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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01.04.21 FW_ SYASL COVID-19 Update From:Ring, Brian To:Alpert, Bruce;Bennett, Robin;Clerk of the Board;Connelly, Bill;Cook, Holly;Kimmelshue, Tod;Lambert, Steve; Lucero, Debra;McCracken, Shari;Paulsen, Shaina;Pickett, Andy;Ring, Brian;Ritter, Tami;Rodas, Amalia; Sweeney, Kathleen;Teeter, Doug Cc:Pickett, Andy;Snyder, Ashley Subject:FW: SYASL COVID-19 Update Date:Monday, January 4, 2021 5:40:32 PM Attachments:SYASL COVID-19 Update 1.4.2021.pdf FYI. Update from our State lobbyist. Brian Ring Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Administration 25 County Center Drive, Oroville, CA 95965 T: From: SYASL County Info <SYASLCountyInfo@SYASLpartners.com> Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 4:26 PM To: SYASL County Info <SYASLCountyInfo@SYASLpartners.com> Subject: SYASL COVID-19 Update ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening .. attachments, clicking on links, or replying. To: County Administrative Officers and Interested Parties From: Paul J. Yoder and Karen Lange Date: January 4, 2021 RE: SYASL COVID-19 Update Please find attached our daily SYASL COVID-19 update. -Paul and Karen COVID-19 Updates www.covid19.ca.gov January 4, 2021 Newsom Administration - Resources / Mutual Aid / Executive Orders Today, Governor Newsom provided an update on COVID-19 rates and vaccine distribution in California. He encouraged folks to tune in on Wednesday, January 6,from 3-6pm when the Community Vaccine Advisory Committee next meets to discuss the roll-out of Phases 1B and 1C. He also noted that there would be more information to come later this week on the next phases of the vaccine distribution. Governor Newsom also noted that he will be releasing his 2021 Proposed State Budget this coming Friday. here and SYASL staff notes here. Please visit covid19.ca.gov for more updates and the California Department of Public Health website for the latest guidance documents. California Legisalture We still think the Legislature will return Monday, January 11. For an article about possible legislative priorities in January, see here. Legislative / Budget News -19 page here for updates. The LAO has been releasing a series of reports regarding Federal actions affecting California related to developments around COVID-19. View here. Governor Newsom update, January 4, 2021 GGN The latest reporting period includes Sunday coming in at 29,633 37,845 7-day average We are starting to get our cadence back in terms of daily testing Hospitalizations have increased by 18% over 14-days We have seen a 7 fold increase in hospitalizations in two months and a 6 fold increase in ICUs 97 deaths Jan 3 336 7-Day average of lives lost 3,959 lives lost over last 14-days This virus remains deadly and devastating We continue to deploy teams, focusing on Los Angeles area and San Joaquin State and federal staff deployed Looking forward to more support for DOD and HHS Due to strain on hospital systems, we have developed Statewide Oxygen Strategy We are sharing best practices and resources, including technical assistance teams Working with Army Corps Typo on the chart will also be deploying to Fairview Dr. Ghaly and others have been working hard on home oxygen support, working with vendors across the spectrum for a framework of support Looking at the panoply of options We hope to get to 823, which is the stated goal of the state We have 90 people in alternative care sites We have substantially more sites that have been put in warm status and sites that are being set up We are focused on staffing, staffing, staffing! There is hope on the horizon This week I submit to the legislature a new budget for the next fiscal year, we have been working with legislative leaders on an early action plan for distribution As we expand to new phases, IT will become more important and getting the CALVAX system management will be needed Public education campaign is underway but not at the scale we would like We are working aggressively to accelerate our pace Distribution has gone too slowly for many of our liking, we have worked the last few days to accelerate who can give the vaccine and where, including dentists More aggressive efforts in this space will talk to you later this week on our efforts for next phase of planning We are currently in phase 1 We are working on prioritization and this will all be publicly updated on Wednesday 1C will be updated and discussed on Wednesday but not signed off on I encourage you to tune in on COVID19.ca.gov on 1/6 from 3-6pm: Community Vaccine Advisory Committee to discuss Phase 1B, 1C roll out & operationalization of vaccine administration The new strain has been detected in CA: 4 individuals in San Diego, one in hospital, 2 in San Bernardino identified contact tracing and disease investigation currently underway Hoping later this month Johnson & Johnson and others will join vaccine efforts You are more likely to get this new strain At least 8 million people have activated CA Notify Add your phone to the fight today Want to make sure people are aware of open round of grant process Please visit CAReliefGrant.com This Friday we will talk a lot more about additional supports Kaiser Health News Confirm budget Friday? Is there any other help on the