With community spread growing and the expectation the worst is yet to come, health officials in California and across the county are changing tactics.
A woman in her 90s has died of the novel coronavirus in a northern California assisted-living complex, sparking fears of an outbreak among other residents of the facility.
“I think we’re doing a really good job,” Trump said Tuesday after a meeting with GOP leaders on Capitol Hill. “Democrat governors are saying we’ve done a fantastic job ... Gavin Newsom said there’s not a thing that he’s asked for that we weren’t able to get him.” , it mitigates risks but also hits low-income workers, who are losing jobs, contributing to the chance the nation will slip into a recession.“In most jobs in this country, you can’t work from a laptop on your couch,” said Adriane Casalotti, the chief of government and public affairs at the National Assn. of County and City Health Officials. “We’re out there asking real people to choose between the public’s health and their own financial well-being — them keeping their jobs.
Public health officials in Placer and Yolo counties, which neighbor Sacramento to the northeast and west, also announced a shift Tuesday from trying to contain COVID-19 to accepting that the disease is spreading too fast for widespread quarantining measures. Seven people in Placer County have tested positive for COVID-19, including a Rocklin man who died last week. Yolo County has one confirmed case.
If counties keep quarantining healthcare workers for potential exposure, “we wouldn’t have any healthcare workers left,” she said. Because of its success, it has become the map for how to combat these outbreaks. Italy locked down the nation of 60 million people this week.
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