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It’s Wednesday, March 3. I’m Carol Cormaci on rotation with my colleagues, editor John Canalis and reporter Ben Brazil, to bring you the latest roundup of Orange County news and events.
One of the most disturbing side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is not physical but xenophobic. Too many Asians and Pacific Islanders have been taking the heat since early last year for the spread of the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.
A news article published last summer and written by our colleague Ahn Do details some of the 800-plus reported racist taunts (“You started the corona!”) that had been hurled against Asian Americans as of July. Eight months later such hatred still seethes unabated and violent attacks continue to be reported around the state and beyond. Last month, a man was beaten with a cane in Rosemead.
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Good morning and welcome to the TimesOC newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Feb. 24. I’m Carol Cormaci, an editor new to this rotation with my colleagues, editor John Canalis and reporter Ben Brazil, to bring you the latest roundup of Orange County happenings.
It’s great news that, as of Saturday, Orange County hospitals had reported seeing a 45% reduction of COVID-19 patients arriving at their doorsteps over the previous two weeks. But the fits and starts of getting the vaccines to as many in the U.S. as possible, a promise most recently hindered by transportation issues caused by last week’s extreme weather conditions across the country’s heart, have been dispiriting to many.
My name is
John Canalis, an assistant managing editor with the Los Angeles Times.
Perhaps you were taken by surprise, as I was, to see legal (yes, I am aware of the many scofflaws) patio dining return this week. Or that barber shops and salon chairs had clients gracing them once again. That maximum occupancy went up a bit in shops and stores, easing those long waits in line.
We all heard this was coming when Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the restrictive stay-at-home orders on Monday. But many of us had grown so accustomed to seeing curtailed businesses that we did a double-take when, lo and behold, things returned to the COVID-era normal in place before Thanksgiving.
TimesOC newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 23.
My name is
John Canalis, an assistant managing editor with the Los Angeles Times. I’m filling in today for your regular newsletter author,
David Carrillo Peñaloza, who is enjoying a well-deserved break.
Despite some political leaders’ aversion to mandating masks and placing limits on businesses, Orange County fared decently throughout the earlier days of the pandemic at least relative to its harder-hit and more-populous neighbor, Los Angeles County.
That is no longer the case.
O.C. is firmly entrenched in the hazardous purple tier on the state’s colored-coded, four-tier scale. This sobering headline says it all:
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