Eden Health District COVID-19 Bulletin
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Alameda County:
359
Contra Costa County:
250
California:
9,937
U.S.:
216,768
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Alameda County:
8
Contra Costa County:
3
California:
215
U.S.:
5,148
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"We are committed to meeting this moment. Time is our friend.
The curve is our enemy. Let's bend it." -
Gov. Gavin Newsom, 4/1/20
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The Eden Health District is 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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East Bay Citizen, April 1, 2020
The Eden Health District Board of Directors have authorized the purchase of 100,000 new medical masks, in addition, to helping fund proposed Covid-19 testing sites in Alameda County. "We're going to end up being the lightning rod for getting this thing going,” said Gordon Galvan, chair of the Eden Health District Board of Directors.
SF Chronicle, April 2, 2020
A record 6.6 million Americans filed for new unemployment claims for the week ended March 28, according to a Department of Labor report released Thursday. The official report showed that 878,727 Californians filed new claims for the week of March 22-28, compared to 186,333 the week before. That’s just a hint at the true figure. It includes only claims that were fully processed. The Bay Area hospitality industry has endured some of the biggest cuts. More than 12,000 Unite Here Local 2 jobs in hotel, airport and food service work in San Francisco and San Mateo counties have vanished; the union is
raising funds
to support its workers.
East Bay Times, April 2, 2020
City Press Release, April 1, 2020
Of the 1,254 people tested at the City of Hayward’s COVID-19 Testing Center during its first week of operations, 130 were positive for the new coronavirus infection. The Testing Center is free and open to the public. No referral from a medical doctor is required but individuals must be symptomatic for COVID-19 and have a fever over 100 degrees to be tested.
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SF Chronicle, April 1, 2020
Gov. Newsom said the state will need 50,000 extra hospital beds
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mid-May, and another 16,000 by the end of May. The state is aggressively trying to add those beds now — in the form of leasing former hospital facilities and converting convention centers and fairgrounds into temporary medical units — but authorities need more time, he said.
Mercury News, April 1, 2020
Newsom said the number of patients in ICU beds represents a ‘roughly a quadrupling’ compared to the data the state compiled six days ago. The governor also said the number of patients who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 — 1,855 as of Wednesday — has tripled in the last six days
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LA Times, April 1, 2020
California’s public K-12 school campuses are expected to remain closed for the remainder of the academic year in response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic as educators take on the massive challenge of distance learning for about 6.1 million students, state officials announced Wednesday.
SF Chronicle, April 1, 2020
California will lose $10.9 billion in travel revenue and 554,000 jobs in April alone,
according to new projections from Visit California
, the state’s tourism bureau. By the end of 2020, the state could lose a total of $54.5 billion in travel spending.
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Washington Post, April 1, 2020
The government’s emergency stockpile of respirator masks, gloves and other medical supplies is running low and is nearly exhausted
due to the coronavirus outbreak
, leaving the Trump administration and the states to compete for
personal protective equipment in a
freewheeling global marketplace rife with profiteering and price-gouging, according to Department of Homeland Security officials involved in the frantic acquisition effort.
STAT, April 2, 2020
Hospitals are bracing for a surge of Covid-19 patients and facing shortages of the resources necessary to keep the sickest patients alive. One
framework
, developed
by
bioethicists at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is graining traction. It argues that no patient groups should be automatically denied access to scare ventilators and ICU beds. Rather, the guidance suggests, medical resources should be allocated to patients according to how they score on an eight-point scale that takes into account their odds of making it out of the hospital, as well as whether they have certain life-limiting medical conditions.
NBC NY, April 2, 2020
To date, nearly 110,000 have been infected and more than 2,600 people have died in NY, NJ and CT; Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the apex is now expected to hit at the end of April
AL.com, April 1, 2020
Republican governors in
Florida
, Mississippi and Georgia on Wednesday reversed course and issued stay-home directives after previously resisting such a statewide order. Alabama’s “safer at home” policy urges people to stay home but does not order them to do so.
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CNN, April 1, 2020
As of Tuesday, Iceland had tested more than 17,900 people for the virus -- nearly 5% of its population. Although fewer than 1% of the tests came back positive for the virus, r Dr. Kári Stefánsson told CNN that around 50% of those who tested positive said they were asymptomatic,
confirming multiple studies
that show that asymptomatic, or mildly symptomatic, people have played an important role in spreading the virus.
