Live blog on coronavirus: Medical expert says vaccine creation will be an instant solution for Covid-19

From San Jose Spotlight:

by Ramona Giwargis and Katie Lauer and Mauricio La Plante August 23, 2020

On Saturday, Santa Clara County reported that 15668 showed cases of coronavirus and 224 deaths. Places to drive and enter without an appointment in COVID-19 County will remain open as fires around South Bay worsen air quality in the area.

California had 656,892 positive cases and 11,988 deaths on Friday. However, fitness officials have warned that recent figures have not been reported due to disruptions with the state database to enter new results.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom also issued an indefinite internal order for the state, but eased some restrictions by allowing some corporations to operate abroad.

2:23 p.m. August: Medical expert says creating a vaccine may not be an instant solution for COVID-19

To download COVID-19 collective immunity, much more is needed than locating a vaccine.

On August 23, Dr. George Rutherford, professor of epidemiology at UC San Francisco, discussed barriers to reopening the city corridor online with Santa Clara County supervisor George Simitian.

Rutherford said that once a vaccine is developed, getting everyone vaccinated will be a daunting task.

“It will take a long time to vaccinate another 40,000 people in the state,” he said. “This assumes we even have the materials to do it.”

The epidemiologist added that the challenge for fitness officials will be to make sure other people get a double dose 28 days apart.

“Even if everyone was vaccinated on January 1, everyone will want to be revaccinated on February 1 to be protected,” Rutherford said.

To obtain collective immunity, at least 70% of other people will have to be immunized against the virus, Rutherford said. He added that restrictions on public meetings would have to remain in place as hasty reopenings of businesses have led to a resurgence of the number of cases in California.

“These types of draconian closures can work in terms of cutting transmission,” Rutherford said. “But if you release them too temporarily and other people don’t pay attention to masking, social estrangement, all that sort of thing, then you can get it back as bad as it was, if not worse.”

August 5:22 p.m.: COVID-19 tests continue in Santa Clara County as air quality increases

Santa Clara County will continue with COVID-19 from August 23-29, as smoke from the fires around South Bay pollutes the air.

“Unfortunately, COVID-19 does not take a break in case of emergency. The county continues to provide the public with fast, simple and free rotation controls,” said Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, COVID-19’s head of control in the county. “Controls are one of our most productive equipment to curb the spread of COVID-19, and the county will continue to control even in those difficult circumstances.”

Health officials reported 196 new cases of COVID-19 on 22 August, and figures reported that the week shows that 11 others have died from the disease since 18 August.

Test sites that remain open fires will be behind the wheel or indoors and below is a list of site locations and times.

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Dating sites

San Jose Santa Clara County Exhibition Park A (in front of Gate B) – Tully Road at San Jose Reunion Tuesday through Friday, August 25-28, 12 p.m. 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, August 2, nine at night at 3 p.m.

Sunnyvale Murphy Park, 260 N. Sunnyvale Ave. sunny in Sunnyvale By appointment on Monday, August 2 at four, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Morgan Hill Council Chamber Building, 17555 Peak Ave. on Morgan Hill With an appointment on Tuesday, August 25, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Santa Clara Central Park Library, 2635 Homestead Road in Santa Clara By appointment Wednesday, August 26, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saratoga Friendship Hall, 198four1 Prospect Road to Saratoga With a prior appointment thursday, August 27, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto With an appointment on Friday, August 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

To make an appointment, https://direc.to/eyD1 or www.sccfreetest.org.

Contextual control sites No appointment is required for simple, loose nasal sampling control in any of those contextual locations.

San Jose William High School C. Saturday, August 2, Nine, nine a.m. to 2 p.m.

Southern Gilroy County Annex (formerly Del Buono Elementary School) – 9300 Wren Ave. Gilroy Tuesday through Friday, August 25-28, 10 a.m. P.M.

4:22 p.m. August: Unemployment in Silicon Valley falls slightly, alarming

People are starting to return to paintings in Santa Clara County, but unemployment remains alarming.

After reaching an all-time high of 11.6 percent in April, unemployment fell to 9.3 percent in July, according to a report released on August 21 through Joint Venture Silicon Valley, an organization that conducts research on Silicon Valley’s economy and quality of life.

