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- Written by: Kacey Sycamore
The city of Santa Rosa says it’s following guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to protect people experiencing homelessness amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Steps taken so far according to an update on the city website include relocating some shelter residents to a hotel, conducting educational outreach and adhering to guidance not to disperse encampments.
The city on March 22 relocated 45 residents from the Samuel Jones Homeless Shelter to the Sandman Hotel in Santa Rosa. This move was to ensure that the shelter could maintain six feet of distance between bunk beds.
(Image: Downtown Santa Rosa / Credit: Wulfnoth of English Wikipedia)
The Homeless Outreach Services Team (HOST) and patrol officers with the Santa Rosa Police Department are also reaching out to people experiencing homelessness to educate about the importance of social distancing and good hygiene practices.
The city says it will not disperse encampments during the pandemic because this can cause people to move through the community and potentially increase the spread of the virus.
In addition, the city update says progress is being made to have all cities in Sonoma County merge with a Sonoma County Emergency Operation effort to implement $150 million in state funding to protect homeless Californians from COVID-19. This effort includes additional shelter support and emergency housing, portable toilets and hand-washing stations and services to support people experiencing homelessness.
- Written by: Kacey Sycamore
By Judy Lin, Ben Christopher and Matt Levin, CalMatters
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued dire warnings Friday that the nation’s second-largest city is headed for the same surge in COVID-19 cases as New York City after a 26% increase in California deaths overnight.
The announcement came as President Trump signed a federal stimulus package that will pump billions of dollars into the state’s flailing economy and offer a lifeline for an unprecedented public health response to the pandemic.
California reported 78 deaths, up 26% from Thursday, with 3,801 positive cases of the coronavirus. While nearly 90,000 tests have been performed, Newsom said, tens of thousands of results have yet to come back.
Still, if those trends hold, Garcetti said, Los Angeles County will soon have an overwhelming caseload, similar to New York City’s on a per-capita basis.
(Image: California Gov. Gavin Newsom updates the state's response to the coronavirus, at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova Calif., Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - Rich Pedroncelli, Pool / AP Photo)
“Whether it’s one week or two weeks, as I’ve been sharing, we will be where they are,” Garcetti said. “We’ll have doctors making excruciating decisions. We’ll be trying to figure out what we do with that surge, how to get ventilators, where to find beds.”
Newsom added: “Every minute is a minute lost.”
California, which was the first state to issue a shelter-in-place order, continues to ramp up medical facilities in anticipation of a surge in coronavirus patients in the coming weeks. Newsom initially said the state would need an extra 20,000 hospital beds, but he increased the estimate to 50,000 in recent days in response to the growing epidemic. On Friday, the governor joined Garcetti in visiting the U.S. Navy’s Mercy hospital ship, which was brought to San Pedro to relieve Los Angeles area hospitals of non-coronavirus patients.
The federal government’s $2.2 trillion package includes checks of as much as $1,200 to individuals earning up to $75,000, with smaller checks for those making up to $99,000. It also extends nearly $900 billion in loans and other financial assistance to businesses, both small and big, sends $150 billion in aid to hospitals, clinics and labs and dramatically expands unemployment insurance payments for recently unemployed Americans, including gig-workers and freelancers.
California can expect to receive a significant portion of that aid. Of $150 billion that will be sent directly to state, local and tribal governments, California is due to receive $15.3 billion to plug budget shortfalls, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The state can expect billions more for Medi-Cal, its Medicaid health care program for the poor, plus an infusion into the state’s unemployment insurance fund.
The bill also includes new emergency funding for existing programs in the state. That includes hundreds of millions of dollars for housing, homelessness and childcare and tens of millions for law enforcement and election assistance.
That’s likely to help paper over at least part of the gaping hole the pandemic is certain to blow in the state budget. But Newsom has already said he’ll need more.
“State and local governments will need additional and flexible funding to ensure they can continue responding to this crisis and continue critical services,” the governor said in a press release after the bill passed the House.
Also on Friday, Los Angeles County also ramped up efforts to keep people indoors by ordering beaches and hiking trails to close through April 19. County supervisors said the volume of people who opted to stroll on the sand or walk the trails was unacceptable, given the need to practice social distancing in a nationwide effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
And Newsom issued what he described as a new statewide moratorium on evictions for renters affected by the pandemic.
With unemployment claims topping 1 million in less than two weeks and the state bracing for a downturn worse than the Great Recession, Newsom released an executive order that gives tenants 60 days to respond to an eviction lawsuit if they can document that their missed rent was due to the coronavirus crisis. The governor said his order is intended to provide basic protection for renters and allows more stringent local protections to stand.