horizon for communities that continue to struggle with homelessness? Project Roomkey? Many have said it is life-saving for those who are able to get in, but not enough gor all who need it. GGN Good enough never is Over 10k individuals re getting help from Project Roomkey and over 23k others Project Roomkey was just extended from the federal government 94, projects, 51 jurisdictions have been helped to get permanent units up and operational in real-time Project Roomkey has evolved to Homekey which is a permanent framework that has secured over 6k units Over the next number of weeks and months, those start to be utilized at scale those will also We put funding in to help counties with support services We continue to look forward to the support and manifest of the HAP program for cities, counties and COCs We have a second round of money being distributed in the next two weeks Yes we will be doing even more and working with the legislature to see what we can do to further support and be prepared as we move away from Roomkey to support those who need transitioning Bloomberg News How many Pfizer/Moderna have been delivered? What are the biggest roadblocks to ramping up vaccines being distributed? 454,306 as of 1/3 We have had more challenges with Moderna We deal with Pfizer directly We have finally gotten the CVS and Walgreens program up We recognize that the numbers are not good enough and that it is a logistics opportunity NBC 4 How big of factor is due to healthcare workers declining the vaccine? GGN We have anecdotal evidence of that but not actual data yet, we have a survey out As soon as I get that I will share with you and others Regardless of those that are unwilling to take the shot, we have plenty of people who want to take the shot and the key is to make sure we are enforcing the rules of the road KCRA Surrounding the Sacramento area, there have been incidences of extra doses, is there not a waitlist or back up plan to ensure doses are not wasted? GGN We are moving expeditiously to put a plan into place for this very situation Dr. Ghaly We have been working to line up and clarify guidance to make sure we wasting any vaccine Politico Where are the doses CA has that have not yet been put into peoples arms? Dr. Ghaly They are spread throughout the state There are doses in freezers ready to use Many providers have worked through the initial list of frontline healthcare workers and are now working through who is next based on priority groups GGN 19 million flu shots are administered every year through a system that is already in place The vaccines do not magically arrive to a state facility, the entire distribution is done directly to providers Dr. Ghaly The vaccine does not come directly to the state, it goes to the registered sites SF Chron Bloomberg news showed CA at the bottom for states having administered vaccines Are there refusals or hiccups? GGN I would love to see an update on that data but will turn to Dr. Ghaly Dr. Ghaly There is some delay for date getting put into the database, be surprised to see an uptick in data, stay tuned on that CA would benefit with more supply of vaccine but bringing prioritization together and empowering vaccinators to do more in this front will be key to advancing in this space We are working hard to make sure that 100% of what we get, gets out as quickly as possible Fox 11 We know the rate of spread is high, especially in So Cal with some saying someone is infected every 5 seconds What do you suggest we do before things get worse? GGN Dr. Ghaly has been focused specifically on what is going on in SoCal Dr. Ghaly First we need to be focused on what has already occurred, those who are already infected and make sure everyone who needs care is able to get into a hospital Second all the issues around stay at home order, masking etc., is all tools to help get transmission under control we need to make a hard choice to reduce mixing and stay home The steep uptick was somewhat flattened over the last two weeks due to stay at home order Covid fatigue is certainly at play Lastly the vaccines cannot come soon enough, there is light ahead; vaccines will help, but not right away GGN We saw mobility down 23% in NYE compared to baseline traffic Thank you all for your time, we will talk to you more this week regarding budget supports across the spectrum We look forward to updating you more on vaccine distributions Take care ¯ ­£¤¬¨¢ §¨¦§«¨¦§³¤£ ³§¤¨± ¥ ¨«´±¤² "9 (!..!( 7),%9 JANUARY 04, 2021 05:00 AM, In California, pain is everywhere. At food banks, where hungry families once able to comfortably stock their pantries stand for hours in lines that circle around the buildings. At home, where renters anxiously crunch numbers to make pencil out. At fast food restaurants, where kids connect to free WiFi so they can log on for class. After a four-month recess, state lawmakers are preparing to return to Sacramento Jan. 11 with a list of proposals to ease the financial agony reverberating through the Golden State. Yet for some Democrats, COVID-19 has sparked more than legislative ambitions. After nine months of watching their constituents suffer, COVID-19 has inspired a professional As federal officials largely left states to fend for themselves, the billions in reserves the state had middle and working classes from the worst