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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 249 deaths, according to the county’s COVID-19 dashboard.

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

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.

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Hospitalizations also continue to increase. On Sunday, June 28, there were 376 COVID-19 positive patients and 83 patients suspected to have the disease in county hospitals, which was from 353 and 79 Saturday, June 27, according to the state’s data. On Sunday, there were 135 positive patients and 12 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. RELATED ARTICLES See a list of community-by-community cases here. Disneyland helicopter captures aerial footage of eerie ‘ghost town’ during coronavirus closure

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FEATURED Coronavirus testing is for everyone, county health ofcials say

Jun 29, 2020

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 ofcials said.

Testing leads to quick identication 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 Way.

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

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

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BUSINESSHOUSING Pre-COVID evictions, on hold since March, resuming in San Bernardino County

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By JEFF COLLINS | [email protected] | Orange County Register  PUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 1:38 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 2:12 p.m. 7

Evictions resumed this month in San Bernardino County, with sheriff’s deputies processing move-out orders pending from before the coronavirus emergency started in mid-March, a sheriff’s M spokeswoman 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 the Southern California News Group.

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

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READ MORE LA County looking at ‘significant cuts’ due to But Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties had a backlog of 1,433 move-out judgments that predated the emergency. Riverside County had cleared its backlog by March 17 and has not done 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 least 32 “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 courts are 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 last week 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 tenants shouldn’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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By JESSICA KEATING | [email protected] | Redlands Daily Facts  PUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 6:43 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 6:43 p.m.

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

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

In a news release Monday, the city said it would delay the program by at least two weeks. The

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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 Sixth Street, and Fifth Street between Redlands Boulevard and Citrus Avenue beginning at 5:30 p.m. each Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening to allow restaurants to take over the streets for outdoor dining from 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 street RELATED LINKS closures and agreements with local restaurants as a way to

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Demonstrators gather at the steps of San Bernardino Police station to protest the death of George Floyd at in San Bernardino on Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

By BRIAN WHITEHEAD | [email protected] | San Bernardino Sun  PUBLISHED: 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 San Bernardino 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 of people gathered downtown to protest institutional racism and police brutality in honor of Floyd, who died on Memorial Day in Minneapolis police custody after then-Officer Derek Chauvin was recorded kneeling on the unarmed Black man’s neck for nearly nine minutes. S Chauvin and three other officers implicated in Floyd’s death have been fired and face criminal charges.

After learning on May 30 that there likely would be several Black Lives Matter-related protests in town, By San Bernardino police leaders assigned 48 personnel, including lieutenants and sergeants, to patrol on May 31. Surrounding law enforcement agencies also were primed to help. M TOP ARTICLES 1/5

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READ MORE Riverside County bars ordered to close amid 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 doubled in 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 property was damaged. Churchgoers helped keep the peace.

Eventually, McBride said in his report, the crowd fragmented, and those who did not head back downtown walked toward Fifth Street, where more than a dozen California Highway Patrol officers https://www.sbsun.com/2020/06/29/san-bernardino-spent-500000-on-police-response-to-george-floyd-protest/[6/29/2020 4:40:58 PM] San Bernardino spent $500,000 on police response to George Floyd protest – San Bernardino Sun

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 throwing items. 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 and became “very destructive … bombarding the officers with rocks, bottles, bricks, fireworks, and anything that could be hurled to injure an officer.”

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

During this time, McBride said, looting was being reported elsewhere in town – chief targets included the Inland Center Mall, both Walmarts, Target, Big 5 and Harbor Freight on Highland Avenue – as well as 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, McBride said. Between May 31 and June 1, there were 1,284 calls for service, “an exponential increase,” the acting chief added.

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

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 witnessed firsthand the destruction along Highland Avenue the night of the riot, criticized the police response to calls 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 the value of upper management police positions.