Renter groups and some Democratic lawmakers were disappointed by the limited action in the middle of a statewide mandate that residents remain at home. They said Newsom’s directive fails to protect renters evicted for other reasons, still allowing landlords to pursue evictions next month and those renters to be locked out as soon as the emergency is lifted.
“It does very little to protect tenants against evictions, and I think essentially just kicks the can down the road for some folks,” said Sasha Harnden, a lawyer with the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
CalMatters reporter Rachel Becker contributed to this report.
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- Written by: Kacey Sycamore
On March 17, Sonoma County’s health officer issued an order for all residents to shelter in place to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The order directs all people to stay at home except for essential activities like getting groceries or going to the doctor.
For older adults and other vulnerable populations, like those with existing health conditions, it’s especially important to protect yourself. You can do this by maintaining social distance (avoid group settings and keep at least six feet away from others when you venture out) and practicing good hygiene.
(Image: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexandria Lee)
Here are some resources for seniors and other groups throughout the county who may need help safely getting meals, filling prescriptions and receiving other types of care.
Information and Referral Phone Lines
Area Agency on Aging Information and Assistance Line, (707) 565-INFO (4636) or email:
Information & Referral service for Sonoma County, Dial 2-1-1 or type your zip code to 898-211 to talk/text with a call taker 24/7. You can also text “COVID19” to 211211 for pre-recorded information and resources.
Grocery Stores Offering Delivery, Pickup or Senior Hours
Grocery stores offering delivery, pickup or senior hours include Albertson’s, Arena Market & Cafe, Costco, Gualala Supermarket, Molsberry Market, Oliver’s Market, Petaluma Market, Pacific Market, Penngrove Market, Raley’s, Safeway, Sonoma County Farm Trails, Sonoma Market, Target, Vintage Home Delivers, Walmart, and Whole Foods.
Meal Services
Senior Dining Sites and Nutrition Programs
Coastal Seniors: (707) 882-2137, www.coastalseniors.org
Gualala Community Center: Closed. No dining.
Point Arena Site: Meal pick-up only Mon. Tues. and Wed. Home delivery available for seniors and adults with disabilities who cannot get to pick up site. Must call by 4:00 pm the day before to order a meal. Home Delivered Meals are on Mondays (hot meal and frozen for Tues.) and Wednesdays (hot meal and 4 frozen meals). Food bank is open the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 8:30 to 10:30am). Deliveries on Tuesday and Thursday. Preparing to change to offering five-day frozen pack
Council on Aging: (707) 525-0143 All Dining Sites are closed. Clients have the option of 5-day meal pick-ups at locations on dates below. The senior must call by 10 a.m. the day before pick up in order to receive a meal pack. Clients must be age 60+. Those who are NOT a current lunch program clients must complete an intake form. Anyone 60 and older can pick up a 5-day frozen meal pack on the following dates:
- Cloverdale Senior Center Tuesday, March 31, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Rohnert Park Senior Center Wednesday, April 1, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Santa Rosa – Council on Aging (Pick up/Drive through), Thursday, April 2, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Sebastopol Senior Center Wednesday, April 1, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
- Healdsburg takeaway meals only
- West County Community Center Frozen food packs to go only
Petaluma People Services Center (707) 765-8488, www.petalumapeople.org
RSVP to pick up a meal and/or let staff know when meal is picked up that another meal will be needed the next day. Meal pick up between 12:30-1:30 PM at 211 Novak Street, Petaluma. Call if unable to pick up meal.
Meals on Wheels Home Delivery
Daily deliveries Monday through Friday and frozen meals available for the weekends. May reduce the number of meal deliveries and provide frozen and shelf-stable pack-ups if drivers become unavailable. Coastal Seniors, (707) 882-2137, www.coastalseniors.org
Council on Aging, (707) 525-0143, www.councilonaging.com Clients outside Santa Rosa receive a 5-day meal pack and one delivery per week. No change for Santa Rosa clients: daily deliveries Monday – Friday, and frozen meals available for weekends. Will transition to one weekly delivery with multiple meals to reduce the risk of transmission.
Pharmacy Drive-up Windows and Delivery
Pharmacies offering drive-up windows and delivery include Cloverdale Pharmacy, CVS, Forestville Pharmacy, Kaiser Permanente, Lark Rexall Drugs, Petaluma People Services Center, Sebastopol Family Pharmacy, Tuttle’s Pharmacy, and Walgreens.
