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Local pandemic emergencies wind down By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
the state’s strategy for managing a virus that has exacted a devastating toll: 100,187 deaths. Moving forward, the state will lean on its $3.2 billion longterm COVID-19 plan, which involves stockpiling masks and vaccines, but public health agencies will no longer serve as the primary provider
Nearly three years after Yolo County issued emergency declarations around the COVID-19 pandemic, those declarations have ended. The Board of Supervisors last week voted to end the local emergency effective Feb. 28, the same day California ended its state of emergency. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 442 Yolo County residents have died from COVID-19, according to state data. And while the virus is still present, the tools available to fight severe illness and death — including vaccines and treatments — have improved conditions significantly, according to the county’s health officer. “We have come a long way since the COVID-19 emergencies were declared at the local, state, and federal levels,” said Dr. Aimee Sisson. “In March 2020, the world was turned upside down by a novel coronavirus that we knew nothing about, for which the only testing available took days to get results, for which
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Eddie Daniels administers rapid COVID-19 tests at Greater St. Paul Church in downtown Oakland on Jan. 4, 2022. Martin do Nascimento/ CalMatters photo
COVID disparities up as state shifts gears By Kristen Hwang CalMatters
When California recorded the first U.S. case of COVID19 more than three years ago, the news was met with fear, confusion and public ire. Schools and businesses closed. State and local officials ordered people to stay home and mask up. Hospitals overflowed with sick and dying patients.
Today, on the last day of the state’s emergency order, much of public life has returned to normal. But for many communities around the state, the disappearance of COVID-19 resources is merely a reminder that the health disparities highlighted during the pandemic are long-entrenched.
gap,” said Kim Rhoads, a physician and associate public health professor at UC San Francisco who has worked throughout the pandemic to make tests and vaccines more accessible to Black and brown neighborhoods in the Bay Area. “There’s going to be a noticeable difference in access.”
“People who were in the gap are going to go back into the
The end of the emergency order marks a drastic change in
Suspect arrested in 1980 Dixon homicide UCD counter-events By Lauren Keene planned for Turning Point Enterprise staff writer
For more than 40 years, a Solano County homicide case went unsolved. Until last week, when authorities arrested a suspect in the HOBBS 1980 crime, according to Arrested after the Solano County Sher- four decades iff ’s Office. Two laborers working in a Sievers Road cornfield in rural Dixon that August found the victim — a white female who died of multiple gunshot wounds to her head and neck. She remained a Jane Doe for the next 12 years. In 1992, working with the National Missing Persons Unit, Solano County coroner’s officials identified the victim as Holly Ann Campiglia, a 21-year-old resident of New Jersey. Her death remained unsolved for
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another three decades, until 2021, when Campiglia’s family asked Solano County investigators to submit evidence from the cold case for possible DNA analysis. CAMPIGLIA “Several months later, Was 21 when our office received a killed report from the Serological Research Institute (SERI) stating that male DNA was found on these pieces of evidence,” Solano County sheriff ’s officials reported this week. “When that DNA was submitted into another database with the San Mateo Crime Lab, we learned that it belonged to 76-year-old Herman Lee Hobbs.” At the time of the match, Hobbs was serving prison time for a 1975 Sacramento County murder for which he was
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By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer At least two counterevents have been planned in protest of Turning Point USA’s scheduled UC Davis event on Tuesday, March 14, featuring co-founder Charlie Kirk, a controversial conservative activist and radio talk show host. The leader of Turning Point USA, Kirk has compared gay people to a cancer on society. He has also called for the lynching of trans people. The Phoenix Coalition announced a counterevent, Resist Bigotry: Stand up to Turning Point
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USA event, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the International House Davis whereby a speaker will participate “as an act of resistance.”
Because Hate-Free Together, a joint initiative between UCD, Davis and Yolo County is not fully active yet there is no plan for this entity to control a confrontation, explained Davis City Councilwoman Gloria Partida. “UC Davis has policies around this. DPC is encouraging people to gather away from this event at our counter event,” she said. A flyer with the heading,
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