“Right now I have complaints from residents and business RELATED LINKS owners about a lack of response out there,” she said at the

time. “Sunday was heartbreaking. … When you see these San Bernardino County declares racism a kind of images, you have to ask how (some leadership public health crisis positions) are really helping the city. Black Lives Matter mural finds home in “How are they helping the people who work and live in the downtown San Bernardino city?” she added. “Right now, that’s not what we’re seeing. George Floyd protests raise Juneteenth’s A lot of people are not happy.” profile across Southern California

In an open letter to Ibarra posted online a week later, the San Bernardino cleans up aftermath of San Bernardino Police Officers Association said the ‘total mayhem’ following George Floyd councilwoman, whom the group endorsed in 2016, protest “blatantly attacked the integrity of the men and women of San Bernardino police order curfew after the San Bernardino Police Department. George Floyd protest

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

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

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

The City Council meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 1, via web conference. https://www.sbsun.com/2020/06/29/san-bernardino-spent-500000-on-police-response-to-george-floyd-protest/[6/29/2020 4:40:58 PM] 2 arrested, man charged in separate looting incidents in San Bernardino – Press Enterprise

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By ROBERT GUNDRAN | [email protected] |  PUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 5:23 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 8:40 p.m.

Continued follow-up investigations into looting by the San Bernardino Police Department resulted in the 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 products from a salon on the 200 block of E. Baseline Street.

“(The business) has internal video surveillance that captured a female adult unlawfully inside the

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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 the surveillance footage.

“Cloyd was interviewed and admitted to her involvement in the looting that occurred,” police said. She was 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 gray Chevrolet 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 on suspicion of burglary and looting.

Terion Alexander Jr., also known as Tavy Alexander, 21, of San Bernardino, was charged Monday for T his suspected involvement in the looting of a gas station and vandalizing of a restaurant on Waterman By Avenue on May 31.

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

1 of 3 Terion Alexander Jr. as police said he livestreamed on Facebook while looting in San Bernardino early June 1, 2020. (Courtesy San Bernardino  Police)

Alexander streamed the looting and vandalism, according to police.

Police said the Facebook Live, webcast early that morning, was public and showed Alexander and possibly 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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In this file photo, Upland Police Chief Darren Goodman speaks to those gathered at Upland City Hall on Monday, July 16, 2018 after being sworn in as chief. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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

Darren Goodman, the city’s first Black police chief, had been placed on paid leave on Monday, June 22. City Manager Rosemary Hoerning would not give a reason for the action. M

“We are very pleased that he has been reinstated. We believe he should never have been placed on leave 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.

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

At a rally Thursday, Larson said all off-duty police officers came to City Hall to ask for the chief to be reinstated. The same day, the City Council held a special closed session on “pending litigation” but did not report anything from the meeting.

In a letter sent to the City Council and Mayor Debbie Stone on Wednesday, June 24, Larson said Goodman was placed under extreme scrutiny by Stone and her ally, Martin Thouvenell, a former Upland 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 and meritless allegations being leveled against him,” Larson wrote.

The move has been “driven by Martin Thouvenell and Mayor Stone’s anger for Chief Goodman’s refusal to play their political games; indeed, he has steadfastly resisted their efforts to make him a mere 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 before Goodman had planned to demote her for poor performance, Larson wrote. Barrett is closely aligned with Thouvenell, Larson wrote.

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

Supporters of Upland police Chief Darren Goodman stand outside the capacity-filled Upland City Council chambers during an emergency meeting Thursday, June 25, 2020. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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

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

More than 100 people stood outside City Hall Thursday in RELATED LINKS support of Goodman. Some held signs that read “Chief

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Buoyed by a rapid growth of e-commerce, FedEx Ground is looking to hire 1,600 package handlers to work at the company’s sorting facility in Bloomington. (Photo courtesy of FedEx)

By KEVIN SMITH | [email protected] | San Gabriel Valley Tribune  PUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 4:02 p.m.

Buoyed by rapid growth in e-commerce, FedEx Ground is looking to hire 1,600 package handlers to work 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 needed to 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 a surge in package volume. It started with the pandemic. People feel more comfortable ordering things online now.”

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

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READ MORE LA County looking at ‘significant cuts’ due to Riverside and San Bernardino counties’ jobless rate, taken from a different survey of households, was 14.9% 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 and up 219,200 from February.

Many bosses have recalled workers from temporary furloughs as curbs on certain business operations ended. Across the four-county region in May, employers added 64,800 workers but Southern California still had an 18% jobless rate.

Here’s how employment fared in some key industries impacted by coronavirus challenges in Riverside and San Bernardino counties …

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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 down 42% 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. https://www.dailybulletin.com/...utm_content=tw-ivdailybulletin&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com[6/29/2020 2:43:35 PM] Inland Empire is 188,100 jobs below pre-coronavirus level, unemployment 14.9% – Daily Bulletin

Arts, entertainment and recreation: 10,900 jobs — down 300 in a month and down 9,400 in three months. 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 three months. 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. Staffing is down 6.8% in a year.

