CALIFORNIA
Bay Area - Alameda County
To fight coronavirus, Fremont companies turn to make test kits, ventilators
...the city fast-tracked its zoning permit process two weeks ago — cutting it from around four months to less than a week — to let more than 115 biotech companies make COVID-19 supplies.
SFChronicle
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/to-fight-coronavirus-fremont-companies-turn-to-make-test-kits-ventilators/ar-BB122Jmz
San Mateo County
DALY CITY (KPIX 5) — Nurses at Seton Medical Center in Daly City are planning a protest at noon Thursday because they say they are critically low on personal protective equipment (PPE).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/desperate-for-protective-equipment-seton-medical-center-nurses-plan-thursday-protest/ar-BB123zkL
Fresno -
First homeless patient tests positive for coronavirus in Fresno
Fresno Bee
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/first-homeless-patient-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-in-fresno/ar-BB123fXD
Los Angeles -
Garcetti authorizes shutting off utilities to nonessential businesses violating Safer at Home
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/garcetti-authorizes-shutting-off-utilities-to-nonessential-businesses-violating-safer-at-home/ar-BB122YCn
Coronavirus: California Releases Model Predicting Peak In Mid-May
...A model from the University of Washington shows deaths in California could peak at the end of April/beginning of May with about 122 new deaths per day, and around 5,000 dead by the end of summer.
CBS LA
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-california-releases-model-predicting-peak-in-mid-may/ar-BB123w4d
More than 200 L.A. County sheriff’s employees quarantined since coronavirus outbreak
LA Times
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-200-la-county-sheriffs-employees-quarantined-since-coronavirus-outbreak/ar-BB122VPF
Riverside County -
Riverside County has reported 58 new COVID-19 cases, raising the county’s total to 429 cases as of Wednesday afternoon.
San Diego -
SD Mayor Orders Vacant City Properties Be Made Available for COVID-19 Patients
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/04/01/sd-mayor-orders-vacant-city-properties-be-made-available-for-covid-19-patients/
MedCram Lecture
Dr. Roger Seheult
Mar 31, 2020
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 47: Searching for Immunity Boosters & Possible Lessons From Spanish Flu
As global COVID-19 infections continue to increase rapidly, Dr. Seheult continues his discussion on possible strategies to promote a robust immune system, including a nod to the past with hydrotherapy techniques. Interestingly, these techniques were used during the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 and there are reports about a significant benefit to patients who participated. Initiating studies or attaining data from randomized controlled trials for techniques practiced in the “pre-antibiotic era” is a challenge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1LHgyfPPQ8