We were recovering. Eliminating sit-down service likely will force some restaurants into temporary hibernation, while others close permanently, according to Laurie Thomas, executive director of San Franciscos Golden Gate Restaurant Association, which represents hundreds of restaurants in the city. The first time the pandemic closed her restaurant, Nguyen sold her jewelry to survive. And were here to provide it. With regards to the state the 7 day average of new cases is 35,418 from yesterdays 32,001 (and increase of nearly 3417) and the state 7 day average is 54 deaths per day. Yep start it up again spotlight leave it to these guys Sick of this crap Shut off the news!! BUT the region has only Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Santa Cruz County, San Francisco County, Marin County, Contra Costa County and Alameda County, which has a total of 273 open ICU beds at this time. I HATE TO SAY THIS BUT YOU ALL BETTER GET A GRIP AND GET READY FOR A VERY BAD WINTER. Some counties are choosing to shut down for longer than that. Fridays announcement did not include health officers from San Mateo, Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Santa Cruz or Monterey counties. As part of the red tier, indoor fitness centers can only operate at 10% capacity. But if these people can be PREVENTED from being infected, WHY NOT? CUPERTINO, CA - DEC. 4: Restaurant owner Helen Nyugen sorts through decorative lights being added to the outdoor dining tent at her Pho Ha Noi restaurant in Cupertino, Calif., Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Emily Hoeven wrote the daily WhatMatters newsletter for three years at CalMatters . Cody said that orders retail capacity limit of 10% now will be increased to 20% to align with the state limit. "Something like what New York City is doing, where people are required to provide proof of vaccination.". THE PRIVATE SECTOR CANNOT FIX THE PROBLEM IF COVID IS STILL A DANGER TO JUST 1 CITIZEN UNDER THE CALIFORNIA AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. Childcare and pre-K facilities can all stay open. Check out Bay Area safety tracker, Tracking the drought: Map shows conditions across SF Bay Area, Bay Area Life; Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on ABC7, CA counties that can, can't reopen under new rules, click here to view the full map in a new window, Map: CA counties that can, can't reopen under new rules, COVID-19 risk calculator: The safest and most dangerous things to do this holiday season, Want to get a COVID-19 test in time for the holidays? Linda Zavoral is a Features reporter and editor who writes about restaurants, libations, travel and the arts for the Eat Drink Play and Eye/Timeout sections. Get your trump vaccine you b****made libs lmfao. Drop your shields immediately., Then die in ignorance. This week, Santa Clara County and seven other Bay Areagovernmentsissued new rulesrequiring residents to mask up indoors in public places regardless of vaccination status. Then you can, and now you can't again. In California, the Delta variant accounts for nearly 85% of cases analyzed in July, a jump from 5.9% just two months prior, according tothe California Department of Public Health. More than 800 of 12,200 Los Angeles Police Department employees are out sick this week, and COVID-positive officers tend to be gone for an average of 24 days, Chief Michel Moore said. Opinion: Newsoms budget cuts threaten public health investment Let us exercise the freedoms we have, stretch those freedom muscles and walk into stores and restaurants without a mask, be kind to people if they offer a mask and keep pushing gently against the tyranny. On the day that gyms, hair-and-nail salons and churches were allowed to reopen, Santa Clara county officials said Monday that they will likely be ordered to shut down again in two days. Health | A view of vacant downtown San Jose after shelter-in-place orders took effect. They now face a Jan. 31 deadline to pass the Assembly at which point the state Senate would take them up for consideration. As of 01/10/2022 there was 23,764 cases total NEW CASES for the week starting 01/04/2022. After that, the sports allowed will be based on your county's tier. BUT FIVE MONTHS LATER, VACCINE-INDUCED ANTIBODIES WERE EQUIVALENT TO THOSE SEEN AFTER THE SECOND DOSE, WITH LITTLE MEASURABLE IMPROVEMENT IN THE ANTIBODIES ABILITY TO NEUTRALIZE A BROAD VARIETY OF NEW VARIANTS, SAID COAUTHOR MICHEL NUSSENZWEIG. I UNDERSTAND YOU FEELINGS, BUT NO ONE EVER LEVELED WITH THE PEOPLE TO SAY THERE IS NO SHORT CUT FROM A PANDEMIC. List: Where can I get tested for COVID-19 in the Bay Area? Since the start of the pandemic, the Bay Area has taken a leading role in responding to the virus. We have to pay our rent. So please relax with your Trumpist calls for violence; just get your @$$ vaccinated!!! 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Tropicana Shopping Center provides more Tax Income then Santana Row. Emily DeRuy is the Bay Area News Group's housing and economy editor overseeing coverage for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Lets be a people and not a sheeple who exhibit virtue by DOING GOOD and not LOOKING VIRTUOUS. Theyd nearly sold out of tickets for their evening Glowfari event, which was set to run through Jan. 17 and features illuminated lanterns shaped like zoo animals. Santa Clara County on Monday backed off from a booster mandate for health care workers at the request of already strained hospitals. Gov. // San Diego Union-Tribune, Many San Francisco tech workers have a new side hustle: Local politics. WE ARE JUST GUESSING. Santa Clara shuts down sports . Coronavirus Timeline: Tracking major moments of COVID-19 pandemic in San Francisco Bay Area/. AND MOST HERE JUST SAY TO LET THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA JUMP INTO THE COVID SHARK TANK AND HOPE THE SHARKS DO NOT KILL OR MAME YOU? It's just like back and forth, back and forth. All Rights Reserved. THE VACCINES ARE GOING TO BECOME USELESS AND THE POLITICIANS AND BUSINESSES CAN DO NOTING ABOUT IT. Not a single journo seems to have asked the question what is the relative severity of the Delta? or