Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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January 28, 2022 - Of the Covid deaths tabulated by the LA County Department of Public Health over the last two weeks, 80% are noted as involving underlying conditions. Now health officials have admitted that they do not actually know if these individuals died from the fact they had Covid or from the underlying condition. As long as the death was not from a traumatic accident, the "Covid" label is applied based solely on whether or not the death occurred less than 30 days...
1/21/22: Staff for the City of Santa Monica released a report this month titled "Overview of Homeless Outreach and Hygiene Services" in response to requests from some city councilmembers for a comprehensive report on what is being done to address homelessness, how much it is costing, and what effect it has had. None of the requested information is addressed in full in the January 6 staff report. Measures to address homelessness increase a complex web of different types of...
January 21, 2022 - Matters can always change over the next few weeks, but a comparison of the same 6-week period spanning the New Year shows 10 times less deaths for the number of Covid-19 cases this winter over last winter. The surge of Covid-19 occurred over the same basic period of time last year as this year. Using a span of 6 weeks, approximately the length of time it could take a Covid-19 patient to move from diagnosis to death, the following numbers were recorded by...
January 11, 2022 - On Saturday evening about 5:30 pm, Santa Monica police officers were conducting a routine patrol of the Santa Monica pier when they approached a group standing near a pickup in Parking Lot 1 North. The pickup truck was loaded with the vending carts that are illegal to operate on the pier, lacking pier licenses and health permits. A male in the group near the truck lifted his arms and the police officers noticed the black handle of a handgun protruding from...
January 11, 2022 - Health officials at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health have only recently released statistics regarding whether deaths listed as from Covid involved underlying conditions. They do not give such data every day. Over the last week, LACDPH officials specified on five days how many of the deaths listed as from Covid involved underlying conditions: January 4: Of 24 deaths, 20 individuals had underlying conditions January 5: Of 27 deaths, 18...
January 14, 2022 - While the rate of the vaccinated contracting Covid-19 remained somewhat below the rate of the unvaccinated contracting the disease, 36% more of the vaccinated caught Covid last week compared to the previous week. On Thursday, the county hit a new record, with 45,584 new Covid cases. The percent of the vaccinated population who'd contracted Covid was 1% on September 30. That percent has steadily been increasing. As of January 8, 4.6% of the vaccinated...
January 7, 2022 - Dr. Ferrer, Los Angeles County Director of Public Health, announced yesterday that the number of patients hospitalized with Covid that officials have been publicizing does not actually constitute individuals hospitalized because of their infection with Covid-19. The percent of patients in the hospital with the direct cause of Covid-19 was 75% at the beginning of November. By the end of December, only 45% of the patients in the hospital with Covid were there...
January 14, 2022 - While the rate of the vaccinated contracting Covid-19 remained somewhat below the rate of the unvaccinated contracting the disease, 36% more of the vaccinated caught Covid last week compared to the previous week. On Thursday, the county hit a new record, with 45,584 new Covid cases. The percent of the vaccinated population who’d contracted Covid was 1% on September 30. That percent has steadily been increasing. As of January 8, 4.6% of the vaccinated populat...
January 4, 2022 - Last night Santa Monica Audit Subcommittee Commissioner and Santa Monica native Marc Verville exploded the myth of a housing supply crisis in the state or the city. The crisis, Verville explained, is in the surge in real estate value. With a series of deeply researched graphs, Verville explained to the nearly 60 participants in the virtual meeting how the supply of housing in California has easily kept up with population growth. In Santa Monica, the housing...
January 11, 2022 - Data from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health shows increasingly good news regarding the Omicron variant, which is responsible for 85% or more of new Covid cases in the region. Out of a 7-day total of 253,085 cases - an unprecedentedly high number - there are only 3,400 people in the hospital who have Covid and there were only 151 deaths. The ratio of hospitalizations and deaths to the current number of cases is better for the week ending Janu...
January 7, 2022 - New Health Officer Orders have been issued by the LA County Department of Public Health. They require employers to upgrade the efficacy of masks provided to employees and restrict the size of mega events, both indoors and outdoors: Masks Employers required to provide upgraded masks (e.g. well-fitting medical grade masks, surgical masks, or N95/KN95 respirators by January 17, 2022 Mega event attendance thresholds lowered to 500 attendees (indoor) and 5,000 (ou...
January 7, 2022 - During her weekly press conference yesterday, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health, appeared optimistic about the apparently lower hospitalization and death rate during the latest surge of Covid-19. In just one week, Omicron went from 54% of sequenced samples to 85%. The number of Delta variant cases in the population is lower than at any time since that variant crowded out the previous version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, sometime during last summer....
