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LOCAL NEWS • News San Bernardino County reports 149 more coronavirus cases, 2 new deaths
By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 2:03 p.m. | UPDATED: June 11, 2020 at 2:03 p.m.
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San Bernardino County reported two novel coronavirus deaths and 149 new cases Thursday, June 11.
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So far, 227 people in the county have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and 6,742 people have tested positive, an increase of 2.3% since Wednesday, June 10, according to the county’s online dashboard tracking the pandemic.
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The time it takes for the virus to double in the community RELATED LINKS was 17.6 days.
San Bernardino County being watched by See a list of community-by-community cases here. state as coronavirus cases,
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LOCAL NEWS • News San Bernardino County gyms, bars, movie theaters to reopen Friday, June 12
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The 24 Hour Fitness in Rialto, south of the 210 Freeway is seen shuttered Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (File photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 1:15 p.m. | UPDATED: June 11, 2020 at 1:15 p.m.
Gyms, bars, movie theaters, museums and other businesses are reopening in San Bernardino County Friday, June 12, after being closed for nearly three months to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The reopenings, which will come with limitations, are part of Stage 3 of the state’s 4-stage plan modifying stay-at-home orders.
The state also issued guidance on reopening campgrounds, hotels, wineries, casinos, zoos and aquariums.
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San Bernardino County Department of Public Health conducts a drive-thru COVID-19 test in Big Bear Lake April 17. KATHY PORTIE/Big Bear Grizzly
The city of Big Bear Lake hosts a testing site for those who feel they may be infected with the coronavirus. The test will be administered by appointment on Friday, June 19.
A swab test will be offered to determine current infection and an antibody test to determine possible previous exposure to COVID-19. Details on how to schedule an appointment will be announced early next week. The testing event will be held at the Big Bear Lake City Hall. This is the second testing event to be held in Big Bear. The first was in April. Candlelight vigil in Yucaipa aims to ease tensions following protest that turned violent – San Bernardino Sun
LOCAL NEWS • News Candlelight vigil in Yucaipa aims to ease tensions following protest that turned violent
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Yucaipa residents, from left, Erica Miller, Rosemary Hernandez and Jackie Sprague attend a candlelight vigil, aimed to heal Yucaipa, S on Thursday night, June 11, 2020, at Yucaipa Community Park. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
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1 of 10 Yucaipa residents attend a peaceful candlelight vigil, aimed to heal Yucaipa, held Thursday, June 11, 2020 at Yucaipa Community Park following a series of George Floyd protests and rising tensions. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Yucaipa residents joined a candlelight vigil Thursday night, June 11, at Yucaipa Community Park as a way to promote healing after a protest against police brutality earlier this month raised tensions and in one case, led to violence.
On June 1, a group of protesters on Yucaipa Boulevard clashed with counterprotesters, leading to at least one fight, and a City Council member joined business owners and others armed with rifles as they stood outside shops and on rooftops. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the fight, and seeks the public’s help with identifying two men who carried weapons that night.
Since then, protests in Yucaipa sparked by the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis have remained peaceful. There have been no additional reports of violence at a protest in the city.
A group of clergy from the Yucaipa Valley Christian Ministerial Association and Yucaipa Mayor David Avila organized the vigil Thursday to ease tensions and allay fears.
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NEWS • News Chino men’s prison transfer halted after inmates bring coronavirus to San Quentin
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California Institution for Men (CIM) in Chino.(Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 6:08 p.m. | UPDATED: June 11, 2020 at 6:08 p.m.
The planned transfer of nearly 700 coronavirus-free but vulnerable inmates from California Institution for Men in Chino to prisons free of COVID-19 has been stopped after some of the just-moved inmates tested positive, bringing the illness to previously uninfected San Quentin Prison.
“The patients who had transferred had tested negative, but in many cases the tests were done two to three weeks before the transfer,” attorneys from the Prison Law Office, representing inmates, said in papers filed June 8 in the federal court case overseeing California prison inmate health care.
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READ MORE Gunman sought in California deputy shooting killed There also has been an outbreak of cases at Corcoran State Prison that is coincidental with timing of transfers there, although it has not been attributed to the moves.
“Unfortunately, San Quentin, which was previously a COVID-free prison, now has COVID-positive inmates,” attorneys for the state prison system said in the same June 8 document.
Federal court documents filed this week said 16 of the 194 RELATED LINKS inmates who had been transferred had tested positive for
coronavirus. The program was stopped June 4 before Woman at prison in Corona dies with another planned 125 inmates were shuttled. A total of 691 coronavirus complications prisoners were to have been moved. California Institution for Men inmates who San Quentin had 16 inmate coronavirus cases as of died from coronavirus called ‘especially vulnerable’ Wednesday, up from 15 on June 4.
Nearly 700 Chino inmates to be The patients who were transferred had previously tested transferred to coronavirus-free prisons negative for COVID-19, “but in many cases the tests were done two to three weeks before the transfer,” U.S. District Judge Jon. S. Tigar said in an order that all staff who had contact with the inmates during the transfer were to be tested for coronavirus by Thursday, June 11.
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Until recently the California Institution for Men had the highest numbers of infected inmates in the state prison system. It currently has 514 inmates with the illness. It is the only men’s prison in California with coronavirus-attributed inmate deaths, 13 as of Thursday.
Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe has overtaken California Institution for Men as the state prison facility with the most active cases, 988.
Attorneys representing inmates said those from CIM who had died were “especially vulnerable” because of age, existing medical conditions, and exposure to illness from living in dorms.
Inmates from Chino also were transferred to Corcoran State Prison, which went from no cases on May 28 to 93 cases by June 10, starting with one case on May 29. The transfers were between May 28 and 30.
“Only one” inmate who tested positive for coronavirus at Corcoran State Prison “is related to the CIM transfers,” California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Dana Simas said Thursday.
Simas said tracing was being done for the other 92 cases, and additional testing also was being done for inmates at Corcoran.
The court document that directly attributes the introduction of coronavirus to San Quentin by former CIM inmates does not similarly link the transfers of inmates to Corcoran for its late-May outbreak.
Until recently, prison officials had resisted moving high-risk inmates from the California Institution for Men to other between institutions, saying such a move “carries significant risk of spreading transmission of the disease between institutions.”
But after coronavirus had spread to “every housing unit” at CIM, officials agreed to the move.
Attorneys for the state said CDCR is prepared to work with the state-appointed receiver overseeing California prison health care “once he has determined an approach for housing medically high-risk patients.”
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An aerial view of California Institution for Women in Chino, San Bernardino County. (Courtesy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 9:58 a.m. | UPDATED: June 11, 2020 at 10:39 a.m.
An inmate at the California Institution for Women in Corona has died from apparent coronavirus complications, the first such death in the state prison system outside of the California Institution for Men in Chino, which has had 13 deaths, officials said.
The woman’s death, and the most-recent male inmate to die, were announced by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on Thursday, June 11.
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The two inmates died in hospitals outside the prisons.
The woman died Tuesday, June 9, and efforts to find relatives have not been been unsuccessful so far, corrections spokeswoman Dana Simas said. Relatives for the men’s prison inmate, who died Wednesday, June 10, have been reached.
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THINGS TO DOMUSIC + CONCERTS • News Redlands Bowl goes virtual for 2020 season
Mariachi Divas perform during the 102nd Rose Queen coronation at the Pasadena Playhouse Tuesday night, October 22, 2019.
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(Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
By FIELDING BUCK | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. | UPDATED: June 11, 2020 at 3:45 p.m.
The Redlands Bowl has announced a new summer season with virtual concerts instead of gatherings in the city’s historic district.
“We will present many, if not all, of our programs online via YouTube, Facebook, and Channel 3 here in Redlands on their selected dates at 8p.m.,” Beverly Noerr, executive director of Redlands Bowl Performing Arts, said in a statement.
The season will start late and run longer, mid-July into September. But it will feature many previously announced artists, including the Mariachi Divas. M
It will open Friday, July 10 with “From Venice with Love,” featuring singer Giada Valenti.
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READ MORE Letter from the heart helps UCLA track athletes heal The season was originally scheduled to open June 19 with Debby Boone and Frank Paul Fetta conducting the Redlands Symphony Orchestra. But the novel coronavirus pandemic put live performances on hold.
Last week Redlands Bowl Performing Arts, the organization that puts on Bowl seasons, announced that its musical, “The Little Mermaid,” is being postponed until the summer of 2021.
Information: redlandsbowl.org
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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LOCAL NEWS • News Smoking, vaping in all public spaces banned in Upland New city ordinance is more restrictive than state law
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A man exhales while smoking an e-cigarette. The city of Upland passed a ban on smoking cigarettes and vaping in all public places on June 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) M
By STEVE SCAUZILLO | [email protected] | San Gabriel Valley Tribune PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 3:48 p.m. | UPDATED: June 12, 2020 at 7:05 a.m.
Smoking and vaping in all public spaces is prohibited in the city of Upland due to a new ordinance passed this week that carries broader restrictions than existing state regulations.
Under the Upland city ordinance, smoking and vaping are prohibited in all public places, such as the Veteran’s Plaza at City Hall, the Euclid Avenue median, city parks, playgrounds and ball fields where youth sporting events are taking place, according to a city report.
The ordinance, adopted Monday, June 8, by the City Council on a 4-0 vote, is the first of its kind for the city. It is more restrictive than state law.
State law allows for smoking and vaping, which includes use of e-cigarettes, at ball fields during a
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sporting event if the person smoking is 250 feet away. At a playground or a tot lot, state law allows for a person to smoke or vape if he or she is not within 25 feet.
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READ MORE Ex Angel Rex Hudler’s daughter drives to Kansas to The city ordinance entirely prohibits smoking and vaping within public spaces regardless of minimum distancing, the city report said.
The ordinance includes a prohibition in any city building, a regulation already in place by state law. City buildings leased to private entities for private use are exempt from the city law.
Passage on first reading occurred on May 11, and then was adopted on Monday. At the first reading, Mayor Pro-Tem Ricky Felix, who has since resigned from the council, spoke in favor, saying the city wants to ensure a higher quality of life for Upland residents.
“We are being more proactive,” he said.
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Indeed, since the spread of coronavirus, issues of second-hand smoke and breathing clean air in general have taken on heightened significance. More cities are passing stricter no-smoking laws, according to the League of California Cities.
Cities of Irvine, Laguna Beach and Dana Point in Orange County have passed laws prohibiting smoking in all public places.
More attention has been placed on banning e-cigarettes RELATED LINKS since the virus outbreak. A statement from the Campaign
for Tobacco-Free Kids, the American Academy of How California’s smoking bans are Pediatrics, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action broadening Network, American Lung Association and the Truth Laguna Beach makes citywide smoking Initiative asks Congress to expedite a Federal Drug ban official, a first in Orange County Administration review of these new tobacco products: Want to snuff out a neighbor’s “FDA review is more critical than ever in light of secondhand smoke? Here are 5 things to skyrocketing youth use of e-cigarettes and mounting know concerns that smoking and vaping may increase risk of Upland voters to pick new council severe complications from COVID-19,” read the statement member in November special election from May 12. Claremont council approves resolution E-cigarette and smokeless tobacco use among high school against smoking in open places, but with students in California in 2017 was 17.3%, higher than the no penalties national rate of 13.2%, according to a report released in June 2019 by the Truth Initiative, an anti-smoking group.
