Posted on 11/09/2020 1:51:06 PM PST by Vendome
With a surge in coronavirus cases approaching Silicon Valley’s peak numbers from July, local health officials today urged the public to step up prevention efforts by wearing masks, maintaining physical distance and staying home as much as possible.
Calling the surge “a very worrisome sign,” especially heading into the holidays and flu season, county Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said it may require officials to impose greater restrictions—unless the trend reverses.
“It is not completely clear exactly what is driving the sharp surge that we’re seeing everywhere,” Cody told reporters, saying it might owe to heightened contact during Halloween or complacency from “pandemic fatigue.”
“But the key take-home message that I really want to get across is that what each of us do every day really matters,” Cody said. “And an increase in cases is both a risk for the health of our community as well as for the health of our economy.”
Every business in the county must file a social distancing protocol, which the county makes available online for the public to view.
Of 1,658 complaints about public health violators fielded between the end of August and Oct. 26, the county’s pandemic enforcement team resolved 1,088 by bringing the subjects into compliance. About 80 businesses, however, have resisted outreach efforts, prompting the county to impose a combined $700,000 in penalties.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanjoseinside.com ...
Published today in the journal Nature, the research led by Stanford University computer scientist Jure Leskovec examined demographics, epidemiological estimates and anonymous cellphone data from 98 million people in 10 major metro area to calculate infection risks based on occupancy limitations.
“Based on all of this,” he explained in an interview with Stanford News Service, “we could predict the likelihood of new infections occurring at any given place or time.”
Oh well, it was nice while it lasted(hint- it never appeared...)
And during the whole pandemic, the death rate for Santa Clara County has been in the range of 1-4 per day, for a population of 2 MILLION! And this was even when the number of cases far exceeded the current “worrisome” “surge.”
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/santa-clara-county/
Oh, and I forgot “alarming.”
Those assholes said 2,500 would die by April
I see that after nearly 9 months we haven’t approached 1/4 of the prediction with 433 “Supposed” Covid deaths
I despise the county public health officer, Sara Cody.
She has more power than Sam Licardo...
Impossible, California’s doing everything right. /s
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