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

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READ MORE Will Disneyland sell out in minutes when the park 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 following the 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 was the “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 officials alike in a tailspin the next morning.

“I think the people making these policies need to understand they just can’t be opening and reclosing businesses,” said Tom Flavin, CEO of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce. “Restaurants and bars operate 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 Mediterranean Cuisine, and is hopeful a menu will be in place allowing the bar to re-open — yet again — on Wednesday, July 1.

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

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

“Beer companies are losing tremendous amounts of money from all the expired beer in places that had 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 the state’s total over 100,000 cases.

The sharp increase in weekend cases along with hospitalizations prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to order 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 to control the virus “we will see a lot more deaths” and possibly run short of hospital beds in a matter of weeks, 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 now infected with COVID-19 and capable of spreading it to others, even without symptoms. That figure is up 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 to be in the locations or near persons who are currently infectious, and in fact a large typical store is likely to have multiple infectious persons enter the shop every day,” Dr. Roger Lewis, who leads the county’s statistical modeling efforts, said.

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

Health officials pointed to a variety of issues leading to the spike in cases, noting increasing numbers of people visiting restaurants, bars, beaches and stores, and also attending mass protests against police 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 the reopening of businesses as a sign the virus is disappearing — leading to a lack of social distancing and a failure to wear face coverings.

More rollbacks to come?

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

For those establishments that have to close, Little said, the challenge is going back to having no income 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 continue to get worse, the government will take everything (back) to stage 2 — which means no indoor dining and retail.”

“The challenge,” Little said, “is that the customers aren’t used to the new protocol — they’re going to have 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 distance and wear masks.

“We’re not trying to keep ourselves safe, masks are to protect everyone else from us. Once that message 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 the Fourth of July holiday weekend approaching, people need to avoid the temptation to act as if the coronavirus 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 its beaches during the holiday weekend and banning public fireworks displays. https://www.dailybulletin.com/...tm_content=tw-ivdailybulletin&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com[6/30/2020 9:09:54 AM] After brief reopening, sudden shutdown is tough for LA County’s bars to swallow – Daily Bulletin

Walking the health-economy line

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

“Obviously we’re doing the best we can to follow the health orders given to us,” said Nancy Hoffman Vanyek, 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 and safety of the community has to be at the forefront.”

Many area bars already have partnered with licensed food providers, she said, becoming “restaurants overnight” 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 category aren’t fully complying.

“It’s starting to become unfair,” he said. “All these other local businesses are opening up and pretending 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 their doors.

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

“I had several Yelp reviews saying how safe people felt in our establishment and we were doing everything possible,” he said of the days in which he was able to reopen. Tables were social distanced and most patrons abided by the health department restrictions, he said. Only 24 at a time could 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 written statement. “We are very much concerned this will hurt our bar small business owners so we ask that community 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 for the business community. Some of the conflicting medical data that’s floating around doesn’t help as people try to make decisions, he said.

“We did a recent survey and 564 businesses replied,” he said. “Their biggest concern was around the COVID 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 get back to work.”

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

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

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 to reopen it with care so consumers feel confident.”

City News Service contributed to this report

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By LISA JACOBS | [email protected] |  PUBLISHED: June 29, 2020 at 4:38 p.m. | UPDATED: June 29, 2020 at 4:38 p.m.

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

LA County Department of Public Health will issue an order sometime Monday closing all county beaches 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 its Facebook page.

Other details about the order were not immediately available.

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READ MORE At 2 903 LA County shatters record for daily Hermosa Beach, which is city-owned, had yet to weigh in on whether it would close, but the city generally 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 health officials to warn that local hospitals will need to immediately ramp up their number of beds to prepare for 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 health director, Barbara Ferrer, who, along with Department of Health Services Director Dr. Christina Ghaly and Dr. Roger Lewis, outlined troubling new coronavirus projections.

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People wear masks in downtown Los Angeles on June 25. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

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JUNE 29, 2020 | 1:08 PM UPDATED 4:45 PM

Los Angeles County health officials issued a dire warning Monday that conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic are deteriorating rapidly and the highly contagious virus is spreading swiftly 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 potential to overwhelm public and private hospitals.

