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San Bernardino County reports 296 coronavirus more cases, no new deaths – San Bernardino Sun

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By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] |PUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 3:30 p.m.

San Bernardino County reported 296 new coronavirus cases, but no new deaths, Monday, June 29.

The county has confirmed 11,797 cases so far, which was up 2.6% from Sunday, June 28, and 249deaths, according to the county’s COVID-19 dashboard.

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A projected 6,742 people have recovered from the disease, the dashboard shows.

Testing was up 2.2% from the day before, with an additional 2,805 people getting tested. So far,132,984 people have been tested, of which 8.9% were positive.

1 of 5A screenshot of San Bernardino County’s COVID-19 dashboard taken on Monday, June 29, 2020. (Courtesy of San Bernardino County)

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Hospitalizations also continue to increase. On Sunday, June 28, there were 376 COVID-19 positivepatients and 83 patients suspected to have the disease in county hospitals, which was from 353 and79 Saturday, June 27, according to the state’s data. On Sunday, there were 135 positive patients and12 suspected patients in intensive care, up from 130 and 9 the day before.

As of Saturday, 305 ventilators were in use and 502 still available, according to the county.

There have been 19,451 serology tests, of those .99% were positive.

The time it takes for the virus to double was 19.3 days.

See a list of community-by-community cases here.

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Coronavirus testing is taking place at the Jessie Turner Center in Fontana.

With any communicable disease outbreak -- like COVID-19 -- testing is critical to slowing the

spread, San Bernardino County health of�cials said.

Testing leads to quick identi�cation of cases, quick treatment for those people who are diagnosed

positive, and immediate isolation to keep someone from unwittingly spreading the virus.

Early testing also helps to identify any persons who came into contact with infected people so they

too can be quickly treated.

The testing is from June 29 to July 31, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (closed July

3).

----- IN ONTARIO, indoor testing is at the Ontario Convention Center, 1947 Convention Center

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The testing is from June 29 to Aug. 31, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (closed July

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----- IN RIALTO, indoor testing is at the Department of Behavioral Health Auditorium, 850 E.

Foothill Boulevard.

The testing is from June 29 to Aug. 18, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (closed July

3).

The county is encouraging all residents, including those who have experienced no symptoms of

COVID-19, to be tested for the coronavirus.

"Data is showing that a signi�cant proportion of those infected with the virus are asymptomatic,

meaning they show no symptoms of the disease. Because of this, virtually anyone could spread the

disease to others. That’s why everyone needs to get tested," the county said in a news release.

At the county's testing events, samples are collected by inserting a swab up the nostril or into the

mouth to the throat. These samples are then sent to a laboratory to check for COVID-19.

Events are free of charge and do not require health insurance.

----- IN FONTANA, testing is at the Jessie Turner Center, 15556 Summit Avenue.

The indoor testing is from June 29 to July 31, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

(closed July 2-3, 7, and 10).

Appointment registration will open soon for the week of July 6-9.

All clients are required to wear a face covering for their appointment.

Appointments can be made by calling (909) 387-3911 or by visiting sbcovid19.com.

----- IN BLOOMINGTON, testing is taking place at Ayala Park, 18313 Valley Boulevard.

The testing is from June 29 to Sept. 1, Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (closed July 3).

The indoor testing is by appointment only by calling (888) 634-1123.

----- IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA, indoor testing is at the Rancho Sports Complex, 8303 Rochester

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Pre-COVID evictions, on hold since March, resuming in San Bernardino County – Daily Bulletin

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By JEFF COLLINS | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 1:38 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 2:12 p.m.

Evictions resumed this month in San Bernardino County, with sheriff’s deputies processing move-outorders pending from before the coronavirus emergency started in mid-March, a sheriff’sspokeswoman said.

That means two counties in Southern California have resumed efforts to whittle eviction backlogs.Orange County began evicting tenants at the start of June.

Los Angeles and Riverside counties still have all evictions on hold, sheriffs spokespeople told theSouthern California News Group.

Evictions have been on hold throughout California since the state Judicial Council issued a ban oncourts processing “unlawful detainer” cases and foreclosures until 90 days after the governor lifts the

Eviction notice (File Chuck Bennett, Torrance Daily Breeze/SCNG)

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current state of emergency.

But Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties had a backlog of 1,433 move-out judgmentsthat predated the emergency. Riverside County had cleared its backlog by March 17 and has notdone any evictions since, the sheriff’s Media Information Bureau reported.

Orange County resumed processing 180 pre-COVID-19 eviction orders around June 1.

San Bernardino County deputies resumed serving notices to vacate June 10 and conducted at least32 “lockouts” last week, sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said.

“We are only proceeding with pre-COVID-19 lockouts,” Miller said in an email. “Now that the courtsare open and hearing civil cases, we are continuing to serve all writ processes.”

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their properties in foreclosure.

One foreclosed homeowner told SCNG sheriff’s deputies gave him a reprieve from moving out lastweek because a granddaughter living with his family was diagnosed with COVID-19.

A tenants’ rights advocate criticized Orange County last month for resuming evictions, saying tenantsshouldn’t be put out on the street while the coronavirus pandemic is underway.

But landlord groups have said some smaller property owners are being burdened by tenants with pre-COVID eviction orders who aren’t paying their rent.

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Citing coronavirus spike, Redlands delays plans for dining on State Street – Press Enterprise

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Citing a recent uptick in cases of the novel coronavirus in San Bernardino County, the city ofRedlands late Monday, June 29, announced it will delay the start of a new outdoor dining programdowntown.

The city had planned to begin closing off a portion of East State and Fifth streets Thursday, July 2, toaccommodate restaurants who wished to serve patrons outdoors on Thursday, Friday and Saturdayevenings.

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decision was reached in consultation with restaurant partners, the city said.

When the program begins, the city will close East State Street between Orange Street and SixthStreet, and Fifth Street between Redlands Boulevard and Citrus Avenue beginning at 5:30 p.m. eachThursday, Friday and Saturday evening to allow restaurants to take over the streets for outdoor diningfrom 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. All streets will reopen by 11 p.m., according to the city.

The Redlands City Council on June 16 approved the streetclosures and agreements with local restaurants as a way toallow participating establishments to safely reopen whilepromoting social distancing in line with state and countypublic health recommendations.

San Bernardino County has reported hundreds of newcoronavirus cases each week, and on Sunday the governorrecommended it and seven other counties shut down barsin response to a surge in cases.


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By BRIAN WHITEHEAD | [email protected] | San Bernardino SunPUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 4:36 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 4:37 p.m.

Policing the peaceful George Floyd protest and ensuing civil unrest that occurred May 31 in SanBernardino has cost the city more than $500,000 in overtime, salaries, materials and supplies,according to a report prepared for elected officials by acting police Chief Eric McBride.

To be presented Wednesday, July 1, McBride’s four-page report chronicles the day hundreds ofpeople gathered downtown to protest institutional racism and police brutality in honor of Floyd, whodied on Memorial Day in Minneapolis police custody after then-Officer Derek Chauvin was recordedkneeling on the unarmed Black man’s neck for nearly nine minutes.

Chauvin and three other officers implicated in Floyd’s death have been fired and face criminalcharges.

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After learning on May 30 that there likely would be several Black Lives Matter-related protests in town,San Bernardino police leaders assigned 48 personnel, including lieutenants and sergeants, to patrolon May 31. Surrounding law enforcement agencies also were primed to help.

At around 4 p.m. May 31, a crowd of 300 formed at City Hall and began marching through downtown,chanting and holding signs. Two hours later, McBride said in his report, the group had nearly doubledin size and was in front of police headquarters on North D Street.

Several protesters began banging on the building’s glass doors, the acting chief said, but no propertywas damaged. Churchgoers helped keep the peace.

Eventually, McBride said in his report, the crowd fragmented, and those who did not head backdowntown walked toward Fifth Street, where more than a dozen California Highway Patrol officers


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protecting a state-owned facility had formed a skirmish line to confront approaching protesters.

At that point, McBride said, some people became hostile toward the officers and began throwingitems. Others became destructive.

Mutual police aid was requested.

Almost immediately, McBride said, protesters dispersed, again traveling in different directions.

The acting chief estimates that more than 2,000 people gathered at the Waterman Discount Mall andbecame “very destructive … bombarding the officers with rocks, bottles, bricks, fireworks, andanything that could be hurled to injure an officer.”

More than 250 officers representing several local agencies assembled at a nearby intersection andworked to disperse the crowd.

During this time, McBride said, looting was being reported elsewhere in town – chief targets includedthe Inland Center Mall, both Walmarts, Target, Big 5 and Harbor Freight on Highland Avenue – as wellas in neighboring communities, requiring police presence.

At around 2:30 a.m. Monday, June 1, all allied aid units had been released.

Police that night arrested 32 individuals, 22 of whom were not San Bernardino residents, McBridesaid. Between May 31 and June 1, there were 1,284 calls for service, “an exponential increase,” theacting chief added.

In the weeks since, San Bernardino police have arrested several additional suspects, while obtainingarrest warrants for others. Stolen property has been recovered and returned, McBride said in hisreport. Nearly 130 properties sustained damage or had to be boarded up to keep looters out.

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An overwhelming majority of businesses suffered minimal damage.

The $500,000 in costs covers police work conducted between May 31 and June 25, McBride said.

During a budget workshop earlier this month, Councilwoman Sandra Ibarra, who said she witnessedfirsthand the destruction along Highland Avenue the night of the riot, criticized the police response tocalls for service from business owners in her ward.

Parsing an ailing budget at the June 2 meeting, Ibarra went so far as to ask McBride to justify thevalue of upper management police positions.

“Right now I have complaints from residents and businessowners about a lack of response out there,” she said at thetime. “Sunday was heartbreaking. … When you see thesekind of images, you have to ask how (some leadershippositions) are really helping the city.

“How are they helping the people who work and live in thecity?” she added. “Right now, that’s not what we’re seeing.A lot of people are not happy.”

In an open letter to Ibarra posted online a week later, theSan Bernardino Police Officers Association said thecouncilwoman, whom the group endorsed in 2016,“blatantly attacked the integrity of the men and women ofthe San Bernardino Police Department.

“Ms. Ibarra’s claim that the San Bernardino PoliceDepartment was ineffective is not only false,” the letter reads, in part, “but it is disingenuous andspeaks to her true character.”

Ibarra responded to the letter on Facebook, writing, partly: “I did not attack our police officers, they doas directed by superiors. I was seeking information and asking questions to justify the proposedbudget for our police department. …

“I wholeheartedly thank our police officers for the work they do, the long hours they work, and forputting their lives in danger to protect us the best they can; unfortunately, our city was NOT preparedon May 31st and that is a fact.”

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Continued follow-up investigations into looting by the San Bernardino Police Department resulted inthe arrest of two people and charges filed against one man in separate incidents.

All the thefts happened on May 31, according to police.

Keyairra Cloyd, 28, of San Bernardino, was arrested June 20 on suspicion of stealing hair productsfrom a salon on the 200 block of E. Baseline Street.

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business, removing merchandise during the civil unrest,” police said in a release.

San Bernardino police said investigators identified Cloyd as a suspect and the person in thesurveillance footage.

“Cloyd was interviewed and admitted to her involvement in the looting that occurred,” police said. Shewas then booked into jail on suspicion of second-degree burglary during a local emergency.

Another instance of looting happened at a grocery store on the 1500 block of Highland Avenue,according to police. The grocery store had surveillance footage that showed a man arrive in a grayChevrolet Silverado with a California license plate.

Police said the man went into the store, stole alcohol and left in the Silverado.

The man who drove the Silverado was identified as Charles Edwin Haiman, 58, of San Bernardino,authorities said. A warrant was served at Haiman’s residence on June 22 and he was arrested onsuspicion of burglary and looting.

Terion Alexander Jr., also known as Tavy Alexander, 21, of San Bernardino, was charged Monday forhis suspected involvement in the looting of a gas station and vandalizing of a restaurant on WatermanAvenue on May 31.

Alexander was charged by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office with second-degreeburglary, vandalism causing over $400 in damage and second-degree burglary during a localemergency.

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Alexander streamed the looting and vandalism, according to police.

Police said the Facebook Live, webcast early that morning, was public and showed Alexander andpossibly three others who police did not name looting a Valero gas station at 1055 N. Waterman Ave.and then vandalizing a Wienerschnitzel across the street.


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The Upland chief of police was reinstated on Monday, June 29, after being placed on administrativeleave by the city manager last week.

Darren Goodman, the city’s first Black police chief, had been placed on paid leave on Monday, June22. City Manager Rosemary Hoerning would not give a reason for the action.

“We are very pleased that he has been reinstated. We believe he should never have been placed onleave to begin with,” Stephen Larson, Goodman’s attorney, said Monday.

Larson said Goodman was ordered back to work at 9 a.m. Monday by Hoerning.

In this file photo, Upland Police Chief Darren Goodman speaks to those gathered at Upland City Hall on Monday, July 16, 2018 afterbeing sworn in as chief. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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“He was ordered to report. He is fully reinstated,” Larson said.

Goodman announced his return Monday via Twitter. He had not returned a phone call seekingcomment by midday Monday.


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At a rally Thursday, Larson said all off-duty police officers came to City Hall to ask for the chief to bereinstated. The same day, the City Council held a special closed session on “pending litigation” but didnot report anything from the meeting.

In a letter sent to the City Council and Mayor Debbie Stone on Wednesday, June 24, Larson saidGoodman was placed under extreme scrutiny by Stone and her ally, Martin Thouvenell, a formerUpland police chief-turned-city consultant.

“We feel compelled to bring to the City Council’s attention the discriminatory, unscrupulous, unethical,and illegal conduct that has interfered with the Chief’s ability to do his job, and to expose the petty andmeritless allegations being leveled against him,” Larson wrote.

The move has been “driven by Martin Thouvenell and Mayor Stone’s anger for Chief Goodman’srefusal to play their political games; indeed, he has steadfastly resisted their efforts to make him amere figurehead responsive to their personal directions and catering to their instructions,” Larson said.

Goodman’s suspension came shortly after his secretary filed a claim against the city, Larson said,making allegations that Larson declined to detail. Luz Barrett went out on leave a day beforeGoodman had planned to demote her for poor performance, Larson wrote. Barrett is closely alignedwith Thouvenell, Larson wrote.

