"I don't even know how to process it. Businesses hire people; unions dont hire anyone. UNEMPLOYED ARE IN CALIFORNIA EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE ONLY 11% OF THE NATIONAL WORKFORCE. "Because we have the resources to make sure that doesn't happen.". Her reporting, essays, and opinion columns have been published in San Francisco Weekly, the Deseret News, the San Francisco Clickhereto find available walk-up vaccination clinics in San Jose. 02/01/2023. WE ARE JUST GUESSING. "Nothing's guaranteed. Photo by Ramona Giwargis. As a result, indoor dining will be suspended on the same day.. January 12, 2023. "If you have a social bubble, it is now popped.". Despite new state law, Antioch ends remote option for council meetings Some counties are also moving ahead of the state's timeline and shutting down voluntarily. (Campgrounds won't allow overnight stays.) Emily DeRuy is the Bay Area News Group's housing and economy editor overseeing coverage for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. And after a long stalemate, theres been some movement in Congress this week around another federal stimulus package that could include money for small business loans, unemployment benefits and renter protections. But if these people can be PREVENTED from being infected, WHY NOT? COVID-19 Diaries: Personal stories of Bay Area residents during novel coronavirus pandemic, Coronavirus Doctor's Note: Dr. Alok Patel gives his insight into COVID-19 pandemic. more laws that sound like they help, but only help the rich get richer and the poor more ghetoized and futureless and the borderline homeless, there is nothing to be done as you vote for the worst possible people who lack capacity for abstract thought and unbias analysis. If youre going to get the public health benefit, you have to do it now.. Despite having one of the highest vaccination rates in the state, the current rolling seven-day average for positive infections in Santa Clara County is now 8.5 times higher than the average on June 15, the day California lifted most restrictions such as social distancing and mask requirements. Shes been trying to work out a deal with her landlord but so far has had no luck. Oakland airport passenger traffic shows steady post-COVID rebound Businesses in Santa Clara County are responsible for taking steps to protect the health of their workers and customers. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We're in the middle of the worst coronavirus surge California has seen so far, and the state is making moves to shut back down again. Bay Area health officers Friday said they are already seeing indications that Thanksgiving gatherings are driving new infections. Hayward Unified on Monday moved online for at least a week after more than 500 students tested positive and teachers were absent from more than half of classrooms. With rain and colder temperatures on the way, many restaurant owners throughout the region are trying to decide if it'll be worth it to operate outside. IN THE LAST 3 DAYS THERE HAS BEEN THE DISCLOSURE OF THE DELTA-PLUS VARIANT THAT WAS TRACED TO BE BORN HERE IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY. "I was going to open up next week. But if these people can be PREVENTED from being infected, WHY NOT? NO DOCTOR SAID THE ENTIRE COUNTY IS 95% PROTECTED, AND MOST DOCTORS EVEN THE ONES FROM PFIZER ARE CONCEDING THAT THEIR VACCINE WAS ONLY 64% EFFECTIVE REGARDING DELTA VARIANT. Just understand this fact if it stays the same for 30 days here is the real problem, the new cases in Santa Clara county will be 59,241 NEW CASES ( 5,770 more than it was yesterday which was 53,472). Chief among them: the cost. I recommend a peaceful protest for those who believe Faucis statement from Feb. 2020that masks dont work. With regards to the state since Jan 1st we have had 1,185,642 cases and the 7 day average of new cases is 100,653 from yesterdays 74,709 (a difference of 25,944) and if you add the moving average for the rest of the month there will be a total of 3,299,355 and since the population of California is 39,510,000 that means by the end of the month about 8.3% of the state will be infected. More by Emily Hoeven, Long lines of people wait for more than two hours for a COVID-19 test at a testing site in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 2022. Top ten Santa Clara County political stories of 2021, 2021 in review: San Jose councils most consequential decisions, a record number of people dying on the streets, an ambitious goal of reducing homelessness 20%, a popular outdoor dining and business program, $200 million in a community benefits fund. Santa Clara County, which reported 362 new cases on Friday, is expected to move back into the red tier as soon as next Tuesday. I the last 3 months we lost nearly 200 people. Offices (outside of critical infrastructure) should only do remote work wherever possible. "Entertainment production" can also continue. I have bills. while lawmakers leaders did what the wanted This what they want more fear more scare this county you are 95 % protected vaccinated thats whats doctors say .. the variant is the media ..panic want you afraid .Spot light needed to focus on the Fricken escalating crime in this Sammy Jose. Allow direct-to-consumer shipping for craft distillers: State lawmakers should seize the opportunity to modernize Californias alcohol shipping laws, argues Cris Steller, executive director of the California Artisanal Distillers Guild. And were here to provide it. I can waste no more time on you. (Worf and Captain KTemoc, The Emissary), THE BOTTOM LINE IS YOU CONTINUE WITH THAT ATTITUDE AND YOU ARE JUST LIKE A BLINDFOLDED PERSON WALKING TOWARDS A CLIFF, Stay home wrap Yourself up in plastic same With Cody from behind a podium ! You know, you can open tomorrow, but then by the end of the day, you might have to close again," Do said. IN A PAPER POSTED ON WEDNESDAY ON BIORXIV AHEAD OF PEER REVIEW, THE RESEARCHERS WARN THAT WITH LAMBDA BEING LABELED A VARIANT OF INTEREST BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, RATHER THAN A VARIANT OF CONCERN, PEOPLE MIGHT NOT REALIZE IT IS A SERIOUS ONGOING THREAT. Outdoor playgrounds, barbershops, hair salons and personal care services, museums, campgrounds, zoos and aquariums, theaters, wineries, bars, breweries, distilleries, family entertainment centers, card rooms, live sports and amusement parks must close. Follow CalMatters onFacebookandTwitter. If you have a social bubble, it is now popped.. File photo. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! BUT NEVER CONTINUED TO CREATE THE PRODUCTION GRADE VERSIONS. Across the Bay Area region, were seeing COVID-19 cases surge and hospitalizations on steep rise again, particularly among the unvaccinated, said Contra Costa County Health Officer Chris Farnitano on Monday. SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- On the same day gyms, and nail and hair salons were able to reopen to customers across Santa Clara County, those small business owners got the news, they'd once again have to close. Coronavirus origin: Where did COVID-19 come from? First identified in India, the Delta variant is believed to be twice as contagious as previous dominant COVID-19 strainsand has now thwarted plans for returning to life before the pandemic. Do planned to officially reopen her South Bay business on Wednesday. To adapt, they're created virtual-only brands with special menus to attract customers for takeout. IF THE SCIENTISTS WERE ALLOWED TO BE STRAIGHT WITH US, THEY WOULD SAY THIS, WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER COVID OR PROOF WE CAN CONTROL IT. Santa Clara County is also maintaining most of its own stricter rules announced last weekend banning contact sports, including college and pro football, requiring a two-week quarantine for travelers from more than 150 miles away and limiting retail capacity. What is a COVID-19 genetic, antigen and antibody test? If say only 5% of these cases end up needing ICU beds, that would come to a new need of 661 ICU beds, but since there are only 64 available you would have 597 people die due to no place to go. Except for the fact that the ICU beds will be long gone. Were changing the face of journalism by providing an innovative model for delivering reliable, truthful news to the nations 10th largest city. December 20, 2010. "Workers manufacturing or providing parts and equipment that enable the maintenance and continued operation of essential businesses and facilities are considered essential," the California Department of Public Health told ABC7 News. Los Angeles County on Tuesday urged residents to postpone nonessential gatherings and avoid some activities. The majority of restaurants simply cannot make it financially on takeout alone, she said in a statement. Thats prompting health officials to reinstate safety guidelinesand raising questions about the possibility of another shutdown. As part of the red tier, indoor fitness centers can only operate at 10% capacity. SANTA CLARA NOW HAS ONLY 55 ICU BEDS FREE. // Alta Online, Endangered salmon are appearing in Marin where they havent been in years. She started her journalism career reporting on crime and breaking news for The News-Press in Southwest Florida. In laboratory experiments, they found that three mutations in Lambdas spike protein, known as RSYLTPGD246-253N, 260 L452Q and F490S, help it resist neutralization by vaccine-induced antibodies. Related Articles There arent going to be any lockdowns; that has been made clear by our political leaders. In San Francisco and Santa Clara County, 87% of residents of all ages have received at least one dose of vaccine; better than the rates for L.A. and Orange counties, which is 75%; and far. Two additional mutations, T76I and L452Q, help make Lambda highly infectious, they found. Almost all non-essential businesses are forced to shut down, with an exception for retail stores. "So I don't know how we're going to get out of here at the rate that we're at.". "We're not heading toward a lockdown," Jean-Pierre said. Receive a free briefing on your state every day. Lets be a people and not a sheeple who exhibit virtue by DOING GOOD and not LOOKING VIRTUOUS. Bay Area stores in most counties currently can operate at 25% capacity so the new rules wont pose much of an additional burden. San Jos Spotlight is the citys first nonprofit, community-supported digital news organization. Send us a postcard from the internment camp, idiot. AND THIS ALSO DOESNT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE LAMBDA VARIANT THAT IS USRE TO SPREAD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, IT HAS BEEN DETECTED ALREADY IN TEXAS. All Rights Reserved. Your email address will not be published. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group), OAKLAND, CA - DECEMBER 2: Visitors have fun with smoke bubbles at the Blue Planet section which is part of the new exhibit Glowfari at Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2020. It reported 167 COVID-related deaths. This time, at least, she has some money left over from her federal Paycheck Protection Program loan. Santa Clara shuts down sports . AND YOU ALL WILL SAY, YOU CANT TRUST THE SCIENTISTS. // San Diego Union-Tribune, Many San Francisco tech workers have a new side hustle: Local politics. "We found new ways to get our food into people's homes, and we want to continue to allow that dining experience to actually happen.". Protect your nonprofit, nonpartisan state news. Restaurants are also shuttering across the state, and the mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and San Rafael recently joined 21 others across the country in begging Congress to provide emergency relief to stave off permanent closures and