Other statistics point to the dangers of second-hand smoke:
E-cigarette aerosol can contain nicotine and potentially harmful chemicals, according to the U.S.
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Surgeon General’s report from December 2016. Secondhand smoke causes more than 41,000 deaths per year nationwide, often making worse health effects affecting children and adults with existing respiratory conditions, such as asthma, the Surgeon General reported.
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NEWSCRIME + PUBLIC SAFETY • News 67-year-old pedestrian dead after hit-and-run crash in San Bernardino
By ROBERT GUNDRAN | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 8:23 p.m. | UPDATED: June 12, 2020 at 6:23 a.m.
One person died after a pedestrian-involved crash in San Bernardino early on Thursday, and the San Bernardino Police Department said the driver who hit the pedestrian drove away before officers arrived.
The crash happened near the intersection of Waterman Avenue and 7th Street just before 2:15 a.m., police said. The pedestrian was walking south in the road on Waterman Avenue when a vehicle drove by and hit them.
Police said the pedestrian died due to injuries from the crash, and the driver of the vehicle left the
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area. Information on the driver or the suspect vehicle was not immediately available.
The pedestrian was a 67-year-old San Bernardino resident, but their identity was withheld until family was notified of their death.
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By RUSSELL INGOLD Jun 11, 2020
These are some of the illegal reworks that have been con scated so far in June by the multi-agency Fireworks Interdiction Task Force in San Bernardino County. (Contributed photo by San Bernardino County Fire Department)
Every year, illegal reworks continue to plague Fontana and many other cities in San Bernardino County.
Night after night, neighborhoods are rattled by the loud sounds of the reworks exploding as the Fourth of July draws near. Some areas of Fontana have been experiencing this disruption for months -- even during the recent week that a nighttime curfew was in place. But local police and re agencies are ghting back, and the multi-agency Fireworks Interdiction Task Force is patrolling San Bernardino County in an attempt to stop the smuggling of illegal reworks.
During the rst part of June, the Task Force con scated 8,500 pounds of dangerous and illegal reworks and issued 37 citations, according to a news release issued by the county's Fire Department on June 11.
Last year, the Task Force con scated more than 60,000 pounds of illegal reworks and issued 73 citations, resulting in $91,250 in nes.
“The San Bernardino County Fire Department will remain vigilant each and every year to protect our communities from the risks associated with dangerous reworks,” Fire Marshal Mike Horton said. “With San Bernardino County facing another dangerous wildland re season, San Bernardino County Fire will remain vigilant in protecting public health and safety.”
The City of Fontana and the Fontana Police Department are relying on both a public relations campaign and an enforcement effort to get the message out to residents.
"Between wild res and public safety, we're not taking any chances. Fines for possession and use of illegal reworks range from $2,500 to $10,000," said Fontana Police Department Sergeant Kellen Guthrie. "You can do your part to prevent the use of illegal reworks in Fontana by purchasing and using Safe and Sane reworks where permissible."
Residents can report illegal reworks to (909) 350-7700 or the WeTip hotline at 1-800-47-Arson.
While Safe and Sane reworks are allowed within the majority of Fontana's city limits, all reworks including Safe and Sane are prohibited in Fontana's high re hazard area.
Property in the city north of Summit Avenue, west of Interstate 15 and east of Lytle Creek Road is deemed a high re hazard area, the city said. To nd out if they live in Fontana's high re hazard area, where all reworks are prohibited, residents can visit the City of Fontana's reworks information webpage (www.fontana.org/ reworks) to view the boundary map. Residents who plan on purchasing reworks must purchase Safe and Sane reworks from local nonpro t organizations. Sale of these reworks are permitted only from noon to 10 p.m. on June 28, and from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily on June 29 through July 5. Safe and Sane reworks can only be used between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m. on the days which these reworks are sold.
Fireworks not in direct control of the operator or that explode, shoot into the air, move along the ground and are not approved by the California State Fire Marshal are deemed dangerous and are illegal everywhere in the state of California.
"Before setting off a rework, I urge you to think of your neighbors, your pets, and all those who are impacted by the sudden noise. The City of Fontana will not tolerate illegal reworks, and those with these reworks will be cited. Be sure to celebrate responsibly, safely, and above all, respectfully," said Mayor Acquanetta Warren.
For more information about the use of reworks, visit www.fontana.org/ reworks or call the Fireworks Information Line at (909) 356-7101. Steven’s Hope For Children in Upland shuts its doors – San Bernardino Sun
NEWS • News Steven’s Hope For Children in Upland shuts its doors Fundraising events canceled by coronavirus shutdowns drain nonprofit's budget
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Tony and Sandy Cappelli hold their newborn Steven the namesake for Steven’s Hope For Children in Upland, which is closing after nearly two decades on Monday, June 8, 2020. They’ve helped families of children with serious illnesses by providing them a place to stay near the hospital, providing them with food, incidentals, and transportation so the family could concentrate their child’s health. In M 2000, their son had a fatal heart condition and lived for 32 hours. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka/The Press Enterprise)
By STEVE SCAUZILLO | [email protected] | San Gabriel Valley Tribune PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 3:41 p.m. | UPDATED: June 11, 2020 at 3:41 p.m.
For Danielle Bennett, Steven’s Hope For Children provided her family a place to stay only minutes from Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital where doctors tried to save her daughter from the effects of a rare, life-threatening disease.
The Bennetts stayed at one of four Redlands-area apartments owned by the Upland nonprofit for several months in 2011, a home away from their home in Ridgecrest, taking turns at Lily’s bedside. Lily’s father, Joey, could work there using the free Wi-Fi connection. The charity even threw their older daughter, Lorelei, who was turning 3, a birthday party.
“We stayed at Steven’s Hope for some of the most difficult times in our lives. I remember it as a happy
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time because our family was together,” Danielle Bennett said on Wednesday, June 10, three years after Lily’s death.
On June 30, Steven’s Hope will be gone. The organization that for 18 years helped hundreds of families with very sick children remain resilient against incredible odds, could not overcome the loss of income from the coronavirus shutdown of the economy.
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READ MORE Letter from the heart helps UCLA track athletes heal “It is closing. It is closing, yeah,” said Tony Cappelli, 62, president and executive director, repeating the statement as if having a hard time believing it himself.
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1 of 7 Tony and Sandy Cappelli hold images of children, with serious illnesses, who they’ve help with their Upland charity, Steven’s Hope For Children, on Monday, June 8, 2020. They are closing their doors after nearly two decades. The organization is named after their son Steven. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka/The Press Enterprise)
He explained that stay-at-home orders forced cancellation of a fundraising golf tournament in May, and a yearly banquet and auction, two fundraisers that accounted for 30% of the nonprofit’s annual budget.
The loss of donations from these and other key events ranged from $200,000 to $400,000 this year, he said, as he and his wife, Sandy, vice president and director of programs, cleaned out the organization’s Upland office on Foothill Boulevard on Monday, June 8.
“We were already cutting back this year,” Cappelli said. “We had no fat left to cut.” He added: “We didn’t feel it was a good thing to go into debt, especially not knowing what was going to happen.”
The nonprofit’s last family is moving out of one of its apartments on June 15, Cappelli said. The family’s 6-year-old daughter received a stem-cell transplant to fight cancer. The family had stayed over a year.
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Families with children needing advanced care either go to Loma Linda or UCLA, Cappelli said. Often, they are required to be within a short radius, in case an unforeseen need arises or the child takes a turn for the worse, he said.
Steven’s Hope provided living quarters near the Loma Linda hospital that alleviated the expense of renting a hotel room. The nonprofit also would buy families groceries and stock the apartment with furniture, laundry facilities, Internet connections and a TV.
Providing for a family’s everyday needs in a new, makeshift home, meant the family could concentrate on helping their child get better, Cappelli said.
“We helped a lot of families from Victorville, for example,” he said. “Their child was getting treatment at Loma Linda, often for a transplant. If the child showed rejection, that child has a 30-minute window for someone to get back to the hospital. If you went back home to Victorville and you get stuck in traffic, your child will die as you try to get back to the hospital.”
Max Ivy’s daughter Briona had a successful heart transplant in August 2016, while he and his wife, Carla, stayed at a Steven’s Hope apartment. After Briona was discharged, they thought about going back to their Yucca Valley home.
But the post-transplant protocols called for daily checkups for at least a month or two. The apartment from Steven’s Hope enabled one of her parents to take her to required doctor appointments, helping save her life. Briona is now a healthy 10-year-old, said her father.
“It was an 11-minute drive from the apartment to the hospital,” he said. “They gave us a home to live in and everything we needed.” Complicating matters was the birth of a second child, Haddie, just a few weeks after Briona’s heart transplant.
Ivy has spoken at past Steven’s Hope fundraisers in an effort to help the organization that helped his family during trying times. He said the news of its closure was devastating and he worried about families needing services that no longer will be available.
“We feel for the next family that may have to go through this circumstance,” he said.
Sandy Cappelli has reopened the organization’s thrift store in downtown Upland and started a new nonprofit called A Lot Of Good that will attempt to continue providing holiday gifts and food baskets to prior Steven’s Hope families.
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Gloria Suarez, a mother of five from Rialto, didn’t need the living quarters when her son, Liam, received a heart transplant in January 2016. But bills began piling up when her husband lost his job and she couldn’t afford a turkey on Thanksgiving.
“It was because of them (Steven’s Hope) that we were able to to have Thanksgiving that year,” she said on Wednesday. They were also given Christmas presents, gift cards and a night out at a Quakes baseball game, she said.
When she heard Steven’s Hope was shutting down, she RELATED ARTICLES thought of how much they helped her family and Liam, now
BofA to give $1 billion over 4 years to help 4½ years old, get through his surgery. communities hurt by coronavirus “My 12-year-old daughter said ‘I wish I can win the lottery $15 million donation aids United Way’s so I can help them,’” Suarez said. “I could never in my life Inland chapters’ coronavirus efforts repay them.”
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Rialto mayor disputes conflict-of-interest organization would be 18 years old on Aug. 22, 2020. findings, refuses to recuse herself “We are proud of what we’ve done. We got to preserve the Catholic Charities helps Inland Empire legacy of our Steven,” Tony Cappelli said. “Now it is time to residents during coronavirus crisis walk away.”
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LOCAL NEWS • News Audit slams Rialto water district over no-bid contracts, excessive spending, hiring practices West Valley Water District officials failed to ensure ‘public resources were spent in a cost-effective manner,’ state controller says
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By JOE NELSON | [email protected] and SCOTT SCHWEBKE | [email protected] | San Bernardino Sun PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 6:46 p.m. | UPDATED: June 11, 2020 at 11:24 p.m.