Larson, in an interview Thursday, said Stone was “looking for an opportunity” to oust Goodman andseized upon Barrett’s claim as a means to do so.



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In a letter to the City Council asking for Goodman’s reinstatement, Upland resident Lauren Del Torocollected 1,200 signatures from residents. She wrote: “We will not allow you to railroad him out of ourcity based on your manipulative, self serving, political agendas.”

In an email to this newspaper, she wrote that Goodman “has nearly solved the homeless issues thathave plagued Upland, lowered crime rates, created civic partnerships, and engages with ourcommunity to allow our voices to be heard and listen to our concerns.”

More than 100 people stood outside City Hall Thursday insupport of Goodman. Some held signs that read “ChiefGoodman Makes Upland Great Again.”

“The rank and file, the senior officers and the broaderUpland community have supported the chief of police,based on what he has done here for Upland,” Larson saidon Monday.

Hoerning had not returned a phone call seeking comment

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Buoyed by rapid growth in e-commerce, FedEx Ground is looking to hire 1,600 package handlers towork at the company’s sorting facility in Bloomington.

The 562,000-square-foot facility at 330 Resource Drive employs 1,100 workers, but more are neededto keep pace with growing demand. The center processes an average of 45,000 packages an hour,which are then delivered throughout the region.

“E-commerce has been booming lately,” FedEx spokeswoman Allie Addoms said. “We’ve seen asurge in package volume. It started with the pandemic. People feel more comfortable ordering thingsonline now.”

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The COVID-19 pandemic that forced millions of Americans to shelter in place has served toaccelerate momentum in e-commerce.

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There were 263 million digital buyers in 2019 in the U.S., a number that has increased every yearsince tracking began, according to a report from Irvine-based tech firm Adelphic.

Most non-essential businesses were closed for months, prompting consumers to increasingly turntheir focus to buying products online.

Target, for example, saw online sales grow 275% during the height of the outbreak and there’s noindication that online shopping increases will slow, Adelphic said. Eighty-two percent of people whoreported shopping online more during the COVID-19 pandemic say they plan to increase their e-commerce transactions once the pandemic ends.

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The FedEx job openings are both full- and part-time. Part-time employees typically work a two to four-hour shift per day and full-time employees work two shifts a day of varying lengths.

FedEx didn’t indicate what the position pays, but data from Glassdoor indicates the average base payfor a FedEx package handler is $27,000 annually or $13 hourly, California’s minimum wage for largercompanies.

FedEx package handlers are involved in the physical loading, unloading and sorting of packages.They are eligible for a variety of benefits, the company said, including medical, dental, vision,vacation, holiday pay, paid parental leave and tuition assistance after completion of an eligibilityperiod.

Flexible schedules are offered at many FedEx locations and that will be discussed during the hiringprocess, the company said.

Additional information on the FedEx Ground job openings can be found at GroundWarehouseJobs.fedex.com. Interested candidates must be at least 18 years of age.

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The pandemic has spurred a number of logistic employee protests over a lack of protective measures.

Earlier this month, food supply employees and Teamsters representatives staged protests at nearly30 facilities and stores nationwide to demand enhanced protections for employees amid thepandemic.

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Amazon facilities in New York City, Chicago and Detroit where some of the non-union employeestested positive for coronavirus.

FedEx said it is committed to keeping its workers safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We have been taking, and will continue to take, all necessary precautions in line with the latestguidance from public health organizations,” the company said.


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Data posted on the county public health website showed 98.7% of ICU beds in use Saturday. Thenumber was 84.7% on June 19. In all, 380 ICU beds were occupied Sunday, June, 28, up 3.8% fromthe day before.

Just five licensed ICU beds were available as of Sunday, county spokeswoman Brooke Federico saidvia email.

COVID-19 patients account for 28% of the ICU beds in use, Federico said, and another 23 ICUpatients are suspected of having the virus.

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Federico said. “Hospitals committed to increasing their capacity above and beyond their regularlicensed beds by at least the state’s minimum of 35 percent. Many hospitals can surge far greaterthan this figure.”

Licensed beds are a hospital’s regular and ICU beds that are permitted by the state. In circumstanceslike these, hospitals are allowed to convert regular beds to ICU beds or add beds to handle a surge.

According to Federico, 63% of all the county’s overall hospital beds were in use as of Saturday, downfrom 67.4% the day before. COVID-19 hospitalizations accounted for 9.4% of all hospital patientsSaturday.

The county also appears for now to have enoughventilators, which are vital to keeping severely ill COVID-19patients alive. While ventilator usage Saturday was up 10%from the day before, 499 ventilators were still available,according to county statistics.

The lack of ICU capacity comes as the county has seen asurge in confirmed coronavirus cases in recent weeks.Currently, the county is on the state’s coronavirus watchlist, a status that could force the county to take steps suchas closing businesses to limit the virus’s spread.

Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, a physician, called on the county to reinstate local public healthorders rescinded in May, including a mandate for face coverings and social distancing. The county,like the rest of California, is currently subject to a statewide face covering order.

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coronavirus,” Ruiz, whose district includes the Pass, Hemet, San Jacinto, and the Coachella Valley,said in an emailed statement.

“It will take at least two weeks to see the results of any action taken today, so these measures mustbe put in place immediately. Any delay will only prolong the surge and cause many more people tobecome infected, sick, and possibly die.”


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Riverside County intensive care unit beds nearly hit capacity Sunday, when patientsoccupied 99% of the normal number of beds. Suspected and confirmed coronaviruspatients account for about 35% of those beds, said Riverside spokeswoman BrookeFederico.

The shortage prompted a local member of Congress, a medical doctor, to call for thecounty to act immediately.

“I am calling on the County to immediately reverse their decision to rescind public healthsafety measures and reinstate their order to wear masks in public and to transparentlycommunicate their social distancing and stay at home surge intervention plans and

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enforcement mechanisms,” U.S. Rep. Raul Ruiz, (D-Palm Desert) said in an email.

Local health authorities said the official numbers on bed capacity paint a misleadinglybleak picture.

Though Riverside County normally offers 385 licensed ICU beds, hospitals have alreadyplaced some overflow patients in surge-capacity beds. The extra beds are temporarilytransitioned for intensive-care usage, with monitors, ventilators and IV pumps.

Michael Ditoro, chief operating officer at Desert Regional Medical Center, said the facilityhit ICU-bed capacity “well prior to COVID. Year after year.” The medical center’s surgebeds are equally equipped to treat patients as regular ICU beds, he said.

Bed capacity might not be their biggest challenge, Ditoro said. Instead, it’s scant staffing.

“You don’t really have a centralized area with the beds all around it where it’s really quickto get to them. Instead, you may be in a longer hall unit where you need staff closer toeach room,” he said of the surge units.

Alan Williamson, the vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer atEisenhower Health, reiterated the concern.



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In the most drastic scenario, Eisenhower Health could accommodate 155 intensive-carepatients. “But the question would be, ‘Are you able to muster enough nursing staff andancillary staff to run 155 ICU beds?’” he said.

Hospital staff has been creating surge-capacity plans since the coronavirus broke out inMarch, Williamson said. He added that Eisenhower Health has planned five phases ofsurge capacity. He predicts that at Riverside County’s coronavirus peak, the number of ICUpatients at the hospital will double.

There are about 3,560 total licensed hospital beds at the 17 hospitals in Riverside County,37% of which remain available, Federico said. Hospitals have stated that many of thesebeds can be transformed for intensive-care usage. Still, Williamson said only some roomsare ideally fit to treat COVID-19 patients, with negative pressure ventilation andtransparent glass walls.

Though beds run low, many ventilators are unused. Out of the 680 ventilators in RiversideCounty, 499 remain available.

The coronavirus situation in Riverside County remains bleak. As of Monday, RiversideCounty had tallied a total of 16,634 cases, 991 of which were reported since Friday. Thenumber of infections doubles approximately every 27 days.

Riverside County remains on the state’s“Targeted Engagement” watch list forcounties that fall outside of acceptablehealth metrics defined by the CaliforniaDepartment of Public Health. To fallwithin the acceptable metrics, thecounty would need to have more available ICU beds, fewer than 100 cases per 100,000people and a positive test rate lower than 8%.

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Though Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered Sunday that seven counties immediately close allbars and nightclubs, Riverside County was not included in the order. State officials didsuggest that local Riverside County officials put a similar order in place.

Riverside County residents are bound by Newsom’s California-wide order on June 18 thatall people wear masks while in public or high-risk settings.

“Wearing masks and social distancing are the most effective ways to reduce the spread ofcoronavirus. It will take at least two weeks to see the results of any action taken today, sothese measures must be put in place immediately. Any delay will only prolong the surgeand cause many more people to become infected, sick and possibly die,” Ruiz said.

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coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, public health officials announced Monday, June 29.

The order by county Public Health Officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser comes one day after Gov. GavinNewsom recommended the county, along with seven others, shut down its bars. The governorSunday, June 28, ordered bars closed in Los Angeles County and six other counties.

Newsom also recommended that San Bernardino County close its bars. The Board of Supervisors willdiscuss whether to do so during a special meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have risen steadily in the county and other parts of California inrecent weeks. Riverside County is on the state’s coronavirus watch list, and going into Monday, justfive of 385 licensed intensive care unit beds were empty, with more than 100 ICU patients confirmedto have the virus and 23 in the ICU suspected of having COVID-19.

Hospitalizations in Riverside County hit an early peak with 250 people hospitalized April 22. Numbersthen began dropping and leveled off at about 200 people hospitalized per day through the end of May.

The trend reversed in June. The county said 195 people were hospitalized June 1. The record 365people hospitalized Monday is an 87% increase, or an average of more than 2% more hospitalizationsper day.

The number of people in ICUs also decreased and then leveled off in May, but has risen 71% from 62people June 1 to 106 people Monday, according to the county’s figures.

In a news release, Kaiser said: “People don’t social distance well after a couple drinks, and it’s one ofthe hardest environments to trace contacts in. My hope is that this will be only temporary and furtherclosures won’t be needed, but it all depends on what every one of us as a county do to slow morespread.”

In the same release, Riverside County Supervisor V. Manuel Perez said: “A local Riverside Countyorder on bar closures has unfortunately become necessary to slow the spread of this virus. I want toremind everyone that facial coverings are a (statewide) requirement, and encourage continuouslykeeping physical distance and washing our hands.”

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Restaurants, pubs and breweries that offer dine-in food may still sell alcohol, but only in the sametransaction as a meal. If a bar offers meals, it is required to follow restaurant industry COVID-19guidelines.

Brewpubs and breweries must close unless they sell food, said county spokeswoman BrookeFederico. If they do, they can stay open so long as they follow restaurant industry COVID-19guidelines and only serve alcohol with meals, she said.

Wineries and tasting rooms are not affected by the order as long as they following restaurant/tastingroom industry guidelines, Federico said.

Five people were in Skydive Lunge in Riverside at 3 p.m., shortly after the county made theannouncement.

“Everybody’s bummed,” said Peggy Hawecker, an assistantmanager and 14-year employee. “We keep our distance,pretty much … I’m almost in tears.”

The previous shutdown was tough for the owners, and thisone would be, too, Hawecker said.

“When we shut down last time, they didn’t get a penny,”she said.

The bar closure order is a setback for the county’s efforts toreopen businesses forced to close in March following thegovernor’s statewide stay-at-home order imposed to limitCOVID-19’s spread. Bars, along with movie theaters, gyms,and other businesses, got the green light to reopen June12, while malls, retail stores and dine-in restaurants werepermitted to reopen May 22.

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Riverside County added 991 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus as hospitalizations reachedanother high in the Monday, June 29, update on the county public health website.

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There are now 16,634 confirmed cases in the county and 440 deaths from COVID-19. The death tollrose by two from the Friday, June 26, update. The weekday updates typically reflect new diagnosesand deaths that occurred in recent days, as those reports take time to reach public health officials.

COVID-19 hospitalizations rose by 47 to 365, with 106 of those patients in intensive care, up one fromFriday. The county had just five empty ICU beds entering Monday, but hospitals can convert regularbeds into ICU beds to handle the surge.

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Riverside County remains on the state’s coronavirus watch list because its cases per 100,000residents, increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations and shrinking ICU capacity exceed state thresholds.

State prisons in the county have 486 active cases, according to the California Department ofCorrections and Rehabilitation. The most — 355 — are at Chukawalla Valley Station Prison, whichhas the third-most active cases of any state prison in California.

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Inland Empire is 188,100 jobs below pre-coronavirus level, unemployment 14.9% – Daily Bulletin

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By JONATHAN LANSNER | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 12:45 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 1:37 p.m.

As the Inland Empire economy reopened from stay-at-home orders, 17,800 jobs were added in May.

Despite the gain, employment is still 12% below pre-coronavirus levels.

My trusty spreadsheet, filled with state job figures, found bosses in San Bernardino and Riversidecounties had 1.36 million employees in May. This staffing level, derived from a survey of employers,was up 1.3% from April as business limitations were eased.

Still, the economy — largely iced by efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus — is off 188,100positions from February, the last time the economy was largely untethered by the pandemic.

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Riverside and San Bernardino counties’ jobless rate, taken from a different survey of households, was14.9% for May vs. 14.7% in April and 3.5% a year ago. Note: The Great Recession had a 14.4%jobless peak.

The number of residents who are officially jobless was 302,000 last month, up 5,200 in the month andup 219,200 from February.

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Retailing: 147,600 jobs in May — that’s down 1,700 in a month but down 32,400 in three months.Staffing is down 17.5% vs. May 2019.

Restaurants: 81,000 jobs — up 6,900 in a month but down 55,900 in three months. Staffing is down42% in a year.

Hotels: 7,200 jobs — down 2,200 in a month and down 10,600 in three months. Staffing is down 61%in a year.

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Arts, entertainment and recreation: 10,900 jobs — down 300 in a month and down 9,400 in threemonths. Staffing is down 46% in a year.

Real estate, construction, finance: 144,700 jobs — up 11,700 in a month but down 5,300 in threemonths. Staffing is down 3.5% in a year.

Transportation/warehouses: 135,700 jobs — up 2,100 in a month but down 6,500 in three months.Staffing is up 2.7% in a year.

Business services: 253,500 jobs — up 5,300 in a month but down 12,600 in three months. Staffingis down 6.8% in a year.