Bloomberg, April 1, 2002
There are signs that the worst may soon be over at the epicenter of Europe’s coronavirus crisis. The death rate is easing in Italy as growth in new cases moderates. While daily fatalities are still rising in Spain and Britain, the virus appears to be spreading more slowly in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and other countries. Pressure on hospital intensive-care units is letting up in some of the hardest-hit areas, including the Italian province of Lombardy.
Haaretz, April 2, 2020
As the highly contagious coronavirus spreads around the world, Israel and the Palestinians struggle to contain a local outbreak that has virtually halted daily life. Authorities have also called upon citizens to
wear face masks in public
to better protect themselves and others from the virus.
Reuters, April 2, 2020
One in 20 people in the UK had already lost their job due to coronavirus when YouGov conducted a poll a week ago and applications for Universal Credit - the government benefits system - are sky high, with nearly half a million claims last week.
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Marc Lipsitch & Yonatan Grad, Professors at Harvard's School of Public Health, STAT, April 1, 2020
With something like Covid-19 there is the first peak, and there’s the whole epidemic. For the first peak, the evidence so far points to a worrisome possibility of overwhelming our intensive care units — even with the degree of social distancing we’ve achieved — as we’re
seeing in New York City
. But every bit we slow and flatten the curve will make that less likely and less dramatic, if and when it happens. It is very possible that after this first wave subsides, we will still have a largely susceptible population, though that depends on how well the social distancing works
Professors at Harvard's School of Public Health, Washington Post, April 1, 2020
Our epidemiological models point to the possibility of
another outbreak in the fall
. Social distancing keeps people from getting infected, but it also means that many people will still be vulnerable to covid-19 when they are allowed to venture out of their homes. So even after we get through this first wave, we likely have another one coming, and maybe more after that.
Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos, April 1, 2020
No one was faster than Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Sarah Cody and the SF Bay region in shutting things down. It seems crazy that a four-day head-start on the rest of the state and country could make such a difference, but for a disease that spreads exponentially, every single day matters.
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Sacramento Bee, April 1, 2020
Some evidence shows wearing a face covering may reduce spread of coronavirus, but masks are still no substitute for physical distancing, California’s top public health official said Wednesday, outlining new official guidance. Although there’s some evidence masks could slow the spread of the virus
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blocking some saliva droplets, California Department of Public Health Director Sonia Angell stopped short of saying all Californians should start wearing them.
The Atlantic, April 1, 2020
How the coronavirus travels through the air has become one of the most divisive debates in this pandemic. Thus far, the official line has been that the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, could be transmitted only through close contact with infected people or contaminated surfaces. But recently, news reports have suggested that the coronavirus can
spread through the air
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NY Times, April 1, 2020
Neurologists around the world say that a small subset of patients with Covid-19 are developing serious impairments of the brain.
Although fever, cough and difficulty breathing are the typical hallmarks of infection with the new coronavirus, some patients exhibit altered mental status, or encephalopathy, a catchall term for brain disease or dysfunction that can have many underlying causes, as well as other serious conditions.
CNN Health, April 2, 2020
Available also in Spanish and Chinese.
Seattle Times, March 30, 2020
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Celebrating Everyday Heroes
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When Rancho Cordova math teacher Estelle Gray began teaching an after-school sewing club two years ago, she never imagined her students would be sewing masks for healthcare providers in the middle of a pandemic. But with schools closed, the teacher knew her students would be bored at home while complying with stay-at-home orders and yesterday distributed her sewing machines for students to begin sewing masks at home.
Source:
Sacramento Bee
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Support Local Restaurants
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Many East Bay restaurants are offering curbside, no-contact pick-up such as
Top Hatters Kitchen
in San Leandro or home delivery. For lists of these restaurants read guides from
Berkeleyside
and the
Hayward Chamber of Commerce
. If you know of other restaurant lists we should feature, please email us.
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Hospitals throughout the East Area are experiencing
a shortage of medical supplies. They are seeking business and community donations of new items in original packaging of protective masks, gowns and gear, hand sanitizer and other products. For more information on how to donate visit:
Additional lists of SF Bay Area hospitals, neighborhood clinics and hospices accepting donations can be found
here
and
here
. Also a group of SF Bay women have launched
Mask-Match.com
to connect donors with medical facilities that need masks.
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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.
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