A state audit released Thursday slammed the embattled West Valley Water District in Rialto for entering into millions of dollars in no-bid contracts, improper hiring practices and excessive spending on travel, lodging and meals by board members.
The 38-page state controller’s audit, which was launched in July 2019, also found that the district spent more than $70,000 in ratepayer funds on two meetings at a golf resort outside of district boundaries — a violation of state law. It also said the district compensated board members for numerous outside meetings, sometimes more than one a day, that were held without prior board S approval or a documented business purpose — a violation of the state water code, according to the Controller’s Office. D https://www.dailybulletin.com/...tm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=tw-ivdailybulletin[6/12/2020 9:02:21 AM] Audit slams Rialto water district over no-bid contracts, excessive spending, hiring practices – Daily Bulletin
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The audit parallels an ongoing Southern California News Group investigation that began last year and has uncovered myriad problems within the district, including the employment of consultants without contracts, hiring managers and consultants with dubious backgrounds and legal difficulties, and spending more than $740,000 to settle lawsuits with disgruntled employees.
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Audit recommends fixes
The audit examined records from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2018, and recommended that the district develop a comprehensive plan to address the deficiencies and provide a progress update in six months.
Rickey Manbahal, West Valley’s chief financial officer, said Thursday the district has improved its internal financial control, hiring practices, and bidding procedures to ensure that problems uncovered in the audit do not happen again.
“We are turning the corner and have management in place to address the changes and move forward,” he said.
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For example, auditors determined that in November 2018 and August 2019 the district held two special meetings 60 miles from its boundaries at the Temecula Creek Inn golf resort. The meetings violate California statutes requiring water districts and other legislative bodies to conduct regular and special meetings within its boundaries, according to the audit report.
The report also noted that the meetings cost West Valley more than $70,000, which included $37,657 for food and lodging, and $35,945 in consultant fees. Receipts reviewed by auditors showed charges for 13 to 14 rooms for the November 2018 retreat and 19 rooms for the August 2019 retreat.
“Our review of the receipts revealed that the rooms were for guests including Board Directors, members of the district management, district employees, and consultants,” auditors said in the report.
Travel, meals targeted
The audit also took issue with excessive travel and meal expenses incurred by the water district’s Board of Directors.
The report notes the district spent $5,846 in lodging costs for two directors and an assistant general manager at The Clement Monterey Intercontinental Hotel in Monterey in May 2019. The lodging rates of $381 per night is significantly higher than the $154 per diem rate proscribed by the U.S Internal Revenue Service.
In another instance, the district paid $3,925, or $440 per night, for two directors and a consultant to stay at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C., in May 2016, once again significantly exceeding the IRS per diem rate, auditors found.
The report also notes other questionable expenses, including $1,897 for an election victory party for
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three board members in December 2017 attended by 40 people at the Sierra Lakes Golf Club.
In addition, auditors determined that the water district’s credit card practices are highly susceptible to fraud, waste and abuse because the district does not retain receipts or justification for credit card expenses.
From May 1, 2018, through July 4, 2019, the district incurred $144,833 in expenses on district-issued credit cards.
“We asked district management for purchase receipts; however, they were unable to provide such receipts during our review,” auditors said in the report. “The district is currently making efforts to obtain missing receipts from credit card holders.”
The district also spent $25,203 on travel-related expenses for which it did not retain receipts or written justifications, including $4,787 in lodging for West Valley Water District General Manager Clarence Mansell at the Renaissance Hotel in Denver, Colorado, and $2,901 for his stay at the Marriott Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.
The report also found that some employees may not have been paid correctly because of inaccurate time sheets and excessive paid holidays. Auditors sampled 17 district payroll reports and determined that nearly half included total hours worked that did not correctly add up based on start and end times.
The district also failed to make requests for qualifications when obtaining legal services over $10,000 and has paid various law firms about $1.7 million for services since 2016.
Hiring not justified
West Valley, which serves about 80,000 customers in a 31-square-mile region of southwest San Bernardino County and northwest Riverside County, also overrode its own hiring policies and could not provide documentation to justify hiring decisions, promotions, or excessive pay increases, auditors determined.
In December, 16 West Valley managers submitted a letter to the board of directors expressing no confidence in Mansell, demanding he be fired for what they alleged was dishonesty and refusal to address employee grievances. The general manager, however, continued working.
Mansell, along with board members Mike Taylor and Kyle Crowther, and General Counsel Robert Tafoya, are accused in a lawsuit of improper hiring and inappropriate contracts with consultants that allegedly cost water district ratepayers about $1 million.
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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismissed the lawsuit in February, but allowed attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case — various West Valley officials — to refile their complaint. The lawsuit is ongoing.
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A proposition on the Nov. 3, 2020 ballot could dramatically increase property taxes for commercial properties. (iStockphoto)
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 11:07 a.m. | UPDATED: June 11, 2020 at 11:07 a.m.
The California Assessors’ Association has come out in opposition to a recently qualified November ballot initiative that would change Proposition 13 to require the reassessment of many commercial and industrial properties to current market value.
In a letter to state lawmakers, CAA President Don Gaekle, assessor for Stanislaus County, cited the “immense anticipated statewide implementation costs and complexities, as well as the disparate impacts to the various California counties as the reasons the assessors felt “compelled” to oppose the measure that proponents have named The California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act of 2020.
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roll” initiative with the goal of answering one question: Can assessors implement the initiative?
“Our conclusion is we cannot,” he testified, “It would be impossible — not difficult, but impossible — to administer all of the provisions of the measure as it is written.”
The assessors’ concerns fall broadly into three categories: cost, staffing and exemptions.
The cost to implement the initiative, according to the assessors’ analysis, is projected to be about $1 billion during a three-year phase-in period, not counting an estimated 36 percent increase in costs in related government offices such as county controllers, tax collectors, assessment appeals boards or county counsels. The cost estimate also does not include likely salary increases needed to recruit and retain hundreds of new professional appraisers.
Although the counties are supposed to be reimbursed for implementation costs from the additional tax revenue, the CAA says it isn’t clear that all the extra expenses will be reimbursed, and it further notes that some small and rural counties will see less revenue, not more, because of exclusions and offsetting tax breaks.
Beyond the cost and staffing concerns, the assessors warned that the split-roll measure contains exclusions and exceptions that are “impossible” to implement. For example, commercial property valued at $3 million or less would not be reassessed to market value under the measure as long as “none of the entity’s owners have a cumulative fair market value in excess of $3 million adjusted every 2 years, starting in 2025, by a floating inflation factor” that will vary from county to county. This information is not readily available in any database. S https://www.pe.com/...lement/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=tw-pressenterprise&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com[6/12/2020 9:02:45 AM] Split roll measure not only a costly job-killer, but difficult to implement – Press Enterprise
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However, for all the effort to exempt small businesses from reassessment and higher taxes, any small business that leases space from a larger business and has a “triple net lease” will be paying the higher property taxes that are imposed on the property owner. That’s a higher cost for small businesses, there’s no way around it.
The California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act is an ill-advised effort to replace Proposition 13 with a new patchwork of higher and unpredictable property taxes for California businesses.
In the words of Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone, “This is a seriously flawed ballot measure, and it should be defeated.”
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Brian Uriel Guzman, 27, of Riverside, was arrested on suspicion of arson on June 11, 2020, after someone set two cell towers on fire at Martin Tudor Park in Fontana. (Courtesy of Fontana Police Department)
By BRIAN ROKOS | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise PUBLISHED: June 11, 2020 at 7:51 p.m. | UPDATED: June 12, 2020 at 6:16 a.m.
A Riverside man was arrested on Thursday, June 11, after two cell towers were set ablaze and a homemade incendiary device was discovered near a third, the Fontana Police Department said.
About 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, San Bernardino County firefighters put out a fire at a tower and in brush at Martin Tudor Park at 11660 Sierra Ave. in Fontana. Then about 15 minutes later, a second fire broke out at a tower. When a third tower was examined, an unspecified device was found there that had failed to ignite, a police news release said.
Police and fire investigators were able to identify a suspect, and about 9:40 a.m. Thursday, a police officer spotted Brian Uriel Guzman, 27, in Tudor Park. Guzman had another incendiary device on him, the release said.
Guzman was arrested on suspicion of arson to property, arson to a structure and attempted arson. He was booked into West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, where bail was set at
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Orange County rescinds coronavirus mask mandate; face coverings still strongly recommended
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Dallas and Janet Weaver of Huntington Beach wear masks and gloves while walking on the Huntington Beach pier on March 18. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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JUNE 11, 2020 | 2:15 PM
Orange County residents no longer have to wear masks in public, officials announced Thursday — an abrupt shift in health orders following weeks of debate over the use of face coverings to stem the spread of coronavirus.
Masks will go from being required to being strongly recommended in public settings under a revised health order from new Orange County Health Care Agency Director Dr. Clayton Chau.
“Health officials believe citizens should wear masks, but will no longer be rquired,” Supervisor Michelle Steel said Thursday. “However, if you are feeling sick, it is strongly recommended to wear a mask and social distance and stay at home. Public health is at the utmost importance during this crisis.”
The less-stringent recommendation had been in place until late May, when former county
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health officer Dr. Nichole Quick issued an order mandating that county residents and visitors wear cloth face coverings while in a public place, at work or visiting a business where they are unable to stay at least six feet apart.
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The switch set off a firestorm of controversy as some residents and elected officials challenged the need for the widespread use of face coverings as more businesses in the region continued to reopen.
Quick herself became a target for criticism during county Board of Supervisors meetings, with some residents castigating her for the order. During one meeting, public speakers displayed a poster showing Quick’s photo with a Hitler mustache on her face and swastikas.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department provided a security detail for the doctor after she received what officials deemed to be a death threat during a meeting last month.
After several intense weeks defending her order, Quick resigned Monday. The county agreed to pay her $75,000 in severance in exchange for her decision to leave voluntarily, according to a signed settlement and release agreement.
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On Tuesday, Chau stepped into Quick’s role and was immediately peppered with questions from elected officials about the necessity of a mandatory mask order. Members of the public could be heard shouting in the background as Chau responded to questions from the board.
Supervisors pushed Chau for a definitive answer about when he planned to lift the requirement.
“There’s always going to be community infection going on,” Supervisor Don Wagner said. “There’s always flu infection going on. Are you telling us masks, in your professional opinion, are going to be necessary until the end of time or until there’s a vaccine or what?”
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Chau later said he planned to look at the county’s infection rate and hospitalization numbers over the next 21 days as more public spaces continue to reopen to determine whether those numbers show it is safe to amend the mask order.
The dispute over the requirement has unfolded as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise in Orange County.
Health officials reported 260 new coronavirus infections Thursday, boosting the county’s cumulative case count to 7,987. Of those, an estimated 3,726 people have already recovered.
The county also announced four new fatalities, raising the death toll to 202. Of those who have died, 94 were residents of skilled-nursing facilities, according to the county.
