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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — With a surge in coronavirus circumstances, the data it’s essential to know is coming quick and livid. Right here’s a roundup of the COVID tales we’ve revealed during the last 24 hours.
San Francisco’s Latinx Inhabitants Continues To See Larger Case Charges
SAN FRANCISCO — The Latinx inhabitants of San Francisco continues to face increased positivity charges of COVID-19, particularly amongst low-income and important staff, in keeping with a testing survey performed in late November. The Unidos en Salud/United in Well being initiative, organized by the College of California at San Francisco, the San Francisco Division of Public Well being, the Latino Job Drive for COVID-19 and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, examined almost 7,000 residents within the Mission District and the Bayview, Excelsior and Tenderloin neighborhoods earlier than and after Thanksgiving. Take a look at samples have been collected Nov. 22-24 and Nov. 29-Dec. 1 by door-to-door canvassing by the LTF, in keeping with UCSF. The 4 neighborhoods have been chosen for his or her excessive case numbers relative to the remainder of the town. Of these examined, 4.4 % have been optimistic for the virus, increased than the town’s seven-day common 2.9 positivity charge as of Wednesday. As well as, 79 % of those that examined optimistic have been Latinx regardless of simply over half of these examined being Latinx. Read More
Sonoma County Prepares for Keep-House Order Starting Saturday
PETALUMA — Sonoma County is now becoming a member of 5 different Bay Space counties in imposing the stay-at-home order which can begin Saturday simply after midnight. Companies are bracing for the subsequent spherical of closures. Lots of the enterprise house owners in Petaluma say they noticed this coming. Beginning Saturday, there will probably be no extra out of doors eating and other people must keep residence for something however important actions. “Initially like anything, you’re like ‘oh geez, not once more!’” mentioned Peter White, proprietor of Sugo Trattoria. White isn’t shocked by the most recent spherical of closures introduced by the county Thursday. “We have to act now earlier than it will get worse in Sonoma County,” mentioned Dr. Sundari Mase, the Sonoma County public well being officer. Read More
Pfizer Vaccine Heads to FDA for Approval as Bay Space Awaits 1st Shipments
SAN FRANCISCO — The Meals and Drug and Administration’s authorization of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine may come inside the subsequent couple days now {that a} authorities advisory panel has voted to approve its emergency use. The FDA doesn’t need to observe the recommendation of the panel but it surely often does. On the very prime of the checklist to get vaccinated are hospital staff. The dash to get the COVID-19 vaccine from the manufacturing line and into arms of essentially the most weak is nearing the end line however there’s nonetheless a protracted technique to go within the marathon to succeed in herd immunity and management the viral unfold. California will initially obtain greater than 327,000 of the Pfizer COVID vaccine doses. San Francisco county will probably be given 12,000 doses subsequent week however there’s hesitation by many to take the vaccine. “Some nurses are involved concerning the vaccines having hostile negative effects,” mentioned Jenny Rudnicki. Read More
California Unemployment Claims Spike Alongside Case Charges
SAN FRANCISCO — With companies being compelled to close down amid COVID shelter orders throughout the state, unemployment claims are at their highest degree in months. The newest numbers present California jobless claims have risen to almost 178,000. Some consultants are saying it may take months for the economic system to bounce again within the wake of the most recent coronavirus surge. With unemployment numbers leaping as soon as once more after a second lockdown, former EDD director Michael Bernick advised KPIX 5 there is just one manner out. “We received’t see any vital uptick in hiring till the vaccine,” Bernick mentioned. Even with the FDA greenlighting the Pfizer vaccine for emergency use Thursday and doses arriving within the Bay Space as quickly as subsequent week, the job market will stay slim. “It is going to be till February or March till a bigger a part of the California labor pressure will probably be immunized. And even then, that’s solely a couple of third,” mentioned Bernick. Read More
Santa Clara County To Ship Groups Door-to-Door To Administer Assessments
SAN JOSE — To assist curtail the surge in COVID-19 circumstances, Santa Clara County has ramped up its testing effort, together with sending out groups door-to-door to manage coronavirus checks. The county Public Well being Division mentioned Thursday the groups will focus first in East San Jose the place 55% of the inhabitants is Latino and the place many don’t have the flexibility or means to get examined. Santa Clara County is partnering with neighborhood well being staff often known as promotoras at hand out checks in arduous hit areas of East San Jose the place language obstacles and worry have stood in the best way of testing entry. “Going door to door, the promotoras will supply self-administered COVID testing to people within the family,” defined Dr. Analilia Garcia, Racial & Well being Fairness Director for Santa Clara County. “The plan is to canvass the realm earlier than arriving,” Garcia went on to say. “So households know to count on us, and that this can be a reliable service.” Read More
Advocates Name On Newsom To Prioritize Vaccines For Academics, Faculty Employees
SAN FRANCISCO — Native lawmakers, medical doctors, schooling leaders and others on Thursday referred to as on Gov. Gavin Newsom and public well being officers to place academics third in line to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it’s out there. Solely well being care staff and nursing residence residents could be forward of academics and faculty employees, the group mentioned. The group, convened nearly by San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, mentioned college students have been impacted by the pandemic academically and their total well-being has been affected. “Colleges have been closed for almost 9 months now, and but state officers have did not prioritize sufficient assets to help secure college reopening,” Ronen mentioned in an announcement. State well being officers have really useful that well being care staff and residents of nursing properties get the vaccine first, however haven’t really useful who subsequent ought to get the vaccine. Read More
Sonoma County To Be part of Keep-At-House Order On Saturday – ‘We Have To Take Motion Now’