“We don’t need to downplay the fact that some 21,000 jobs have been added to our regional economy,” said Rachel Massaro, director of studies at the group’s Institute for Regional Studies. “However, when you look at unemployment at the beginning of the existing (order) of shelter, it is difficult to see this slight drop in the unemployment rate as a progress.”

Massaro said the pandemic had altered any transparent forecast of employment expansion in the coming months. In general, employment is directly similar to the economy, however, researchers will now have to live up to the public to wait when companies will improve.

“Right now, this is a very exclusive time when the unemployment rate is basically motivated through government policies to lower transmission rates to keep our population healthy,” he said. Thus, industries that are closed or very difficult to reopen, given the demands of social estrangement, are the ones that are lately experiencing the highest unemployment.”

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11:19 August: COVID-19 sites remain open amid poor air quality and fires

Outside is the last position in San Jose this week as air quality has reached poor degrees due to fires burning around South Bay.

However, all COVID-19 sites in Santa Clara County will remain open, according to a press release.

Health officials said the new driving control site at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds will remain fully operational despite the smoke-filled air.

People with appointments can still be cleaned up, county spokeswoman Betty Duong said in a live online broadcast.

While businesses can continue to operate outdoors, fitness officials cause homeowners to reduce their hours and others to stay indoors.

“I know this is a difficult time for all our companies to operate,” Duong said. “But his fitness comes first and the air is in good shape today.”

He added that poor air had blocked a COVID-19 awareness program in eastern San Jose and Gilroy.

Although relaxing at the mall or at the movie theater for air conditioning is an option right now, several cooling centers are open to the public in Santa Clara County.

The list below shows the location of each cooling center. Everyone distances the property and wears a mask, and county officials urge others with COVID-19 symptoms not to enter.

Open Monday through Wednesday from August 17th to 9th from 1 p.m. at nine o’clock at night

Open Monday to Wednesday from 17th to 19th August 13:00 pm. 7 p.m.

Open Monday to Wednesday from 17th to 19th August 13:00 pm. at 5pm

Open Monday through Tuesday from August 17th to 18th from 1 p.m. 7 p.m.

Open Monday to Wednesday from 17th to 19th August 13:00 pm. in the afternoon

Open Monday through Wednesday, August 17-19, 1:30 p.m. – 7:00 pm.

Open Monday through Wednesday, August 17-19, 12:00 p.m. – 21:00.

Open Tuesday through Wednesday, August 18-19, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Open Tuesday to Wednesday, August 18-19, 1:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

August 6:18 p.m.: Santa Clara County intensifies consequences for violating fitness regulations

Companies that fail to comply with the Santa Clara County PHYSICAL Fitness Ordinance COVID-19 may have to pay between $250 and $5,000 in fines according to the day according to an order approved by the county according to viewers on August 11.

Fitness has already said it has issued infringement notices to five services for non-compliance with the fitness order.

Michael Balliet, director of environmental fitness overseeing fitness inspections, said the county can simply sanction businesses for violations of the county’s COVID-19 mandates. “They range from indoor operations to masking and non-compliance with separation at the tables,” Balliet said.

He said the county enforces fitness violations after receiving public reports on the company’s poor practices.

However, some institutions would possibly gain advantages from an era of grace to any violation of the order.

“Once the infringement report is issued to the company, they can have a graceless delay or up to 72 hours and there is some discretion of law enforcement officials based on the seriousness of the violation,” Balliet said.

Three of the infringement notices they won had already solved their problems, Balliet said.

Health officials revealed which corporations were in violation and would only reveal the names if they had solved the problems at the end of the grace period, according to county spokesman Roger Ross.

August 2:18 p.m.: Try the Santa Clara County fairgrounds to check 5,000 per day

A new COVID-19 driving control was opened today at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds and is expected to monitor at least 5,000 other people a day, fitness officials said.

The exhibition park will only be by appointment and will be tested to the largest capacity in the area, said Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, COVID-19 test manager for St Clare County.

“At this point, the county conducts about 40% of all county tests,” Fenstersheib said. “We conduct more testing on this site, as a massive site, than anywhere in Northern California.”

Health officials said the drivingman would make it less difficult for others with COVID-19 symptoms to take a swab test.