catastrophic economic impacts. BUT the region has only Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Santa Cruz County, San Francisco County, Marin County, Contra Costa County and Alameda County, which has a total of 273 open ICU beds at this time. Photo by Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters. There are only 11,815 available beds NOW in the state which means 4,682 people are out of luck!!! At Santana Row, the Left Bank family of restaurants, which includes traditional sit-down favorite Meso Mediterranean, isn't just relying on in-person dining. But not every county in the Bay Area region chose to join the coalition this time. // San Francisco Chronicle. // Mercury News, Environmentalists sue Point Reyes National Seashore over cattle ranches. Newsom on Tuesday signed an executive order that allows schools through March 31 to extend substitute teachers assignments, ease the pathway for retired educators to return to classrooms, and expedite the hiring of short-term substitute teachers. Still, restaurant owners reacted with alarm to the quicker timeline for closing on-site dining. A city of 8.5 million people, New York City announced Tuesday that it will require vaccination proof for most indoors settingsa move that San Francisco officials are also considering, according to news reports. All Rights Reserved. Private gatherings of any size, indoor and outdoor, are not allowed. In the Bay Area, the 2,581 new cases Thursday were the regions second-highest single-day total. List: Where can I get tested for COVID-19 in the Bay Area? Opinion: Newsoms budget cuts threaten public health investment The county is expected to tally its homeless residents in a biennial count next yearthe first since 2018 after COVID canceled the 2020 homeless census. Data provided by the county showed more than 6,500 cases on Monday. By. BUT FIVE MONTHS LATER, VACCINE-INDUCED ANTIBODIES WERE EQUIVALENT TO THOSE SEEN AFTER THE SECOND DOSE, WITH LITTLE MEASURABLE IMPROVEMENT IN THE ANTIBODIES ABILITY TO NEUTRALIZE A BROAD VARIETY OF NEW VARIANTS, SAID COAUTHOR MICHEL NUSSENZWEIG. Santa Clara County also has a plan to end homelessness by 2025, but those plans have drawn much skepticism from those who have waited years and seen little results. That upset some parents and lawmakers who argued playgrounds are some kids' only opportunity to play outside and burn off steam, especially in urban settings. Stay home wrap Yourself up in plastic same With Cody from behind a podium ! Updated November 28, 2020 3:10 PM. A shutdown, or a renewed shelter-in-place order, might be beneficial to states with high unvaccinated rates, Gerstman said. My last report of complete data for the previous week of 12/31/2021 to 01/06/2022 was 15,909 (an increase of 11,400 all variants in Santa Clara County in only 2 days) AND there are only 42 ICU beds out of 3800 . If you calculate the state figures if we stay the same it is 30 times 62,094 which comes to 1,862,820 and given that there is only 39,510,000 that means 1 out of 21 will be infected in 30 days. Malls can also stay open at 20% capacity. Outdoor recreational facilities, like tennis and basketball courts, and hiking trails can stay open. Economy | while lawmakers leaders did what the wanted This what they want more fear more scare this county you are 95 % protected vaccinated thats whats doctors say .. the variant is the media ..panic want you afraid .Spot light needed to focus on the Fricken escalating crime in this Sammy Jose, Yep start it up again spotlight leave it to these guys Sick of this crap Shut off the news!! AND THIS ONE IS SIGNIFICANTLY RESISTANT TO THE VACCINES AS REPORTED HERE (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/delta-infections-among-vaccinated-likely-contagious-lambda-variant-shows-vaccine-2021-08-02/): The Lambda variant of the coronavirus, first identified in Peru and now spreading in South America, is highly infectious and more resistant to vaccines than the original version of the virus the emerged from Wuhan, China, Japanese researchers have found. The Bay Area has had the best leadership in the state and arguably the best leadership in the country in terms of its public health officers, said John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology at UC Berkeley. READ FROM HERE https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19HospitalsDashboard/Hospitals?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no. Theyd nearly sold out of tickets for their evening Glowfari event, which was set to run through Jan. 17 and features illuminated lanterns shaped like zoo animals. its poison media lies glad people waking up by the posts living life .thats awsome people who continue their know it all I got a degree post continue fear doom and gloom had enough the last year !!. Officials expect to be added to that list on Wednesday. With the uncertainty around further federal support, San Francisco restaurants, their employees, and their families will suffer greatly by having no choice but to close for a period of time.. "I mean, before you know it's going be a year. John Woolfolk is a reporter for the Bay Area News Group, based at The Mercury News. Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, for example, are enforcing stay-at-home orders through Jan. 4, 2021. Santa Clara County on Monday backed off from a booster mandate for health care workers at the request of already strained hospitals. "If they don't ever let me be a personal trainer and coach people- this is what I love. This time, at. Opinion: Newsoms budget cuts threaten public health investment Want to submit a guest commentary or reaction to an article we wrote? We, the 99% to whom Covid isnt a death sentence, have had enough. Just understand this fact if it stays the same for 30 days here is the real problem, SINCE THE DATA WAS MISSING I CANNOT PROVIDE THE COUNTY FIGURES.