SANTA ROSA — Sonoma County officers introduced Thursday that it might be part of different Bay Space counties in implementing a stay-at-home order as a result of surge in COVID-19 circumstances, efficient Saturday. Residents are being urged to remain at residence aside from work, purchasing or important actions. Colleges which are already open can proceed to function. Outside recreation could be allowed and playgrounds would keep open. 5 Bay Space counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and Santa Clara) and the town of Berkeley instituted the state’s stay-at-home restrictions earlier than reaching the 15% ICU capability threshold. Officers mentioned the restrictions would keep in place till 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, January 9, 2021. Sonoma Well being officer Dr. Sundari Mase mentioned that the county has seen an “alarming enhance” in current days of latest circumstances and hospitalizations. Mase mentioned the variety of circumstances within the county has doubled in current days and the 14-day common has reached 343 circumstances per 100,000, the best level within the pandemic. Read More
California Lawmakers Say State is Battling Unemployment Backlog, Fraud
SACRAMENTO — A backlog of unemployment purposes is piling up whereas a advantages rip-off may doubtlessly value California $2 billion, but the state is failing to cease both, in keeping with two state lawmakers. Democratic Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, who heads the Meeting Accountability and Administrative Assessment Committee, mentioned she is seeing “a continued sample of constituents who get misplaced within the course of.” Lots of of residents throughout the state report “this sense of falling right into a black gap the place you don’t know what’s fallacious, the place you make telephone calls that go unanswered, and also you wait months and months for advantages and develop more and more determined,” she mentioned. Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson, a frequent critic of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Democratic administration, cited complaints from two whistleblower staff of the Employment Growth Division in addition to prospects who contacted his workplace in saying the brand new ID.me verification system “is failing considerably.” Read More
California DMV Suspends Behind-The-Wheel Assessments For two Weeks Over Rising Circumstances
SACRAMENTO — The California Division of Motor Autos introduced Thursday that it plans to droop all behind-the-wheel driving checks for 2 weeks amid the surge in COVID-19 circumstances all through the state. Behind-the-wheel checks, that are required for first-time driver’s license and business license candidates, will probably be suspended beginning December 14. The DMV mentioned affected prospects could be notified and have their checks rescheduled at a later date. In the meantime, motorbike checks would proceed to happen, for the reason that take a look at will be accomplished at a secure distance. “Behind-the-wheel drive checks require two folks to share house in a single car and – whereas we now have made quite a few modifications to safeguard the testing course of – the present surge in COVID-19 circumstances presents elevated threat to each events,” DMV Director Steve Gordon mentioned. Read More
FDA Panel Endorses Emergency Authorization For Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Meals and Drug Administration’s advisory panel on Thursday really useful the emergency use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. If the vaccine is allowed by the FDA, the primary photographs may very well be distributed within the U.S. inside days. Well being care staff and nursing residence residents could be among the many first in line. The panel of outdoor consultants reviewed trial information from Pfizer’s vaccine and made its suggestion to the FDA Thursday afternoon. Read More
No 2021 Contra Costa County Honest, Hopes For Return In 2022
ANTIOCH — Organizers of the Contra Costa County Honest introduced it might cancel the occasion for a second 12 months in a row, amid ongoing uncertainty in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Contra Costa Occasion Park Board of Administrators unanimously voted Wednesday to cancel the 2021 honest, which was scheduled for Could 13-16. Organizers mentioned the choice, greater than 5 months earlier than the occasion was set to happen, “didn’t come calmly.” “After considerate consideration, we don’t really feel it might be a accountable choice to proceed with the planning of the 2021 Contra Costa County Honest, when it may potential (sic) be canceled on the final minute,” organizers mentioned in an announcement. “There isn’t any increased precedence than the security of our Fairgrounds household, patrons, distributors, promoters and sponsors on the Contra Costa Occasion Park,” honest organizers went on to say. Read More
CA Notify Smartphone Publicity Notifications App Goes Stay
SAN FRANCISCO — A brand new smartphone app is now out there for Californians to allow them to know in the event that they’ve been too near somebody who’s been contaminated with the coronavirus. Introduced earlier this week, the CA Notify app went dwell Thursday and makes use of a brand new smartphone characteristic referred to as “publicity notifications” that customers opt-in to obtain. Californians can activate the device of their iPhone settings or on Android telephones by downloading the CA Notify app from the Google Play retailer after receiving a notification. The app permits individuals who take a look at optimistic for COVID-19 to anonymously inform individuals who have been in shut proximity over the earlier two weeks that they could have been uncovered. It makes use of bluetooth know-how to trade so-called nameless keys. Earlier this week, Governor Gavin Newsom defined the app utilizing an instance of a dialog between Alice and Bob, and what occurs after Alice checks optimistic for COVID. Read More
Santa Clara County To Obtain Moderna Vaccine In Addition To Pfizer
SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County now expects to get 39,300 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in December, along with doses of the Pfizer vaccine, public well being officers introduced Wednesday. The county had already anticipated to obtain 17,550 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, contingent on emergency use authorization from the federal authorities. If the Moderna vaccine is equally permitted, the county will probably obtain 39,300 doses of that vaccine later in December, in keeping with public well being officers. As is mostly the case, the early doses of each vaccines will probably be made out there to folks within the highest threat classes, as outlined by the federal authorities and State of California. These embrace folks liable to publicity to COVID-19 by their work in direct well being care or long-term care settings, and residents of long-term care services. Read More