Government: 143,100 jobs — down 5,600 in a month and down 7,500 in three months. Staffing isdown 4.4% in a year.


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Derf Batshon, manager at Baddeley’s Pourhouse with the thermometer, sanitizer and plexiglass shield they were using before thesecond order to close, due to the coronavirus pandemic began, in Long Beach on Monday, June 29, 2020. (Photo by Brittany Murray,Press-Telegram/SCNG)

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The Facebook posts by Baddeley’s Pourhouse in Long Beach say it all.

On Friday, June 19: “Grand Reopening, today!”

And on Monday, June 29: “We are closing again temporarily. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

It’s not easy to keep up these days.

1 of 5Derf Batshon, manager at Baddeley’s Pourhouse near the remodeled wall they installed before the second order to close, due to the coronaviruspandemic began, in Long Beach on Monday, June 29, 2020. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)


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After reopening only about a week earlier, Derf Batshon, bar manager at Baddeley’s at 3348 E.Broadway, found himself caught in a frantic reverse-course cycle as he tried to peddle back followingthe state and county order saying that bars not serving food must now re-close due to rising COVID-19 cases.

“It’s literally depressing and frustrating,” Batshon said, who included on his post that closing again wasthe “right thing to do” considering the latest stats.

But still … heartbreaking.

“I’m trying to keep my owners happy and the crew happy,” he said in a telephone interview Monday.“I’m calling all the vendors and all my people to tell them ‘Let’s pause.’ I have to figure out the payroll.”

The abrupt turnaround announced Sunday had bar owners and local chamber of commerce officialsalike in a tailspin the next morning.

“I think the people making these policies need to understand they just can’t be opening and reclosingbusinesses,” said Tom Flavin, CEO of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce. “Restaurants and barsoperate on very slim margins.”

Sandy Marchioli said she’s among the lucky ones. She owns Godmother’s Saloon, an iconic, 50-plus-year-old waterfront-adjacent bar at 302 W. Seventh St. in downtown San Pedro where scenes from“This is Us,” “CSI” and “Dexter” have been filmed.

She’d already applied for a partnership with a restaurant across the street, Sebastian’s MediterraneanCuisine, and is hopeful a menu will be in place allowing the bar to re-open — yet again — onWednesday, July 1.

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“It’s very upsetting,” she said of finally being able to open nine days ago but having to close again sosoon.

She had to return 14 kegs of beer along with expired bottled beers after having to close down for solong.

“Beer companies are losing tremendous amounts of money from all the expired beer in places thathad to close down,” Marchioli said.

Countywide spike

On Sunday, Los Angeles County reported its second-highest number of coronavirus cases in one day,2,542.

The news Monday was even worse.

Health officials reported 2,903 new cases, shattering the previous single-day record and pushing thestate’s total over 100,000 cases.

The sharp increase in weekend cases along with hospitalizations prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom toorder bars be shut in L.A. and six other counties.

By Sunday night, Los Angeles County Public Health officials said they’d heed the order.

Los Angeles County health officials said Monday that without a dramatic reversal in public behavior tocontrol the virus “we will see a lot more deaths” and possibly run short of hospital beds in a matter ofweeks, it was reported in a City News Service article.

On average, health officials estimate that one in every 140 people in Los Angeles County is nowinfected with COVID-19 and capable of spreading it to others, even without symptoms. That figure isup dramatically from last week, when the estimate was one in every 400 people.

“What this means is that Angelenos in the activities of daily living when they go out are very likely tobe in the locations or near persons who are currently infectious, and in fact a large typical store islikely to have multiple infectious persons enter the shop every day,” Dr. Roger Lewis, who leads thecounty’s statistical modeling efforts, said.

Dr. Christina Ghaly, the county’s health services director, noted the “stark change” in hospitalizationsover the past week, with more than 1,700 people currently hospitalized, up from about 1,300 at thebeginning of June.



Health officials pointed to a variety of issues leading to the spike in cases, noting increasing numbersof people visiting restaurants, bars, beaches and stores, and also attending mass protests againstpolice brutality, and visiting relatives and friends.

County public health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged the problem of quarantine fatigue.Residents, she acknowledged, are clearly anxious to get back to normal life and may see thereopening of businesses as a sign the virus is disappearing — leading to a lack of social distancingand a failure to wear face coverings.

More rollbacks to come?

Pasadena has about 20 bars that strictly sell alcohol, said Pasadena Chamber of Commerce CEOPaul Little, a small number compared to the amount of restaurant-bars in the city. Bars paired withrestaurants and offering food menus were allowed to reopen — and can stay open for now under thegeneral restaurant sector provisions.

For those establishments that have to close, Little said, the challenge is going back to having noincome at all, making things that much more difficult.

The bigger fear, Little added, is “because we’re in stage 3, (of California reopening) if things continueto get worse, the government will take everything (back) to stage 2 — which means no indoor diningand retail.”

“The challenge,” Little said, “is that the customers aren’t used to the new protocol — they’re going tohave to (comply) if they want to have those (bar) experiences again.”

Echoing health officials, Little stressed that everyone needs to heed the admonitions to social distanceand wear masks.

“We’re not trying to keep ourselves safe, masks are to protect everyone else from us. Once thatmessage sinks in, I think we’ll see more open in bigger ways,” Little said.

Ferrer said the latest dire statistics have led to a “tenuous moment” in the pandemic, and with theFourth of July holiday weekend approaching, people need to avoid the temptation to act as if thecoronavirus is gone.

“This is going to be a different summer,” she said. “This is going to be a different July Fourth.”

They statement proved even more poignant later Monday, when the county issued orders closing itsbeaches during the holiday weekend and banning public fireworks displays.



Walking the health-economy line

In the San Fernando Valley, chamber officials were in staff meetings to assess the abrupt turnaroundand how businesses could be helped.

“Obviously we’re doing the best we can to follow the health orders given to us,” said Nancy HoffmanVanyek, CEO of the Greater San Fernando Chamber of Commerce. “It’s hard to go back and forth.We’re concerned it’s going to hurt small bar business owners. But at the same time, the health andsafety of the community has to be at the forefront.”

Many area bars already have partnered with licensed food providers, she said, becoming “restaurantsovernight” in order to remain open along with regular restaurants.

But Batshon at Baddeley’s in Long Beach said some bars that have qualified under that categoryaren’t fully complying.

“It’s starting to become unfair,” he said. “All these other local businesses are opening up andpretending they serve food but they’re not requiring guests to buy anything.”

He said he visited a few establishments and found the food requirements being skirted.

When allowed to finally reopen about a week ago, Batshon and others scrambled to reopen theirdoors.

“Lucikly I’d been working my butt off to get us up to spec and a plan going,” he said. He orderedliquor, wine and beer, “which is expensive,” he said, and brought the cleaning crew back in for a fullsterilization treatment.

“I had several Yelp reviews saying how safe people felt in our establishment and we were doingeverything possible,” he said of the days in which he was able to reopen. Tables were socialdistanced and most patrons abided by the health department restrictions, he said. Only 24 at a timecould be inside the bar at tables spaced at least 6 feet apart.

“Now we’re back at square one,” he said.

“It’s unfortunate that we’ve taken a step backwards, but the health numbers are the health numbers,”said Jeremy Harris, senior vice president of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce in a writtenstatement. “We are very much concerned this will hurt our bar small business owners so we ask thatcommunity members heed the advice of local health experts so we may prevent any future closings of



other industries.”

Flavin, the chamber CEO in Burbank, said the economic shutdown was overwhelming and costly forthe business community. Some of the conflicting medical data that’s floating around doesn’t help aspeople try to make decisions, he said.

“We did a recent survey and 564 businesses replied,” he said. “Their biggest concern was around theCOVID reopening requirements and delays and missteps. This (bar reversal) is a misstep.

“Having been an elected official myself, I know the dangers of unintended consequences,” said Flavin,a former mayor of Burbank. “The economy can’t take it, quite frankly.”

The toll has also hit workers vacillating between unemployment claims and work call-backs.

“I’ve spoken to people who are employees and are depressed,” Vanyek said. “People want to getback to work.”

Vanyek said it’s been a fine line to walk for health officials and business owners alike, adding that theSan Fernando Valley is a “resilient community.”

She remains, she said, a “realistic optimist,” having been with the chamber through earthquakes andrecessions.

But this particular trial, she conceded, is challenging.

“It’s a really hard time right now,” she said. “We’ve shut down an entire economy and now are trying toreopen it with care so consumers feel confident.”

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Los Angeles County beaches will close for the Fourth of July weekend to help stem the spread of thecoronavirus, officials said Monday, June 29.

LA County Department of Public Health will issue an order sometime Monday closing all countybeaches and parking lots from Friday, July 3, to 5 a.m. Monday, July 6, said Liz Odendahl,spokesperson for Supervisor Janice Hahn.

The Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station, which covers the Malibu area, also announced the closure on itsFacebook page.

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Hermosa Beach, which is city-owned, had yet to weigh in on whether it would close, but the citygenerally takes its cues from the county. The same goes for Long Beach, which also owns its beach.

Reports of an increased rate of transmission to one in 140 in Los Angeles County has caused healthofficials to warn that local hospitals will need to immediately ramp up their number of beds to preparefor more sick people in the coming weeks.

“We are at a tenuous moment in our pandemic here in L.A. County,” said the county’s public healthdirector, Barbara Ferrer, who, along with Department of Health Services Director Dr. Christina Ghalyand Dr. Roger Lewis, outlined troubling new coronavirus projections.

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With coronavirus surge, L.A. County may run out of ICU beds - Los Angeles Times

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Los Angeles County health officials issued a dire warning Monday that conditions amid theCOVID-19 pandemic are deteriorating rapidly and the highly contagious virus is spreadingswiftly in the nation’s most populous county.

They said they are now faced with one of their biggest fears: that the reopening of L.A.County would coincide with sudden jumps in disease transmission that have the potentialto overwhelm public and private hospitals.

L.A. County has long been the epicenter of the coronavirus in California — with nearly98,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,300 deaths — but officials said Monday that theoutbreak is worsening.

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Barbara Ferrer, the director of public health for L.A. County, said that new data show“alarming increases in cases, positivity rates and hospitalization.”

“This does indicate — definitively — that we have increased community transmission,”Ferrer said. “There’s so much at stake, since these continued increases will result in manymore people becoming seriously ill, and many more deaths of COVID-19.”

“We’re seeing more people get sick and go into the hospital. This is very much a changein the trajectory of the epidemic over the past several days. It’s a change for the worseand a cause for concern,” said Dr. Christina Ghaly, L.A. County’s director of health services.

The daily number of cases could be four to five times the peak of what L.A. County saw inlate March and early April, “placing tremendous burden on our healthcare system andhospitals and resulting in much otherwise unnecessary suffering and mortality,” Ghaly said.

With a predicted increase in hospitalizations, for the first time since the coronavirus crisisseemed to ease locally, L.A. County is now projecting the possibility of running out ofhospital beds in two to three weeks. Likewise, the number of intensive care unit beds couldbe exhausted sometime in July.

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If the increased disease transmission rate continues as it has done so over the last fewweeks, it “suggests that we are at risk of running out of hospital beds if we don’t take stepsto increase that capacity within the next two to three weeks,” said Dr. Roger Lewis, abiostatistician, director of the COVID-19 demand modeling unit for L.A. County and chairof the emergency department at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

“We did anticipate that we would see increases in cases of hospitalization. The problemwas that we didn’t expect to see increases that were this steep so quickly,” Ghaly said.

The county is able to meet hospital demand currently, but many of the patients who havealready been exposed to the virus will now be filling the beds in the coming weeks. It cantake three to four weeks after exposure to the virus for infected people to become sickenough to be hospitalized, and four to five weeks after exposure for some of the mostvulnerable patients to die from the disease.

“So even if steps are taken immediately to reduce the spread in the community, we doexpect to see a continued uptick in the next two to four weeks,” Lewis said.

All public and private hospitals in L.A. County need to be prepared to treat more patientsbased on these projections, Ghaly said. Hospitals can create new capacity by reducingelective procedures and surgeries and take steps to expeditiously discharge patients whono longer need hospital care.

Hospitals can also add more beds beyond their normal licensed capacity, typically 20% to40% over, by creating space they normally wouldn’t utilize for in-patient care, such asemergency departments, recovery rooms, and pre- and post-operative care units, Ghalysaid. Some hospitals can also reopen previously licensed or staffed wards.

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The best place to treat a patient who needs hospital care is in a hospital. Alternate caresites present a host of challenges, Ghaly said.

The effective transmission rate of the coronavirus has now increased. Previously, throughthe beginning of May, for every one person infected, fewer than one other person onaverage was infected — a testament to the success of the stay-at-home order. But byearly June, as the reopening accelerated, the coronavirus transmission rate had creptabove 1, meaning for every one person infected, an additional 1.26 people are infected onaverage.

“We expect the number of cases to rise quickly,” Ghaly said.

Although this rate is lower than what L.A. County saw earlier in the pandemic, when everyone infected person on average infected three other people, the current rate can stillcause a much larger number of new cases “because of the much broader base of infectedindividuals that we have today,” Ghaly said.

Last week, there was an estimated 1 in 400 people in L.A. County who was infectious withthe virus and infecting others — people who weren’t hospitalized or in isolation at home.Now, there’s an estimated 1 in 140 people people actively infecting others, Ghaly said.

That means a typical large, busy store is likely to have multiple infectious persons enterand shop every day, officials said.

The increase in transmission likely occurred sometime around the week of Memorial Dayweek or shortly thereafter. At the time, L.A. County officials decided to gradually reopenthe economy because the data was stable, with no increases in hospitalizations and adecline in new deaths, Ferrer said.

But unfortunately, people and businesses haven’t been adhering to health orders to wear



masks in public and stay away from crowded situations. Just this past weekend, masks orface shields were not being worn by workers at 44% of inspected restaurants and 54% ofinspected bars. Officials have also seen examples of overcrowding at public spaces.

“I’ve had an explosion of new outbreaks in workplaces. One that got shut down this pastweekend, it had over 115 infections. Again, very little compliance with the directives onhow to operate a factory with as much safety as possible,” Ferrer said.

“And we’ve had numerous examples of outbreaks happen because families are gettingtogether with extended family members and friends to celebrate weddings, things theyhad postponed, and again, created higher risk, and there was transmission,” Ferrer said.