L.A. County has long been the epicenter of the coronavirus in California — with nearly 98,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,300 deaths — but officials said Monday that the outbreak is worsening. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-29/l-a-county-issues-dire-warning-amid-alarming-increases-in-coronavirus[6/29/2020 4:50:21 PM] With coronavirus surge, L.A. County may run out of ICU beds - Los Angeles Times

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 many more 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 change in the trajectory of the epidemic over the past several days. It’s a change for the worse and 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 in late March and early April, “placing tremendous burden on our healthcare system and hospitals and resulting in much otherwise unnecessary suffering and mortality,” Ghaly said.

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

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What do police complaints trigger? Here’s how Modesto-area agencies investigate Noting that Tuesday is the county’s 14th day on the state watch list, Olsen said she expects 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 of coronavirus 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 was placed on the state watch list two weeks ago. Its rate of positive coronavirus tests is higher than the state’s recommended rate of 8 percent.

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

San Joaquin was one of seven California counties where Newsom ordered bars to close Sunday. Bar closures were recommended in eight other counties including Stanislaus 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, including Merced.

STANISLAUS COUNTY NUMBERS RISING FAST

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

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

Stanislaus County’s hospitalization rate of 19.2 coronavirus patients per 100,000 is third highest among counties in California. Over the weekend, the 36 critically ill patients in local intensive care units was more than any county in the Bay Area and 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. County officials discussed the possible action and other topics at a meeting Monday but decided to wait.

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

The county is also delaying action on opening personal service businesses like nail salons and tattoo shops, which involve close contact between service providers and their customers. Dr. Julie Vaishampayan, county health officer, was not in favor 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 and appreciate your patience as we work with the state to clarify these important issues,” Hayes wrote.

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

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

“Our concern is the rate at which our hospitalization numbers are increasing is not sustainable,” Olsen said. For now, the county has been assured by hospital administrators they have sufficient capacity for COVID-19 patients. Stanislaus reported a record 115 new coronavirus cases Sunday. According to a Stanford University projection, coronavirus-related hospital admissions in Stanislaus 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 county leaders.

“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 reminding residents that gatherings of all sizes, including birthday parties, graduation celebrations and “shared celebrations and shared sorrows” are prohibited under a statewide order.

“Unfortunately, in violation of this state directive, there are increased reports of home gatherings,” Vaishampayan wrote. “Many times these are happening without taking the necessary precautions to decrease chances for this virus to spread.”

COUNTY TELLS RESIDENTS TO STAY HOME FOURTH OF JULY

A post on the county’s Stanemergency.org Facebook page advised residents to stay home and away from crowded areas during the Fourth of July weekend. “Keep all barbecues 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 “pumping the brakes” on a proposal to open nail salons, massage and other personal service businesses this week.

He said the county’s contact tracing team, which tries to identify the known contacts of new cases, can’t keep up with the dozens of positive tests reported daily. At the current rate of new infections, the contact tracers need to make from Cases have tripled this month in Modesto, which has 758 of the county’s 2,165 cases. Zip code areas with large increases since June 5 are 95351 in west and south Modesto with 347 new cases, 95307 in Ceres with 187 and 95350 in central Modesto with 108.

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

At a press conference Monday, Newsom expressed concern the rate of positive tests 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 43 percent since June 15.

The state wants to see disease transmission at less than 25 cases per 100,000 over a two-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 if less than 20 percent of hospital intensive care beds remain available and less than 25 percent of ventilators are available.

In Stanislaus County, 37 percent of the 179 ICU beds remain available and 78 percent of 207 ventilators are available. The five hospitals still have 42 percent of 1,209 hospital beds available.

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

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

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

FOLLOW MORE OF OUR REPORTING ON CORONAVIRUS IN CALIFORNIA State officials are monitoring counties like Stanislaus and Gov. Gavin Newsom has authority to reverse reopenings in an effort to stabilize the infection rate. The state announced Monday it would start reversing the reopening process in coronavirus- ravaged Imperial County.

COVID-19 TEST RESULTS IN STANISLAUS COUNTY Here is a two-week look at the results of the coronavirus tests in Stanislaus County by percent 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 of Phase 2 of Gov. Gavin Newsom's reopening plan. Click on each category for total.

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#READLOCAL 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 of businesses 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 health officers. “This is all very fluid, with information changing rapidly,” Chiesa wrote.

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

POSITIVE COVID-19 CASES IN MODESTO -AREA COUNTIES On March 9, 2020, San Joaquin County reported its first positive COVID-19 case. Two days 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 with Tuolumne, 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 seven California 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 on reopening as COVID-19 spreads in California.