of COVID-19. Neither could a list of progressive policies considered national examples of how to care for the sick, unsheltered and poor. The pandemic, they said, laid bare their failure to address issues like housing and hunger even before the crisis hit. -Oakland. OVID-19) really shined a spotlight on some of the issues Sixty- financial opportunities as their parents, according to a December Public Policy Institute of California surveyexpanding. -income households are either on unemployment or have lost -three percent have visited a food bank in the last year, while 38% are on food stamps. But where to begin? And how? r flexibility, said Democratic consultant Andrew Acosta, They can write letters asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to keep playgrounds open, lobby on behalf of essential workers for a top spot in line for the COVID-19 vaccine or launch a fundraising effort for furloughed restaurant employees. aused so much suffering this year, Acosta argued. rise up and break u HOUSING AND EVICTIONS CRISIS extremely low income from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Seventy-seven percent of these households housing costs. The pandemic disproportionately slammed these households, with many of its residents already -Encino. Democrats have imposed too many fees and environmentally driven barriers to construction, some acknowledged, resulting in less supply and higher rents for their constituents. In early 2020, Newsom called for a bill that would spur construction to help alleviate a statewide multi-million unit shortage following years of lukewarm interest in the Legislature to fundamentally change how California builds homes. Even as COVID-19 forced legislators to shear hundreds of bills from their agenda, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, built a blueprint in 2020 with her Democratic ictions, allow for infill residential development on commercial property and to let cities build more duplexes. The plan failed amid what Isaac Hale, political science lecturer at UC Davis, called - Several sessions of stalled housing solutions help emergency: hundreds of thousands of California renters face eviction by Feb. 1. Extending an eviction ban beyond that date with Assembly Bill 15, Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco said, is critical to keeping Californians in their homes during COVID-19, and while the Legislature works on proposals to put more units online. politics as usual to stymie a critical solution for saving Californians. Too many people are ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE -19 statistics dashboard is a story of racial, wealth and medical inequity, especially among certain populations historically denied health care. About 12% of California Latinos lack insurance, a December California Latino Economic Tho COVID-19 cases and 47% of deaths. The numbers have reinvigorated a legislative appetite to expand coverage to every Californian, regardless of immigration status. Low-income undocumented children and young adults already qualify for Medi-Cal. But as the virus continues devastating Latino communities, Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula, D- He said this expansion, which would cost an estimated $2.6 billion, would offer desperately SUPPORTING THE MIDDLE CLASS The list of failures within the California Employment Development Department since the start of the pandemic reflects more than an antiquated system pushed to its technical limitations. Instead, some Democrats have argued, the mountain of backlogged cases indicate a fundamentally flawed labor system that leaves too many low- and middle-class families living paycheck to paycheck while the state gets more expensive. - see the middle class feel the stressors Pandemic Unemployment Assistance maxes out at $450 a week, according to ebsite. Most checks totaled less than that, said Sylvia Allegretto, co-chair of the Center on Wage and off, With unemployment hovering around 8%, and stay-at-home orders likely to remain in effect for several more weeks, Gonzalez said now is the time to push for stronger labor protections. Her o income and working to increase sick days from three to five, two goals Gonzalez said COVID-19 has made that much more important. All of it costs money. John Kabateck, California director for the National Federation of Independent Business, said now is the time for California to save, not spend, and to avoid raising taxes or caving to special pandemic has given all of our state leaders an Economics 101 lesson on how to be better at spending our dollars. Still, teachers unions will want more money to safeguard their classrooms from COVID-19. Affordable housing advocates want a low-income housing tax credit for developers. Social safety net advocates are petitioning against cuts to services. Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget and Policy Center, said lawmakers in public policy that is also un Everything from small business assistance to child care subsidies, he said, will be necessary to get the workforce moving again. need to shift, Wicks said it will take legislative grit to accomplish the bold proposals the pandemic mandates. https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol- alert/article247950105.html?ac_cid=DM356685&ac_bid=-972751660