January 6, 2022 - Last week, Dr. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health, announced a program where residents could order free PCR tests to administer at home and send to the lab for results. Today, during her weekly press conference, she announced that program is paused. "They were running into challenges with the vendor," Ferrer explained. They were having trouble getting deliveries to homes in time. Members of the press at the virtual conference said they knew of...
January 7, 2022 - The Los Angeles County Health Department has issued a detailed list of instructions for quarantining or isolating due to a positive Covid-19 test or an exposure to Covid-19. The rules have changed to make a distinction between the fully vaccinated and those who have also received booster shots. If you yourself tested positive for Covid-19, you must isolate. This means: Stay home a minimum of 5 days Can end isolation after day 5 if asymptomatic and test negati...
1/5/22 - On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health announced 21,790 new Covid cases and 24 new deaths. At least 1,792 people are currently hospitalized with the stated cause being Covid-19. The daily case numbers have been hovering around 20,000 since spiking up around December 29. Relatively speaking, hospitalizations and deaths are much lower now, however, than a month ago. With a 7-day total of 146,591 new Covid cases, only 1,792 individuals are hospitalized....
December 30, 2021 - New numbers released by the Los Angeles County Health Department show that vaccinations are providing ever decreasing protection from infection by Covid-19. Of the new cases identified since November 27, 66.4% were in fully vaccinated individuals. The percent of the county population fully vaccinated is 68.5%. Therefore, vaccines appear to give only marginal protection from infection compared to no vaccine. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Pub...
December 31, 2021 - Free at-home PCR Covid tests are available from the County of Los Angeles's Department of Public Health website. "If you're sick you shouldn't be leaving your house," Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health, said at a virtual press conference on Thursday. Instead, you can go the county health department's website and order a free Covid test to be sent to your home. It will arrive via express mail in two business days. A free prepaid ove...
December 31, 2021 - The last day of the year brought yet another record-breaking number of daily new cases of Covid-19 in Los Angeles County. Health officials announced 27,091 new positive cases of Covid-19, roughly 7,000 more than yesterday's daily number of new cases. 12 deaths were reported and 1,365 people are in the hospital with Covid. Deaths from Covid typically lag behind the date of the initial infection by four weeks or more, according to Director of Public Health...
Dane Elkins's mother and friends have been searching for him since he abandoned his car around 8:20 pm near the 5 Freeway and Templin Highway in Castaic on December 20. Deborah Elkins, Dane's mother, says her son suffers from mental health issues and she believes he is going through a paranoid and suicidal episode. A student at UC Santa Cruz, Dane is 20 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 170 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. He was possibly spotted in Reseda at a gas...
December 30, 2021 - Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health was correct in last week's prediction that the county would reach 20,000 new cases per day by the end of the year. In a press conference this afternoon, Dr. Ferrer added that there were 24 deaths today and 1,251 people are in the hospital. So far, deaths have remained steady, but Ferrer warned that deaths often lag behind cases by several weeks. Dr. Ferrer said she expected the Omicron variant to...
UPDATE: On Wednesday afternoon, LA county health officials announced that, in the week ending December 18, of sequenced samples, 54% were Omicron. December 28, 2021 - Is Omicron now the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Los Angeles County? Officials aren't saying so, and it is doubtful if they even know. On December 23, the California Department of Public Health claimed that 50% to 70% of new cases were Omicron in at least three California health systems. However,...
December 29, 2021 - The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced a sharp increase in Covid cases today, with 16,510 new positive cases identified. Officials pointed out this is nearly double the number of new daily cases just a week ago. A month ago, the number of new daily cases was 843. So far the number of daily deaths is remaining low, at about the same rate as it was a month ago. Today 25 Covid deaths were reported in the county, 21 of them involving...
December 24, 2021 - With every day setting a new record in the rate of new cases of Covid-19 in Los Angeles County, health officials today announced 9,988 new positive cases. 801 individuals are in the hospital. They did not say how many of the new cases today have been identified as the Omicron variant, but two days ago, county health officials claimed 162 Omicron cases out of a total of 6,509. The number of new Covid cases in the county had been holding fairly steady in the...
14 - Today the the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced an additional 8 cases of Omicron had been identified, bringing the total number of Omicron cases in the region to 38. The first Omicron case was reported in LA County on December 2. By December 9, county health officials could not trace the origin of the infection and labeled the fourth Omicron case a "possible result of local transmission." Of the 8 cases reported today, 5 individuals were fully...
December 17, 2021 - Shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning, Santa Monica Police received a call about a group of men wreaking destruction on the Third Street Promenade. Upon arrival of officers near 3rd and Arizona, they found a group of males uprooting trees, breaking holiday decorations, and damaging fencing around a business. Officers detained 5 men, all from Los Angeles. The following individual were arrested and booked for Felony Vandalism: · Shane Thomas Barry...