Ferrer also said that, according to data by Foursquare, that the weekend after June 20, theday when bars reopened in L.A. County, 500,000 people visited nightlife spots. And thecounty has observed a 40% increase in coronavirus cases among younger people,between the ages of 18 and 40, in the last two weeks.

People are often most infectious with the coronavirus before they ever develop symptoms,Lewis said. There are people who also become infected and can transmit to others whonever develop any symptoms at all.

Health officials urged people to realize to avoid gathering with friends and family for theFourth of July weekend. “We’d love to spend it with close family and friends [but] I stronglyadvise against it,” Ferrer said. “This is a time to still stay within your household, as much aspossible.”

She said being outside are good activities with members of your household. “Take solacein the fact that we’re all going to do it this way ... in hopes that by next July Fourth, which Isee is totally possible, we’re celebrating in ways we’re much more accustomed to,” Ferrersaid. “We need to get this back under control.”



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Now is a tenuous moment in L.A. County, and Ferrer urged the elderly and those withunderlying conditions to stay at home. “There is far too much risk at the moment ...Everyone else should stay home as much as they can,” Ferrer said.




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Los Angeles County confirmed 22 additional coronavirus-related deaths and 2,903 newCOVID-19 cases Monday, the largest single-day number of new infections the county hasreported since the pandemic hit the U.S.

The daily tally brings the total number of coronavirus cases in L.A. County to more than100,000.

The alarming spike in cases is not just the result of increased testing, county Public HealthDirector Barbara Ferrer said. The surge is proof that community transmission has“definitively” increased, with the rate of those testing positive for infection nearing 9%.Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are likely unknowingly infected with virus,

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In addition, health officials revealed that on June 20 — after Los Angeles County gave thegreen light for bars, breweries, wineries and similar businesses to reopen — more than500,000 people visited the county’s newly reopened nightlife spots.

Officials said that 49% of bars and 33% of restaurants in the county were not adhering tosocial distancing protocols in the last week. Additionally, inspectors found that workers at54% of bars and 44% of restaurants were not wearing face masks or shields.

“There are a number of businesses and individuals who have not followed the directives,and they’ve gone back to living like COVID-19 is not living in our community,” Ferrer said.“If you’re not part of the solution to slow the spread, you’re ending up being part of theproblem.”




The news follows the state’s order that seven counties — including Los Angeles — mustclose their bars, while eight others were encouraged to follow suit.

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Across the state, infections have increased by 45% over the past 14 days, andhospitalizations have grow by 43%.

Officials have previously said that the increase in COVID-19 infections is “highly likely” theresult of people gathering en masse at protests over the death of George Floyd, inaddition to clusters of people who have congregated in restaurants and at privategatherings.

But because contact tracers do not identify cases that have stemmed from public spaces,it is often impossible to know the origin of transmission. Still, Gov. Gavin Newsom saidMonday that the surge in cases was caused largely “by people mixing that were otherwisenot mixing in the past,” before the state allowed the further reopening of selectbusinesses.

And the spike is occurring statewide. Orange County confirmed 56 coronavirus-relateddeaths last week, the highest weekly death toll that the county has reported since thepandemic began in the U.S.

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According to the California Department of Public Health, which collects information fromeach county’s distinct tracking methods, the biggest spike in cases and deaths occurredWednesday, when 733 new cases and 24 deaths were reported.

With the spike in deaths and cases, Newsom announced Monday that Orange County –which has the third-most cases in the state – was added to the list of now 19 counties thatthe state is watching for surges in infection numbers or hospitalization rates.

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While Orange County continues to move forward with its expanded reopening, otherparts of California are scaling back.

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The state on Sunday ordered the closure of bars in seven counties on its watch list — LosAngeles, Fresno, Kern, San Joaquin, Tulare, Kings and Imperial — and encouraged thesame of eight others that include Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Sacramento, Riverside,Ventura, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Stanislaus.

Contra Costa County officials on Monday announced they will further delay reopenings asCOVID-19 cases surged past 2,800 infections.

The county previously had cleared bars, personal services not involving close contact withthe face, indoor dining, gyms, fitness centers, limited indoor leisure activities, museumsand hotels for tourism and individual travel to reopen July 1.

“With the sharp rise in community spread and hospitalizations, it does not make sense atthis time to open additional business sectors that could further accelerate communitytransmission,” officials said.

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indicate that the spread of the virus has slowed, as measured by at least a week of stablecase numbers, hospitalizations and percent of tests that are positive,” the county added ina statement on its public health website.”

The seven-day average number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals in the county rose by75% from June 15 to June 29. The number of residents testing positive for the disease hasrisen from 38 to 87 a day, with the percentage of positive tests moving from 5% to 6%.

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The slowed efforts come as the state inches closer to crossing 6,000 deaths. All the while,the number of cases has skewed more heavily toward younger residents.

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Most who have tested positive for infection in California fall between the ages of 18 and49, according to state data. That group consists of 118,900 individuals, the bulk of thestate’s more than 500,000 cases. Some counties break those numbers down further. InL.A. County, 41% of the nearly 100,000 cases are now among individuals between the agesof 18 and 40.

“While cases in this age range typically have low risk for serious illness or death, PublicHealth is concerned they may unknowingly infect parents, grandparents, and friends andfamily who have underlying health conditions and who are at greater risk for serious illnessand death,” the health department shared in a statement Sunday.

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The age of those testing positive is shifting younger. In June, 55% of those testing positivewere 40 years and younger, compared with 38% in that group in April.

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“It’s a sign that younger people are playing a major role in driving the increase in newcases and potentially infecting vulnerable individuals,” the county said.

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L.A. considers buyouts for more than 2,800 city workers - Los Angeles Times

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Faced with a major budget crisis, Los Angeles city leaders moved forward with a plan to offer buyouts to thousands of city employees. (Richard Vogel / Associated Press)

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The Los Angeles City Council is poised to offer thousands of city employees cash payoutsto retire, part of a major push to cut payroll costs during an unfolding financial crisis.

About 2,850 employees, or roughly 8.2% of the city workforce, would be eligible forbuyouts of up to $80,000 if they retire in the coming year, city budget analysts said.

The program would result in a major downsizing of the workforce, the largest since the2008 recession, triggering new reductions in services. Still, Mayor Eric Garcetti praised theinitiative, saying it would cut employee costs while relying on fewer employee furloughdays to balance the budget.

“It’ll save money. It’ll save costs. And it can perhaps lessen the furloughs,” he said.

The council’s Budget and Finance Committee endorsed the buyouts Monday, setting thestage for a full council vote on Tuesday. If approved, city employees who are eligible toretire — and have been facing the threat of furloughs — can begin applying for theretirement payouts next week.

The proposal comes as City Hall faces a range of dire financial scenarios, triggered bothby a drop in projected tax revenue and by costly union contracts backed by Garcetti andthe council in recent years.

The city’s employee unions had lobbied aggressively for the retirement program,describing it as a way to avert Garcetti’s furlough plan. Furloughs would have delivered a10% pay cut to nearly 16,000 civilian city employees, saving the city about $150 million inthe next budget year, according to city estimates.

The city will save $23.2 million in the upcoming year if half of the eligible workers agree toretire, said City Administrative Officer Rich Llewellyn, the high-level budget analyst. If everyeligible worker takes part in the program, the city will save $58.7 million, he said.



Councilman Bob Blumenfield voiced fears about the buyout strategy, saying it poses risksto the city’s finances and its operations.

“If the economy gets worse and we end up having to do furloughs anyway, then we’vemade a mistake,” he said. “Then we’ve just made it worse by paying out these big lumpsum payments.”

Llewellyn said he expects the average retirement buyout will range from $60,000 to$70,000. For each employee, the size of the buyout will depend their salary and years ofservice.

Jack Humphreville, who serves on the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, voicedalarm over the proposal, saying the public has been given little time to study it. Theretirement program will be more expensive than furloughs or layoffs and leave the citywith a big balloon payment roughly a year from now, he said.

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Under the proposal, the city would pay $10,000 to each employee who retires during thefiscal year that starts Wednesday. The remainder of the employee buyouts would be paidout in the 2021-22 fiscal year.

“What they’re doing is kicking the can down the road,” Humphreville said.

If every eligible employee takes part in the program, the city would spend $28.5 million onbuyouts this year and another $128.6 million next fiscal year, Llewellyn said.

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“City workers are giving us their all during this pandemic,” he said. “This is a key step in theright direction because at the end of the day, we owe these front-line heroes everypossible effort to minimize the impact of the current budget crisis on them and theirfamilies.”

During the city’s last major budget crisis, the mayor and council gave early retirement to2,400 civilian city workers. The decision abruptly cut the size of the workforce. But becauseit required the city to give workers their pensions ahead of schedule, city leaders had tospread the additional cost over 15 years.

This time around, city workers won’t be eligible for additional pension benefits.

The buyout initiative has been modeled after a program carried out recently at LosAngeles World Airports, which runs Los Angeles International Airport. Agencyspokeswoman Becca Doten said 331 employees, or 9% of the department’s workers, haveapplied for the retirement incentives.

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Doten said the airport program was sparked by a dramatic loss of revenue following thecoronavirus shutdowns.

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to operate starting Wednesday. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

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SAN DIEGO — Just 17 days after they were allowed to reopen on June 12, San DiegoCounty bars, breweries and wineries learned Monday that they will not be allowed tooperate, at least not in the traditional sense, starting Wednesday at 12:01 a.m.

While restaurants will still be allowed to serve drinks with meals, no one will be allowed tostand around with drinks in their hands after the stroke of midnight Tuesday.

County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher announced the decision, which follows a mandatefrom Gov. Gavin Newsom over the weekend that asks bars to close in some Californiacounties due to increasing rates of novel coronavirus transmission.

San Diego, though, is not on that list. But Fletcher, backed up by Dr. Wilma Wooten, theregion’s public health officer, said it does not make sense to wait, given that local COVID-19 trend lines have been headed in the wrong direction for about a week now. Bars, hesaid, tend to encourage the kind of socializing that makes it easier to spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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we’ve seen in cases, in percentage of positive cases, in outbreaks and the increases inhospitalizations,” Fletcher said. “We don’t want to wait to be forced to take an action whenwe know it is the wise and responsible thing for us to do now.”

On Monday, the county announced498 new COVID-19 cases, a single-dayrecord and one more than wasannounced Sunday. Only one of thepast seven single-day totals has beenunder 300 cases, and more worrisome,the number of hospitalized COVID-19cases continues to climb, reaching 458Sunday, significantly higher than the346 hospitalizations tallied a week ago. The number of local COVID-19-associated deathsheld steady at 361.

The announcement took some establishments by surprise.

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“We finally reopened,” said Rachel Dymond, co-owner of the Carriage House in KearnyMesa. “I cannot believe this is happening again. It’s just unreal to me. Why bars? There arethousands of protesters, and they’re blaming bars.”

Air Conditioned Lounge owner Gary John Collins, though, said he was not surprised.

“When the governor did it yesterday for L.A. County, I thought, ‘We’re next.’” Collins said.“A lot of people are ignoring the guidelines, and here we are.”

Skip Coomber, co-founder of Coomber Craft Wines in Oceanside, said, “I guess what’shappened is we’ve taken one step back. It’s awkward, and it’s frustrating. But I understandand respect what they’re doing.”

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But the order applies to only those places that don’t serve food. It’s clear that, while thecounty is specifically forbidding anyone from standing around and having a drink,establishments that serve both food and alcohol may still serve customers while they’reseated.

Coomber said his winery has a license to serve food from four nearby restaurants, so hewill be allowed to keep his doors open. But he’ll have to educate his staff and hiscustomers about the need to eat and drink.

Meanwhile, Collins, the Air Conditioned Lounge owner, said he believes his bar on 30th

Street near Adams Avenue is in the clear because he just started selling food as part of acollaboration with a food truck vendor, Tacos La Mezcla. His bar offers ceviche, shrimpcocktails and chips and salsa.

But it’s not, he added, like things have been booming since bars were allowed to reopen.A large outdoor space, he said, has not been packed.

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“We are very slow,” he said. “People come on the patio. It’s very spacious, and we haven’thad any capacity issues and not all the spaces available have been taken.”

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San Diego County again hit a “trigger” threshold with the number of community COVID-19 outbreaks once more reaching seven in the past seven days. The latest two, officialssaid, occurred at restaurants on Sunday with two more detected Saturday at restaurantsthat also have bars.

It was clear Monday that the upcoming Fourth of July holiday weekend is a major concernfor local leaders. Asked whether the county might consider closing beaches this weekend,as Los Angeles County has, Fletcher was noncommittal, saying the county was in theprocess of reaching out to beach cities to “get a sense from them if there is some actionthey would like us to take.”

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But officials have said that they do expect to take additional actions to curtail allowedactivities before the holiday arrives. Supervisor Greg Cox said that given the growth incases, this should be a more subdued holiday than usual. He especially pleaded with thepublic to avoid traditional barbecue gatherings, which, he reiterated, have alreadygenerated many COVID-19 outbreaks.

“No barbecue is worth that,” he said.

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Stanislaus County not closing bars to curbspread of coronavirus. Will the state do it?

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Stanislaus County leaders didn’t take any steps Monday to follow through with astate recommendation Sunday to close bars as a way to reduce the spread ofcoronavirus.

Top state officials didn’t do anything Monday to make the order mandatory in thiscounty. And no one was sure what effect bar closures would have on tampingdown the rate of new infections here.

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Noting that Tuesday is the county’s 14th day on the state watch list, Olsen said sheexpects the state will take action to make bar closures mandatory in this county.No one knows what effect closing bars, which were allowed to open June 12,would have or what additional closures might be needed to reduce the spread ofcoronavirus here.

“My expectation is we will have to close bars this week,” Olsen said.

The county has not been able to reduce the rate of hospitalizations since it wasplaced on the state watch list two weeks ago. Its rate of positive coronavirus testsis higher than the state’s recommended rate of 8 percent.

While earlier in the pandemic the coronavirus almost seemed to bypass thiscounty, Stanislaus is now part of a hot zone for COVID-19 illness in the NorthernSan Joaquin Valley and in California.

San Joaquin was one of seven California counties where Newsom ordered bars toclose Sunday. Bar closures were recommended in eight other counties includingStanislaus where the state health department is monitoring a surge of infections.