“It doesn’t hurt, it’s simple and free,” Fenstersheib said. “You don’t want any health insurance.”

They will also have a pedestrian control track for other people who don’t have a car, he said, but not everyone yet has to make an appointment.

But Fenstersheib said fitness officials can simply expand evidence without an appointment in the near future.

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August 1:17 p.m.: Santa Clara County on the state watch list

Santa Clara County remains on the state county watch list for COVID-19 cases, which are 42 counties.

If counties remain on the list for more than 3 days, gyms, shopping malls, manicure salons, churches, and beauty salons must remain closed in accordance with state requirements.

To be removed from the list, each county must show that trends in the number of instances are robust over a three-day period. The state just removed Santa Cruz County from the list.

“It’s a dynamic list. People are coming, other people are coming,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at his briefing on Monday. “The numbers are replaced every week and I hope that this week the numbers will be replaced again.”

However, being removed from the list does not necessarily mean that companies reopen immediately. Newsom said the public fitness officer will have to approve any assignment to allow non-essential businesses to resume in all counties removed from the list.

But it seems that some counties have proceeded smoothly with their removal from the list or won transparent orders about reopening.

Although the governor announced his goal of removing San Diego County from the list as soon as tomorrow, a KPBS reporter asked him about the lack of the county chiefs’ recommendation to reopen business and a two-day delay to get rid of the clock. List.

Newsom did not respond if new reopening rules would be issued for counties and did not explain why there might have been delays in excluding San Diego County from the list.

August 10:17 a.m.: Long waits continue to get The results of CoVID-19 from Santa Clara County

Don’t expect the effects of Santa Clara County COVID-19 control too soon.

“If you wait 72 hours for your results. This isn’t for us now,” Todd Naffziger, a Santa Clara County fitness spokesman, said at a briefing on Monday.

Despite the accumulation of COVID-19 checks that must be held from 600 to 750 according to the day at dating sites and the advent of new pop-up sites, the county cannot provide check effects within 72 hours, according to Naffziger. .

“It’s a factor that we’re getting a lot right now because as other people go back to school, other people travel for business, there are more regulations and needs,” Naffziger said.

If other people desperately want quick results, he advised to consult other fitness service providers for a faster response time. Naffziger has encouraged the use of the county’s COVID-19 verification sites and said checks are provided free of charge, regardless of the state of insurance.

12:00 p.m. August 15: New sites announced

Santa Clara County fitness officials announced Saturday the opening of new COVID-19 sites in San Jose, Gilroy, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Cupertino, Campbell and Milpitas.

The new sites will offer dating and dating tests, and more appointment spaces will be added due to high demand, county officials said.

Appointments can be made 3 days before the verification date until all spaces are made. County chiefs said appointments were being filled out temporarily, the maximum was booked within two days of availability, so the county increased the number of checks per day from six hundred to 750.

“Like pop-up sites, dating-based sites are proving to be very popular,” said Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, COVID-19 test manager for Santa Clara County. “It’s a smart selection for other people who prefer a time slot in advance, especially if they live or paint near the site. But we recommend that people looking for a time slot act temporarily when it’s necessary to book an appointment at the most productive time. their schedules. “

Prohibited appointments must be made Monday through Friday in Los Gatos, Mountain View, Cupertino, Campbell and Milpitas at the following locations:

Los Gatos – Los Gatos Adult Recreation Center: 208 E. Main St. in Los Gatos Monday: 9:30 a.m. to p.m.

Mountain View – Performing Arts Center: 500 Castro Street, Mountain View Tuesday: 9:30 a.m. to p.m.

Cupertino – Cupertino Senior Center: 21251 Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Campbell – Orchard City Banquet Hall: 1 W. Campbell Avenue, Campbell Thursday: 9:30 a.m. to p.m.

Milpitas – Milpitas Sports Center: 1325 E. Calaveras Blvd. Milpitas Friday: 9:30 a.m. a.m.

No appointments are required for a loose, simple nasal smear exam at any of those contextual locations.

San Jose – William C. Overfelt High School Gymnasium: 1835 Cunningham Avenue, San Jose Tuesday through Friday: 1 p.m. 6 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. to 14 p.m.