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

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

The governor warned about growing cases one day after he ordered a limited closure of bars in seven counties that have fallen short of the state’s guidelines for more than two weeks. But the practical effect of the governor’s first action to impose restrictions that had been 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 remain open in those counties and serve alcohol if they sell dine-in food in the same transaction and meet state safety guidelines for restaurants.. Establishments that do not traditionally serve 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 the same 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 does not keep a tally of how many of those bars regularly serve meals, said John Carr, a spokesman 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 over enforcement, he said.

“ABC agents can follow up on complaints and can also visit the locations to help ensure compliance,” he said. “Compliance throughout California during the pandemic has been very good. Whenever agents have paid a visit to a location, almost all of them have complied with the request to follow health guidelines and help stop the spread of COVID 19.”

Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of California Health and Human Services, said the goal of the order was to target bars that primarily serve alcohol. Newsom

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June 29, 2020 “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.

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

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

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Jacob Laiser, 38, of Venice balances on a slack line while working out at Santa Monica Beach on Monday. Los Angeles County beaches will close for the July 4 holiday weekend. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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JUNE 30, 2020 | 8:41 AM

With coronavirus cases surging in California, the upcoming July 4 weekend is shaping up to 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 Day weekend, just as the state was allowing businesses to reopen. Authorities believe many people resumed social gatherings after months of staying home, and that helped spread the virus. Memorial Day holiday events were followed by graduation and Father’s Day celebrations.

Other factors in the surge include people returning to restaurants and bars, where inspections have found that many businesses were not following social-distancing and health 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 anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday.

Although it was a “difficult decision to make,” the closures are crucial because so many people gather to celebrate — which could be “a recipe for increased transmission of COVID-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 that sanded 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 July weekend.

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

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

San Diego County bars, breweries and wineries learned Monday that they will not be allowed 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 to stand 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 not do so on their own.

“If they are unsuccessful in building consensus around going back into a stay-at-home order frame, the state of California will assert itself and make sure that happens,” Newsom said 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 coronavirus cases — but not this much.

Robert Kim-Farley, a medical epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, said the only way to figure out how to open is to do it gradually and dial things back if the disease spreads so fast it might overwhelm hospitals later. 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.

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

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

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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 some very sick patients, but we’re also seeing more young people that have milder cases,” Yang said.

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

Yang said the protests against the death of George Floyd in police custody do not seem be a particularly big factor in the spread of disease. He cited current epidemiological studies that suggest the outdoor nature of the protests, and that many protesters wore masks, 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 cases reported in a single day, tallying more than 8,000. It is the third time in eight days the state has broken a record of new daily cases, according to the Los Angeles Times’ California coronavirus tracker.

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A Times analysis found that California is on track to roughly double the number of coronavirus cases in June over those it recorded in May. Last month, there were 61,666 cases reported statewide; by Monday night, there were 114,196 cases reported for the first 28 days of June.

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

Ferrer said the surge is proof — “definitively” — that community transmission has increased, with the cumulative rate of those testing positive for infection increasing from 8% to 9%. Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are probably unknowingly infected with the virus and contagious to others, a threefold increase over last week’s projection of 1 in 400.

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

In addition, health officials revealed that on the weekend after June 19 — the day Los Angeles County gave the green light for bars, breweries, wineries and similar businesses to reopen — 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 bars and 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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Friends Adrian Sanchez, 20, left, Matthew Gonzalez, 22, and Justice Arreola, all of Santa Monica, arrive at the Santa Monica Pier to fish. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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JUNE 30, 2020 | 4 AM

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

The state broke its record Monday for the greatest number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day, tallying more than 8,000. That’s the third time in eight days the state 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 cases reported statewide; by Monday night, there were 114,196 cases reported for the first 28 days of June.

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

The coronavirus has rapidly spread through communities as the economy has reopened and 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 grim milestone, 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, also recording 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 were hospitalized, up from 1,206 two weeks earlier.

L.A. County is now projecting the possibility of running out of its existing supply of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients in two to three weeks. Likewise, the number of intensive-care beds available could be exhausted sometime in July. Hospitals can, however, make more room for coronavirus patients by canceling elective surgeries and making other moves to increase 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 let go 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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That means a typical large, busy store would probably have multiple infectious persons enter and shop every day, officials said.

