Dropped Its Final One
Buoyed with optimism and a high vaccination rate, officials in Northern California’s most populous county phased out its last local COVID-19 health order Monday. “I feel very grateful today. And I feel very hopeful today,” said Dr. Sara Cody, the local health officer and public health director of Santa Clara County.
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White House Says The U.S. Will Narrowly Miss Its Vaccination Goal
The country will narrowly miss President Biden's goal of having 70% of the U.S. adult population at least partially vaccinated by July 4. But 70% of those 30 and older have already been vaccinated a week and a half ahead of Independence Day and that those 27 and older are expected to also reach the 70% mark by July 4. Currently, 65% of the adult population has gotten at least one shot and 56% are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At current rates, the U.S. is on track to get to about 67% people with at least one shot by July 4. NPR Read more
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CDC Safety Group Says There’s a Likely Link Between Rare Heart Inflammation in Young People After COVID Shot
A CDC safety group said there’s a “likely association” between a rare heart inflammatory condition in adolescents and young adults mostly after they’ve received their second COVID-19 vaccine shot, citing the most recent data available. There have been more than 1,200 cases of a myocarditis or pericarditis in young people who received Pfizer's or Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine, according to a series of slide presentations published Wednesday for a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. CNBC Read more
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Moderna Gets Contract to Produce 200M COVID-19 Vaccines for DOD
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Moderna a multi-billion dollar contract to produce 200 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by March 2022. Defense officials announced the effort Monday, saying the contract will give $3.3 billion to the pharmaceutical company. The news comes as health officials try to get more Americans vaccinated amid concerns that the more dangerous and more deadly delta COVID-19 variant could become the dominant strain by the fall and lead to more cases and hospitalizations. KTVU Read more
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Global Destinations of 55 Million Donated COVID Vaccines Announced
The White House on Monday announced which countries will receive 55 million doses of the U.S.'s supply of COVID-19 vaccines as part of President Joe Biden's pledge to share 80 million shots globally by the end of June. Roughly 41 million doses will be shared through COVAX - a humanitarian program run in part by the World Health Organization that aims to distribute vaccines fairly - which will allocate approximately 14 million to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, 16 million to Asia and 10 million to Africa. NBC News Read more
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Many state-run mass vaccination sites are also closed or soon will be. The United States’ shift away from high-volume vaccination centers is an acknowledgment of the harder road ahead. Health officials are pivoting to the “ground game”: a highly targeted push, akin to a get-out-the-vote effort, to persuade the reluctant to get their shots. NY Times Read more
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Why Is There Such A Gender Gap In COVID-19 Vaccination Rates?
As of Monday morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that nearly 9.5 million more women than men have been vaccinated in the U.S., and in the 42 states that collect gender data, a greater share of women are getting the vaccine as well. The magnitude of the gender gap varies from state to state but has hovered just below 10 percentage points on average over the past month. FiveThirtyEight Read more
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Delta Variant Of The Coronavirus Could Dominate In U.S. Within Weeks
The dangerous Delta variant of the coronavirus is spreading so quickly in the United States that it's likely the mutant strain will become predominant in the U.S. within weeks, according to a new analysis. The variant, first identified in India, is the most contagious yet and, among those not yet vaccinated, may trigger serious illness in more people than other variants do, say scientists tracking the spread of infection.
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COVID-19 Might Shrink Parts of The Brain, Scientists Say
A new study suggests that COVID-19 might shrink parts of the brain.
