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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2022
Saylor closes out 27 years of service By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
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Striking UC grad-student workers arrive Monday in Sacramento for a march on the state Capitol.
Capitol move by strikers By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer Seventeen UC graduate students were arrested on Monday evening for trespassing inside the University of California Office of the President’s downtown Sacramento location. “I’m engaging in this act of civil disobedience because the stakes are incredibly high, and the UC is not demonstrating that they understand
that,” said Jess Banks, a member of the bargaining team at UC Berkeley. “UC thinks they can end negotiations and send us back to work, but this strike will continue until they stop breaking the law and settle a fair contract.” Early in the afternoon, as thousands of grad students from northern California UCs descended on Cesar Chavez Park for a rally and
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Don Saylor has served in a variety of elected roles in Yolo County for nearly three decades.
“You’re always in every district, helping every supervisor. You’re helping every project. You’re finding ways to engage stakeholders and you report back to staff … you always find ways to get things done,” Supervisor Angel Barajas told him Tuesday. “I want to be like you.”
Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland called Saylor “a remarkable public servant” and said the changes Saylor brought to the county were across the board, “from
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Supply of COVID antivirals up, but patients don’t use them
County recommends masking indoors
By Ana B. Ibarra
Enterprise staff writer
CalMatters As California gears up for a winter of respiratory illnesses, health officials and providers often reference one encouraging factor — the greater availability of COVID-19 treatments and antivirals like Paxlovid. But many patients aren’t using them. “We have a concerning low rate of outpatient COVID-19 treatments, especially for vulnerable populations,” Dr. Rohan Radhakrishna, chief equity officer at the California Department of Public Health, told doctors in an
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march to the Capitol, one striker pretended to be a delivery service employee to get into the locked UCOP office. Once let in, he held the door open for 16 of his comrades, and together they sat in a circle inside the lobby of the building for about six hours, where Sacramento Police Department officers booked
Yolo County bid adieu this week to one of its longest-serving elected officials. Supervisor Don Saylor served at his final Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, capping off a 27-year career in elected office, beginning as a trustee for the Davis Joint Unified School District, followed by a stint on the Davis City Council, including as mayor, and finally representing the cities of Davis and Winters, as well as UC Davis, for 11 years on the Board of Supervisors. Along the way, he estimates he attended some 800 meetings of those elected bodies, on top of countless meetings of subcommittees, commissions and regional boards like the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, Yolo County Transportation District, Valley Clean Energy and more. And then there were the countless hours spent in the community, serving even where the job didn’t require it.
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online event in November. “We want to remind the provider community that therapeutics are in ample supply and that most adults have qualifying conditions.” Some county health officials agreed that more people should be taking advantage of these treatments. Patients may not be using them for a number of reasons, they said, including lack of awareness and confusion over who qualifies for a prescription. Add to that some people’s concerns over “Paxlovid rebound,” when people test positive
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WEATHER Thursday: Showers likely. High 53. Low 42.
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Health officials in Yolo County are now recommending that everyone over the age of 2 wear masks in indoor public places this winter. The recommendation is based on the increasing spread of several respiratory viruses, including influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and COVID-19. According to the Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, wastewater levels of influenza, RSV, and SARSCoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) are increasing in Yolo County, as are hospitalizations and emergency department
visits for respiratory illnesses. “This winter is the first in several years SISSON where we are seeing County health officer significant flu and RSV activity, in addition to COVID-19, so we are now making masking recommendations based on all circulating respiratory viruses, not just on COVID,” said Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson. “Wearing a high-quality mask indoors is a great way to protect yourself and others from respiratory viruses
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like flu, RSV and COVID19.” Those viruses, as well as the viruses that cause the common cold, spread through respiratory droplets. “Contact with respiratory droplets can occur when an infected person coughs or sneezes near you and you get droplets in your eyes, nose, or mouth,” the county Health and Human Services Agency said in press release announcing the recommendation. “Droplets can also spread when someone touches a surface with the virus on it, like a doorknob, and then touches their face before washing their hands.
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