Inspectors, however, found over the weekend that employees at about half of bars and restaurants were not wearing face masks or shields. Half of bars and one-third of restaurants were not adhering to social distancing protocols. Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered bars in L.A. County and four other counties in the San Joaquin Valley closed Sunday because 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 one other person on average was infected — a testament to the success of the stay-at-home order. But by early June, as the reopening accelerated, the coronavirus transmission rate had crept above 1, meaning for every one person infected, an additional 1.26 people are infected on average.

During the strictest version of the stay-at-home order, officials believed that the effective transmission rate of the coronavirus was under 1, meaning that every one person on averaged infected fewer than one person. But now, officials believe the effective transmission rate is 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 that ended Sunday, the highest weekly death toll that the county has reported since the pandemic began in the U.S. It was the third consecutive week Orange County broke a weekly 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 weekend because they fear more crowds and gatherings could spread COVID-19 further.

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

All public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths “that traverse that

sanded 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 to the long Fourth of July weekend.

Times staff writer Ryan Murphy contributed to this report.

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‘We’re surging again.’ Doctors, nurses angry as coronavirus strains California hospitals

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-30/california-returns-to-closures-as-coronavirus-hospitalizations-surge[6/30/2020 9:10:23 AM] Coronavirus: California hospital workers mad as cases spike - Los Angeles Times

People wear protective face coverings during their strolls Monday on the Santa Monica Pier. L.A. County has surged past 100,000 cases of coronavirus. (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 with COVID-19, raising the specter of an overwhelmed medical system.

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

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

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

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

“We don’t like the trend line,” Newsom said. “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.”

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

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

Hospital officials denied that they were low on staff or protective gear, but the

overwhelming case load in the area CALIFORNIA prompted Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Riverside County hospitals hit 99% capacity for ICUs. That’s not their biggest problem Desert), an emergency room physician, June 29, 2020 to call for a reinstatement of restrictions and 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 the mark. 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 and Georgetown universities.

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

One emergency room physician in Los Angeles County contacted a Times reporter on Monday 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, calling it “very frustrating.”

Erin McIntosh, 37, a rapid response nurse in the Inland Empire said the last few months had 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 us up to fail.”

But public resistance to restrictions also remains strong, making it difficult to re-institute public 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 in urban areas, infections are now rising in California’s northern and inland counties, putting pressure on medical systems with fewer resources. It has left some medical experts to warn the state is not experiencing a second wave, but a failure to maintain the flattened curve of the first one.

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

A study by Sutter Health in May found that Black COVID-19 patients in Northern California were nearly three times more likely to be hospitalized than non-Hispanic white patients and 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 will continue, in part because people of color make up a larger percentage of the essential workforce, can’t afford to stay home when they become ill and often live in multigenerational settings where the infection is passed to others.

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

Epidemiologists say it’s not yet clear whether the surge in cases will cause a similar increase in deaths. Many of the newest infections are younger individuals. And treatments https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-30/california-returns-to-closures-as-coronavirus-hospitalizations-surge[6/30/2020 9:10:23 AM] Coronavirus: California hospital workers mad as cases spike - Los Angeles Times

have improved survival rates, said medical experts.

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

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

The governor said the state has about 30,000 hospital beds available for COVID-19 patients in the traditional hospital system, including about 3,300 Which California counties are reopening? available 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 Imperial County, 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 of their 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 the increases to be this steep this quickly,” Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in LA County, said Friday.

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

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

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

Health officials are also alarmed by large outbreaks in California’s prisons and jails. At San Quentin, 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 numerous county jails. Health officials said those patients likely will end up being treated in community 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 doing really badly, we have to take them in the community,” said Chin-Hong, the UC San Francisco doctor.

Health experts said that the rising numbers will continue without the kinds of social interventions put in place during the first days of the pandemic. If the spread isn’t stopped soon, 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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NewsHealth Is contact tracing — key to COVID- 19 19 fight — working? Lack of transparency makes success hard to measure

Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such as the SARS and Ebola outbreaks. But it’s never been more critical — or more challenging — than in this ght against coronavirus (Catherine Lai/AFP/Getty)

By JOHNJOHN WOOLFOLKWOOLFOLK || [email protected]@bayareanewsgroup.com || BayBay AreaArea NewsNews GroupGroup PUBLISHED: JuneJune 29,29, 20202020 atat 6:006:00 a.m.a.m. || UPDATED:UPDATED: JuneJune 29,29, 20202020 atat 3:303:30 p.m.p.m.