On Monday, the list of counties watched by the state grew from 15 to 19, includingMerced.

STANISLAUS COUNTY NUMBERS RISING FAST

Bars were targeted for closure after state and local officials noticed an increase inyoung people testing positive for coronavirus. One in five cases in StanislausCounty are people in the 21 to 30 age group.

The chief concern in Stanislaus County are COVID-19 hospitalizations, which grewto a total of 108 at local hospitals in the latest update Monday. The county updatereported 136 suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients currently admitted atlocal hospitals.

Stanislaus County’s hospitalization rate of 19.2 coronavirus patients per 100,000 isthird highest among counties in California. Over the weekend, the 36 critically illpatients in local intensive care units was more than any county in the Bay Areaand seventh highest among counties of any size in the state.

The county’s rate of ICU admissions (6.4 per 100,000) is second highest in the state.

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County officials discussed the possible action and other topics at a meetingMonday but decided to wait.

“We are seeking clarification from the state on what discretion, if any, we have asa local community to make this decision,” Jody Hayes, chief executive officer, saidin an email to The Modesto Bee.

The county is also delaying action on opening personal service businesses like nailsalons and tattoo shops, which involve close contact between service providersand their customers. Dr. Julie Vaishampayan, county health officer, was not infavor of moving forward with those openings until more case data was reviewed,a county supervisor said.

“We recognize the confusion and associated impacts of these delayed actions andappreciate your patience as we work with the state to clarify these importantissues,” Hayes wrote.

Officials with the county’s emergency operations center expected to hold anothermeeting Wednesday.

Kristin Olsen, county Board of Supervisors chairman, said during a telephonetown hall with Rep. Josh Harder, D-Turlock, on Monday she’s concerned about thetrend line in the county’s hospitalization numbers.

“Our concern is the rate at which our hospitalization numbers are increasing isnot sustainable,” Olsen said. For now, the county has been assured by hospitaladministrators they have sufficient capacity for COVID-19 patients.

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Stanislaus reported a record 115 new coronavirus cases Sunday. According to aStanford University projection, coronavirus-related hospital admissions inStanislaus County are expected to double by July 15.

Other county leaders didn’t sound eager to reverse the reopening process. Instead,it sounded like additional business openings could get support from countyleaders.

“We are not going to close the bars at this point,” Supervisor Terry Withrow said.“We are waiting for more clarification from the state. If the state intends to do it,we will let the state do it.”

Withrow said the county has to balance the public health concerns with residents’ability to provide for their families.

Vaishampayan, county health officer, issued a statement Friday remindingresidents that gatherings of all sizes, including birthday parties, graduationcelebrations and “shared celebrations and shared sorrows” are prohibited under astatewide order.

“Unfortunately, in violation of this state directive, there are increased reports ofhome gatherings,” Vaishampayan wrote. “Many times these are happeningwithout taking the necessary precautions to decrease chances for this virus tospread.”

COUNTY TELLS RESIDENTS TO STAY HOME FOURTH OF JULY

A post on the county’s Stanemergency.org Facebook page advised residents to stayhome and away from crowded areas during the Fourth of July weekend. “Keep allbarbecues and picnics at home and gather only with people in your household,”the county advised.

In a Facebook post, county Supervisor Vito Chiesa said the county was “pumpingthe brakes” on a proposal to open nail salons, massage and other personal servicebusinesses this week.

He said the county’s contact tracing team, which tries to identify the knowncontacts of new cases, can’t keep up with the dozens of positive tests reporteddaily. At the current rate of new infections, the contact tracers need to make from

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Cases have tripled this month in Modesto, which has 758 of the county’s 2,165cases. Zip code areas with large increases since June 5 are 95351 in west and southModesto with 347 new cases, 95307 in Ceres with 187 and 95350 in centralModesto with 108.

Of the 4,715 test results reported in the last seven days, 526 were positive for a rateof 11.67 percent, which is above the state threshold of 8 percent. New cases in thecounty averaged 75 per day in the past week.

At a press conference Monday, Newsom expressed concern the rate of positivetests statewide has increased from 4.4 percent to 5.5 percent over the last 14 days,or 5.9 percent in the past week. COVID-19 hospitalizations in California are up 43percent since June 15.

The state wants to see disease transmission at less than 25 cases per 100,000 over atwo-week period, which works out to 140 cases or 10 per day in Stanislaus County.

The state considers taking action to reverse the reopening process in counties ifless than 20 percent of hospital intensive care beds remain available and less than25 percent of ventilators are available.

In Stanislaus County, 37 percent of the 179 ICU beds remain available and 78percent of 207 ventilators are available. The five hospitals still have 42 percent of1,209 hospital beds available.

County public health has tracked new cases to family gatherings, outbreaks in theworkplace and employees getting sick at businesses with face-to-face contact withcustomers. Those initially infected often spread the virus to family members athome.

Congregate living facilities are another source of new infections. The owner of ElRio Memory Care, an assisted living facility in north Modesto, reported lateThursday that five residents had died from COVID-19 illness. A total of 26 residentsand 14 employees tested positive after 130 residents and staff were tested earlierthis month.

“We mourn the loss of those residents and our thoughts and prayers go out to theirfamily and friends,” Koelsch Communities said in a statement.

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State officials are monitoring counties like Stanislaus and Gov. Gavin Newsom hasauthority to reverse reopenings in an effort to stabilize the infection rate. The stateannounced Monday it would start reversing the reopening process in coronavirus-ravaged Imperial County.

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COVID-19 TEST RESULTS IN STANISLAUS COUNTY

Here is a two-week look at the results of the coronavirus tests in Stanislaus County bypercent of positive test results, total tests and total positive tests. On May 20,Stanislaus County received permission from the state to go into the deeper state ofPhase 2 of Gov. Gavin Newsom's reopening plan. Click on each category for total.

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200 to 1,000 calls per day, “which easily overwhelms our current capabilities,”Chiesa’s post said.

The supervisor said the governor has authority to step in and order the closure ofbusinesses that reopened after the county was approved for a variance May 20.Those businesses included retail shopping centers, restaurant dining rooms,Vintage Faire Mall, hair salons and more.

Chiesa hoped the state will continue leaving those decisions to county healthofficers. “This is all very fluid, with information changing rapidly,” Chiesa wrote.

Vaishampayan said last week that business sectors that were allowed to reopenJune 12 — bars, wineries, fitness centers and museums — were most at risk ofclosing if the county can’t reverse the increase in infections and hospitalizations.

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POSITIVE COVID-19 CASES IN MODESTO -AREA COUNTIES

On March 9, 2020, San Joaquin County reported its first positive COVID-19 case. Twodays later, Stanislaus County did the same. Here is a look, day-by-day, through June 29,2020, at the incremental growth over the last month in those counties, along withTuolumne, Merced and Mariposa counties.

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A man waits for a bus near a bar closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles on Monday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered bars that have opened in sevenCalifornia counties, including Los Angeles, to immediately close. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)

By TARYN LUNA | STAFF WRITER

JUNE 29, 2020 | 2:42 PM

SACRAMENTO — Explaining his decision to require limited bar closures in seven counties,Gov. Gavin Newsom warned Monday that the state will continue to pull back onreopening as COVID-19 spreads in California.

“The bottom line is: We’re doing this because we have seen an increase in the spread ofthis virus,” Newsom said. “We need to take further steps and that’s exactly what we did thisweekend.”

Newsom reported a 45% increase in coronavirus cases in the last seven days and said therate of positive tests is now at 5.5%. As of Monday, the state is monitoring and workingwith 19 counties that have failed to meet guidelines for hospitalizations, transmission of thevirus or sufficient testing for at least three days.

The governor warned about growing cases one day after he ordered a limited closure ofbars in seven counties that have fallen short of the state’s guidelines for more than twoweeks. But the practical effect of the governor’s first action to impose restrictions that hadbeen previously lifted in some areas remains unclear.

The new state requirement only shutters bars that do not serve food in Los Angeles,Fresno, Kern, San Joaquin, Tulare, Kings and Imperial counties. Bars are allowed to remainopen in those counties and serve alcohol if they sell dine-in food in the same transactionand meet state safety guidelines for restaurants.. Establishments that do not traditionallyserve food are also allowed to contract with an outside food vendor to remain open.

The state recommended that bars in eight other counties also close their doors under thesame criteria.

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About 3,000 businesses across the state are licensed to sell beer, wine and alcohol for on-premise consumption, but the California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control doesnot keep a tally of how many of those bars regularly serve meals, said John Carr, aspokesman for the agency, in an email.

Carr said local health authorities approve kitchen facilities and food service to the public.ABC works closely with state and local health departments, preferring education overenforcement, he said.

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“ABC agents can follow up on complaints and can also visit the locations to help ensurecompliance,” he said. “Compliance throughout California during the pandemic has beenvery good. Whenever agents have paid a visit to a location, almost all of them havecomplied with the request to follow health guidelines and help stop the spread of COVID19.”

Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of CaliforniaHealth and Human Services, said thegoal of the order was to target barsthat primarily serve alcohol. Newsomwarned that the state is consideringadditional restrictions.

“Let me be forthright with you: We areconsidering a number of other thingsto advance and we will be making those public as conditions change,” he said.

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Newsom also threatened Monday that the state would impose a stay-at-home order onImperial County, where he said the rate of positive cases has been as high as 23%, if localofficials did not do so on their own.

“If they are unsuccessful in building consensus around going back into a stay-at-homeorder frame, the state of California will assert itself and make sure that that happens,”Newsom said. “


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With coronavirus cases surging in California, the upcoming July 4 weekend is shaping upto be a crucial test for whether residents can reduce risky behavior and slow the outbreak.

Data show the current jump in cases appears to have begun around the Memorial Dayweekend, just as the state was allowing businesses to reopen. Authorities believe manypeople resumed social gatherings after months of staying home, and that helped spreadthe virus. Memorial Day holiday events were followed by graduation and Father’s Daycelebrations.

Other factors in the surge include people returning to restaurants and bars, whereinspections have found that many businesses were not following social-distancing andhealth and safety rules.

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What are officials doing to prepare for July 4?

Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipationof the Fourth of July holiday.

Although it was a “difficult decision to make,” the closures are crucial because so manypeople gather to celebrate — which could be “a recipe for increased transmission ofCOVID-19,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement Monday.



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All public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths “that traverse thatsanded portion of the beach” and beach access points will be closed from 12:01 a.m.Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. The ban on fireworks displays applies only to the Fourth of Julyweekend.

“I know how much we look forward to this time of year,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcettisaid in a Monday evening news briefing. “But not this year. This year, we have to thinkabout saving lives to protect what we have in this country ... and to make sure oureconomy doesn’t take more steps backward.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered seven counties, including Los Angeles, toimmediately close bars and nightspots that were open.

San Diego County bars, breweries and wineries learned Monday that they will not beallowed to operate, at least not in the traditional sense, starting Wednesday at 12:01 a.m.While restaurants will still be allowed to serve drinks with meals, no one will be allowed tostand around with drinks in their hands after the stroke of midnight.

Newsom threatened to order the return of the stay-at-home directive in Imperial County,where he said the rate of positive cases has been as high as 23%, if local officials did notdo so on their own.

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“If they are unsuccessful in building consensus around going back into a stay-at-homeorder frame, the state of California will assert itself and make sure that happens,” Newsomsaid Monday.

He also warned that the state is considering additional restrictions in other areas.

“Let me be forthright with you: We are considering a number of other things to advance,and we will be making those public as conditions change,” he said.


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What do experts say?

Public health officials expected the reopenings to push up the number of coronaviruscases — but not this much.

Robert Kim-Farley, a medical epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the UCLAFielding School of Public Health, said the only way to figure out how to open is to do itgradually and dial things back if the disease spreads so fast it might overwhelm hospitalslater. And that’s what’s happening now.

“Now, we’re recognizing things are going up. So we’re dialing it back down again,” Kim-Farley said.

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Dr. Otto Yang, a professor of medicine and the associate chief of infectious diseases at theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said he thought L.A. County reopened tooquickly.

“A lot of the things that really work to reduce transmission — like contact tracing and evenmasks — depend on your starting at a low [disease] control level,” Yang said. “It’s back tothe fire analogy: If the fire isn’t down to just smoldering embers — if there’s still active




pockets of fire — then backing off will let stuff flare up very quickly.”

Physicians are increasingly seeing more younger adult patients. “We’re still getting somevery sick patients, but we’re also seeing more young people that have milder cases,” Yangsaid.

Based on what patients are telling medical staff, the younger people say they suspect thevirus was acquired by “going out and socializing more.” He added, “It does seem like it’seither family gatherings or social activities.”

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Yang said the protests against the death of George Floyd in police custody do not seembe a particularly big factor in the spread of disease. He cited current epidemiologicalstudies that suggest the outdoor nature of the protests, and that many protesters woremasks, limited the spread of the virus.

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Where do we stand now?

The state broke its record Monday for the greatest number of new coronavirus casesreported in a single day, tallying more than 8,000. It is the third time in eight days the statehas broken a record of new daily cases, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Californiacoronavirus tracker.

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A Times analysis found that California is on track to roughly double the number ofcoronavirus cases in June over those it recorded in May. Last month, there were 61,666cases reported statewide; by Monday night, there were 114,196 cases reported for the first28 days of June.

By Monday evening, there were a cumulative 223,000 confirmed cases and more than5,900 coronavirus-related deaths in California.

Ferrer said the surge is proof — “definitively” — that community transmission hasincreased, with the cumulative rate of those testing positive for infection increasing from8% to 9%. Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are probably unknowinglyinfected with the virus and contagious to others, a threefold increase over last week’sprojection of 1 in 400.

That means a typical large, busy store would probably have multiple infectious personsenter and shop every day, officials said.

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In addition, health officials revealed that on the weekend after June 19 — the day LosAngeles County gave the green light for bars, breweries, wineries and similar businesses toreopen — more than 500,000 people visited the county’s newly reopened nightlife spots.

Inspectors, however, found over the weekend that employees at about half of the barsand restaurants visited were not wearing face masks or shields. Half of the bars and one-third of the restaurants inspected were not adhering to social-distancing protocols.




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JUNE 30, 2020 | 4 AM

California plummeted deeper into a new coronavirus crisis Monday as new cases spiked torecord levels, some hospitals filled up, and officials expressed growing alarm andfrustration with people refusing to follow safety rules despite the increasingly perilousconditions.

