Month: August 2020

. TE WE ARE NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE NEED. WE HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. GOOD MORNING. I’M TEO TORRES. TONI: AND I’M TONI VALLIERE. HERE’S OUR TOP CORONAVIRUS HEADLINES THIS MORNING. TEO: 21 STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF AT SACRAMENTO STATE HAVE TESTED POSITIVE. SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAY IT IS CRITICAL THAT PEOPLE FOLLOW SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND ONLY GO TO CAMPUS WHEN ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. CALIFORNIA COULD RESUME EVICTION AND FORECLOSURE PROCEEDINGS UNLESS STATE LAWMAKERS TAKE ACTION. AND PARIS HAS BEEN DECLARED AN AT-RISK ZONES AS AUTHORITIES OBSERVE A SHARP INCREASE IN INFECTIONS THERE. THIS ALLOWS AUTHORITIES TO IMPOSE STRICTER MEASURES IN THE CITY. TONI: DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK JOINS US FROM HOME WITH A LOOK AT THE LATEST CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS IN CALIFORNIA. DEIRDRE: GOOD MORNING. AC...

Dallas County health officials have reported a downward trend of COVID-19 cases and deaths this month after a peak of at least 1,000 cases each day for more than two weeks in mid-July. But Dallas County’s improvement isn’t being replicated across the state. As a whole, Texas has yet to experience a consistent decline in cases, and deaths are still on the rise statewide. The seemingly conflicting numbers raise questions about whether both trends are possible as the number of Texans seeking COVID-19 tests drops and health experts stress people should continue wearing masks and social distancing. Here’s what you need to know. Why don’t Dallas’ trends match the rest of the state? Health experts say it’s possible for some areas to improve during the COVID-19 pandemic, even if the overall sta...

Using thin, stretchy neck gaiters as a face covering might be ineffective at stopping the spread of the coronavirus, and could even spread the virus further than not wearing a covering at all, according to a new study. Researchers from Duke University found that the neck gaiter they tested was "worse than nothing."  "The neck gaiter that we tested did essentially nothing, and worse than nothing, because it appeared to make large droplets into small droplets," Isaac Henrion, the study's co-author, told CBS News. Henrion is also the coordinator of Cover Durham, a community project to distribute tens of thousands of masks to vulnerable people. The experiment involved only a small number of speakers and face coverings, and the researchers stressed that more testing is needed — some gai...

It can seem to public health officials that giving an inch means people will take a mile. In the months since most U.S. states emerged from coronavirus lockdowns, wearing a mask has become a matter of politics more than safety, “pandemic parties” have been broken up in California, New York and Florida, and many states that forged ahead with reopening plans in May have been forced to pause or reverse the orders. It’s in this fraught climate that public health experts are saying that if other less-extreme measures are not working or being ignored, another round of lockdowns — as politically unpopular as they may be — may be the only way to keep an already-dire situation from spiraling further out of control. “We understand there’s no appetite for these extreme measures, but we’re on a col...