Saturday, October 3, 2020

10-3: Trump tardy on polar bears; Father Serra brutal on natives; Huntington Beach harebrained on Covid; weather hot on everybody


OC Residents Must Rely on Parents to Report Coronavirus School Cases, County Keeps Cases Secret 
—Voice of OC
     Reporting coronavirus cases in Orange County schools has fallen to parents after the county’s Health Care Agency has decided to keep cases a secret as waves of classrooms are reopening their doors. It didn’t take long for some cases to pop up after classrooms reopened. Cases of the virus have popped up on Irvine campuses less than a week after some school districts reopened classrooms, despite concerns from some teachers and parents on going back. 

—OC Reg 
     Capistrano Unified School District leaders are considering changing the name of one of the district’s oldest campuses, its continuation school, Junipero Serra High School. Serra, an 18th century Spanish priest, founded many of California’s Catholic missions, but as a Sept. 23 report to the school board said, descendants of the Mission Indians consider Serra and the institutions he guided to be “brutal and patriarchal” and “responsible for the suppression of native culture.” 

—OC Reg 

In Huntington Beach, mask debate continued, despite Trump’s COVID hospitalization -- This Orange County city became a national symbol of the fight against wearing masks earlier this year and was the scene of several protests by Trump supporters demanding that Gov. Gavin Newsom reopen the economy. Anh Do in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 10/3/20 

The coronavirus waiting game: It can take days for symptoms to appear, longer for severe illness -- It can take time for COVID-19 symptoms to worsen following exposure to the coronavirus. While most people only experience mild or no symptoms at all, it can take roughly a week or so before severe illness strikes for those who do end up experiencing life-threatening symptoms. Rong-Gong Lin in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 10/2/20  


What happens now that Gov. Newsom vetoed high school ethnic studies requirement? -- Ethnic studies supporters expressed disappointment after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required high schoolers to take the course, while work mandated by law to develop a model curriculum for it continues apace — as does the controversy around it. Nina Agrawal in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 10/2/20

Trump’s infection is part of an ominous national trend as cases increase in 33 states, hospitalizations rise Infectious-disease experts had hoped transmission could be driven to low levels before cold weather arrived. That hasn’t happened. 
—WashPo 

China is riveted by news of President Trump’s positive coronavirus test, even as senior officials remain reserved in their public comments. 
—WashPo 
 

     After stalling it for months, U.S. Geological Survey Director James Reilly released a study Friday that highlights polar bears’ vulnerability to climate change, saying he wanted to be "satisfied" with its underlying science before making it public. 
—WashPo 

The party chief “has been at her home in Michigan since last Saturday,” a spokesperson said. 
—Politico 

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