InIn thethe battlebattle againstagainst thethe COVID-19COVID-19 pandemic,pandemic, contactcontact tracingtracing —— noticationnotication ofof family,family, friends,friends, co-workersco-workers andand othersothers exposedexposed toto thethe newlynewly infectedinfected —— isis keykey toto corralling outbreaks and limiting spread as counties reopen.

But while health ofcials report some success in beeng up the ranks of contact sleuths, there are indications that many infected people and those they may have exposed are falling through the cracks.

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 exposed patients who were never interviewed about their contacts or notied of their potential exposure.

“It’s clear contact tracing is not getting to people,” said Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, a clinical assistant professor of primary care and population health at Stanford University. Two of his patients, he said, reported being exposed by a relative or co-worker who had tested positive, and said they never were contacted by public health.

InIn Oakland,Oakland, Dr.Dr. NohaNoha Aboelata,Aboelata, chiefchief executiveexecutive ofcerofcer ofof RootsRoots CommunityCommunity Health, cited among recent examples a patient who tested positive June 12 who hadn’t heard from public health in at least a week, and another she spoke with Thursday hadn’t been contacted in 15 days. She and other doctors and community leaders wrote Alameda County supervisors and health ofcials demanding more information about the contact tracing effort.

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

It’sIt’s notnot expectedexpected thatthat contactcontact tracerstracers willwill reachreach everyoneeveryone potentiallypotentially exposedexposed byby people who test positive for the virus. But it’s impossible to know whether the Bay Area’s two largest counties have been successful because their health ofcials — who have closely guarded much information about the virus — refuse to reveal how many people they do reach, and how quickly.

Ofcials with both counties insist their contact tracers make calls to patients in most cases within 24 to 48 hours but acknowledged they don’t always reach them or their contacts.

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

At a meeting this week, Cindy Chavez, president of the county board of supervisors, suggested contact tracing could be more successful if the case investigatorsinvestigators werewere workingworking eveningevening hourshours oror eveneven aroundaround thethe clockclock ratherrather thanthan 99 to 5, especially given that time is critical with COVID-19. Alameda County spokeswoman Neetu Balram said that investigators follow up “with most reported cases within a day or two of the report.” Sometimes there are delays in getting patient information, and sometimes the person’s contact informationinformation isis missingmissing oror inaccurate,inaccurate, sheshe said.said.

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

With highly contagious diseases like measles or COVID-19, spread through sneezes, coughs or close conversation, the infected person may not recall all 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 is advising New Jersey on its contact tracing program, said “contact tracing works ifif it’sit’s donedone well.”well.”

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

Because the new coronavirus is so easily transmitted, health ofcials ideally would interview the infected person and three out of four of the person’s exposed contacts within 24 hours of being notied of the case, Halkitis said. Stretching that out to 48 hours would be “not great,” he said, and after three days “you’re starting to get too far out.”

Recent publicly available details from New York City Health and Hospitals illustrateillustrate thethe challengeschallenges ofof contactcontact tracingtracing inin thethe BigBig Apple,Apple, oneone ofof thethe worst-hitworst-hit U.S. cities. Of 7,584 reported COVID-19 cases from June 1-20, case investigators reached 82%, but just 37% provided at least one contact. The investigators reached 68% of the 6,672 identied contacts they were given.

Few other health departments offer such detail. Oregon’s public COVID-19 data dashboard includesincludes informationinformation onon casecase follow-up,follow-up, reportingreporting howhow manymany newnew cases met the goal of follow-up within 24 hours, which Stanford’s Bhatia said is the best reporting he’s seen. It shows that goal has been met most days since May 1.

San Francisco’s dashboard reportsreports thethe percentagepercentage ofof newnew casescases andand theirtheir contacts that health ofcials reach — both currently 83%, short of the city’s 90% goal. But it doesn’t indicate how quickly the connections are made.

It’sIt’s unclearunclear toto whatwhat extentextent stafngstafng isis anan issue.issue. CaliforniaCalifornia HealthHealth andand HumanHuman Services Agency Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said this week the state is working toward its statewide goal of having 10,000 contact tracers by July. The state has set a goal for counties to have 15 tracers per 100,000 residents. Santa Clara County has 501 case investigators and contact tracers, well over the 289 the state suggested, and plans to expand that force to nearly 1,000 by the end of July.

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

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

“At this point, the technology is still evolving,” Halkitis said. “I don’t think this isis readyready forfor primeprime timetime rightright now.”now.”