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The push to alter the county’s order also comes as the region prepares to reopen additional sectors of its economy. The county on Friday is expected to further relax restrictions on businesses to allow bars, wineries, movie theaters, gyms, community pools, zoos, hotels and other spaces to reopen.
“We have to watch and see how we do when we enter that ecosystem before we make
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any decision to downgrade the mask order,” Chau said Tuesday.
Supervisors Andrew Do, Steel and Wagner expressed dissatisfaction with the response and pushed for more firm numbers from Chau.
“We cannot impose restrictions on people based on fear, just based on theoretical fear,” Do said. “If we open up and we have testing and we start to see changes, I understand the change in position. We’re shooting at a moving target. I’m not asking you to be reckless, but the decision-making process, to me, is flawed.”
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Many health officials say that face coverings are an integral tool in the fight against COVID-19 — as they can block transmission of the respiratory droplets released by asymptomatic people when breathing or talking.
Research published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 found that homemade cloth masks “significantly” reduced the amount of potentially infectious droplets expelled by the wearer.
However, whether wearing masks should be recommended or mandated has become the subject of impassioned debate in Southern California. Some counties, including Los Angeles and San Diego, require residents to wear masks in public settings. However, doing so is only strongly recommended in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer has routinely touted the health benefits of wearing face coverings in public. That, along with other practices like physical distancing and regular handwashing, can stave off a spike in coronavirus infections, she’s said.
“It remains so important for all of us, businesses and residents, to follow the directives and
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to do our part every day to keep ourselves and our friends, our loved ones and our families as safe as possible,” she said Wednesday. “This is really the only way for us to reopen without creating huge increases in cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID- 19.”
Leaders in Orange County, however, have noted that not everyone is adhering to the mask requirement and that law enforcement, including the Sheriff’s Department, has said they will not enforce the mandate.
Over the past several days, county staff has continued discussions with Chau about the mask order. Some have suggested that it could be downgraded to a recommendation with similar results and without as much outcry from members of the public who oppose it.
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Dozens of residents have also pledged their support for the mask requirement publicly and in letters to the Board of Supervisors.
Shoppers at a newly reopened South Coast Plaza were split on the issue Thursday.
While waiting for his wife outside the Gap store in the Costa Mesa shopping center, Andrew de Guia, a 73-year-old Chino Hills resident, said he plans to continue wearing a face covering, likely until July.
As he spoke to a reporter, he was careful to keep his distance from other shoppers during the upscale mall’s first day of business after a months-long closure amid the pandemic.
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“I’m used to wearing a face mask,” he said.
Nearby, 56-year-old Westminster resident Irene Bunya said she disagrees with the county’s decision to lift the mask requirement.
“My immune system is compromised, so I will likely keep wearing a mask for the next few months,” Bunya said. “I think the worst is over, but I’m not sure about when flu season picks up.”
On her way to what would be a long shift at Louis Vuitton, where nearly 30 customers
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were lined up out front, 40-year-old Irvine resident Janelle Aranda bemoaned having to wear a face mask during work.
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Aranda said she feels masks are harmful because she will breathe in carbon dioxide for the six hours she has to wear one.
“I think the conversation is so one-sided,” she said. “It’s unfair because some people feel the need to go out to protest and say what they have to say when they don’t have their masks, but the people who stay home have to.”
Pay Wykoff — a 65-year-old Irvine resident who waited weeks to come to South Coast Plaza to get a watch battery and find a Father’s Day present — wore a bright yellow handsewn mask, but said she thought it was unnecessary.
“Not everyone agrees that masks are helpful,” Wykoff said. “I think masks are hurtful because you’re breathing in your own germs.”
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Homelessness jumped 13% in L.A. County, 14% in the city before pandemic
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By BENJAMIN ORESKES, DOUG SMITH
JUNE 12, 2020 | 12:01 AM
Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent to curb homelessness, the number of people without a home in Los Angeles grew last year for the fifth time in the last six years, officials announced Friday. And that was before the pandemic.
The double-digit increases reported in both the city and county reflected the status in January, when the annual count is taken, and before the novel coronavirus thrashed the region’s economy, raising the likelihood of a new wave of people losing their homes.
The count “is not that helpful because the whole landscape has changed,” said Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Executive Director Heidi Marston.
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Kenny Welch, 57, builds a living structure under a 110 Freeway overpass in Los Angeles. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
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“This doesn’t take into account the almost 600,000 people that, since January, and even just since May, have lost their jobs due to COVID-19,” she said.
The annual point-in-time count released Friday estimated the county’s homeless population at 66,433, up nearly 13% from the prior year, the second consecutive double- digit increase. The estimate for the city was 41,290, up almost 14% and only slightly less than last year’s increase of 16%.
Those dismal numbers highlight the continuing incapacity of the region’s expanding homeless services institutions to get their arms around interwoven crises of affordable housing, income inequality and mental health that are playing out on city and county streets.
“We hate these numbers,” Marston said. “We hate seeing the increases.”
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Since January, struggling to prevent the contagion from sweeping through the homeless population, LAHSA, along with the city and county, has rented thousands of beds in hotels
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and recreation centers to shelter the most medically frail and oldest.
But the number of sheltered pales in comparison with the estimates in academic reports projecting that the explosion in unemployment and the likelihood of looming evictions will probably exacerbate homelessness further.
A recent study from the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy estimates that 120,000 households in Los Angeles County could become homeless for some period of time once eviction moratoriums are lifted.
‘We hate these numbers. We hate seeing the increases.’
HEIDI MARSTON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE L.A. HOMELESS SERVICES AUTHORITY
“Until America has a right to housing as an entitlement for the truly indigent, we’re not going to solve homelessness in America. Every country that solved homelessness has done that,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
Garcetti said the grim numbers “underscore the scope of the problem and needed solutions.”
Still, he said the ability to shelter thousands of people in response to the pandemic has given him some optimism.
“We’ve shown the fastest acceleration I’ve seen in those six months, thanks to finally having a FEMA-like response to homelessness in the face of a pandemic that maybe, just maybe, we’re seeing the scale of what it takes, not just to contain, but to begin to reverse the homelessness.”
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David Barker, 56, visits a friend living in a tent on skid row in Los Angeles. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
One small measure of progress was that both the city and county saw declines in the unsheltered homeless population, which includes those in tents along with people living in cars, RVs and vans.
As of January, in the city of Los Angeles, 30% of the homeless population was sheltered, up from 25% the year prior. That’s partially the result of a growth in the number of shelter beds through Garcetti’s A Bridge Home Program, which has opened 20 shelters over the past two years.
But even with huge progress toward building a system that shelters and houses thousands of people each year, the latest homeless count numbers paint a grim picture of how the region’s most vulnerable population is growing.
“The reality is that we continue to perform better every year and are unable to keep pace
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with the crisis,” said Marston, who served as interim director since December and was selected for the post this month.
The annual count is taken in January when volunteers spread over all corners of the county counting cars, vans, tents and individuals. The results come about six months later, allowing LAHSA to survey thousands of homeless people individually to construct a picture of their demographics and the rate at which people are becoming homeless.
LAHSA estimated that more than 82,000 people fell into homelessness last year, a 51% increase over the year before. Nearly two-thirds of those people became housed again on their own. Added to the 23,000 LAHSA helped to get permanent housing, that left nearly 7,500 more without a home.
More falling into homelessness than leaving it Government efforts to house homeless people have failed to keep pace with the increasing number of those losing housing. Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
The numbers would have been even worse without the gains supported by Measure H, the 2017 county sales tax measure to fund homeless services, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said.
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But those gains, too, are in jeopardy because of the coronavirus. Ridley-Thomas said the county expects a sales tax hit from business interruption that will drain nearly $200 million from Measure H over this fiscal year and next.
“We know that there is tough sledding here,” Ridley-Thomas said. “There is no question about that.”
Gary Lindley, 68, who has been homeless off and on since 1989, at a temporary shelter at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Long Beach. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
The funds will have to be made up by the state and federal governments, he said. “We’ll appeal to the state. The state will appeal to the feds.”
The homeless population continues to be about two-thirds male. The racial dynamics of homelessness continue to be stark. Black residents account for 8% of the population in Los Angeles County, but 34% of those who are homeless. Marston said that structural racism means that Black men and women are four times more likely to experience homelessness. https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2020-06-12/la-homelessness-jumped-before-coronavirus-hit[6/12/2020 9:06:19 AM] Homelessness jumped 13% in L.A. before the coronavirus hit - Los Angeles Times
“We have an obligation to look at this data very carefully in terms of the racial disparities and disproportionality ... and ask ourselves, can’t we, in fact, do a better job, particularly in light of the forceful presentation of racial intolerance, racial injustice, racial animus, racial antipathy and racism itself?” Ridley-Thomas said.
L.A. County's homeless population The annual January count found the county's homeless population increased by nearly 8,000 people in the last year. Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
There was little growth in the population of homeless veterans, but both seniors and people aged 18 to 24 increased by 20% from the prior year.
The number of those classified as chronically homeless was also up, largely because of increases in the rates of substance use disorder and mental illness, which fit into the definition of chronic homelessness.
Marston said the doubling of the substance use rate may not have been an actual change but attributed it to adjustments made in the survey questions.
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Jane Nguyen, secretary of the homeless outreach and advocacy group Ktown for All, issued a statement saying: “The people of Los Angeles have said time and time again that homelessness is the number one issue facing our city, yet our leaders have failed to take meaningful action while simultaneously disinvesting in proven solutions.”
One worrisome sign was the increase of family homelessness, which saw a jump of nearly 46% from 8,800 to 12,800 family members living without a home. Officials said this increase was partially a result of better tracking.
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Nicole Bradley-Bibb lives with her two children, including a toddler named Dallas, at the St. Joseph Center’s South Los Angeles trailer shelter. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
The hard reality of homelessness set in for Nicole Bradley-Bibb, 40, when her son, Dallas, was born five months ago at 31 weeks. After Dallas spent an extended period of time in the neonatal intensive care unit, Bradley-Bibb might have been expected to be happy when doctors told her she could take her child home.
Except she wasn’t. She, her fiance and her 9-year-old, Annalise, were living in a Chrysler Town & Country minivan. During her pregnancy, she did drug education in schools and said she made $16 a hour. Try as she might, she couldn’t find an apartment to rent on that salary.
“I was living in the van, going to the hospital to see him every day,” she said.
“When they said he could leave [the hospital], I was wondering: ‘What are we going to do?’”
She has fibromyalgia, which made it challenging to work. This led her to stay in the van and motels along with her family for nearly three years. As the pandemic became a reality, Bradley-Bibb’s family found beds at a shelter on skid row and later was connected with St. Joseph’s Center, a nonprofit that helps poor and homeless people in Los Angeles. They placed her in a trailer in the Florence neighborhood of South L.A.
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Nicole Bradley-Bibb lives with her two children, Annalise and Dallas, at the St. Joseph Center’s South Los Angeles trailer shelter. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
It’s a respite from the uncertainty and challenges of being without a home. The roof over her head along with help from case managers have allowed her to sign up for disability benefits, she said. Still, the prospect of finding an apartment she can afford is daunting.