The study's results were mentioned by former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb on the Sunday news program “Face the Nation” on CBS as another example of why it is so important that unvaccinated people get inoculated. The results also underscore how evidence is mounting that people can still suffer from illness related to COVID-19 many months after infection, a condition known as “long COVID.” LA Times Read more
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Children's Birthday Parties May Have Fueled COVID-19 Spread, Study Finds
Kids' birthday parties may be partly to blame for increased coronavirus transmission rates, a new study shows. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, gathered private health insurance data from 2.9 million U.S. households from Jan. 1 to Nov. 8, 2020. In counties with high rates of transmission, households were 31% more likely to test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 within two weeks after someone had a birthday. USA Today Read more
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Just Four States Haven’t Fully Reopened Yet
Here’s What They Are Waiting For
With coronavirus cases and deaths plummeting nationally, Michigan became the latest state to drop virtually all of its pandemic restrictions on Tuesday, leaving just four states in the dwindling minority that haven’t fully reopened yet. Hawaii, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington are the only states still holding onto major coronavirus restrictions due to reopening plans that hinge on reaching certain vaccination thresholds complicated by declining interest in the shot. Forbes Read more
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Where The End of Quarantines And Masks Isn’t in Sight
The vaccines came, and the tables turned. America’s remarkable speed at vaccinating its populace helped flip its reputation from international coronavirus problem child to reopening poster child. As the United States moves on from the coronavirus, other countries are still getting left behind.
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The Economy Isn’t Going Back to February 2020
The U.S. economy is emerging from the coronavirus pandemic with considerable speed but markedly transformed, as businesses and consumers struggle to adapt to a new landscape with higher prices, fewer workers, new innovations and a range of inconveniences.
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Russia Registers Highest Daily COVID Death Toll Since February
Russia has registered its highest number of COVID-19 deaths for a single day since early February as a dramatic rise in infections fueled by the Delta variant grips the country. The 546 deaths recorded on Tuesday mean Russia’s official coronavirus death toll now stands at 130,347 people, according to the country’s coronavirus emergency task force, marking the world’s sixth-highest tally overall. Al Jazeera
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In The Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte Threatens to Jail Those Who Refuse Shots
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has threatened to send anyone who refuses a coronavirus vaccine to jail, as the country grapples with one of the worst current outbreaks in Asia. “There is a crisis being faced in this country. There is a national emergency,” Mr. Duterte said. “If you do not want to get vaccinated, I will have you arrested." NY Times Read more
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Confirmed Cases
Bay Area: 448,487
California: 3,811,169
U.S.: 33,573,448
Alameda County
Vaccines Administered: 2,021,150
Cases: 89,756
Deaths: 1,277
Test Positivity: 1.2%
Hospitalized Patients: 73
ICU Beds Available: 106
Cases have stayed about the same over the past week and are at a moderate level. The number of hospitalized COVID patients has risen in the Alameda County area. Deaths have decreased. 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: 6,265
California: 63,409
U.S.: 602,705
Contra Costa County
Vaccines Administered: 1,420,812
Cases: 70,770
Deaths: 811
Test Positivity: 1.7%
Hospitalized Patients: 36
ICU Beds Available: 44
Cases have stayed about the same over the past week and are still high. The number of hospitalized COVID patients has fallen in the Contra Costa area. Deaths have remained about the same level. 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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Rash, Itch After COVID Vaccine Rare & Quickly Resolves
Rashes, itchiness and other skin problems can develop after people receive COVID-19 vaccines, but such problems are rare and go away quickly, new research shows. For the study, the researchers looked at more than 40,000 employees of a Boston hospital system who received two-dose mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines) and completed at least one symptom survey after their first shot. U.S. News & World Report 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 257 new coronavirus cases, which amounts to 16 cases per 100,000 residents.
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Over the last seven days, Contra Costa County officials have reported 384 new coronavirus cases, which amounts to 34 cases per 100,000 residents.
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Top 10 Locations of Cases in
Alameda County, as of 6/23/21
Oakland: 28,037
Hayward: 13,876
Fremont: 8,164
Eden MAC: 6,030
San Leandro: 5,584
Livermore: 4,352
Union City: 4,074
Berkeley: 3,663
Newark: 2,830
Castro Valley: 2,615
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Top 10 Locations of Cases in
Contra Costa County, as of 6/23/21
Richmond: 11,848
Antioch: 9,950
Concord: 8,201
Pittsburg: 7,034
San Pablo: 5,376
Brentwood: 3,952
Oakley: 3,337
Walnut Creek: 2,927
Bay Point: 2,830
San Ramon: 2,152
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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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