The state broke its record Monday for the greatest number of new coronavirus casesreported in a single day, tallying more than 8,000. That’s the third time in eight days thestate has broken a record of new daily cases, according to the Los Angeles Times’California coronavirus tracker.

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coronavirus cases in June over those it recorded in May. In May, there were 61,666 casesreported statewide; by Monday night, there were 114,196 cases reported for the first 28days of June.

By Monday evening, there were a cumulative reported 223,000 confirmed cases and morethan 5,900 coronavirus-related deaths in California.

The coronavirus has rapidly spread through communities as the economy has reopenedand people reverted to old behaviors, returning to bars, barbecues and birthday parties.The new data show “alarming increases in cases, positivity rates and hospitalization,” L.A.County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said.

Los Angeles County, long the center of coronavirus in California, hit another grimmilestone, surpassing 100,000 confirmed cumulative cases and more than 3,330 deaths.The county reported more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases on Monday alone, alsorecording its largest single-day number of new infections, according to The Times’coronavirus tracker.

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The number of hospitalizations of confirmed COVID-19 patients has also soared in L.A.County, rising by 44% in the past two weeks. On Sunday, 1,732 COVID-19 patients werehospitalized, up from 1,206 two weeks earlier.

L.A. County is now projecting the possibility of running out of its existing supply of hospitalbeds for COVID-19 patients in two to three weeks. Likewise, the number of intensive-carebeds available could be exhausted sometime in July. Hospitals can, however, make moreroom for coronavirus patients by canceling elective surgeries and making other moves toincrease capacity.

“This is the time to hunker down back in your home whenever you can,” Ferrer said,urging people to wear face coverings and practice social distancing. “Please, let’s not letgo of everything we worked hard and sacrificed for.”

She urged people to avoid crowds: “It’s just not safe right now.”

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Ferrer said the surge is proof — “definitively” — that community transmission hasincreased, with the cumulative rate of those testing positive for infection increasing from8% to 9%. Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are probably unknowinglyinfected with the virus and contagious to others, a threefold increase over last week’sprojection of 1 in 400.






That means a typical large, busy store would probably have multiple infectious personsenter and shop every day, officials said.

In addition, health officials revealed that on the weekend after June 19 — the day LosAngeles County gave the green light for bars, breweries, wineries and similar businesses toreopen — more than 500,000 people visited the county’s newly reopened nightlife spots.

Inspectors, however, found over the weekend that employees at about half of bars andrestaurants were not wearing face masks or shields. Half of bars and one-third ofrestaurants were not adhering to social distancing protocols. Gov. Gavin Newsom orderedbars in L.A. County and four other counties in the San Joaquin Valley closed Sundaybecause of the increasing case numbers.

The effective transmission rate of the coronavirus has now increased across the county.Previously, through the beginning of May, for every one person infected, fewer than oneother person on average was infected — a testament to the success of the stay-at-homeorder. But by early June, as the reopening accelerated, the coronavirus transmission ratehad crept above 1, meaning for every one person infected, an additional 1.26 people areinfected on average.



During the strictest version of the stay-at-home order, officials believed that the effective transmission rate of the coronavirus was under1, meaning that every one person on averaged infected fewer than one person. But now, officials believe the effective transmission rateis now 1.26, meaning every infected person now infects on average 1.26 other people. (L.A. County Department of Health Services)

Orange County confirmed 57 coronavirus-related deaths for the seven-day period thatended Sunday, the highest weekly death toll that the county has reported since thepandemic began in the U.S. It was the third consecutive week Orange County broke aweekly record for COVID-19 deaths.

There are now 19 counties on the state’s coronavirus watch list, including L.A., Orange,Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.

Officials are growing increasingly alarmed by the upcoming Fourth of July weekendbecause they fear more crowds and gatherings could spread COVID-19 further.

Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipationof the holiday.

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Times staff writer Ryan Murphy contributed to this report.




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People wear protective face coverings during their strolls Monday on the Santa Monica Pier. L.A. County has surged past 100,000 cases ofcoronavirus. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

By ANITA CHABRIA, EMILY BAUMGAERTNER, STEPHANIE LAI, TARYN LUNA

JUNE 30, 2020 | 5 AM

For a brief moment, California returned to bars, beaches and Botox. But after a few days,much of the state is reversing course as hospitals see an alarming spike in people sick withCOVID-19, raising the specter of an overwhelmed medical system.

“It’s scary,” said Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UC San Francisco. “Westill haven’t recovered from the first phase, and now we have to get ready for the nextone.”

While Chin-Hong and other medical experts said California currently has the capacity itneeds to treat patients, the future is uncertain. Coronavirus cases jumped to more than

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220,000 Monday, creeping steadily upward in some places, skyrocketing in others andprompting health officials in multiple counties to demand the closure of bars, hair salonsand other businesses opened only days ago.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said hospitalizations have increased 43% in the last two weeks whileadmissions to ICU units have increased 37%. He hinted at stricter statewide action ifcounties were unable to contain outbreaks.

“We don’t like the trend line,” Newsom said. “Let me be forthright with you: We areconsidering a number of other things to advance, and we will be making those public asconditions change.”

Some of the worst outbreaks are in Imperial and Riverside counties, where ICU beds arenearly full and nurses at one hospital have gone on strike to protest what they say isunderstaffing and a lack of protective gear.

“When you deliberately don’t staff someone to relieve me, I have to stay on duty,” saidErik Andrews, a nurse at Riverside Community Hospital. “Our professionalism is beingexploited.”

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overwhelming case load in the areaprompted Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-PalmDesert), an emergency room physician,to call for a reinstatement of restrictionsand mask wearing.

California officials have said that hospitalizations should not increase by more than 10%over any three days, but more than a dozen counties across the state are missing themark. California has about 7,880 ICU beds, and about 38% currently are in use by non-COVID patients, according to Covid Act Now, a collaboration between Stanford andGeorgetown universities.

As government officials struggled to regain control of residents weary of restrictions andeager to celebrate the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, numerous health officials arefrustrated and fearful. Many said that while hospital capacity has increased, and more isknown about how to treat the disease, those on the front lines still face shortages, stressand chagrin that the public is not taking precautions.

One emergency room physician in Los Angeles County contacted a Times reporter onMonday by sending a two-word text message: “Déjà vu.”

“I’m not sure why everyone is so surprised that we’re surging again. It never went away,and we opened up” while mask-wearing was being “politicized,” the physician said, callingit “very frustrating.”

Erin McIntosh, 37, a rapid response nurse in the Inland Empire said the last few monthshad been the “worst of the worst.”

“It leaves us feeling in like we’re not enough,” McIntosh said. “I feel like this is all setting usup to fail.”


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But public resistance to restrictions also remains strong, making it difficult to re-institutepublic health protections, said some experts.

“Every single one of those county health officers faces an impossible set of circumstances,”said David Relman, a Stanford doctor.

Unlike with the first days of the epidemic, when much of the virus was concentrated inurban areas, infections are now rising in California’s northern and inland counties, puttingpressure on medical systems with fewer resources. It has left some medical experts towarn the state is not experiencing a second wave, but a failure to maintain the flattenedcurve of the first one.

And the virus continues to take an uneven toll, hitting communities of color and theelderly hardest, and often leaving the young and more affluent with milder cases that arediagnosed and treated earlier.

A study by Sutter Health in May found that Black COVID-19 patients in Northern Californiawere nearly three times more likely to be hospitalized than non-Hispanic white patientsand arrived at the hospital with more severe symptoms. Black patients also die of COVID-19 at higher rates, according to the study and state data.

Stephen Lockhart, chief medical officer for Sutter, said he believes those disparities willcontinue, in part because people of color make up a larger percentage of the essentialworkforce, can’t afford to stay home when they become ill and often live inmultigenerational settings where the infection is passed to others.

“It’s very obvious that COVID-19 has sort of ripped the Band-Aid off the existinginequities,” Lockhart said.

Epidemiologists say it’s not yet clear whether the surge in cases will cause a similarincrease in deaths. Many of the newest infections are younger individuals. And treatments

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have improved survival rates, said medical experts.

But one model, by Covid Act Now, predicts deaths in California could hit 24,000 in thenext month based on current trends. Currently, about 5,900 Californians have died fromcauses related to COVID-19.

Newsom said the stay-at-home order put in place in March bought time to prepare forcoming cases, including surge sites that were closed weeks ago but could be re-opened.

The governor said the state has about30,000 hospital beds available forCOVID-19 patients in the traditionalhospital system, including about 3,300available ICU beds.

As of Monday, he said 4,776 people were hospitalized with a confirmed case of the virus.

“So numbers are going up, but our ability to manage and absorb also is significant,”Newsom said.

But those beds are unevenly distributed throughout the state. Newsom said ImperialCounty, which has experienced positivity rates of 23%, has exceeded its hospital capacity.

“Over a five-week period, just a five-week period, we had to move 500 patients out oftheir hospital system into surrounding county systems,” Newsom said.

In Los Angeles, there are signs that cases could overload local facilities if not curtailed.

“While we did anticipate increases in cases as sectors reopened, we did not expect theincreases to be this steep this quickly,” Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in LACounty, said Friday.





San Francisco and the Bay Area are also experiencing a “surge” in COVID-19 rates ofinfection and the city will have to “pause” its reopening, the city’s health director saidFriday. The seven-day average number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals in Contra CostaCounty rose 75% from June 15 to June 29, the county reported Monday.

Businesses that were scheduled to reopen on Monday will now stay closed, HealthDirector Grant Colfax said.

“We went we went from a yellow to a high orange, and if that continues over the nextcouple of days, we could be in our red zone,” which could trigger more restrictions, hesaid. “Our curve is not flat right now. ... In fact, that curve is getting more and morevertical.”

Health officials are also alarmed by large outbreaks in California’s prisons and jails. At SanQuentin, just north of San Francisco, more than 1,000 inmates have tested positive.Facilities in Fresno, Lassen County and Riverside also have outbreaks, as do numerouscounty jails. Health officials said those patients likely will end up being treated incommunity hospitals if their cases become severe, adding another point of pressure.

“The prison system doesn’t have that level of care for prisoners, so when they start doingreally badly, we have to take them in the community,” said Chin-Hong, the UC SanFrancisco doctor.

Health experts said that the rising numbers will continue without the kinds of socialinterventions put in place during the first days of the pandemic. If the spread isn’t stoppedsoon, they warn, it may become impossible.

“It could get to some point where there literally is just too much disease to manage,”Relman said.

Times staff writer Maura Dolan contributed to this report.

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BREAKING NEWSBREAKING NEWS Coronavirus: California shatters another record for daily casesCoronavirus: California shatters another record for daily cases

In the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing — noti�cation ofIn the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing — noti�cation offamily, friends, co-workers and others exposed to the newly infected — is key tofamily, friends, co-workers and others exposed to the newly infected — is key tocorralling outbreaks and limiting spread as counties reopen.corralling outbreaks and limiting spread as counties reopen.

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Is contact tracing — key to COVID-Is contact tracing — key to COVID-19 fight — working?19 fight — working?Lack of transparency makes success hard toLack of transparency makes success hard tomeasuremeasure

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Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such asContact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such asthe SARS and Ebola outbreaks. But it’s never been more critical — orthe SARS and Ebola outbreaks. But it’s never been more critical — ormore challenging — than in this �ght against coronavirus (Catherinemore challenging — than in this �ght against coronavirus (CatherineLai/AFP/Getty)Lai/AFP/Getty)

By By JOHN WOOLFOLKJOHN WOOLFOLK | | [email protected]@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: PUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.June 29, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 3:30 p.m.June 29, 2020 at 3:30 p.m.

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But while health of�cials report some success in bee�ng up the ranks of contactBut while health of�cials report some success in bee�ng up the ranks of contactsleuths, there are indications that many infected people and those they maysleuths, there are indications that many infected people and those they mayhave exposed are falling through the cracks.have exposed are falling through the cracks.

That has alarmed some doctors in the Bay Area’s two most populous counties,That has alarmed some doctors in the Bay Area’s two most populous counties,Santa Clara and Alameda, who cite recent examples of infected or exposedSanta Clara and Alameda, who cite recent examples of infected or exposedpatients who were never interviewed about their contacts or noti�ed of theirpatients who were never interviewed about their contacts or noti�ed of theirpotential exposure.potential exposure.

“It’s clear contact tracing is not getting to people,” said Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, a“It’s clear contact tracing is not getting to people,” said Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, aclinical assistant professor of primary care and population health at Stanfordclinical assistant professor of primary care and population health at StanfordUniversity. Two of his patients, he said, reported being exposed by a relative orUniversity. Two of his patients, he said, reported being exposed by a relative orco-worker who had tested positive, and said they never were contacted by publicco-worker who had tested positive, and said they never were contacted by publichealth.health.

In Oakland, Dr. Noha Aboelata, chief executive of�cer of Roots CommunityIn Oakland, Dr. Noha Aboelata, chief executive of�cer of Roots CommunityHealth, cited among recent examples a patient who tested positive June 12 whoHealth, cited among recent examples a patient who tested positive June 12 whohadn’t heard from public health in at least a week, and another she spoke withhadn’t heard from public health in at least a week, and another she spoke withThursday hadn’t been contacted in 15 days. She and other doctors andThursday hadn’t been contacted in 15 days. She and other doctors andcommunity leaders wrote Alameda County supervisors and health of�cialscommunity leaders wrote Alameda County supervisors and health of�cialsdemanding more information about the contact tracing effort.demanding more information about the contact tracing effort.

“There is no question that the county’s need for contact tracing currently“There is no question that the county’s need for contact tracing currentlyoutstrips its ability to provide such tracing,” their letter said.outstrips its ability to provide such tracing,” their letter said.

It’s not expected that contact tracers will reach everyone potentially exposed byIt’s not expected that contact tracers will reach everyone potentially exposed bypeople who test positive for the virus. But it’s impossible to know whether thepeople who test positive for the virus. But it’s impossible to know whether theBay Area’s two largest counties have been successful because their healthBay Area’s two largest counties have been successful because their healthof�cials — who have closely guarded much information about the virus — refuseof�cials — who have closely guarded much information about the virus — refuseto reveal how many people they do reach, and how quickly.to reveal how many people they do reach, and how quickly.

