What teachers, students, parents said about San Francisco Bay Area schools reopening
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A Bay Area child doing distance learning from home.Courtesy SFGATE reader
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many San Francisco Bay Area public schools have been closed for nearly a full year. And while we ve heard a lot about whether they should reopen from both politicians and teacher unions, we haven t heard nearly as much from actual teachers, or parents, or even students.
So, we decided to give them the floor.
Our call for reader emails Monday resulted in an overwhelming response we received more than 300 messages from teachers, district superintendents, parents, students, grandparents, doctors, college professors and community members.
Sunday February 14, 2021 - 12:41:00 PM The Berkeley Neighborhoods Council (BNC) is writing this letter because of deep concerns expressed by many Berkeley neighborhoods over the increasing threat to the well-being of residents and the unshakable hope that the year 2021 will provide the opportunity for a fresh start for cities everywhere. While these concerns include the broad spectrum of urban life issues, this letter focuses on existing land use policies, procedures and practices that affect the daily lives of residents in every part of our City. The Berkeley Neighborhoods Council is not anti-development, anti-housing or anti-business, we are pro-people. These concerns have been expressed over a long period of time, mostly at meetings of the Zoning Adjustments Board (ZAB) and on appeals to the City Council. Today, they have grown to the extent that there are increasing calls for a holistic approach
UpdatedTue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:09 am PT
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With hospitals across the state slammed and running out of intensive care-unit capacity, the governor warned of extended Stay-Home orders. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
MARIN COUNTY, CA California s Stay-Home orders are likely to be extended into the next year as overwhelmed hospitals across the region run out of intensive care-unit capacity, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
The state s stay-at-home order, triggered when a region s average intensive care unit capacity falls below 15 percent, now affects 98 percent of the state s population in the Greater Sacramento, Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions.
Newsom warned community leaders, businesses and residents to expect Stay-at-home orders to remain in effect past the minimum of three weeks as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to skyrocket.
Alta Bates Hospital workers in Berkeley will begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine Saturday
Update, 4:44 p.m.: Alta Bates received the shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines Friday and will begin vaccinating its workers on Saturday, Sutter spokesperson Monique Binkley Smith confirmed.
Original story: Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley will receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the week, a few days after several Bay Area hospitals started inoculating essential workers.
The vaccine was approved but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 11 and it almost immediately shipments began going out to regions across the country.
Ryan Stice, vice president of pharmacy at Sutter Health, which owns Alta Bates, said during a news conference on Monday that hospitals would be ready to begin administering the vaccine “within hours” of receiving the shipment. There is a two-to-three day variance expected between each health department’s shipment, he added.