Well-being, Emotional Support
Catholic Charities – I’m Home Alone Program, (707) 528-8712 Seniors can stay in touch with daily phone calls by trained volunteers.
Cloverdale Senior Center Connect Program (707) 894-4826 Staff are available 8:30-4 p.m. to talk and provide support to seniors. Volunteers are available to deliver groceries and prescriptions. Food distribution is offered for seniors 60+ 2nd and 4th Thursday 12:30-1:30pm (stay in your car and staff delivers food).
Council on Aging, (707) 525-0143 https://www.councilonaging.com/in-the-news Services available by phone:
- Case Management: phone for new clients; check-ins for existing clients
- Mental Health Services
- Elder Advocacy at the Family Justice Center
- Adult Day Programs are closed
- Senior Care Coordination – Home visits limited to emergencies only
Petaluma People Services Center, (707) 765-8488 You Are Not Alone, weekly check-in calls for those age 60 and older or with a compromised immune system. Offered countywide. Call (707) 765-8488 or submit a referral to
- Adult Day Program (Currently Closed)
- Case Management (Accepting Referrals)
- Family Caregiver Support Program (Exploring Online Resource)
Rohnert Park Senior Center Offering wellness phone checks to any senior who would like to be called during the shelter-in-place order. Contact Cindy Bagley, (707) 588-3452 or
Institute on Aging Friendship Line, (800) 971-0016
- https://www.ioaging.org/services 24-hour toll-free hotline for ages 60+ and adults living with disabilities. Can arrange on-going outreach calls to lonely older adults.
National Disaster Distress Helpline
- Toll-Free: 1-800-985-5990 (English and español)
- SMS: Text TalkWithUs to 66746
- SMS (español): “Hablanos” al 66746
- TTY: 1-800-846-8517
Mental Health Association of San Francisco – (855) 845-7415 www.mentalhealthsf.org
A California Peer-Run warmline 24/7
General information for seniors in the time of Covid-19 from AARP: https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/coronavirus-facts.html
The Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness has collected an extensive group of resources: https://www.endsocialisolation.org/covid19
Transportation – Volunteer Driver Programs
Most programs suspended. Travel vouchers only to riders with urgent medical appointments or critical medical needs, such as dialysis or chemotherapy, through these providers:
Sonoma Senior ACCESS, https://www.sonomasenioraccess.org Bringing together public, private and non-profit transportation options to get you where you need to go.
Catholic Charities, (707) 528-2063, https://www.srcharities.org/get-help/
Cloverdale Senior Center Connect Program, (707) 894-4826 Volunteers are available to deliver groceries and prescriptions.
Coastal Seniors, (707) 882-2137 Two buses are providing local transportation for medical appointments and essential errands as well as transportation to Santa Rosa, Fort Bragg and Ukiah for medical appointments.
Healdsburg DASH, (707) 431-3159 Operating with city staff drivers only. Essential medical appointments only. Will not transport actively ill people.
iRIDE – Petaluma People Services Center, (707) 765-8488, petalumapeople.org/seniors/transportation Essential medical appointments, grocery store and bank rides only. Drivers can pick up pre-paid grocery orders and deliver to seniors. PPSC also has partnerships with health centers to pick up prescriptions and deliver to senior clients.
Sebastopol Area Senior Center, (707) 829-2440, sebastopolseniorcenter.org/transportation Providing transportation to medical appointments.
Vintage House Senior Center, (707) 996-0311 Providing vouchers to pay for Uber to provide transport to urgent medical appointments as needed.
Vintage House Delivers, Sonoma area, https://vintagehouse.org/vintage-house-delivers Complete online application for grocery and prescription delivery.
West County Community Center, (707) 823-1640, www.westcountyservices.org/need-a-ride/ Russian River Feeder Shuttle. Rides to medical appointments only.
Windsor Wheels, (860) 285-1992
Veteran Services
Sonoma County Veterans Services Office, (707) 565-5060 Veteran Service Specialists will provide remote services via telephone or email, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Call (707) 565-5060, and press 8 to leave voicemail, or email
More information can be found on the Sonoma County website.
- Written by: Kacey Sycamore
By Rachel Becker, CalMatters
As California officials desperately try to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Chris Miller is coaxing a sample of the virus to grow in a secure laboratory at UC Davis.
Working in a laboratory nestled inside containment rooms and cut off from the world by filters, scientists dressed in space suit-like protective gear are feeding cells to a virus isolated from a COVID-19 patient at UC Davis Medical Center.
The goal is to create a supply of viral genetic material to help the clinical pathology team develop new tests. Without these viral samples to provide an unequivocally positive result, researchers can’t tell if a test is truly working.
