Coronavirus updates: 28 members of a California family, all infected, father dead

LAST June 30, 1:00 pm In its Budget and Fiscal Update for Fiscal Year 2021-2022, the SFMTA described the results of the survey on how passenger numbers could change in the near and long term for public transportation on Tuesday. The agency expects to see a 20% drop in the passenger base onward, attributed to an increase in permanent remote work caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

The update also described the survey results compiled from 25,000 adults. The researchers found that 20% of respondents who used buses and public transportation regularly before the outbreak said they would now do so longer, and 28% said they would use these services less frequently. Furthermore, more than 50% of the respondents said that “they would use these less or would stop using them [rideshare options] completely.”

As a result, SFMTA is planning accordingly. “Don’t expect to go back to the transit system you were used to before,” says the budget update. “We will continue to transform traffic and advance Muni.”

June 30, 12:30 pm California Governor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that the state has acquired 15,679 hotel and motel rooms as part of an initiative to house people living on the street during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Roomkey Project was launched in April as the first of its kind in the country and, as of today, 85% of those rooms are in use and 14,200 have been housed, the governor said.

Newsom explained that the program provides “a room, a key, a lock” for people who live in their cars, in shelters, in camps, or on the street.

The governor said he signed the state budget on Monday and includes an additional $ 1.3 billion for cities and counties to support homeless programs like Project Roomkey. The funds will also help support a new program called Project Home Key that will allow the state to not only lease but purchase long-term housing for people on the streets.

June 30, 12:20 pm The rent is due tomorrow and some San Francisco landlords don’t want the new Tenant Protection Ordinance COVID-19 to stop them from collecting it.

On Monday, four property and real estate groups filed a lawsuit against the city to obtain a temporary restraining order that would suspend the law immediately, according to KQED.

The ordinance was signed by Mayor London Breed last Friday, permanently banning a residential landlord from conducting an eviction for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 from April to July.

Read more from SFGATE editor Tessa McLean.

June 30, 12:10 pm The United States is “going in the wrong direction” with the coronavirus growing so strong that Dr. Anthony Fauci told senators Tuesday that some regions are putting the entire country at risk, just as schools and universities are fighting for how to reopen safely.

With approximately 40,000 new cases reported per day, Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said he “would not be surprised if we increase to 100,000 a day if this does not change.”

“I am very concerned,” he said at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Work and Pensions.

Infections are increasing rapidly for the most part in the west and south, and Fauci and other public health experts said Americans everywhere will have to start following key recommendations if they want to return to more normal activities like going to the school.

“We have to get the message across that we are all in this together,” wearing masks in public and avoiding crowds, said Fauci, chief of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

Associated Press contributed to this report. Read more here.

June 30, 11:50 a.m. An NPR report on Tuesday describes two methods to combat COVID-19.

One is the mitigation method, which involves testing symptomatic individuals and employing contact tracing and isolation with a goal of a positive test rate of less than 10%. The other is the suppression method, which involves evaluating asymptomatic individuals in high-risk settings, contact tracing, and isolation with a specific test rate of less than 3%.

Currently, 32 states, including California, have failed mitigation or suppression. California would need to perform 824,901 tests daily, or 2,088 per 100,000 people, but it currently averages 92,858 tests per day, or 235 per 100,000 people.

Read more on NPR.

June 30, 11:30 am San Quentin prison, which now has more than 1,000 coronavirus cases, has relocated infected prisoners to air-conditioned triage tents outside to keep them away from uninfected prisoners. Some of those who are seriously ill have been transferred to local hospitals, reports KTVU.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation faces criticism for not responding to the outbreak quickly enough. Last month, there were zero cases in prison. As of Tuesday morning, there were 1,080 cases in prisoners and 102 in employees. The outbreak is believed to have started when 100 inmates were transferred from a prison in southern California to San Quentin.

CDCR hopes to mitigate the spread by releasing up to 3,500 more nonviolent prisoners who have six months or less remaining on their sentence.

June 30, 10:05 am The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the Department of Public Health held a joint meeting Monday with the San Jose City Council to plan for the new county reopening plan to be released later this week.

Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County Health Officer, discussed the transition from a sector-to-sector reopening plan to a risk aversion plan.

“In this new phase, we hope to create a framework within which people can live for a long time to offer clarity on how to stay as safe as possible while doing the things that we all must do, and to create more certainty about the path ahead.” Cody said.

The new plan will include general guidelines for all open businesses, with some more restrictive guidelines for higher risk activities that will be applicable in the long term. This also means that some companies will be considered high risk to open for now.

Bay City News contributed to this story.

June 30, 9:30 a.m. The mayors of the coastal cities of the Pacifica Bay Area and Half Moon Bay told KPIX that they want the outsiders to stay home on July 4.

“Let’s start with the fact that we are a tourist city and that we fully accept tourists who come to Half Moon Bay,” Mayor Adam Eisen told KPIX. “I got the charm of the beach, but you know, then you want to turn it around and say, ‘I have people in the community, constituents who literally fear their lives, as we have seen many people come. at an unprecedented level. “

“As people park in neighborhoods, there are older people, in particular, who are even afraid to leave their homes,” said Pacifica Mayor Deirdre Martin.

June 30, 9:10 am California announced a record number of new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, reporting nearly 8,100 new infections. Cases are emerging, and an analysis by the LA Times predicts that cases in June will be roughly double that of May.

Governor Gavin Newsom noted that the number of cases increased 45% in seven days and that the state’s positivity rate (the number of people who tested positive divided by the total number of tests administered) went from 4.4% to 5 .5% in two weeks. . (Read more from Newsom’s Monday press conference on SFGATE.)

Newsom said “5.5% is worrying. It is not where other headline-generating states are. They are substantially higher, but we don’t like the trend line, and so again, this mandatory mask requirement is in place, and that’s why, unfortunately, we are using this dimmer switch to start delaying the stay-at-home request. “

June 30, 7:15 a.m. A 27-year-old Southern California man shares his family’s experience with the coronavirus to encourage people to practice social distancing.

Richard Garay told KTLA that he was the first in his family to contract COVID-19 and now 27 other members have tested positive. Garay’s father, 60, died of the virus the day before Father’s Day.

“It was painful to see my father’s health decline so dramatically in front of me,” Garay told KTLA. “My father is my best friend.

“I don’t want my father’s death to be in vain,” he said. “I want people to understand that coronavirus is a real thing.”

Coronavirus in the metropolitan Bay area: links you need

COUNTY DEPARTMENTS OF HEALTH

Alameda County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Contra Costa County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Lake County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Marin County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Monterey County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Napa County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

San Benito County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

San Francisco County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

San Mateo County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Santa Clara County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Santa Cruz County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Solano County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

Sonoma County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.

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