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California Looking For a Few Good ‘Disease Detectives’ for Gov. Newsom’s COVID-19 Tracing Army

June 24, 2020 3:43 pmJune 24, 2020 3:43 pm

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in May that contact tracing those who test positive for coronavirus would be crucial to reopening the state’s economy. Contact tracing is used to identify who may have been in contact with those who test...

The Miserable Pseudo-Science Behind Face Masks, Social Distancing And Contact Tracing

June 20, 2020 10:35 amJune 20, 2020 10:40 am

“The American public is being spoon-fed a steady diet of pseudo-science in order to justify the wearing of face masks, social distancing and contact tracing. Yet, the actual science points in the polar opposite direction.” This is the concluding paragraph...

California is Still Allowing COVID Patients in Skilled Nursing Facilities

June 15, 2020 7:28 amJune 15, 2020 3:01 pm

In March California Globe reported the California Department of Public Health was suspending nursing home relegations to allow for COVID-19 patients to be “discharged to a Skilled Nursing Facility when clinically indicated.” Following deadly COVID outbreaks in nursing homes and...

Here’s a Look at the Coronavirus Hit to California Economy

May 18, 2020 2:49 pmMay 18, 2020 3:06 pm

As of March, the private sector lost 110,609 jobs while government added 21,000 jobs, according to a report in the Orange County Register, April 19, 2020 The overall mortality rate from coronavirus in California as of May 14 is 0.01%...

California to Reopen Dine-In Restaurants, Most Retail Businesses in Approved Counties

May 12, 2020 6:51 pm

On Tuesday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that dine-in restaurants can now open in a limited capacity in counties that meet all public health benchmarks and are approved by the state. Phase 2 reopenings and new public health rules Joining dine-in...

California’s Coronavirus By the Numbers

April 7, 2020 3:47 pmApril 8, 2020 6:19 am

Only a few blocks away food service employees, bartenders, waiters, bakery workers, ice cream parlor employees, barbers and hair stylists, day spa workers and estheticians, boutique and retail clerks, seamstresses, Uber and Lyft drivers, manufacturing employees, and gym employees, aren’t...

California’s Indeterminate Lockdown Based on ‘What Ifs’

April 6, 2020 8:26 amApril 7, 2020 6:14 am

Most people don’t fear the virus as much as they fear this indeterminate sentence. The indeterminate sentence in penology is considered draconian and cruel by defense lawyers. Yet the indeterminate sentence is exactly what the state’s residents are experiencing...