Monthly Archives: July 2022

Covid 19, San Francisco Bay Area

Bay Area COVID cases are sky-high

Entire region at CDC’s high COVID risk level

Registered nurse Navneet Chouhan, left, with Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS), puts a bandage on Venus Basaee, 6, after she got the COVID-19vaccine as her mother Mojgan Deldari looks on during a school-base vaccine clinic at Nystrom Elementary Auditorium in Richmond on Nov. 9. RAY CHAVEZ — BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

Vallejo Times-Herald, By John Woolfolk, July 7, 2022

The entire Bay Area is at the high community risk level for COVID- 19 at which federal regulators recommend everyone wear face masks indoors as newer and more immunity-evasive versions of the omicron variant continue to spread across the country.

While infections remain well below the January peak driven by the initial omicron strains, they’re still at February’s elevated levels and show no signs of declining, Bay Area health officials said Tuesday.

“The pattern we’re seeing in our data does make me think a sustained surge is possible,” Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said. “Previous patterns were we went up and then down, but we went up and now we’re staying at a high plateau.” Continue reading Bay Area COVID cases are sky-high →

Benicia City Council, Kari Birdseye, karibirdseyeforbenicia.com, Local elections

Betty Lucas: She’s Got What It Takes

She’s Got What It Takes

Kari Birdseye for Benicia City Council

By Betty Lucas, Benicia resident, July 3, 2022

Betty Lucas, Benicia CA

As a Benicia newbie, moving to this wonderful city in 2019, I recall being shocked by the negative advertising filling my mailbox during the 2020 city council campaign. The tone of such a small-town election seemed to be the antithesis of living in such a welcoming community, where drivers downtown stop for you, even if you are not in a crosswalk.

I was later appalled to learn this negative advertising was from a Political Action Committee (PAC) most of its nearly $250,000 coming from Valero. The PAC seemed dedicated to attacking nominees they want to keep out of Benicia’s city council, and flooding our community with praise for the candidates they want.

Fast forward to 2022 and the same thing seems like it will happen again. Continue reading Betty Lucas: She’s Got What It Takes →