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5446 Positives, 118 Deaths in State Who Gets Access to Experimental PREPS: Bishop O’Dowd’s Marsalis Roberson is the Bay Area high school basketball player of the year. SPORTS Eat Drink Play: Wise Sons Deli in San Francisco serves up Passover recipes to celebrate at home. F1 24/7 COVERAGE: MERCURYNEWS.COM Volume 169, issue 284 $2.50 111 MARCH 29, 2020 CORONAVIRUS CORONAVIRUS THE DOCTOR WHO 5,446 ‘You’ve got your first positive’ positives, 118 deaths SHUT IT ALL DOWN in state Good news: Santa Clara County saw fewest new cases since March 20 By Emily DeRuy and Nico Savidge Staff writers California hit several grim milestones Saturday in the coro- navirus pandemic, surging past 5,000 positive cases and surpass- ing 100 deaths even as people re- mained sheltered at home in a desperate bid to stem the spread. Continuing a steady march up- ward over the weekend, the num- ber of positive COVID-19 cases in California reached 5,446 and deaths soared to 118 by the after- noon, according to data compiled by the Bay Area News Group. And, Gov. Gavin Newsom an- nounced during a visit to Sunny- vale earlier in the day, the number of people in intensive care beds across the state because of the vi- rus doubled overnight to 410 from 200 on Friday. Still, officials said they hoped the weekend’s rainy weather would prompt more people to re- main indoors and stick to Califor- nia’s shelter-in-place order, with social distancing being the best tool to fight COVID-19. Data compiled by this news organization showed there were 1,801 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the 10-county Bay Area as of Saturday afternoon, up from 1,648 on Friday, and 46 deaths, up from 36. Santa Clara County alone re- corded 17 new cases Saturday for DAI SUGANO — STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER a total of 591 and five new deaths Gearing up for the coronavirus response, Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody called on a cadre of advisers for help. for a total of 25. But there was a spot of good news — the county, which has been the hardest hit locally, saw the fewest new cases With the first reported positive case in Santa Clara County, Sara Cody was since March 20. Still, epidemiologists and other quick to take steps to stem the outbreak while fearing she was too late medical experts have said they CALIFORNIA » PAGE 9 her cellphone rang. It was 6:49 a.m. By Julia Prodis Sulek “You’ve got your first positive,” the [email protected] voice said. INSIDE: Trump issues travel advi- She is the Bay Area’s Anthony Fauci, sory for New York, New Jersey. A4 Santa Clara County’s most “essential” A virus’ lethal journey Bay Area companies turn to tech- employee, the one who banished us Right then, Cody — Santa Clara nology to serve customers. A3 from Sharks hockey games, canceled County’s public health officer since her own daughter’s high school prom 2013 — was positive that even by Sili- — and eventually shut in 6 million con Valley standards, life as we know Bay Area residents in six neighbor- it here was about to change. Santa ALONE AND AFRAID ing counties to slow the stampede of Clara County had recorded the Bay a deadly pandemic. Area’s first case of the coronavirus — You could be forgiven if you’d never SANTA CLARA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT the seventh in the U.S. Later that day, Pandemic heard of Dr. Sara Cody before Jan. At the Santa Clara County Medical Health President Donald Trump would re- 31 — what seems like a century ago, Joint Operations Center, county officials led strict most travel from China, where when Kobe Bryant’s death was still by Santa Clara County Public Health Officer the stealth virus had begun its lethal exacerbates what shocked us. That’s the day Cody Dr. Sara Cody, standing, review incident and journey across the planet. was already feeling late, sitting at her section objectives for the day in response to But early that morning, Cody was dining room table in Old Palo Alto, the coronavirus. The county activated the preparing to tell the public that it had isolation gulping down a cup of coffee when operations center on Jan. 28, relatively early. CODY » PAGE 8 of seniors ‘We just want to do everything we can to slow the train down’ Advocates worry about food, health, loneliness By Erica Hellerstein GILEAD’S GAMBIT [email protected] For the past few weeks, as the coronavirus radically al- tered daily life in the Bay Area, Who gets access to experimental drug? 79-year-old Diana Fernandes has been struggling quietly inside her Wide demand but limited are pinned on Gilead’s experimen- home, weathering a challenge tal antiviral agent called remdesi- from within. supply for promising yet vir. Demand was further