Of�cials with both counties insist their contact tracers make calls to patients inOf�cials with both counties insist their contact tracers make calls to patients inmost cases within 24 to 48 hours but acknowledged they don’t always reachmost cases within 24 to 48 hours but acknowledged they don’t always reachthem or their contacts.them or their contacts.

“Once we know someone is positive, we have been able to make an effort to“Once we know someone is positive, we have been able to make an effort tocontact them 100% of the time within 48 hours,” said Santa Clara Countycontact them 100% of the time within 48 hours,” said Santa Clara Countyspokesman David Campos. He said they reach most, but did not provide precisespokesman David Campos. He said they reach most, but did not provide precisenumbers or say how often the tracers make subsequent attempts.numbers or say how often the tracers make subsequent attempts.

At a meeting this week, Cindy Chavez, president of the county board ofAt a meeting this week, Cindy Chavez, president of the county board ofsupervisors, suggested contact tracing could be more successful if the casesupervisors, suggested contact tracing could be more successful if the caseinvestigators were working evening hours or even around the clock rather than 9investigators were working evening hours or even around the clock rather than 9to 5, especially given that time is critical with COVID-19.to 5, especially given that time is critical with COVID-19.

Alameda County spokeswoman Neetu Balram said that investigators follow upAlameda County spokeswoman Neetu Balram said that investigators follow up“with most reported cases within a day or two of the report.” Sometimes there“with most reported cases within a day or two of the report.” Sometimes thereare delays in getting patient information, and sometimes the person’s contactare delays in getting patient information, and sometimes the person’s contactinformation is missing or inaccurate, she said.information is missing or inaccurate, she said.

“These delays can happen with any reportable disease,” Balram said. “But the“These delays can happen with any reportable disease,” Balram said. “But thesheer numbers of COVID-19 cases and the large amount of testing done throughsheer numbers of COVID-19 cases and the large amount of testing done throughnew clinical labs and testing providers increase the likelihood of such delays.”new clinical labs and testing providers increase the likelihood of such delays.”

With highly contagious diseases like measles or COVID-19, spread throughWith highly contagious diseases like measles or COVID-19, spread throughsneezes, coughs or close conversation, the infected person may not recall allsneezes, coughs or close conversation, the infected person may not recall allthose they might have exposed, let alone know how to reach them.those they might have exposed, let alone know how to reach them.

Even so, Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, who isEven so, Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, who isadvising New Jersey on its contact tracing program, said “contact tracing worksadvising New Jersey on its contact tracing program, said “contact tracing worksif it’s done well.”if it’s done well.”

“Is it �awless? No,” Halkitis said. “Is it the best solution we have now in the“Is it �awless? No,” Halkitis said. “Is it the best solution we have now in theabsence of a vaccine? Yes.”absence of a vaccine? Yes.”

Because the new coronavirus is so easily transmitted, health of�cials ideallyBecause the new coronavirus is so easily transmitted, health of�cials ideallywould interview the infected person and three out of four of the person’swould interview the infected person and three out of four of the person’sexposed contacts within 24 hours of being noti�ed of the case, Halkitis said.exposed contacts within 24 hours of being noti�ed of the case, Halkitis said.Stretching that out to 48 hours would be “not great,” he said, and after threeStretching that out to 48 hours would be “not great,” he said, and after threedays “you’re starting to get too far out.”days “you’re starting to get too far out.”

Recent Recent publicly available details from New York City Health and Hospitalspublicly available details from New York City Health and Hospitalsillustrate the challenges of contact tracing in the Big Apple, one of the worst-hitillustrate the challenges of contact tracing in the Big Apple, one of the worst-hitU.S. cities. Of 7,584 reported COVID-19 cases from June 1-20, case investigatorsU.S. cities. Of 7,584 reported COVID-19 cases from June 1-20, case investigatorsreached 82%, but just 37% provided at least one contact. The investigatorsreached 82%, but just 37% provided at least one contact. The investigatorsreached 68% of the 6,672 identi�ed contacts they were given.reached 68% of the 6,672 identi�ed contacts they were given.

Few other health departments offer such detail. Oregon’s Few other health departments offer such detail. Oregon’s public COVID-19 datapublic COVID-19 datadashboarddashboard includes information on case follow-up, reporting how many new includes information on case follow-up, reporting how many newcases met the goal of follow-up within 24 hours, which Stanford’s Bhatia said iscases met the goal of follow-up within 24 hours, which Stanford’s Bhatia said isthe best reporting he’s seen. It shows that goal has been met most days sincethe best reporting he’s seen. It shows that goal has been met most days sinceMay 1.May 1.

San Francisco’s San Francisco’s dashboarddashboard reports the percentage of new cases and their reports the percentage of new cases and theircontacts that health of�cials reach — both currently 83%, short of the city’s 90%contacts that health of�cials reach — both currently 83%, short of the city’s 90%goal. But it doesn’t indicate how quickly the connections are made.goal. But it doesn’t indicate how quickly the connections are made.

It’s unclear to what extent staf�ng is an issue. California Health and HumanIt’s unclear to what extent staf�ng is an issue. California Health and HumanServices Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said this week the state is workingServices Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said this week the state is workingtoward its statewide goal of having 10,000 contact tracers by July. The state hastoward its statewide goal of having 10,000 contact tracers by July. The state hasset a goal for counties to have 15 tracers per 100,000 residents.set a goal for counties to have 15 tracers per 100,000 residents.

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Santa Clara County has 501 case investigators and contact tracers, well over theSanta Clara County has 501 case investigators and contact tracers, well over the289 the state suggested, and plans to expand that force to nearly 1,000 by the289 the state suggested, and plans to expand that force to nearly 1,000 by theend of July.end of July.

Alameda County has “nearly 100” case investigators and contact tracers, BalramAlameda County has “nearly 100” case investigators and contact tracers, Balramsaid, less than half the 247 the state formula recommends.said, less than half the 247 the state formula recommends.

Efforts to help notify the potentially exposed through cellphone apps that haveEfforts to help notify the potentially exposed through cellphone apps that haveworked well in Asia have proven more problematic in the U.S., where people areworked well in Asia have proven more problematic in the U.S., where people aremore protective of their privacy, Halkitis said. A Wall Street Journal report thismore protective of their privacy, Halkitis said. A Wall Street Journal report thisweek also found problems with many apps’ accuracy.week also found problems with many apps’ accuracy.

“At this point, the technology is still evolving,” Halkitis said. “I don’t think this“At this point, the technology is still evolving,” Halkitis said. “I don’t think thisis ready for prime time right now.”is ready for prime time right now.”

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Houston Mayor Announces Business 'Wall of Shame' For COVID-19 Non-Compliance BY DANIEL VILLARREAL ON 6/29/20 AT 6:03 PM EDT

On Monday afternoon, Democratic Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner

announced on Twitter that his city has started a "Wall of Shame" for

local businesses that do not comply with Republican Governor Greg

Abbott's June 26 executive order closing all bars and reducing

restaurant capacity to 50 percent.

"Today, we are announcing the first three businesses for our city's wall

of shame," Sylvester wrote in his tweet. "The three businesses include

Spire Club, Prospect Park, and Pour Behavior."

Spire Club is a reception hall that came under criticism after weekend

photos showed patrons crowding the venue without wearing face

masks or observing social distancing.

Prospect Park and Pour Behavior are sports bars that both had their

licenses suspended for 30 days on Friday after allegedly failing to

comply with regulations designed to slow the spread of COVID-19.

"These are businesses that, quite frankly, are just not serving their

patrons well, and not serving their city well," Turner said during a

Monday press conference. "If you go into a place that is crowded and

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you can't engage in social distancing, you should turn around and

walk out," Turner said.

While Turner said he didn't want to add any other businesses to the

Wall of Shame, he added, "This is real. People are dying, people are

getting sick, people are in ICU beds. Quite frankly, I have lost my

patience with you in that regard."

The Wall of Shame seems to be a deterrent for non-compliant

businesses and has no further penalties attached to it.

In its defense, the Spire Club has asserted that it's not a bar because

most of its revenue comes from ticket sales and private seating sales

rather than alcohol and liquor, according to ABC 13.

Bret Hightower, partial owner of the Spire, said the venue's work staff

socially distanced its inside tables inside, required employees to wear

masks and made patrons have a mask before entering. Nevertheless,

Hightower said he witnessed a "blatant disrespect for social distancing

guidelines" in the photos and videos of his venue's patrons taken this

last weekend.

The Spire will decide early this week on whether to continue operating

during the statewide bar shut down.

Newsweek reached out to Pour Behavior and Prospect Park for

comment. This story will be updated with any response.

Houston Mayor

Sylvester Turner speaks at the U.S. Conference Of Mayors on June 8,

2018 in Boston, Massachusetts.PAUL MAROTTA/GETTY

On June 25, Abbott announced the halting of his state's continued

reopening.

"[During] an increase in both positive COVID-19 cases and

hospitalizations, we are focused on strategies that slow the spread of

this virus while also allowing Texans to continue earning a paycheck

to support their families," Abbott said.

"The last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and close

down businesses. This temporary pause will help our state corral the

spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state

for business," he added.

Abbott has suggested that state residents wear a mask, wash their

hands regularly and socially distance from others. He also issued an

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order on Friday that closed the state's bars and reduced its

restaurants' capacity to 50 percent.

As of June 29, Harris County, which contains Houston, is reporting

more cases and deaths than any other Texas county. It has a total of

29,276 confirmed cases and 371 related deaths.

Last week, leaders of the Texas Medical Center said their Houston-

area facility had no ICU beds left for coronavirus patients. While the

center pledged to add new beds by converting other hospital units into

temporary ICUs, it also said it might not be able to handle a surge in

cases.

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Houston Protesters Begin to Fall Ill With Coronavirus After Marching for George Floyd BY AILA SLISCO ON 6/16/20 AT 12:10 AM EDT

An estimated 60,000 people marched for racial justice in honor of

George Floyd in Houston, Texas on June 2, 2020.SERGIO FLORES/GETTY

Increasing numbers of Houston residents have reportedly been

diagnosed with COVID-19 after attending protests against the death of

George Floyd.

Large protests began in the city days after the death of Houston native

Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while police custody in

Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25. Texas has been experiencing a

surge of new COVID-19 cases. Harris County, which encompasses

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Houston, has been adding hundreds of new cases each day to the

more than 17,000 total confirmed cases reported as of Monday.

Houston resident Shamone Turner told KRIV that she took part in a

march to Houston City Hall attended by an estimated 60,000 people

about two weeks ago and later tested positive for the virus. Several

friends who accompanied her were also said to have tested positive.

Despite the illness, she said she has no regrets about her decision to

march.

"I actually got sick the day after the march... I could not move out of

the bed. I was in the bed just sighing," Turner said. "I definitely don't

regret getting the COVID, because I was out there doing the right

thing for the right cause."

The extent to which the new cases may be tied to protests is unclear.

Although it is likely some cases were contracted during protests, the

virus is believed to have an incubation period of between 2 and 14

days, while reporting delays could also make it difficult to determine

when and where people contracted the disease.

Houston police reported an uptick in cases after the protests began,

with at least 23 officers testing positive since June 6, according to The

Houston Chronicle.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Monday urged residents to wear

face masks, practice good hygiene and maintain social distancing to

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help slow the rate of new infections. He also said that people who had

gathered closely in public should get tested for the virus, including

those who attended the protests.

"[I am] encouraging people who have been out in the general public...

participated in marches, demonstrations, protests... go and be tested,"

the mayor said during Monday press briefing. "Numbers continue to

go up every day."

The mayor has personally participated in the demonstrations,

including the large march to city hall. He decided to get tested for the

virus on Saturday due to taking part in the march, testing negative for

a second time since the pandemic began. However, Turner does not

believe that the new cases should be blamed solely on the

demonstrations.

"The state's governor started aggressively reopening businesses prior

to the march and people packed into restaurants, bars, pool parties

and other events despite the occupancy limits and with little to no

social distancing or the use of face masks," Mary Benton, the mayor's

communications director, told Newsweek in a statement.

"Mayor Turner has consistently encouraged people to practice the

recommended social distancing, good hygiene and the wearing of

face masks," she added. "Because he marched, went to the memorial

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and funeral, Mayor Turner took his second COVID-19 test which was

negative and encourages everyone to get tested."

From May 30 to June 2, the first weekend of the protests, 167 people

were reportedly arrested while taking part in demonstrations across

Texas. Arrest reports suggest that a majority of those arrested were in

their teens or 20s, according to Houston Public Media.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday singled out young people as

one group that could be helping drive a statewide increase in new

cases. He suggested that many younger people were gathering while

failing to maintain adequate preventative measures, without directly

connecting new cases among the group to those attending the

protests.

"[We are seeing] an increase in young people testing positive, in

particular people in the age 20 to 29 age group," Abbott told KRIS on

Monday. "That age group is the age group that is going to bars a

whole lot more."

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What a Family That Lost 5 to the Virus Wants You to KnowThe familys 73-year-old matriarch, three of her 11 children and her sister all died of Covid-19. Her survivors are focused on finding aremedy.

By Tracey Tully

June 30, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

FREEHOLD, N.J. — Each morning they awake with fingers curled inward, stiffened like claws.

Their schedules are dictated by doctors’ appointments, physical therapy sessions and bouts of exhaustion. After weeks on ventilators, twosiblings remain too weak to work even as their medical bills mount.

But at a table filled with several members of a tight-knit New Jersey family, the Fuscos, who lost five relatives to the coronavirus, theconversation repeatedly veers away from the chaos and pain of the last three months.

They do not avoid talk of their family’s devastating collective loss. But they also speak of a new focus: finding a remedy for the diseasethat killed their mother, three siblings and an aunt.

At least 19 other family members contracted the virus, and those who survived Covid-19 did not emerge unscathed.

Joe Fusco, 49, lost 55 pounds and spent 30 days on a ventilator. His sister, Maria Reid, 44, cannot shake the memory of the disjointedhallucinations that dogged her during the 19 or 20 days she was unconscious, or the terror of waking up convinced that her 10-year-olddaughter was dead.

“This ain’t over,” Mr. Fusco said of the pandemic on a recent afternoon in the backyard of his home in Freehold, N.J. “This ain’t over in theleast bit.”

“I want to help somebody,” he added. “I don’t want anyone else to have to lose five family members.”

The Fuscos were unwilling pioneers charting an early course through all that was unknown about a virus that has killed more than 126,000people in the United States.

