Week in review: Rate of SJ COVID deaths far surpasses flu; recognition and changes for beloved Stockton eateries
COVID-19 has killed more people in San Joaquin County since March than the flu has over the past 10 years combined.
More than 700 San Joaquin County residents have died from the coronavirus since the pandemic began, while county public health data show the flu killed just under 100 people from 2010 to 2020. It s a much more striking disease, Park said. People get more severely ill with the COVID than they do the flu.
While the true death rate of COVID-19 won t be known for some time, estimates of the virus mortality ratio can range from 1% to 2% of those who have been infected or as high as twice that, Park said. The World Health Organization says the crude mortality rate of COVID-19 is about 3% to 4%.
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Four new and returning Delta College trustees were sworn in on Tuesday night, taking their seats on the College’s governing board for the next four years.
Elizabeth Blanchard and Kathy Garcia were sworn in as new trustees after prevailing in the November election. Incumbents Teresa Brown and Jennet Stebbins will return to the Board of Trustees for another term.
San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Jose Alva administered the oath to all four trustees at the start of Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting of the Board.
The Sacramento region said goodbye to three longtime gay elected officials this month, as the trio all lost their reelection bids in November. With the departure of a gay Stockton school board member, who also failed to secure a second term last month, California s northern Central Valley will have no out male local political leaders for the first time since 1987.
In 2005 gay West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon came out during his State of the City address. The Filipino politician had won reelection until this year, bringing to an end his tenure as the country s longest continuously serving out politician.
Also falling short in the November election was gay Roseville school board member Gary Miller, who had served on the oversight body since 2008. His defeat ends a remarkable political run, as Miller had served on various school boards for 30 years and was the first out LGBTQ elected official in both Sacramento and Placer counties.