Maia Eaglin, director of family services for St. Joseph’s Center, said that the lack of a living wage and high rents magnify other challenges that families experiencing homelessness face. A health event might be harder to recover from because of new bills. A substance abuse issue might be exacerbated by the lack of stable accommodations, she said.
“We didn’t catch this in time,” Eaglin said of the investment Los Angeles has made in battling homelessness.
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Elise Buik, president and chief executive of United Way of Greater Los Angeles, said the results of the count should not be surprising.
She said the nonprofit, which led the campaigns for city and county ballot measures to fund homeless services and housing, is shifting its focus to finding a new approach to filling the gap of affordable units.
United Way is pushing for a new countywide agency that would have the funding and authority to boost housing production, both market-rate and subsidized, in all the county’s cities.
“We’ll never dig out of that deficit of half a million units if we do this city by city 88 times,” Buik said.
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A protester hands Isaac D., who is homeless, a bottle of water in the 2nd Street tunnel on June 4 in downtown Los Angeles. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)
By GALE HOLLAND | STAFF WRITER
JUNE 12, 2020 | 7 AM
No one can walk past block after block of tents on skid row, or lift the tarps clinging to Hollywood’s freeway off-ramps, and fail to notice the outsized presence of Black people living on Los Angeles’ sidewalks and encampments.
But despite official acknowledgments that systemic racism is driving homelessness — and a major study on how to address it — the persistent and staggering over-representation of Black people in L.A.’s homeless ranks barely budged this year, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s homeless count report released Friday.
According to a draft report, 21,509 Black people were without permanent, habitable
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housing during the count in January — 34% of Los Angeles’ homeless population of 64,000 (Pasadena, Long Beach and Glendale do their own counts, bringing the county homeless total to 66,000).
The Black share of homelessness has hovered for years around that percentage point, in a county where only 8% of residents are African American.
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The draft report on the count found that about 16,000 homeless people were white and 23,000 were Latino. The homeless authority says that Black people are four times more
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likely to be homeless than white people; retired UCLA law professor Gary Blasi, a homelessness expert, said the likelihood for Black people to become homeless is 10 times greater than for white people.
The numbers released Friday predate the coronavirus pandemic, which has unleashed a cataract of unemployment and potential evictions that Blasi said could hurl 36,000 primarily Latino and Black households, including 56,000 children, into homelessness.
The deluge would come when the Judicial Council of California lifts an eviction moratorium imposed April 6 and scheduled to last until 90 days after the state’s COVID-19 state of emergency ends. Black and Latino families in Los Angeles will be hit hard because even before COVID-19, many spent much of their incomes on rent, and they are self- employed, rely on informal employment such as street vending or are undocumented and aren’t getting unemployment insurance or other aid.
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“If you are Latino you have the highest probability of being unemployed because of this crisis, and Latinos make up half the population in the county,“ said former L.A. city administrative officer Miguel Santana, who is heading a committee to guide the region out of the pandemic crisis. Santana has also led the Citizens Oversight Committee, which oversees Proposition HHH homeless housing bond spending.
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and exposed how significant the disparities are and how our institutions are failing to respond to them,” Santana said. “Homelessness is the most deadly and stark example of institutional failure that exists. “
In a presentation on the count, Heidi Marston, the homeless authority’s executive director, repeatedly said systemic racism is behind the inequities in homelessness. A 2018 report by a homeless authority-appointed commission on Black people without housing called homelessness “a byproduct of racism” and detailed structural barriers in education, criminal justice, housing, employment, healthcare and access to opportunities.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti cited a string of legislation, propositions and educational reforms targeting Black and Latino communities that he backed to help address the imbalance but said the city, and the homeless services system, can’t fix the problems on their own.
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“I don’t think that we’ll see huge percentage changes by asking people at the end of the line to clean up every wrong that’s happened along the line,” Garcetti said.
But Santana and Pete White of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, a skid row anti-poverty group, said government hasn’t mustered sufficient urgency and political will to root out homelessness policy failures.
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White, a member of the LAHSA commission on Black people and homelessness, said the way authorities prioritize people for homeless housing disadvantages his community. “It doesn’t check for the fact that African Americans still have problems talking about our mental health issues,” he said.
The commission found it took longer for Black people to get housing, and less time for them to be evicted for breaking rules, White said. Authorities have never invested to bring the capacity and infrastructure of nonprofit agencies in South Los Angeles to levels seen in Santa Monica and Venice, despite the neighborhood’s large Black homeless population, White said.
Those groups don’t lack “the passion for doing everything they can to take care of folks,” White said. “They don’t have the infrastructure to do the bureaucratic things asked of them by government sources.”
Earlier this year, local officials launched Project Roomkey to place thousands of homeless people in L.A. hotels and motels to shelter them from the pandemic.
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The selection process for the rooms appeared to be shorting Black and Latino people, Santana said, so the homeless authority changed its methodology and brought the numbers into alignment with the region’s racial makeup, Santana said.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-12/racism-making-more-black-people-la-homeless[6/12/2020 9:22:01 AM] Racism is making more Black people in L.A. homeless - Los Angeles Times
“But that was done in the interest of the general public, not of people experiencing homelessness,” he said.
“At this point there’s a big failure on the part not just of LAHSA,” White said. “It’s a failure of political leadership to activate things.
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“We are duty bound to move now, not to try to study it some more, not to figure out the best way forward, but to make some definitive steps in fulfilling the goals we have,” White said.
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L.A. County says museums can reopen. Museums say: Mmm, not so fast
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The Broad’s familiar standby admission line, before coronavirus. The museum is aiming for a midsummer reopening. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
By JESSICA GELT, DEBORAH VANKIN
JUNE 12, 2020 | 6 AM
Los Angeles County may have announced that museums can reopen as early as Friday, but of more than a dozen institutions responding to Times inquiries, not one said it was prepared to begin welcoming visitors so soon. Most won’t open for weeks, if not months.
Southern California museums are navigating complicated health and safety protocols while also seeing to the regular work of preparing new exhibitions, caring for art, managing employees and communicating with the public.
Many museums said they need time to carefully review and implement the county’s guidelines, which include limiting the number of people allowed on the premises, checking
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-12/coronavirus-california-reopening-museums-los-angeles[6/12/2020 9:05:00 AM] L.A. County museums cautious in ending coronavirus closures - Los Angeles Times
for COVID-19 symptoms such as coughing and fever, and instructing guests to use hand sanitizer and to wear face coverings. Markers should be placed throughout exhibition spaces to promote social distancing, and footpaths should be arranged to promote one- way pedestrian flow, reducing crossflow. The guidelines call for more regular sanitization of frequently touched surfaces and a plan for gathering guest information for contact tracing in the event of an outbreak.
One recommendation — contactless online reservations with timed entry tickets — alone will pose a major technological and logistical challenge to institutions that don’t have such a system already in place.
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Among the museums that said Thursday they have not yet settled on a reopening date: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty, which said it expects galleries to open on a phased basis, although no specific timeline has yet been made public. The Broad said it is aiming for midsummer, and the Skirball Cultural Center said it plans to remain closed at least through June 30.
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and its sister operation at the La Brea Tar Pits have targeted late summer, relying on timed tickets to help regulate the flow of
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-12/coronavirus-california-reopening-museums-los-angeles[6/12/2020 9:05:00 AM] L.A. County museums cautious in ending coronavirus closures - Los Angeles Times
visitors. The Norton Simon in Pasadena estimated reopening in late summer or early fall; the Palm Springs Art Museum, October or November.
In response to The Times query, Craft Contemporary (formerly called the Craft and Folk Art Museum) simply said it is going into planning mode this week.
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Both of the University of Southern California’s museums, the USC Fisher Museum of Art on campus and the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, hope to open in tandem with the first day of fall semester, Aug. 17. But a spokeswoman cautioned, “Everything is dependent on the virus.”
A spokeswoman for MOCA echoed that sentiment: “We are very mindfully and deliberately working through all the steps needed to protect our staff and our visitors. We need to take our time doing this, in order to do it right.”
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-12/coronavirus-california-reopening-museums-los-angeles[6/12/2020 9:05:00 AM] L.A. County museums cautious in ending coronavirus closures - Los Angeles Times
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens this week announced that it would reopen its sprawling gardens to the public on July 1, with a preview period for members beginning Wednesday. A spokeswoman said the San Marino institution plans to reopen the indoor galleries incrementally beginning in September.
The L.A. County health protocols checklist for museums includes five safety categories and more than 60 items that need to be managed to remain in compliance. But executing those protocols is particularly challenging when daily operations have been radically disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is responsible for nearly 70,000 cases and 2,800 deaths in L.A. County.
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Exhibition schedules are in flux, and touring shows are dependent upon other institutions reopening on a patchwork schedule according to international, state or local mandates. Installing and staging new shows takes longer now that construction workers need to be social distanced. Vendors on which museums rely for online reservation systems and other services also have been hampered by the virus.
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Elizabeth Merritt, vice president of strategic foresight and founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums at the American Alliance of Museums, wrote in an email that the top challenges facing museums looking to reopen include not just budgeting for, and training staff on, new sanitation and safety procedures, adding signage and installing hand-sanitation stations. It’s also gauging the public’s willingness to return.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-12/coronavirus-california-reopening-museums-los-angeles[6/12/2020 9:05:00 AM] L.A. County museums cautious in ending coronavirus closures - Los Angeles Times
The region’s smaller art galleries, which also were given the green light to open with restrictions, will have an easier time limiting the number of visitors but most remain cautious. Gabba Gallery said it plans to remain virtual through July. Gemini G.E.L. plans to reopen by appointment only. Chimento Contemporary is reopening Friday, but with limited hours. Jeffrey Deitch hopes to open around July 11, but Charlie James Gallery said it is leaning toward appointment-based visits through the end of the year.
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Two early test cases for the future of museum-going are Spain’s Guggenheim Bilbao, which reopened in early June, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which reopened May 23. At both places, temperature checks are required for entry, masks must be worn at all times, restroom use is restricted to one person at a time, interactive displays are out and self-guided tours are in.
Although the emerging requirements for museums seem rigorous, these institutions face far fewer challenges than performing arts venues like theaters and concert halls, where social distancing — of not just audience members but also artists — is proving particularly challenging, if not impossible. On Thursday the New York Philharmonic announced that the earliest it will reopen is early 2021.
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“We’re at capacity.”
That’s how a nurse in Arizona who treats COVID-19 patients summed up the situation at her state’s facilities on Wednesday, describing 12-hour shifts treating more and more severely ill patients, many of whom have died.
“It’s exhausting and emotionally draining, and you feel helpless and just very sad for people,” the nurse, who requested anonymity for fear of professional retaliation, told The Daily Beast.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Arizona had at least 28,296 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,706 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, which also showed a concerning upward trend. The state had 1,553 new cases on June 5, its highest daily peak for new cases since the pandemic began. According to a comparison of all 50 states, the Johns Hopkins data showed that Arizona had among the biggest upward case trends of any state in the U.S.