what is the recovery rate? Covid seems to have eliminated all journalistic curiosity. RELATED: What Gov. In total, there are 32 counties on the state watch list. Stay home wrap Yourself up in plastic same With Cody from behind a podium ! All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! Outdoor recreational facilities, like tennis and basketball courts, and hiking trails can stay open. (Campgrounds won't allow overnight stays.) Adalberto "Aldo" Toledo is a Bay Area News Group reporter who covers government on the Peninsula for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Salons were shut down more than half. See the full guidelines here. Comments are moderated and approved by administrators. More by Emily Hoeven, Long lines of people wait for more than two hours for a COVID-19 test at a testing site in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 2022. There have been 32,824 cases in the month of January and in the month of December there were 18,163, which means now that as of today there is an 80% rise in case only up to today versus the ENTIRE month of December, and if you take the entire month daily average and multiply by 21 you can expect to have 68,930 more cases this month which will come to a total of 101,754 cases. "Entertainment production" can also continue. But if these people can be PREVENTED from being infected, WHY NOT? Clickhereto find available walk-up vaccination clinics in San Jose. While critics have blamed Bay Area health officials for being too aggressive over the course of the pandemic, many health experts say they have taken the right measures at the right time to slow the spread of the virus. Thats prompting health officials to reinstate safety guidelinesand raising questions about the possibility of another shutdown. ", INTERACTIVE MAP: Here's what's open, closed in the San Francisco Bay Area. AND THIS ONE IS SIGNIFICANTLY RESISTANT TO THE VACCINES AS REPORTED HERE (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/delta-infections-among-vaccinated-likely-contagious-lambda-variant-shows-vaccine-2021-08-02/): The Lambda variant of the coronavirus, first identified in Peru and now spreading in South America, is highly infectious and more resistant to vaccines than the original version of the virus the emerged from Wuhan, China, Japanese researchers have found. ABC7 News visited with businesses finally able to reopen, on Monday morning. California has administered 66,518,035 vaccine doses, and 71.8% of eligible Californians are fully vaccinated. Those new restrictions take effect at the end of Friday night, while the ones in Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties will go into effect Tuesday. "Is this happening again? Grocery stores can operate at a slightly higher capacity: 35%. really??? The Bay Area has had the best leadership in the state and arguably the best leadership in the country in terms of its public health officers, said John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology at UC Berkeley. Gerstman, an epidemiologist and professor emeritus of public health at San Jose State University, told San Jos Spotlight. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group), CUPERTINO, CA - DEC. 4: Restaurant owner Helen Nyugen watches as Jacquelin Kieu adds decorative lights to the outdoor dining tent at Pho Ha Noi restaurant in Cupertino, Calif., Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. If say only 5% of these cases end up needing ICU beds, that would come to a new need of 661 ICU beds, but since there are only 64 available you would have 597 people die due to no place to go. First identified in India, the Delta variant is believed to be twice as contagious as previous dominant COVID-19 strainsand has now thwarted plans for returning to life before the pandemic. Were partnering with you the readers to make it happen. "I don't see that at all happening," Fauci told ABC on Sunday, but the chief medical advisor to the presidentalso warned that outbreaks will continue if people don't get vaccinated. Now, Nguyen's bracing as Santa Clara County shuts down outdoor dining Sunday night. WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE GOING TO GO? Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, alsosaid this week that he doesn't expect the nation to return to lockdown, despite the concerning surge in positive infections. Dont blame Covid for our vacant downtown. "If they don't ever let me be a personal trainer and coach people- this is what I love. We were six or seven of us, and now were just four, Torres said of hairdressers at Textures Hair Design. The clickbait headline triggered the homicidally insane anti-vaxxers, and the article buries the answer (No) in the seventh paragraph. With regards to the state the 7 day average of new cases is 74,709 from yesterdays 74,599 and the state 7 day average is 78 deaths per day (it decreased 20 in 2 days) which means if stays that way 2,340 people WILL DIE!. Get the latest news, information and videos about the novel coronavirus pandemic here, Storm timeline: Here's how much more rain is expected, Another freight train derails in Ohio, prompting shelter-in-place, At least 13 people are dead as severe storms sweep across US. All businesses and workplaces in Santa Clara County are subject to the requirements in Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Guidance. CalMatters is now available in Spanish onTwitter,FacebookandRSS. THE VIRUS MUTATES, AND WE CANT KEEP UP. Elia Torres, on the other hand, said when she closes her downtown Menlo Park hair salon again, it likely will be for the last time. Across the Bay Area region, were seeing COVID-19 cases surge and hospitalizations on steep rise again, particularly among the unvaccinated, said Contra Costa County Health Officer Chris Farnitano on Monday. "Nothing's guaranteed. I wanted to make sure that everything was set up perfectly for them, to make sure that their health was priority number one.". "I have always suspected that infections were possible among the vaccinated people," Gerstman said. When asked about enforcement, the California Department of Public Health said, "All Californians