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Thursday: Governor Gavin Newsom announced an agreement that would more than double the state’s capacity and criticize federal guidelines.
By Jill Cowan
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On Wednesday, California officials pressed the market in the country’s most populous state, delivering an agreement they said would more than double the state’s coronavirus capacity, particularly by cutting costs.
“We’re moving in a different direction to disrupt the market,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said. “We are advancing this partnership as only California can with our purchasing force and the amount of other people we have.”
[Follow each and every coronavirus case in California through the county].
In addition to the more than 100,000 tests conducted on average on state day, the new lab and chain of controlled sources through The Massachusetts-based diagnostic company PerkinElmer will allow another 150,000 tests consistent with the day, with a response time of no more than two days, consistent with allowing public fitness officials to act temporarily to identify outbreaks.
This speed and ability, officials said, will be essential to reopen schools and businesses safely. Newsom said it would reveal the updated reopening rules on Friday.
[Read more about the top radical setback in the state’s reopening efforts in mid-July].
The lab will develop from this fall, a time when experts fear that a wave of coronavirus cases will coincide with the flu season, creating what Newsom described as a type of “twindemic” breathing.
He said the perkinElmer agreement would allow california fitness care staff to control influenza and coronavirus at no additional cost.
The announcement comes shortly after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention silently reviewed their testing rules to exclude others who don’t have Covid-19 symptoms, even if they’ve been exposed.
Public fitness experts, who attribute much of the virus to inflamed but asymptomatic people, have described the replacement of the directive as alarming and dangerous.
California was the first state to present evidence for others without symptoms, and officials expressed a desire for widespread testing, especially in populations that were disproportionately affected by the virus, such as California Latinos doing essential work.
[Find out why some experts have said the attention of Central Valley staff is falling behind].
But in mid-July, the state had to adjust its rules to be stricter, as the state faced increasing cases and a national shortage of check supplies.
On Wednesday, Newsom categorically rejected the C.D.C. and placed the new check program as a type of reaction to inadequate federal assistance.
“That’s exactly what the federal government is doing,” he said. “If I had noticed that the federal government did that, it would have stored taxpayers billions of dollars.”
[Is California doing enough testing? Here’s what to look for.]
State officials said the average cost of a coronavirus check lately rises from $150 to $200. Once the new partnership is at full capacity, each check will charge as little as $31, the highest figure also includes parts such as workers’ body protective equipment, while Sacramento Bee reported that the decrease in value did not.
The availability of the tests varied significantly across the country and waiting times for the effects lasted for several weeks, so it is highly unlikely that contacts will be warned in time to involve propagation.
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On Wednesday, Newsom highlighted the historic scale of this year’s wildfires.
“If the weather doesn’t change, come to the state of California,” he said. “We’re going to show you.”
[Learn more about why targeted burns are a tool in fighting destructive wildfires].
In the most recent series of fires, he said, more than 15,000 firefighters were fighting fires that burned 1.3 million acres, and time became a challenge. On the last day, another 423 lightning movements began 50 new fires; Firefighters were able to eliminate them all.
Seven deaths were similar to fires, the governor warned that more can be found with the reopening of the neighborhoods. Similarly, the number of homes and buildings that have been destroyed, lately 1,690, is expected to increase, particularly once the government and citizens can better monitor the damage.
[Follow the California wildfires with the Times map].
Read more:
“2020 can go to hell.” In Berryessa Lake, citizens witnessed a pandemic and now the fires are ravaging their city. [The New York Times]
Further evacuations were ordered in Yolo County, the so-called L.N.U. Lightning Complex Fire kept burning. [The Bee of Sacramento]
State lawmakers have proposed a last-minute law that would raise fares, less than $1 per month, to application costs to fight wildfires. [CalMatters]
A Big Sur sanctuary for the condors of California has been destroyed by fire. [The San Francisco Chronicle]
With the deadlines coming, state legislators are only looking for a short-term solution to the state’s deportation crisis. No one’s satisfied with that. [The San Francisco Chronicle]
First, the Milwaukee Bucks said they would play in a playoff game opposed to the Orlando Magic to protest Jacob Blake’s shooting through police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Then, other NBA athletes, WNBA, Major League Baseball and other leagues said they would play in either. [The New York Times]
Follow the updates of the occasion here. [The New York Times]
A sailor is investigated for arson in a chimney in July that engulfed a warship in San Diego and took four days to go extinct. The Pentagon declined to answer questions about the investigation. [The New York Times]
It’s hot and it’s dry. You’ll need to plant succulent plants. And if you step ahead of me in this, here are some tips not to kill them. [The New York Times]
As we move towards the elections, great attention has been paid to voting mechanisms during a pandemic.
LeBron James of Los Angeles Lakers, head of an athletes’ organization that recently introduced a multimillion-dollar effort to recruit more and more young election officials into black constituencies; many election officials are older and by interacting with many others it would likely put them at risk of getting Covid-19.
James teamed up with the Dodgers to make Dodger Stadium a polling station.
California officials need to do everything they can to facilitate mail voting.
But recently, considerations about the U.S. Postal Service have raised considerations as to whether a newsletter deposited in a mailbox will succeed at its destination.
For example, the post office minister said he would suspend cost-cutting measures until after the election after a protest, California election officials created this mail survey follow-up to appease voters’ minds. He will tell you when it was mailed, won and his survey was counted, the site says.
And again, if you have to be sure you’re registered to vote, you can do it here.
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Jill Cowan grew up in Orange County, went to school in U.S.C.Berkeley and has reported throughout the state, adding the Bay Area, Bakersfield and Los Angeles, but is yet to see more. Follow us here or on Twitter, @jillcowan.
California Today was edited through Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from U.S. C. Berkeley.
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