8-11: Coronavirus infections in kids; over 1000 new covid cases

✅ OC Coronavirus Case Counts Increasingly Unreliable, Experts Say Local Hospitals Are Most Reliable Benchmark

Voice of OC

…Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the state Department of Public Health, resigned over the weekend. Her resignation came shortly after state officials announced the data glitch and Newsom wouldn’t specify why she resigned….

✅ Global coronavirus cases top 20 million as Russia approves vaccine 

OC Reg

 

✅ Why did California’s top health official resign over the weekend? -- The abrupt departure of California’s top public health officer Sunday came as a shock to many local leaders at the front lines of the state’s pandemic response, who described Dr. Sonia Angell as helpful and hands-on but still somewhat of an enigma after less than a year on the job. Erin Allday in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 8/11/20

✅ Newsom indicates California health officer's abrupt departure related to test data problem -- Gov. Gavin Newsom took responsibility Monday for California's coronavirus test data problems and hinted that the abrupt departure late Sunday of his state public health officer was related to the information blunder.  Kevin Yamamura and Victoria Colliver Politico -- 8/11/20

 

✅ Coronavirus infections in kids: California sees alarming surge in cases in late July -- While COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths among children remain mercifully rare, the reported new cases among children suggest that they may be more susceptible to infection and capable of spreading the virus than previously thought. John Woolfolkin the San Jose Mercury$ Laura J. Nelson in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/11/20

 

✅ Does your coronavirus mask work? New study separates the worthy from the worthless -- That bandanna might make you look like a cool outlaw from an old Western movie but it’s largely ineffective in protecting you from the coronavirus, according to a new study. Aidin Vaziri in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 8/11/20

✅ California has spent $43 million suing the Trump administration. It’s paying off, officials say -- California has spent $43 million suing President Donald Trump’s administration over the past four years in a legal campaign that the state’s Democratic attorney general says has saved billions of dollars in funding the state would have lost had the White House carried out its policies. Andrew Sheeler and Kate Irby in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 8/10/20

 

✅ Federal Appeals Court: Title IX Protects Transgender Students

…The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit concluded that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the law prohibiting sex discrimination at federally funded institutions, also protects transgender students from discrimination based on their identity, said the court's Aug. 7 decision, written by Judge Beverly Martin….

Inside Higher Ed

 

✅ First They Came for Adjuncts, Now They’ll Come for Tenure

If college administrators take the current crisis as an opportunity to eliminate tenure once and for all, who’s going to stop them?

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