After the state’s largest hospital system warned on Monday that its intensive care units were quickly approaching capacity, state and national experts called the upward case trend so “alarming” as to raise the possibility of a second stay-at-home lockdown order, The Arizona Republic first reported.
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another COVID hot zone months ago, rather than a state in the middle of reopening. It was especially remarkable given the state’s largely lauded initial lockdown, which experts said “had teeth” and appeared effective. At least until it ended.
From May 16 to Tuesday, June 9, COVID-19 cases increased by 108 percent, though testing increased by only 100 percent, and hospitalizations have steadily risen too, the Republic reported. The percentage of positive tests, which was at 5 percent one month ago, stood at 12 percent last week, the newspaper added. If testing capacity were solely responsible for the uptick, experts have said, those positive test percentages would be decreasing.
“We have seen a steady climb of COVID-19 cases in Arizona over the last two weeks,” Banner Health tweeted on Monday. On May 15, the state’s stay-at-home order ended. Since that date, according to the hospital, “ventilated COVID-19 patients have quadrupled.”
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“This trend is concerning to us, and also correlates with a rise in cases that we are seeing in our hospital ICUs,” Banner Health wrote.
“We’re going to run out of room to care for people, we’re going to run out of PPE, out of ICU beds, out of hospital beds, and we aren’t going to be able to provide care for the population of people who are going to need it.”
Days before those tweets, Dr. Cara Christ, the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, sent
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a letter to Arizona hospitals on June 6, ordering them to “fully activate” any COVID-19 emergency plans to prepare for crisis care.
The nurse who was interviewed by The Daily Beast on Wednesday said she has already been—since the pandemic began months ago—diagnosed with the virus and quarantined at home. As for her hospital, she said, “We aren’t accepting any more COVID ICU patients, and we are at capacity with the ICU patients that we have.”
“We all felt this would be a possibility, and I’m concerned about it,” said the nurse, voicing a concern echoed by public health officials all over the state: whether any Arizona facility has what it needs to take care of the increasingly large population of patients.
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“We’re going to run out of room to care for people, we’re going to run out of PPE, out of ICU beds, out of hospital beds, and we aren’t going to be able to provide care for the population of people who are going to need it,” she said, growing frustrated. “I don’t see people wearing masks. I don’t see people social distancing.”
A group of six Arizona hospital leaders representing 80 percent of the healthcare providers in the state issued a statement on Thursday, after this story was published, assuring the public “that we have available bed capacity and surge plans” in place “to continue to serve the people of Arizona.
“We are well prepared to manage an increase in patient volume,” said the statement. “Our surge plans will also create additional capacity for patients if needed. Arizona’s network of medical care is strong, stable and prepared.”
“We have taken every precaution to ensure the well-being of our patients and staff in our medical facilities,” the statement continued. “If you require medical attention, please do not delay seeking care for any medical conditions.”
Dr. Megan Jehn, a clinical epidemiologist and an associate professor of global health at Arizona State University, told The Daily Beast that the exponential growth in the state’s case numbers is evidence of an increase in community transmission. That is, it wasn’t just, as Gov. Doug Ducey has said, a result of increased testing capacity.
Jehn called the last few weeks’ numbers “particularly concerning.”
“Anecdotally, it’s easy to walk down busy streets and see people without masks,” Jehn told The Daily Beast. “We really need to emphasize a need for community responsibility.” At this point, she added, “It’s hard to say whether it’s messaging or noncompliance.”
And though public health experts initially lauded Ducey’s stay-at-home order—and the diligence with which civilians were following guidelines—its end on May 15 was seen, at least by Will Humble, the executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association, as “a light switch.”
Regardless of who might be at fault, the latest numbers are staggering.
More than 4,000 of Maricopa County’s 14,374 cumulative cases since the pandemic began are from just this month. The Maricopa County Health Department announced on Monday that the Phoenix area has seen a worrying spike of cases, warned that local hospitals were becoming increasingly overwhelmed, and https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-is-so-bad-in-arizona-theyre-running-out-of-beds[6/12/2020 8:22:13 AM] COVID Is So Bad in Arizona They’re Running Out of Beds
cautioned anyone venturing out of their home to wear a mask if they’re unable to maintain social distance. Meanwhile, county officials tried to curb a dramatic 10-day increase in coronavirus cases—from six on May 30 to 203 on June 9—in local jails. In state prisons, the Arizona Department of Corrections reported 242 positive cases on Wednesday.
And the possibility of large-scale public congregation will only increase in the coming weeks, as President Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he will restart campaign rallies, including one in Arizona.
While Arizona has begun to stand out as a hot zone of national interest, it’s just one of up to 22 states seeing upward trends, including Alaska, California, Florida, Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, according to CNN. Fourteen of those states have just this month recorded their highest seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began.
Still, public health experts have called special attention to Arizona, along with Arkansas and Utah. On Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called Arizona a “cautionary tale” for reopening too quickly without enough guidance to the general population.
Dating back to the early days of the pandemic, Arizona was among the first states in the U.S. to confirm a local case of the virus in January, after a member of the Arizona State University’s Tempe campus was diagnosed. But Arizona—at least for a while—escaped the fate of early hot zones, like New York and Seattle, which experienced massive infection, nearly overrun hospitals, and thousands of deaths. Now that those hot spots have begun to cool, the highest percentages of new cases are coming from places with much smaller populations, The Washington Post reports.
Earlier models used by the White House Coronavirus Task Force, like the one from The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, showed in mid-May that Arizona could reach about 2,900 deaths by Aug. 4. But that number has significantly shifted in recent weeks, and the model now predicts more than 4,400 deaths by that same date.
“Increased community spread is like a fire, with little embers everywhere,” said Jehn. “If we can’t control this, we’re going to see a rapid escalation of cases, of people potentially getting really sick. We need to act now to get ahead of this growth.”
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she continued. “If not, a lockdown is maybe where we’re headed.”
Still, Jehn acknowledged that a secondary lockdown “just may not be acceptable to the community.”
That’s a valid concern, given that, as the the Phoenix New Times reported last month, at least two county sheriffs publicly declared their refusal to punish any business owners or arrest any individuals for violating the state’s lockdown order. Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and Mohave County Sheriff Douglas Schuster, neither of whom returned requests for comment from The Daily Beast on Wednesday, said they would “educate and advise” owners about the governor’s executive order but that they would not enforce it.
“I’m not trying to change his policy, I’m just disagreeing with it, and I won’t enforce it,” said Lamb on May 1. “I don't think it's right.”
What’s more, when reached on Wednesday by The Daily Beast, Patrick Ptak, a spokesman for Gov. Ducey, flatly denied that Arizona was considering going back into lockdown. Ptak repeated earlier talking points from the governor, cited at length elsewhere: that an increase in testing was inevitably going to increase the number of positive cases. Testing in the state, said Ptak, has doubled since the stay-at-home order ended on May 15. A spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Health Services did not respond to a request for comment.
“We have anticipated increased cases in June based on various modeling, including the projections in a model provided by FEMA, and we’ve spent the last few months working to increase capacity to ensure every Arizonan has access to care, should they need it,” said Ptak. “Alternate care sites are ready for activation if and when we need additional capacity, something that is not necessary at this time. We’ve continued to focus on protecting our most vulnerable, including those in nursing homes and long-term care settings.”
“We’re also working with public health officials and leaders in the business, education, and nonprofit communities and more to provide guidance, ensuring businesses return smarter and work to mitigate the spread,” Ptak added.
Others were not so certain of the governor’s response to the crisis after the lockdown ended.
“By May 26, there was a consistent increase in all 15 counties, and that trend
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was remarkable—it looks like a checkmark. Cases were declining, then the stay-at-home order ended, and they shot up.”
In the beginning, Arizona “had a really good stay-at-home order that people complied with,” said Humble, from the Arizona Public Health Association, a nearly century-old nonprofit that has helped shape public health in the state. “It had teeth in it, and Arizonans did a good job.” But the order ended on May 15, and then Memorial Day weekend provided the opportunity for residents to socialize, drink, and attend nightclubs, he said.
“By May 26, there was a consistent increase in all 15 counties, and that trend was remarkable—it looks like a checkmark,” he continued. “Cases were declining, then the stay-at-home order ended, and they shot up.”
“From a big picture perspective, all the sacrifice we’ve made as a state and as individuals has been squandered,” Humble added.
When mulling over those numbers, the 60-year-old former Arizona state health director’s biggest fear wasn’t just the community at large. It was his son.
The past several weeks of rapidly increasing case counts and concerning hospitalizations has stoked Humble’s anxiety that his 26-year-old son Luke, who has Down syndrome, might get sick and be hospitalized, without any visitors allowed.
“He’s good at texting, but Luke would not understand why we weren’t there,” said Humble. “I think he would survive, but it would be torture knowing he’s in a hospital and we couldn’t be there.”
Humble’s story highlights that the oft-repeated—and sometimes prosaic—pleas for diligence from public health experts are still based on something nearly all Americans can relate to: family.
Ultimately, said Humble, all Arizonans should be thinking about their most vulnerable family members, because right now, “every indicator across the dashboard is blinking.”
“It’s like Katrina,” he explained. “There’s a big hurricane spinning out in the Gulf, and forecast models are showing it’s going to come to shore. But today? It’s a great day, and it’s sunny outside, and we’re going to just enjoy it.”
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But make no mistake, said Humble: “There’s a storm brewing.”
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey dismissed mounting concerns Thursday about the state’s alarming rise in coronavirus cases, and focused on hospitals’ capacity to care for patients rather than slowing the spread of the virus.
“That’s what’s most important when there is a rise in cases,” the Republican governor told reporters during his weekly virus news briefing. “Because a rise in cases could result in a rise of severe illness that requires hospitalization. I want every Arizonan to be able to have the medical care and comfort and resources necessary and today we are able to provide that.”
Arizona is one of several states that has seen a surge in new COVID-19 cases after stay-at- home orders were lifted last month. Ducey said the increase was not unexpected partly because of a wider availability of testing. But some experts disagree, citing a lack of a face
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The state will be making more of an effort to do public health education, Ducey said. But that would not require enforcing face masks. Ducey himself has been criticized for not wearing a mask in public and in meetings.
“Wearing a mask when you can’t social distance is good. I’m going to wear a mask when I’m in those situations,” said Ducey, who had a mask in his pocket but didn’t wear it.
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Arizona has been seeing more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases per day. Those figures prompted Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego to send a letter to Ducey on Wednesday, chastising the governor and demanding to know how he would address the “growing public health emergency our state is facing.”
When Ducey ended his business closure and stay-at-home orders in mid-May, there were fewer than 400 new cases a day. Public health experts note that the percent of positive tests has nearly doubled in the past few weeks.
On Thursday, the state reported 1,412 new cases and 32 new deaths. With those numbers, Arizona has 31,264 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and seen 1,127 people die from the virus since March.