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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 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,

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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 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.

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 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 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 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 Know The familyʼs 73-year-old matriarch, three of her 11 children and her sister all died of Covid-19. Her survivors are focused on ﬁnding a remedy.

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, two siblings 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, the conversation 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 disease that 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 disjointed hallucinations that dogged her during the 19 or 20 days she was unconscious, or the terror of waking up convinced that her 10-year-old daughter 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 the least 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 126,000 people 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 deceased members of the large Italian-American family for genetic clues. DNA from those who died will be retrieved from hairbrushes, a toothbrush, 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 the virus 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 new cases.

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 Staten Island 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 social distancing 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 a routine 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 spent time in the weeks beforehand with both brothers who died. He recalls waking up feeling “beat up” the morning after the dinner, which was held at the house where his mother lived with three of his siblings and their families. 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, the father 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 sister everyone might hope to have.

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

With four people already dead, two on ventilators and a sister hospitalized and receiving oxygen, Ms. Fusco emerged as a ferocious advocate, even as she feared for her own daughter, Alexandra, who is 12 and was born with a serious health condition, congenital diaphragmatic 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 two brothers in a matter of less than seven days to calm down.

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

A photograph of the Fusco children and their parents, Grace and Vincenzo, from 1980. Bryan Anselm for The New York Times

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 not there and are planning a memorial celebration and burial after a full Mass in early August. 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.

The Coronavirus Outbreak Frequently Asked Questions and Advice Updated June 24, 2020

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

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

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 autopsies that 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 truly amazing.”

The nurses and the medical staff at CentraState Medical Center, the hospital in Freehold where Grace Fusco and ﬁve of her children were treated, 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 privacy concerns.

When her husband awoke on Easter Sunday, she asked that he not be immediately told of the deaths. Once he was stronger, she was allowed 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 uncles with myriad underlying health problems rebounded in about a week. Several of the sickest family members had no serious underlying health 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 and daughter, 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 bars without 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’re out of their minds.”

Doctors say patients who recover from Covid-19 frequently need to rebuild muscle strength, and some may struggle with a range of respiratory, cardiac and kidney problems or be at increased risk of blood clots and stroke. Some patients who experienced delirium while on 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. Much about the recovery from Covid-19 is unknown, said Dr. Laurie G. Jacobs, chairwoman of the Department of Medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center, which is setting up a clinic for patients recovering from Covid-19 to better understand, track and treat their varied 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. His doctor 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, her rosary beads and a scapular, a small cloth pendant worn during prayer. She reminded her daughter to bring a tray of chicken the next night 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 is not part of it.

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MATTER Most People With Coronavirus Wonʼt 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 more on 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 tell another 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 the virus was in Turin and Milan as early as Dec. 18. But two months would pass before northern Italy’s hospitals began ﬁlling with victims of Covid-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 in Bellevue, Wash. “You throw one match, it may not light the kindling. You throw another match, it may not light the kindling. But then one match 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’re in the position where you’re always one step behind the virus,” said Adam Kucharski, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

When the virus ﬁrst emerged in China, epidemiologists scrambled to understand how it spread from person to person. One of their ﬁrst tasks 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 exact ﬁgure, since people’s behavior can make it easier or harder for the virus to spread. By going into lockdown, for instance, Massachusetts drove 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 people don’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 diseases tend 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 a measure 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 because scientists can measure it doesn’t mean they understand why some diseases have more superspreading than others. “We just understand the 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 colleagues found a wide variation. The best way to explain this pattern, they found, was that 10 percent of infected people were responsible for 80 percent 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 and published in a scientiﬁc journal. Other epidemiologists have calculated the dispersion parameter with other methods, ending up with similar estimates. In Georgia, for example, Dr. Nelson and her colleagues analyzed over 9,500 Covid-19 cases from March to May. They created a model for the 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 20 percent 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: Who are 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 possible that some people become virus chimneys, blasting out clouds of pathogens with each breath.

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

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 at a 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,” she said. 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. If people 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 them could spew out viruses without ever coughing. And without good ventilation, the viruses can linger in the air for hours. 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. And geneticists 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 that come 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’t appreciate that huge dormitories where migrant workers lived were prime spots for superspreading events. Now they are wrestling with a resurgence 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 stop them from happening. It may be possible to avoid crippling, across-the-board lockdowns by targeting the superspreading events.

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