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As California and the nation begin rolling out coronavirus vaccines, anti-vaccine campaigners are aligning with small-business owners and far-right groups, an effort that some experts fear could supercharge mistrust of government at a crucial moment for public health.
In California, the movement toward businesses is being led by a group calling itself Freedom Angels 2.0. Originally founded by three women in response to a 2019 state bill tightening vaccine requirements for attendance in schools, the organization was best known for its protests at the state Capitol against that measure and other vaccine legislation, often filling hallways and disrupting hearings with children in tow.
Anti-vaccine and alt-right groups team up to stoke fears of COVID-19 vaccine
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The meltdown in California is happening. Small businesses are becoming “peaceful protest” sites and refusing to close their doors despite Governor Gavin Newsom’s lockdown orders. The Recall Gavin 2020 effort is increasing in momentum as more and more people are fed up with the Governor’s hypocrisy and malfeasance.
In the Imperial Valley, the Los Angeles Times reports that doctors are wringing their hands over the increase in COVID cases. However, elected leaders are simply attacking small business, rather than targeting the source of the spread, and those business owners are no longer taking it lying down.
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One month ago, San Joaquin County’s ICU capacity was at 104 percent with 17 percent of those beds belonging to people with the COVID-19 virus.
While as of Monday afternoon the 117 percent ICU capacity might not have seemed like too tremendous a jump amidst a massive spike in infections, the number of people requiring intensive hospitalization has skyrocketed.
Currently 63 percent of all patients receiving ICU care have COVID-19 – the highest percentage since the start of the pandemic. It is a bleak signal for what experts believe could be a treacherous winter just as cold and flu season begins to pick up steam.
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‘I’ve seen people die.’ COVID-19 slams Central Valley hospitals, as many resist lockdowns [Los Angeles Times :: BC-CORONAVIRUS-NCALIF-HOSPITALS:LA]
FRESNO, Calif. The last time Dr. Eyad Almasri had a day off was in November, when he was infected with COVID-19. His symptoms were not life-threatening, but it crushed him, he said, that he couldn’t be with his patients for 10 days.
A pulmonologist with the Fresno campus of UC San Francisco, Almasri works in the intensive care unit at Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno so packed with COVID-19 patients that the hospital has had to create makeshift isolation wards, including one in a hallway. Exhausted staff, working long hours seven days a week, rarely take off their protective gear because the entire area is the “dirty zone” a phrase Almasri detests. With so many patients, there is no time for breaks anyway.
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