The state — known for its desert climate, allure for retirees and boom and bust economy — has approximately 7.3 million residents. More than 60% of them live in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix and its sprawling suburbs and more than half the state’s virus cases.
The Navajo Nation, which covers parts of northeastern Arizona and spills over into New Mexico and Utah, has been a particular virus hot spot, with reservation-wide cases totaling 6,275 as of Wednesday and a death toll approaching 300. About 175,000 Navajos live on the reservation. Hopi, Apache and other tribes have also seen cases.
Native Americans make up about 5.3% of Arizona’s population but account for 12% of all virus cases. State statistics show other minorities have not seen a disproportionate percentage of virus cases, unlike some other states.
The state’s largest hospital system, Banner Health, said last week its intensive care units are nearly full and will soon exceed capacity. Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Marjorie Bessel urged the public to boost their efforts to avoid contracting or passing on the virus by wearing masks in public, using social distancing and being diligent with hygiene practices.
On Thursday, the governor’s office distributed a statement from the state’s hospitals that said they were prepared for any surge in cases and had adequate capacity. The state’s hospitals were above 80% full on Wednesday, not counting the ability to add 50% more beds if needed to care for virus patients.
Ducey said the state has been preparing over the last three months to handle a surge in cases but “the fact that the worst case scenario is not here today is positive news.”
The governor said he was not planning to revise a portion of his executive order that requires hospitals to stop elective surgeries if they reach 80% capacity.
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“My executive order is going to continue to stand,” he said. “If we were to see hospital capacity that was in the alarm rate, elective surgeries would stop.”
Health Services Director Dr. Cara Christ said she would work with hospitals to see if they needed to stop surgeries. None have told The Associated Press they were near the 80% level, despite the state’s own numbers showing they were cumulatively at 84% on Wednesday.
Maricopa County health officials made similar pronouncements at a news briefing Wednesday, and said all employees are now required to use masks when they are within 6 feet (2 meters) of coworkers.
Ducey has praised the large majority of the state’s residents who have followed social distancing guidelines but has declined to criticize large gatherings at nightclubs. His executive orders block cities from taking actions to stop activities that may spread the virus, and he said Thursday he would continue that policy to ensure statewide consistency.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some — especially older adults and people with existing health problems — it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio--Dr. Amy Acton, Ohio’s state health director who has become a household name around the state during the coronavirus crisis, has resigned effective immediately, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Thursday.
Acton will remain as the governor’s chief adviser on health issues, DeWine said. Lance Himes, the Ohio Department of Health’s general counsel who briefly served as state health director twice under ex-Gov. John Kasich, will become interim director, the governor said.
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Asked why she’s leaving now, Acton said the decision to resign is “something I’ve been struggling over the last couple of months.”
She said her routine during the past couple months, which involved getting up at 4 a.m. to read and catch up while going to bed late, “wasn’t a sustainable thing.”
Acton said with the state reopening, Ohio is entering a new “phase” of
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learning to resume life with the coronavirus.
“I think there is a sort of natural shift that is occurring here that makes it sort of a good time so I can refocus," she said.
The governor said he tried in vain to convince Acton to stay as director, and he praised her “wise advice and counsel” and “extraordinary bedside manner” since he appointed her last year.
Acton has drawn wide admiration in Ohio, as well as around the nation, for her appearances during DeWine’s daily coronavirus briefings, providing easy- to-understand analysis and information about the virus in a calm, soothing voice, and passionately pleading with Ohioans to stay at home and take other precautions. Bobbleheads and cartoons have been made featuring her.
An April poll found almost 64 percent of Ohio’s registered voters had a favorable opinion of Acton, and almost 84 percent said they trusted the coronavirus information she was providing.
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But as the DeWine administration has moved in the past six weeks to lift the state’s “stay-at-home” and business-closure orders, Acton and the Ohio Department of Health have become increasingly sidelined. Starting last
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month, the governor turned to a number of “working groups," composed of business people and experts, to determine how various sectors of Ohio’s economy will reopen.
Acton has also become a lightning rod of criticism from opponents of the DeWine administration’s coronavirus orders, who claimed she overestimated the deadliness of the coronavirus and overreached her authority in ordering closures.
Republican lawmakers tried to strip her of her power, and protesters demonstrated outside her home in suburban Columbus.
Asked how she felt about the criticism, Acton said “any human being” would be affected by the backlash, especially as she has never run for public office.
But, she said, “for anyone doing this job, you’d be surprised how much a lot of that isn’t your focus.”
She added: “For me, my focus -- the need to protect Ohioans and save lives was so intense, especially during those first days (of the crisis),” she said. “I can honestly say, like -- it had to be a single point of meditation on the task at hand, and that remains that.”
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Acton was named health director in April 2019, becoming the final member of DeWine’s cabinet to be appointed. Before joining the DeWine administration, she most recently served as a community research and grants administrator at the nonprofit Columbus Foundation.
A Youngstown native, Acton has described how she grew up abused, neglected, and occasionally homeless. She attended Youngstown State University, and she paid her own way to earn a medical degree from what is now Northeast Ohio Medical University, followed by a master’s degree in public health from Ohio State University.
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Public health workers fighting virus face growing threats By MICHELLE R. SMITH, LAUREN WEBER and ANNA MARIA BARRY-JESTER 47 minutes ago
Emily Brown was stretched thin.
As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 12- and 14-hour days, struggling to respond to the pandemic with only five full- time employees for more than 11,000 residents. Case counts were rising.
She was already at odds with county commissioners, who were pushing to loosen public health
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restrictions in late May, against her advice. She had previously clashed with them over data releases and control and had haggled over a variance regarding reopening businesses.
But she reasoned that standing up for public health principles was worth it, even if she risked losing the job that allowed her to live close to her hometown and help her parents with their farm.
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Then came the Facebook post: a photo of her and other health officials with comments about their weight and references to “armed citizens” and “bodies swinging from trees.”
The commissioners had asked her to meet with them the next day. She intended to ask them for more support. Instead, she was fired.
“They finally were tired of me not going along the line they wanted me to go along,” she said.
In the battle against COVID-19, public health workers spread across states, cities and small towns make up an invisible army on the front lines. But that army, which has suffered neglect for decades, is under assault when it’s needed most.
Officials who usually work behind the scenes managing tasks like immunizations and water quality inspections have found themselves center stage. Elected officials and members of the public who are frustrated with the lockdowns and safety restrictions have at times turned public health workers into politicized punching bags, battering them with countless angry calls and even physical threats.
On Thursday, Ohio’s state health director, who had armed protesters come to her house, resigned. The health officer for Orange County, California, quit Monday after weeks of criticism and personal threats from residents and other public officials over an order requiring face coverings in public.
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From North Caolina to California, they have left their posts because of a mix of backlash and stressful, nonstop work, all while dealing with chronic staffing and funding shortages.
Some health officials have not been up to the job during the biggest health crisis in a century. Others previously had plans to leave or cited their own health issues.
But Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said the majority of what she calls an “alarming” exodus resulted from increasing pressure as states reopen. Three of those 27 were members of her board and well known in the public health community — Rio Grande County’s Brown; Detroit’s senior public health adviser, Dr. Kanzoni Asabigi; and the head of North Carolina’s Gaston County Department of Health and Human Services, Chris Dobbins.
Asabigi’s sudden retirement, considering his stature in the public health community, shocked Freeman. She also was upset to hear about the departure of Dobbins, who was chosen as health director of the year for North Carolina in 2017. Asabigi and Dobbins did not reply to requests for comment.
“They just don’t leave like that,” Freeman said.
Public health officials are “really getting tired of the ongoing pressures and the blame game,” Freeman said. She warned that more departures could be expected in the coming days and weeks as political pressure trickles down from the federal to the state to the local level.
From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, federal public health officials have complained of being sidelined or politicized. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been marginalized; a government whistleblower said he faced retaliation because he opposed a White House directive to allow widespread access to the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.
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that the state’s health services secretary resign, and the state’s conservative Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that she had exceeded her authority by extending a stay-at-home order.
With the increased public scrutiny, security details — like those seen on a federal level for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious-disease expert — have been assigned to top state health officials, including Georgia’s Dr. Kathleen Toomey after she was threatened. Ohio’s Dr. Amy Acton, who also had a security detail assigned after armed protesters showed up at her home, resigned Thursday.
In Orange County, in late May, nearly 100 people attended a county supervisors meeting, waiting hours to speak against an order requiring face coverings. One person suggested that the order might make it necessary to invoke Second Amendment rights to bear arms, while another read aloud the home address of the order’s author, the county’s chief health officer, Dr. Nichole Quick, as well as the name of her boyfriend.
Quick, attending by phone, left the meeting. In a statement, the sheriff’s office later said Quick had expressed concern for her safety following “several threatening statements both in public comment and online.” She was given personal protection by the sheriff.
But Monday, after yet another public meeting that included criticism from members of the board of supervisors, Quick resigned. She could not be reached for comment. Earlier, the county’s deputy director of public health services, David Souleles, retired abruptly.
An official in another California county also has been given a security detail, said Kat DeBurgh, the executive director of the Health Officers Association of California, declining to name the county or official because the threats have not been made public.
Many local health leaders, accustomed to relative anonymity as they work to protect the public’s health, have been shocked by the growing threats, said Theresa Anselmo, the executive director of the Colorado Association of Local Public Health Officials.
After polling local health directors across the state at a meeting last month, Anselmo found about 80% said they or their personal property had been threatened since the pandemic began. About 80% also said they’d encountered threats to pull funding from their department or other forms of political pressure.
To Anselmo, the ugly politics and threats are a result of the politicization of the pandemic from the start. So far in Colorado, six top local health officials have retired, resigned or been fired. A handful of state and local health department staff members have left as well, she said.
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facing these really difficult ethical dilemmas: Do I stay in my job and risk threats, or do I leave because it’s not worth it?” Anselmo asked.
In California, senior health officials from seven counties, including Quick and Souleles, have resigned or retired since March 15. Dr. Charity Dean, the second in command at the state Department of Public Health, submitted her resignation June 4. Burnout seems to be contributing to many of those decisions, DeBurgh said.
In addition to the harm to current officers, DeBurgh is worried about the impact these events will have on recruiting people into public health leadership.
“It’s disheartening to see people who disagree with the order go from attacking the order to attacking the officer to questioning their motivation, expertise and patriotism,” said DeBurgh. “That’s not something that should ever happen.”
Some of the online abuse has been going on for years, said Bill Snook, a spokesperson for the health department in Kansas City, Missouri. He has seen instances in which people took a health inspector’s name and made a meme out of it, or said a health worker should be strung up or killed. He said opponents of vaccinations, known as anti-vaxxers, have called staffers “baby killers.”
The pandemic, though, has brought such behavior to another level.
In Ohio, the Delaware General Health District has had two lockdowns since the pandemic began — one after an angry individual came to the health department. Fortunately, the doors were locked, said Dustin Kent, program manager for the department’s residential services unit.
Angry calls over contact tracing continue to pour in, Kent said.