They are now trailblazers of another kind, subjects of at least three scientific studies.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is conducting research that involves evaluating the DNA of the surviving and deceasedmembers of the large Italian-American family for genetic clues. DNA from those who died will be retrieved from hairbrushes, atoothbrush, a blood sample and tissue from an unrelated gallbladder surgery.

Each Thursday, Elizabeth Fusco, the youngest of the 11 children, donates antibody-rich blood plasma that is used to treat patients with thevirus to determine if it can help boost their immune response.

“We know another wave is going to come,” Ms. Fusco said. “It’s inevitable. Whatever will help this world is all I care about.”

Their help may prove useful well before the predicted second wave hits as states like Florida and Texas confront an alarming surge in newcases.

The Fusco family’s trauma began just before the state’s lockdown, as a slow cascade of closures marked the start of a new normal.

On March 13, Rita Fusco Jackson, 56, became the second person to die of Covid-19 in New Jersey, which has since recorded 14,992 deaths,making it No. 2 in the nation behind New York for virus-related fatalities.

Within a week, her mother, Grace Fusco, 73, and two brothers, Carmine, 55, and Vincent, 53, had also died. Grace Fusco’s sister on StatenIsland died weeks later.

Their story became an urgent, cautionary tale about the potency of the disease and the importance of staying apart at a time when socialdistancing was still a novel concept.

During the first week of March, Carmine Fusco, the eldest son who was visiting from Pennsylvania, had described feeling chilled during aroutine Tuesday dinner in Freehold that drew about 25 family members, his siblings said.

The precise source of the extended family’s infection is unclear, said Mr. Fusco, a horse owner like his father and brothers who had spenttime in the weeks beforehand with both brothers who died. He recalls waking up feeling “beat up” the morning after the dinner, which washeld at the house where his mother lived with three of his siblings and their families.

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He was admitted to the hospital days later, beginning a medical odyssey that would last 44 days. Much of the treatment was experimental,he said, and involved trial and error.

“When I was leaving the hospital, the doctor said, ʻYou don’t realize the debt of gratitude the world owes your family,’” said Mr. Fusco, thefather of three children aged 10 to 18.

As news accounts of their story swept the globe, the family was cited by state health officials as a prime reason for staying apart.

Still, even as they were being held up as the family no one wanted to become, Elizabeth Fusco was stepping into the role of the little sistereveryone might hope to have.

Ms. Fusco, 42, and her daughter were among those who contracted the virus; like many other family members, they never showedsymptoms.

With four people already dead, two on ventilators and a sister hospitalized and receiving oxygen, Ms. Fusco emerged as a ferociousadvocate, even as she feared for her own daughter, Alexandra, who is 12 and was born with a serious health condition, congenitaldiaphragmatic hernia.

“They would tell me to calm down,” she said. “No. I’m not going to calm down. Tell someone who didn’t lose a mom, a sister and twobrothers in a matter of less than seven days to calm down.

“Tell me how you’re going to save my brother and sister.”

The family held a four-person funeral on April 1. They remain anguished that the two siblings who were on ventilators at the time were notthere and are planning a memorial celebration and burial after a full Mass in early August.

A photograph of the Fusco children and their parents, Grace and Vincenzo, from1980. Bryan Anselm for The New York Times

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Ms. Fusco said she temporarily shoved mourning aside. “I consumed my time with — I’m not going to lose another one,” she said.

Desperate, she and other relatives pushed doctors to try a variety of treatments: remdesivir, convalescent plasma, hydroxychloroquine.

“I don’t care if you were giving them rat poison — if you told me that that was going to fix them,” she said, her voice trailing off.

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She called the governor on his cellphone. She and her mother’s cousin, Roseann Paradiso Fodera, a family spokeswoman, were on a first-name basis with congressional aides. They lobbied anyone who would listen for access to experimental medicines, and, later, for autopsiesthat never happened.

In that mad flurry, they were buoyed by neighbors, acquaintances half a world away and lifelong friends.

“You’d open your door,” said Dana Fusco, Joe’s wife. “You’d have groceries at your door. You’d have meals. The community was trulyamazing.”

The nurses and the medical staff at CentraState Medical Center, the hospital in Freehold where Grace Fusco and five of her children weretreated, served as the family’s eyes, ears and loving hands at a time when visitors were not allowed inside.

“For 44 days, every three to four hours, I was on the phone with them,” Dana Fusco said. The hospital declined to comment, citing privacyconcerns.

When her husband awoke on Easter Sunday, she asked that he not be immediately told of the deaths. Once he was stronger, she wasallowed a visit to tell him in person.

To the Fuscos, the virus’s path showed little logic. An infected relative who is a heavy smoker showed no symptoms, and two older uncleswith myriad underlying health problems rebounded in about a week. Several of the sickest family members had no serious underlyinghealth problems, Mr. Fusco said.

More than three months later, a numb calm has set in.

“Like it didn’t happen,” Ms. Reid said. “It’s just they’re not here.”

Dwelling on the past, she said, is a luxury she does not have. “I’ve got to move on,” said Ms. Reid, who, along with her husband anddaughter, shares a house with Joe’s family. “I’ve got a young daughter.”

Joe Fusco said he remained frustrated by the lackadaisical attitudes of people shown crowding together near beaches or outside barswithout masks.

“These idiots are out there and not taking precautions,” he said. “Not wearing a mask. And not doing what they’re supposed to do. They’reout of their minds.”

Doctors say patients who recover from Covid-19 frequently need to rebuild muscle strength, and some may struggle with a range ofrespiratory, cardiac and kidney problems or be at increased risk of blood clots and stroke. Some patients who experienced delirium whileon ventilators may be at greater risk of depression.

And those placed in induced comas also may lose muscle tone in their hands, causing fingers to clamp shut.

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Frequently Asked Questions and AdviceUpdated June 24, 2020

What s the best material for a mask?Scientists around the country have tried to identify everyday materials that do agood job of filtering microscopic particles. In recent tests, HEPA furnace filtersscored high, as did vacuum cleaner bags, fabric similar to flannel pajamas andthose of 600-count pillowcases. Other materials tested included layered coffeefilters and scarves and bandannas. These scored lower, but still captured asmall percentage of particles.

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Much about the recovery from Covid-19 is unknown, said Dr. Laurie G. Jacobs, chairwoman of the Department of Medicine at HackensackUniversity Medical Center, which is setting up a clinic for patients recovering from Covid-19 to better understand, track and treat theirvaried needs.

“There’s a desperation for answers,” Dr. Jacobs said.

Mr. Fusco said he found the seeming absence of uniform guidance for doctors treating patients recovering from Covid-19 frustrating. Hisdoctor has ordered a battery of tests, he said, but his sister’s has not.

“You’d think there would be some sort of protocol to follow, but there’s not,” he said.

When Grace Fusco got sick enough to need a ventilator, she asked for a pillow that had belonged to her husband, who died in 2017, herrosary beads and a scapular, a small cloth pendant worn during prayer. She reminded her daughter to bring a tray of chicken the nextnight to the program for homeless people that she cooked for each week.

“She said, ʻDon’t worry. I’m going to be OK,’” Elizabeth Fusco recalled. “Tell everyone I love them.”

She never awoke, and never knew that any of her children had died.

“It would have killed her,” Joe Fusco said. “She was always — and I’m the same way — there’s a sequence to life, and burying your kids isnot part of it.

“It’s not the way it’s supposed to go.”

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Most People With Coronavirus Won t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many?Growing evidence shows most infected people arenʼt spreading the virus. But whether you become a superspreader probably depends moreon circumstance than biology.

By Carl Zimmer

June 30, 2020 Updated 11:10 a.m. ET

At a May 30 birthday party in Texas, one man reportedly infected 18 friends and family with the coronavirus.

Reading reports like these, you might think of the virus as a wildfire, instantly setting off epidemics wherever it goes. But other reports tellanother story altogether.

In Italy, for example, scientists looked at stored samples of wastewater for the earliest trace of the virus. Last week they reported that thevirus was in Turin and Milan as early as Dec. 18. But two months would pass before northern Italy’s hospitals began filling with victims ofCovid-19. So those December viruses seem to have petered out.

As strange as it may seem, these reports don’t contradict each other. Most infected people don’t pass on the coronavirus to someone else.But a small number pass it on to many others in so-called superspreading events.

“You can think about throwing a match at kindling,” said Ben Althouse, principal research scientist at the Institute for Disease Modeling inBellevue, Wash. “You throw one match, it may not light the kindling. You throw another match, it may not light the kindling. But then onematch hits in the right spot, and all of a sudden the fire goes up.”

Understanding why some matches start fires while many do not will be crucial to curbing the pandemic, scientists say. “Otherwise, you’rein the position where you’re always one step behind the virus,” said Adam Kucharski, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygieneand Tropical Medicine.

When the virus first emerged in China, epidemiologists scrambled to understand how it spread from person to person. One of their firsttasks was to estimate the average number of people each sick person infected, or what epidemiologists call the reproductive number.

The new coronavirus turned out to have a reproductive number somewhere between two and three. It’s impossible to pin down an exactfigure, since people’s behavior can make it easier or harder for the virus to spread. By going into lockdown, for instance, Massachusettsdrove its reproductive number down from 2.2 at the beginning of March to 1 by the end of the month; it’s now at .74.

This averaged figure can also be misleading because it masks the variability of spread from one person to the next. If nine out of 10 peopledon’t pass on a virus at all, while the 10th passes it to 20 people, the average would still be two.

In some diseases, such as influenza and smallpox, a large fraction of infected people pass on the pathogen to a few more. These diseasestend to grow steadily and slowly. “Flu can really plod along,” said Kristin Nelson, an assistant professor at Emory University.

But other diseases, like measles and SARS, are prone to sudden flares, with only a few infected people spreading the disease.

Epidemiologists capture the difference between the flare-ups and the plodding with something known as the dispersion parameter. It is ameasure of how much variation there is from person to person in transmitting a pathogen.

But James Lloyd-Smith, a U.C.L.A. disease ecologist who developed the dispersion parameter 15 years ago, cautioned that just becausescientists can measure it doesn’t mean they understand why some diseases have more superspreading than others. “We just understandthe bits of it,” he said.

When Covid-19 broke out, Dr. Kucharski and his colleagues tried to calculate that number by comparing cases in different countries.

If Covid-19 was like the flu, you’d expect the outbreaks in different places to be mostly the same size. But Dr. Kucharski and his colleaguesfound a wide variation. The best way to explain this pattern, they found, was that 10 percent of infected people were responsible for 80percent of new infections. Which meant that most people passed on the virus to few, if any, others.

Dr. Kucharski and his colleagues published their study in April as a preprint, a report that has not been reviewed by other scientists andpublished in a scientific journal. Other epidemiologists have calculated the dispersion parameter with other methods, ending up withsimilar estimates.

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In Georgia, for example, Dr. Nelson and her colleagues analyzed over 9,500 Covid-19 cases from March to May. They created a model forthe spread of the virus through five counties and estimated how many people each person infected.

In a preprint published last week, the researchers found many superspreading events. Just 2 percent of people were responsible for 20percent of transmissions.

Now researchers are trying to figure out why so few people spread the virus to so many. They’re trying to answer three questions: Whoare the superspreaders? When does superspreading take place? And where?

As for the first question, doctors have observed that viruses can multiply to bigger numbers inside some people than others. It’s possiblethat some people become virus chimneys, blasting out clouds of pathogens with each breath.

Some people also have more opportunity to get sick, and to then make other people sick. A bus driver or a nursing home worker may sit ata hub in the social network, while most people are less likely to come into contact with others — especially in a lockdown.

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Dr. Nelson suspects the biological differences between people are less significant. “I think the circumstances are a lot more important,” shesaid. Dr. Lloyd-Smith agreed. “I think it’s more centered on the events.”

A lot of transmission seems to happen in a narrow window of time starting a couple days after infection, even before symptoms emerge. Ifpeople aren’t around a lot of people during that window, they can’t pass it along.

And certain places seem to lend themselves to superspreading. A busy bar, for example, is full of people talking loudly. Any one of themcould spew out viruses without ever coughing. And without good ventilation, the viruses can linger in the air for hours.

Raymond Sanchez, an M.T.A. driver, disinfecting buses during the changing of shifts inEast Harlem in New York in May. Brittainy Newman/The New York Times

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Frequently Asked Questions and AdviceUpdated June 24, 2020

What s the best material for a mask?Scientists around the country have tried to identify everyday materials that do agood job of filtering microscopic particles. In recent tests, HEPA furnace filtersscored high, as did vacuum cleaner bags, fabric similar to flannel pajamas andthose of 600-count pillowcases. Other materials tested included layered coffeefilters and scarves and bandannas. These scored lower, but still captured asmall percentage of particles.

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Is it harder to exercise while wearing a mask?A commentary published this month on the website of the British Journal ofSports Medicine points out that covering your face during exercise “comes with

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A study from Japan this month found clusters of coronavirus cases in health care facilities, nursing homes, day care centers, restaurants,bars, workplaces, and musical events such as live concerts and karaoke parties.

This pattern of superspreading could explain the puzzling lag in Italy between the arrival of the virus and the rise of the epidemic. Andgeneticists have found a similar lag in other countries: The first viruses to crop up in a given region don’t give rise to the epidemics thatcome weeks later.

Many countries and states have fought outbreaks with lockdowns, which have managed to draw down Covid-19’s reproductive number.But as governments move toward reopening, they shouldn’t get complacent and forget the virus’s potential for superspreading.

“You can really go from thinking you’ve got things under control to having an out-of-control outbreak in a matter of a week,” Dr. Lloyd-Smith said.

Singapore’s health authorities earned praise early on for holding down the epidemic by carefully tracing cases of Covid-19. But they didn’tappreciate that huge dormitories where migrant workers lived were prime spots for superspreading events. Now they are wrestling with aresurgence of the virus.

On the other hand, knowing that Covid-19 is a superspreading pandemic could be a good thing. “It bodes well for control,” Dr. Nelson said.

Since most transmission happens only in a small number of similar situations, it may be possible to come up with smart strategies to stopthem from happening. It may be possible to avoid crippling, across-the-board lockdowns by targeting the superspreading events.

“By curbing the activities in quite a small proportion of our life, we could actually reduce most of the risk,” said Dr. Kucharski.

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