are being asked to follow this order to protect themselves, their families, and their communities.". Photo by Emily Mibach. "You should not meet in person with anyone you do not live with. In March, the region adopted a first-in-the-country lockdown that came days before Newsom announced his statewide stay-home order, also a national first in the pandemic. Now given that there are 1,928,000 people in Santa Clara County some would argue that 56,734 is nothing to be concerned about. Bay Area stores in most counties currently can operate at 25% capacity so the new rules wont pose much of an additional burden. I the last 3 months we lost nearly 200 people. Were changing the face of journalism by providing an innovative model for delivering reliable, truthful news to the nations 10th largest city. "Workers manufacturing or providing parts and equipment that enable the maintenance and continued operation of essential businesses and facilities are considered essential," the California Department of Public Health told ABC7 News. COVID-19 has put many on an emotional and financial roller coaster that no one was prepared for. Gavin Newsom announced a new, regional stay-at-home order, which will force additional restrictions in any of the five regions of the state where fewer than 15% of intensive care units remain available. Now, Nguyens bracing as Santa Clara County shuts down outdoor dining Sunday night. John Woolfolk is a reporter for the Bay Area News Group, based at The Mercury News. The county hasnt seen thatnumber of new daily infectionssince February, data shows. January 12, 2023. As of Monday, Santa Clara County ranked second among the 10 Bay Area counties. Its a relief to know that public health officials dont suspect that retail is a spreader with all the modifications with masks and the distancing and the ventilation.. An aerial view of Cityview Plaza in downtown San Jose. Earlier in her career she wrote about education for The Atlantic in Washington, D.C. She graduated from UC San Diego with a BA degree in political science with a minor in communication. Opinion: Newsoms budget cuts threaten public health investment Businesses in Santa Clara County are responsible for taking steps to protect the health of their workers and customers. READ FROM HERE https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19HospitalsDashboard/Hospitals?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no. And were here to provide it. As of Monday, Santa Clara County ranked second among the 10 Bay Area counties. Santa Clara County has opted for stricter rules, resulting in the 49ers temporarily moving to Arizona to play their games. Zoom chops nearly 200 jobs in Bay Area as tech layoffs mount Gavin Newsom and Dr. Mark Ghaly, the states top health official, have repeatedly stressed that California doesnt foresee further COVID-related shutdowns, theyre happening anyway as more people enter quarantine raising questions about how long the state will be able to keep overburdened and understaffed schools, health care facilities and businesses open if the omicron wave doesnt peak soon. // Daily News, San Diego Board of Supervisors chooses Nathan Fletcher to chair a second year. It isnt just unvaccinated workers, though: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, should quarantine for 5 days after testing positive a rule that California recently, and controversially, made optional for health care employees amid a severe staffing shortage. And nearly 4,000 prison workers were COVID-positive on Tuesday, a more than 212% increase from the beginning of the month. And to date, left unsaid is the obvious that is being addressed already: Never mind Silicon Valley. Given those losses, outdoor dining means the world to us. he said. Copyright 2023 KGO-TV. If you calculate the state figures if we stay the same it is 30 times 35,418 which comes to 1,062,540 and given that there is only 39,510,000 that means 1 out of 40 will be infected in 30 days. "If you have a social bubble, it is now popped.". The breaking news update regarding orders to close was received shortly after 4:30 p.m. "What is this going to be another 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 months," Neal Maddox, owner of X-treme Athletics asked ABC7 News. This is a busy time, so when we close its going to be very bad for us.. Professional sports can continue without live audiences, according to the state's guidelines. By clicking subscribe, you agree to the Terms. 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She previously covered startups and venture capital for the Bay Area News Group and prior to that court cases for The Recorder in San Francisco. He is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and has been a journalist since 1990, covering cities, counties, law enforcement, courts and other general news. Im ready to move on and deal with the consequences forget everyone else. "I wanted to make sure I paid attention to what was going on with the trends. . There arent going to be any lockdowns; that has been made clear by our political leaders. Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from our team. Los Angeles County on Tuesday urged residents to postpone nonessential gatherings and avoid some activities. But even as some establishments were reeling, others were breathing a sigh of relief. Despite new state law, Antioch ends remote option for council meetings To read the county's full release, click here. Send us a postcard from the internment camp, idiot. | All donations are tax-deductible. Californias weekly average of new COVID-19 cases reached another record high Thursday as the state reported triple-digit fatalities from the virus for the third consecutive day. Check out Bay Area safety tracker, Tracking the drought: Map shows conditions across SF Bay Area, Bay Area Life; Sundays at 6:30 p.m. on ABC7. SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- On the same day gyms, and nail and hair salons were able to reopen to customers across Santa Clara County, those small business owners got the news, they'd once again have to close. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r