fueled by Fernandes lives alone — her unapproved treatment President Donald Trump, who in husband died in 2017 — and has news conferences has promoted been left to manage a painful foot remdesivir and other unproven injury and the threat of the virus By Lisa M. Krieger drugs. [email protected] on her own. As an asthmatic, she An exponential increase in re- is in a higher risk category, so she No one yet knows if a Bay Area quests for the drug “has flooded has been avoiding contact with medicine can help save the lives an emergency treatment access people. She hasn’t seen another of coronavirus patients. system that was set up for very person since March 14. Yet demand is so high, and des- limited access to investigational She misses watering her plants peration so great, that Gilead Sci- medicines and never intended for outside and shopping at Trader ences is tapping into its old stock- use in response to a pandemic,” Joe’s for her favorite foods: apri- piles, scaling up manufacturing according to a statement last cots, figs, English muffins, moz- and announcing new rules for week from Gilead, a Foster City zarella and sun-dried tomatoes. who gets access to its promising pharmaceutical powerhouse. Now, she’s relying on regular de- but unapproved drug. Of all the drugs under inves- COURTESY OF LORI LEWIS liveries from Meals on Wheels for With little but supportive care tigation for COVID-19 treatment, Grant Reffell, seen with his daughters, is fighting for his life in an food. to help sick people, global hopes DRUG » PAGE 7 ICU and waiting for access to the experimental drug remdesivir. SENIORS » PAGE 9 NEWS ON THE GO INDEX Local ...........................B1 Opinion .....................A10 WEATHER H: 59-61 L: 45-48 Subscribe: Download Bay Area News Digest Business ....................E1 Lottery ...................... A2 Puzzles .................... B10 MercuryNews.com Full report on B14 ©2019 from the app store for your iPhone. Classifieds ................C8 Obituaries ................. B7 TV ............................ B12 6 40493 00007 3 A8 BAY AREA NEWS GROUP 111 SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2020 and deserves a great deal ily, as his daughter cried in Cody of credit for that,” he said. the hallway outside. “In retrospect, they could “We need to do some- FROM PAGE 1 have been more aggressive thing more,” Cody told the sooner. But if they are go- lawyers, “and we need to do already landed right here. ing to be criticized for that, it right away.” Ever since, she has been in all the other health de- a furious race against the partments would deserve ‘Embrace the risk’ virus, making critical deci- greater criticism.” Cody had just gotten off sions that would shut down Like Dr. Fauci, the infec- the phone with health of- festivals and family gath- tious disease scientist and ficers Tomas Aragon from erings, ban people from trusted voice on Trump’s San Francisco and Morrow school, work and church coronavirus task force, from San Mateo County. — all in a grave attempt to Cody — who spent her first They debated the race- save untold lives. 15 years at the county inves- against-time decision, the It was Cody who would tigating measles, meningi- consequences for faltering eventually lead her Bay tis and other communicable — the kinds of stuff of Hol- Area cohorts to pull the diseases — has risen from lywood scripts. trigger March 16 on the his- public obscurity to relative They compared the trend toric seven-county legal or- prominence in these past lines of COVID-19 cases in der — the first of its kind two months. the Bay Area with Italy’s a in the country — that re- And she has been both week and a half earlier, just quired residents to “shel- praised for her decisive before the situation there ter in place,” days ahead of leadership and criticized turned dire. If they didn’t Gov. Gavin Newsom’s simi- for doing too little or too ANDA CHU — STAFF ARCHIVES take bold action, the Bay lar mandate for the entire much. In webcasts of her Santa Clara County Public Health Officer .Dr Sara Cody speaks during a news conference Area could be next. state. news conferences, Facebook in San Jose on Feb. 28, after officials confirmed a third case of the coronavirus. “It was clear to me al- And it is Cody who is car- commenters have griped ready how quickly it was rying the burden of those about how long it took THE CRISIS IN RELATION TO SANTA CLARA COUNTY 591 cases 600 moving, and that’s what decisions and the uncer- her to “CLOSE SCHOOLS The timeline highlights the grave news developments here 19 20 gave me a sense of urgency,” tainty of whether they will NOW” and “the time to act and abroad as the number of coronavirus cases climbed 500 Cody said.
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