While many recognize Super Bowl Sunday as a veritable national holiday, San Bernardino County health officials are urging residents to avoid behaviors that could lead to another spike in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. Ernest Figueroa has more information…
The Centers for Disease Control notes that the safest way to celebrate the Super Bowl is to gather virtually or only with the people in your own household. The county’s public health director echoes that advice; Corwin Porter urges residents to take steps to avoid further spread of the virus.
Safe options include outdoor gatherings where guests can view the game on a big screen while staying 6 feet apart, or a virtual watch party, which might include creating a text group so you can comment on the game in real time.
A Yucca Valley man was arrested Wednesday, accused of distributing child pornography. Investigators from the Sheriff’s Department Crimes against Children detail received a tip from an electronic service provider that various videos of child pornography were being distributed online. Detectives learned the account distributing the videos belonged to Jonathan Marriott, 34. On Wednesday, investigators interviewed Marriott in the 60200 block of La Mirada Trail, where he was then arrested for investigation of distribution of child porn, booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with his bail set at $25,000. Marriott’s family operates a licensed, in-home daycare, but investigators did not find any evidence that any of the children attending the daycare were victims.
Jan 25, 2021 9:32am Once a broad swath of the population has been vaccinated, which could take many months, testing volume will likely drop off sharply. However ongoing outbreaks may require increased testing, particularly in poorer communities of color, which have been hit hardest by the pandemic. (Getty Images)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under growing pressure to jump-start a faltering COVID-19 vaccine rollout, jetted to Los Angeles on Jan. 15 to unveil a massive new vaccination site at Dodger Stadium that is expected eventually to inoculate 12,000 people a day.
The city-run venue had been the biggest COVID-19 testing site in the U.S., administering over 1 million tests in its nearly eight months of operation and over 10,000 a day during the recent surge. Its redeployment to the cause of vaccination, Newsom declared, provides “an extraordinary world-class site for a world-class logistics operation.”
Vaccine ramp-up squeezes covid testing and tracing
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under growing pressure to jump-start a faltering covid-19 vaccine rollout, jetted to Los Angeles on Jan. 15 to unveil a massive new vaccination site at Dodger Stadium that is expected eventually to inoculate 12,000 people a day.
The city-run venue had been the biggest covid testing site in the U.S., administering over 1 million tests in its nearly eight months of operation and over 10,000 a day during the recent surge. Its redeployment to the cause of vaccination, Newsom declared, provides an extraordinary world-class site for a world-class logistics operation.
That effort came with a trade-off: When the city of Los Angeles ended covid tests at Dodger Stadium and closed another testing site to help staff the new vaccination center, it removed, at least temporarily, about one-third of all government-run testing in Los Angeles County the nation s largest county, with a population of 10 million, an
California's ability to multitask is being tested as health officials scramble to find staff for vaccination sites while maintaining testing and contact tracing.