Four other people have died of COVID-19 headaches in Tulare County and the county has added 324 new infections since Friday, public fitness officials said Monday.
Since the global pandemic hit Tulare County in March, 172 people have died and 8,534 have been infected, the health agency reported, according to the Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency (HHSA).
Last week, HHSA director Timothy Lutz said case rates remain “extremely high.” COVID-19 County’s last positivity rate is 11.7%, well above the California state’s 8% benchmark for reopening.
Lately there are 3669 active cases of COVID-19 in Tulare County, with 93 other people hospitalized, the fitness firm reported.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that he needs to allocate $52 million to the Central Valley to fight the accumulation of COVID-19 cases in that country. In some countries, the positivity rate of coronaviruses is more than double the overall rate of state.
The funds, which have not yet been approved through the legislature, would be used in the eight-county region for screening efforts, employee safety, assisting local physical care systems, and providing isolation and quarantine resources for other HIV-positive people who cannot. isolate at home.
The budget would come from a $500 million grant the state receives from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The spread of the virus does not occur uniformly in all regions of the state, Newsom said. “There are parts of the state, parts of the state, in certain sectors of our economy that are disproportionately affected by the transmission of this virus,” he said at a midday press conference.
While the statewide positivity rate of coronavirus over the past week is about 7.5%, the rate is higher throughout the valley. In Tulare County, it is 17%, according to recent state highs. On July 18, Tulare County fitness officials reported a rate of 11.3%.
The state has also created an executive organization that will focus exclusively on the spread of Central Valley coronavirus.
Lately, hospitals in the domain are overcrowded and extensive care sets are often filled with COVID-19 patients, said Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Last week, the region won five of the eight medical groups from the U.S. Department of Defense. To send a body of extensive care workers to local California hospitals. But officials say more resources are still needed.
Of the forty-five hospitals in the Central Valley, 64% asked the state to be flexible in terms of staff wishes because they had enough physical care personnel to fill all ICU-approved beds.
“We recognize that (more is needed), ” said Newsom. “That’s why the $52 million will be useful to the Central Valley.”
The California legislature recoiled Monday after delaying its return from the summer break due to the previous pandemic this month. Newsom expects the budget to be approved soon.
The sad news for Tulare County comes when the country is experiencing the fastest and steepest recession in history amid the pandemic, even though the U.S. economy began in May and June at a faster rate than analysts expected.
Economists largely allocate billions of dollars in federal assistance to customer spending, adding $1,200 stimulus checks, unemployment benefits for beneficiaries, and reimbursable federal loans to small businesses that have retained or rehired employees.
Recovering the rest of the lost floor will be a more complicated job.
Federal systems will expire unless Congress temporarily votes to enlarge them one way or another. Some companies, particularly in the retail sectors and, permanently fire workers. And amid peaks in coronavirus cases in much of the country, many states have ended at least some of the companies that had reopened.
The Department of Commerce’s report on second quarter economic expansion is expected to show the biggest drop (34%) U.S. Gross Domestic Product Registered. This is basically because the economy fell off a cliff in April.
Unemployment shot up to 14.7% in April 2020, highest since the Great Depression, before dropping to 11.1% by June as restaurants, retailers and other small businesses rehired workers. After losing 22 million jobs in March and April, the nation recouped 7.5 million in May and June.
The United States has more than 4.2 million cases shown and more than 145,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 16.2 million cases and nearly 650,900 deaths, according to the knowledge maintained through Johns Hopkins.
A USA TODAY investigation into Johns Hopkins’s knowledge through Sunday night shows that thirteen states set weekly records for new cases, while seven states had a record number of deaths consistent with the week. New case records have been established in Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A record number of deaths have been reported in Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi, Nevada, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas.
In Louisiana, new cases of compatible coronavirus per week increased to 15868, nearly 45% more than the worst week in the state in the spring.
Moderna said it has begun dosing participants in the Phase 3 study of its mRNA vaccine candidate against COVID-19. Moderna is one of several companies around the world in the final stages of producing a vaccine, although none have yet proven effective among a large population. Several vaccines made by China and by Britain’s Oxford University earlier this month began smaller, final-stage tests in Brazil and around the world.
Modern said vaccination took place in Savannah, Georgia, the first site to begin among more than seven dozen checkpoints across the country.
“We are pleased to have started the Phase 3 COVE (Coronavirus Efficacy) study,” Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said. “We look forward to this trial demonstrating the potential of our vaccine to prevent COVID-19 so that we can defeat this pandemic.”
USA TODAY and AP contributed to this report.