Gilroy – County South Annex (formerly Del Buono Elementary School): 900 Wren Avenue to Gilroy Tuesday through Friday: 10 a.m. to p.m.

County fitness officials have begged citizens to arrive early at emerging verification sites, who use a wristband formula in which others are assigned a check time later in the day. The time slots fill up in a few hours.

There are more than 50 COVID-19 sites in Santa Clara County.

2:14 p.m. August: Back to school, governor presents plan for distance education

Laptops, WiFi and tablets will be if students don’t interact with their teachers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday at an online press conference.

“We just don’t need other people to stick to their conferences and videotape them and then stream them online,” Newsom said. “You can just go to YouTube and get that on all the topics discussed from the beginning of humanity.”

The governor announced a set of new state needs for schools to provide generation to all enrolled children, for teachers to meet with their students on a daily basis, and to create challenging paint-equivalent responsibilities for face-to-face courses.

In addition, schools will need to adapt courses for young people who learn English as a language of time and schoolchildren in difficulty.

The state handed over 73,000 devices and 100,000 editions to academics and secured $5.3 billion in CARES investment for schools. Newsom said 81% of CARES’s investment would move to low-income academics, homeless academics, foster youth, English language students, and academics with disabilities.

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond said his branch targets students’ social and emotional needs.

While Newsom said schools were a more sensible precedent for the state in terms of investment and technology, it also announced an executive order for state internet and broadband access for others without the Internet in California.

The plan targets Internet download speeds of one hundred megabytes in line with the timing and relaunching the State Broadband Council to expand an action plan to reduce the virtual gap.

August 10:14 a.m.: Voter Registration Explains How Election Day Will Represent The Pandemic

Packing an electoral college is the last thing other people need to deal with a pandemic.

However, Santa Clara County polling stations will open for 4 days on October 31, according to Shannon Bushey, Santa Clara County voter registrar.

“The safest way to vote is to vote from home,” Bushey said. “But for those of you who may want to vote on user because we have voting machines available or as they say” the dog ate his ballot and want a replacement poll,” you can move on to one of our polling stations. “

People can vote at more than 90 polling stations for polls in the county and can use more than a hundred polling stations, Bushey said. The Center will provide non-public protective equipment, language assistance, and replacement voting.

Staff and volunteers will have non-public protective devices and will be plexiglass barriers to prevent you from coronavirus infections. In addition, due to the Voter Election Act, each registered voter will get a mail-in poll with a loose envelope.

Bushey said he’ll count all the ballots that carry the postmark before Election Day that they would get within 17 days.

In addition, he stated that the army workers’ corps and people living in the registered electorate in Santa Clara County will be able to access a secure connection to print ballots that can return to the Registry office.

October 19 is the last day to register to vote. After that, other people will need to register for conditional voter registration.

6:13 p.m.: Study shows that the neck mask would possibly facilitate the spread of the coronavirus

Duke University researchers found that a fine polyester tissue neck canopy disperses the germ drops that other people emit while talking, making it less difficult for the coronavirus to spread through the air.

In other words, dressing in this neck-specific canopy like a facial canopy would be worse than dressing up in a mask.

For now, the San Jose mask requirement allows others to wear any piece of cloth that covers their face.

“We characterized this to make a mesh, the tissue really disperses some of those droplets, turning the largest droplets into a bunch of small droplets, which of course increases the total amount of droplets,” said Martin Fischer, associate professor of chemistry studies. Duke University, a call from Zoom.

Fischer specializes in the progression of molecular imaging mechanisms and sought to capture photographs of potentially coronavirus-carrying droplets.

To locate the length of these drops emitted with and without mask, the researchers stated that the words “stay healthy,” other people in a dark area traversed a laser. The laser’s thin layer of light illuminated each and every drop that other people emitted when they spoke.

The Gentile delicately showed drops from other people talking in a valveless N95 mask and cotton masks, Fischer said, however, exposed many debris from other people dressed in the neck mask.

“What makes this a little worried is that a large drop may be emitted and simply fall to the ground, that small droplets float in the air or can be carried through air currents,” Fischer said.

The professor clarified that this is not a thorough examination and that the neck mask with a thicker cloth can be effective in blocking particles.

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