In Colorado, the Tri-County Health Department, which serves Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties near Denver, has also been getting hundreds of calls and emails from frustrated citizens, deputy director Jennifer Ludwig said.
Some have been angry their businesses could not open and blamed the health department for depriving them of their livelihood. Others were furious with neighbors who were not wearing masks outside. It’s a constant wave of “confusion and angst and anxiety and anger,” she said.
Then in April and May, rocks were thrown at one of their office’s windows — three separate times. The office was tagged with obscene graffiti. The department also received an email calling members of the department “tyrants,” adding “you’re about to start a hot-shooting ...
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civil war.” Health department workers decamped to another office.
Although the police determined there was no imminent threat, Ludwig stressed how proud she was of her staff, who weathered the pressure while working round-the-clock.
“It does wear on you, but at the same time, we know what we need to do to keep moving to keep our community safe,” she said. “Despite the complaints, the grievances, the threats, the vandalism — the staff have really excelled and stood up.”
The threats didn’t end there, however: Someone asked on the health department’s Facebook page how many people would like to know the home addresses of the Tri-County Health Department leadership. “You want to make this a war??? No problem,” the poster wrote.
Back in Colorado’s Rio Grande County, some members of the community have rallied in support of Brown with public comments and a letter to the editor of a local paper. Meanwhile, COVID-19 case counts have jumped from 14 to 49 as of Wednesday.
Brown is grappling with what she should do next: Dive back into another strenuous public health job in a pandemic or take a moment to recoup?
When she told her 6-year-old son she no longer had a job, he responded: “Good, now you can spend more time with us.”
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Michelle R. Smith is a correspondent for the AP, and Lauren Weber and Anna Maria Barry- Jester are writers for KHN. AP writer Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu and KHN correspondent Angela Hart in Sacramento contributed to this report.
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This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Kaiser Health News, which is a nonprofit, editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation. KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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But now a new modeling study out of Cambridge and Greenwich universities suggests that face masks may be even more important than originally thought in preventing future outbreaks of the new coronavirus.
To ward off resurgences, the reproduction number for the virus (the average number of people who will contract it from one infected person) needs to drop below 1.0. Researchers don’t believe that’s achievable with lockdowns alone. However, a combination of lockdowns and widespread mask compliance might do the trick, they say.
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“We show that, when face masks are used by the public all the time (not just from when symptoms first appear), the effective reproduction number, Re, can be decreased below 1, leading to the mitigation of epidemic spread,” the scientists wrote in the paper published Wednesday by the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
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diminished, preventing resurgence for 18 months, the time frame that has frequently been cited for developing a vaccine. It also demonstrated that if people wear masks in public, it is twice as effective at reducing the R number than if face coverings are only worn after symptoms appear.
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Alameda County and San Francisco city health officials require residents to wear face coverings any time they leave home and get within 30 feet of anyone not living in LATEST NEWS their household.
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In San Francisco, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, San Mateo and Sonoma counties (plus the cities of Pleasant Hill and Fremont) people must use basic nonmedical, cloth masks, including scarves and bandannas, to cover their noses and mouths when they leave home to go to essential places like the supermarket, drugstore or doctor.
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SKIP AD Gunman sought in California deputy While most people eagerly await a vaccine that might protect against the worst ravages of the novel coronavirus — recent polling found 70 percent of Americans would get one if it were free and
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Vaccination rates falling
Vaccination rates have fallen in recent years, and once-eradicated diseases have reemerged. The measles outbreak in 2019 — 1,282 cases across 31 states — was the greatest the United States has seen since 1992, according to the CDC.
Those numbers seem quaint in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected nearly 2 million people in the U.S., leading to 111,000 deaths.
Outbreaks of once-eradicated diseases like the measles happen because people forget, said David D. Lo, distinguished professor of biomedical sciences at UC Riverside.
“The really scary part of this is that many of the people resisting vaccines for their kids include people with higher income and education,” Lo said. “The acceptance rate for vaccines seems to be much higher among people who come from places where they remember how bad it was when vaccines weren’t available and kids were dying form measles and meningitis.”
It’s a cliché, said Richard M. Carpiano, professor of public policy and sociology at UC Riverside, that vaccines are the victims of their own success.
Skeptic central
Southern California has long been an epicenter for vaccine doubters, with a concentration of affluent, go-your-own-way parents rejecting the recommended regimen for their children.
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Dr. Bob Sears in Capistrano Beach on October 30, 2013. Sears recommends patients get immunized but delay some vaccines. The Southern California pediatrician was been placed on probation for 35 months by the Medical Board of California in 2018 for exempting a 2-year-old boy from vaccinations without sufficient information. (Photo by ED CRISOSTOMO, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER/SCNG)
They found an ally in pediatrician Bob Sears of Capistrano Beach, whose alternate vaccine schedule is founded on the notion that some children’s immune systems can be overloaded by all those shots in first two years of life. Sears believes parents should be able to make their own decisions about when and whether to vaccinate, so long as they understand the risks. He has a fervent following, even though he was placed on probation by the Medical Board of California for being too free with medical exemptions for children.
Sears is not a COVID denier. “The disease is real,” he said by email. “However, I do think a government has no right to mandate a vaccine if it has serious side effects and if it does NOT prevent infection and spread of disease (i.e., it only reduces complications).
“Some would argue that even if it does, you can’t force a medical intervention on anyone if there are significant risks — bodily autonomy is an important concept for both sides of the political aisle,” Sears continued. “Plus, there is growing concern about the use of fetal tissues from terminated pregnancies
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to make vaccines (as is already the case with MMR, Chickenpox, Hepatitis A, and a DTaP/Polio combination): this raises religious constitutional issues that could make mandates problematic.”
Some vaccine viruses are, indeed, grown via fibroblast cells from fetal embryos. But those cells were first obtained from elective termination of two pregnancies in the early 1960s, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia says in a fact-check. “These same embryonic cells obtained from the early 1960s have continued to grow in the laboratory and are used to make vaccines today. No further sources of fetal cells are needed to make these vaccines.”
Might a COVID vaccine become mandatory to return to work, to school? With 70 percent of people eager to get one, would it need to be? Mandatory vaccination is possible, but nothing is clear yet as no vaccine has been approved.
Critics aren’t waiting to push their alternate message out.
“There is not a single good reason to accept dangerous vaccination for COVID-19 or any other disease when natural immunity combined with natural remedies — like high dose vitamin C IV, homeoprophylaxis, etc. — and other medical remedies (like hydroxychloroquine/zinc) can and has cured virtually every infection we can think of, including COVID-19, polio, measles, pertussis, chickenpox, etc., etc., etc,” said Larry Cook of Los Angeles by email.
“Besides, we all know vaccines don’t work, as evidenced by the pro-vaccine community being deathly afraid of the anti-vaccine community: If vaccines actually worked, no one would be afraid. Why not just use what already works: natural immunity.”
Cook runs the website StopMandatoryVaccination.com, a main hub for the anti-vaccine movement that has spent heavily on social media advertising. Its site is dotted with ads for heavy metal detoxes and books like “The Unvaccinated Child: A Treatment Guide for Parents and Caregivers.”
At the top of its Facebook page is something new: “This Group Discusses Vaccines. When it comes to health, everyone wants reliable, up-to-date information. Before joining this group, read information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that can Screen shot from Stop Mandatory help answer questions you may have about vaccines.” Vaccination Facebook page
Carpiano, of UCR, noted that this is the world’s first social-media pandemic.
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Warp speed
The unprecedented push to deliver a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of this year, backed by some $10 billion in public and private funding, does not reassure those prone to doubt.
It can take years, even decades, to develop and test a vaccine for safety and efficacy. The novel coronavirus is just six or so months old, and there already are 123 vaccines in development worldwide. Another 10 are in clinical trials, according to the World Health Organization.
“The haste to WANT a vaccine quickly is understandable, but we need to do it the right way,” Sears said. “We can either pour hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions, into a poorly researched rush job to create a vaccine that might not even work — dollars that nobody has, and that could be used to save lives, feed the now-destitute, and rebuild — or spend tens of millions of dollars on a proper scientific process to develop a vaccine the right way, with methodical research that takes time, so we have a vaccine that is safe, effective, and that the public will trust.
“Who is going to trust a fast-tracked vaccine?”
If the government pushes too far too fast, Sears warned, people might not just lose trust in the COVID vaccine, but in other, routine vaccines as well.
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A researcher works on virus replication in order to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus COVID-19. (Photo by DOUGLAS MAGNO/AFP via Getty Images)
Carpiano, from UCR, said the warp-speed push plays into concerns about Big Pharma running the show, prioritizing profits over public safety.
“The anti-vaxx activists, while small in number, are really politically quite effective in terms of mobilizing social media and spreading disinformation,” he said. “We know that’s going to create significant obstacles in terms of ensuring the most optimal uptake of a vaccine in the population. Even if everything is done by the book, they’re still going to be able to say, ‘They rushed out this vaccine. What is it we don’t know?’ And in some ways, that’s understandable.”
Perspective
It’s not new. More than 100 years ago, Sir William Osler got so fed up with the “anti-vaxxers” of 1910 that he dared them to expose themselves to smallpox and promised to personally pay for the resulting funeral expenses. He did not get any takers, wrote physician Christopher A. Swingle in the Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association.
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Vaccines are one of the greatest success stories in public health, says the CDC in its vaccine primer. They’ve eradicated smallpox and nearly eliminated wild polio virus. The number of people who suffer the devastating effects of preventable infectious diseases like measles, diphtheria, and whooping cough is at an all-time low.
But while vaccines are the best defense against infectious diseases, no vaccine is 100 percent safe or effective for everyone because each person’s body reacts to vaccines differently, the CDC said.
And “as infectious diseases become less common, we hear less about the serious consequences of preventable illnesses like diphtheria and tetanus and more about the risks associated with vaccines,” the CDC said.
“It’s good to be informed about health choices, but the reality is that Americans have never been healthier than we are today and vaccines have never been safer than they are today. The benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks.”
Lo, of UCR, said Americans have incredibly short memories, forgetting how monumental it was when vaccines eliminated polio. That skepticism is not going away — it’s getting worse. Science has become part of the political agenda, and people aren’t thinking in terms of medical evidence, he said.
A conundrum looms, Carpiano said.
“This is not just an issue about vaccines and science — it’s become an issue about government and liberty, ” he said. “It’s become an argument about values, and that’s when it becomes a lot harder to debate.”
In our culture, health is cast in personal terms, he said. Our bodies. Our right to choose. If you have heart disease and don’t take your statin drugs or cancer and don’t go to chemotherapy, Nurse Susan Peel gives a whooping cough vaccination in it doesn’t impact anyone else. It only impacts Sacramento, Calif. (File Photo) you. But if people skip a vaccine for a highly contagious disease that’s deadly for older, sicker people, they aren’t just impacting themselves — they’re impacting others as well, he said.
“The government exists to protect the public welfare,” Carpiano said. “That’s the mandate. The question will be, ‘Is the government doing enough to protect the public health?’ “
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