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Restaurant patrons sit in a parklet along Valencia Street in San Francisco on July 25, 2020. Since last July, Valencia Street has been shut down to traffic on the weekend to allow for additional outdoor activity. San Francisco is one of several cities across California that is considering expanding the outdoor dining program started during the pandemic.
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Is it just the new normal? State extends outdoor dining, to-go drinks through December BY MIRANDA GREEN CalMatters When Los Angeles shut down indoor dining, DK Marikan did everything in his power to reinvent his 28-year-old Mediterranean restaurant and deli to keep it afloat. “At some point we only did to go, and that was nothing. Nobody wanted to come,” he said of Garo’s, a staple with downtown workers and residents who would hang out and
linger over Greek salads and pastrami sandwiches. “Maybe 10% of our business was to go. That’s it.” Once the city allowed businesses to expand dining onto sidewalks and streets through its Al Fresco program, Marikan went all in, investing nearly $8,000 on cafe chairs and awnings. He called outdoor dining a lifeline. Now, even as the state prepares to lift all COVID-19
restrictions on June 15, some pandemic changes such as outdoor dining and to-go drinks will likely remain in many California cities — and many small business owners are embracing the proposed extensions. Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced extending those restaurant extensions through the end of the year. “It’s going to bring in a lot of people because, I want to say 90% of our customers, they don’t want to dine indoors anymore. They want to be outdoors,” Marikan said of LA’s proposal to make its outdoor dining program permanent.
“We would love to see this be permanent. I pray they do it.” Aiding hard-hit restaurants When the pandemic ravaged businesses across the country, it hit the restaurant industry especially hard. The California Restaurant Association last August warned that of the 90,000 restaurants operating in the state, at least 30% would close without significant government aid. As California counties and cities prepare to reopen entirely to prepandemic capacity limits, state and city leaders are exploring ways to permanently adopt
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UCD Health adopts race-neutral kidney function test BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer UC Davis Health eliminated the use of race in a clinical algorithm used to determine kidney function, the health system announced last month. The change, which was prompted by students at the UC Davis School of Medicine and went into effect May 4, puts UC Davis health among a handful of medical centers to have recently adopted a race-neutral kidney test. Glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a metric for tracking how well a patient’s kidneys
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filter their blood. The test is used to diagnose kidney disease and the specific eGFR level is a clinical marker used to determine what care a patient receives. The equation used for the test factors in age, gender, blood creatinine level and other variables. For years, most medical laboratories in the United States have also included race — specifically whether or not a patient is Black — in the equation. The inclusion of race in the algorithm stems partly from a stereotype that Black people
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have more muscle mass and therefore higher creatinine levels in their blood. To adjust for that assumption, most laboratories add points to the eGFR scores of Black patients. (Healthy adult kidneys typically score around 90 on the test. Patients must score 20 or below to be added to the kidney transplant waitlist.)
published by the New England Journal of Medicine highlighted problems with race correction in clinical algorithms including eGFR. Several medical centers, including the University of Washington, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, have already dropped race from the equation.
Black physicians and medical students have long warned about the dangers of the racebased algorithm, which has recently come under wider scrutiny. Last year, an article
“Race adjustments that yield higher estimates of kidney function in Black patients might delay their referral for specialist
The Davis school board on Thursday heard updates about COVID-19 and the district’s ongoing full return to campus, the district’s budget and unanimously approved history and social studies materials for secondary students. Additionally, the board members gave brief updates about their ongoing listening tours, which involve the
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During the first four days that adolescents ages 12-15 were eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, 2,200 Yolo County junior-high and highschool students did so, drawing praise from local health officials. But in the 18 days that followed — despite numerous clinics held on school campuses throughout the county — just 2,000 more did. That means of the 11,000 Yolo County residents in the 12-15 age group, more than 60 percent remain unvaccinated. Hoping to improve those numbers, the county’s education and health offices teamed up Thursday for a webinar aimed at convincing students and parents that the COVID19 vaccine is safe and effective. The panel featured six physicians, including Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson as well as local pediatricians Dr. Mary Ann Limbos of CommuniCare and Dr. Jann Murray-Garcia of UC Davis, and was held not long before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report about increasing hospitalizations from COVID-19 among young people ages 12 to 17. Researchers have said the increase
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