(Image: Katie Zegarski, supervising clinical lab scientist with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UC Davis Health, works next to the instrument used for testing patient samples for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Photo courtesy of UC Davis.)
It’s a new mission for Miller, who, until about two weeks ago, was studying HIV and working to develop a pandemic flu vaccine. “Flu, at the time, seemed like the virus that was going to kill us all and was going to be the big pandemic,” Miller said. “But it seems like coronavirus has other plans.”
Miller’s flu research meant he had the right facilities to join the fight against the novel coronavirus when Nam Tran, professor and senior director of clinical pathology at UC Davis, recruited him.
“When I got the call, my reaction was, ‘Drop everything,’” Miller said. “I’ve never been asked to directly contribute to an emerging health emergency that had to be addressed in days and weeks. And so I was just grateful that I had the expertise to be able to help the hospital.”
With California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order for Californians to shelter in place, university campuses across the state began gauging the risk of letting research continue. And scientists are finding their work, plans and lives upended by the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Some, like Miller, are switching gears to fight the virus — but for others, research is grinding to a halt, including critical medical research. Still more are caught in limbo, waiting to find out if they can continue important studies without endangering themselves, or others.
William Ota, a second-year graduate student at UC Riverside, has put his research on ice — and hopes it stays frozen.
Ota studies a fish native to southern California called the Santa Ana sucker, including what eats it. That’s why he has 1,500 stomachs from invasive species of fish divided between a freezer in his lab, and a freezer at the Riverside Corona Resource Conservation District.
He’d planned to start dissecting the stomachs and looking for traces of the Santa Ana sucker in the contents last week. Now that the UC Riverside campus has shut down to all non-essential personnel, Ota will have to wait. At first, he worried that if power to the freezers went out, he wouldn’t be able to catch it. “Which is scary,” he said.
Now, he’s found out that the university will allow people on-site to check on equipment and do maintenance, he said — but he’s not allowed to start cutting into those fish stomachs. So even if the freezers stay on, and those stomachs survive unscathed, Ota worries that the delay will cost him time and money if his work stretches beyond the five years he has funding guaranteed.
“There’s no guarantee that if you fall beyond that five year period that you’re actually going to get any teaching money, any grants or support from the university,” Ota said. “That’s something that I know myself and other students in my program whom I’ve talked to are worried about.”
Lynn Sweet
, a plant ecologist and research specialist at UC Riverside, also is grappling with shutting down some research as she waits to hear what the agencies funding it still expect from her. “We don’t know how our funders will respond to this crisis. We don’t know the degree to which we’ll be given any leeway due to this. We have agreements we write, and deliverables that are due,” she said.
Sweet already has pressed pause on one study aimed at protecting stands of Joshua Trees from wildfires because it would have been conducted by volunteers through environmental non-profit EarthWatch. She was especially concerned about volunteers over age 65 who would be traveling to the park and living in close quarters. “As much as we want to get the research done, it’s not worth risking folks’ lives,” Sweet said.
Another project out in the Mojave desert is continuing, for now. From her home office hastily constructed in a closet, Sweet is supervising a four-person crew as they keep their distance from one another and survey desert tortoise habitat in a stretch of the Mojave owned by the Department of Defense.
(Image: UC Riverside / Wikimedia Commons)
The desert tortoise is a federally threatened species, and the goal is to find out how well its home and food sources are holding up to environmental disruption like climate change and off-road driving. The study is time-sensitive — scheduled to match data collected 20 years ago. “We don’t get good years to study plants all the time,” Sweet said. “If we miss this year, next year could be a drought … That’s why it’s really important.”
It’s not just environmental research that’s on hold; biomedical research that can’t be readily focused on the novel coronavirus is facing roadblocks, too.
Clarissa Araújo Borges, a postdoctoral scientist at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, is investigating new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant infections of the urinary tract and bloodstream. “Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest global public health challenges of our time. New drugs are urgently needed,” Araújo Borges said.
It’s important research for people who find themselves in the hospitals, fighting not only what landed them there, but what they picked up in the hospital itself.
Araújo Borges spins out a hypothetical scenario: “You’re hospitalized, and then you’re weak, and then you get a bloodstream infection there through a catheter,” she said. “Sometimes they’re resistant to drugs available and there is nothing to do.”
She found a promising candidate and tested it in a dish. The next step was to test it in mice — but when UC Berkeley closed its labs except for essential activities, Araújo Borges had to appeal to keep her research going. “If you have research that you’ve been doing for months, and then you have to stop and lose it, it’s terrible because it’s a lot of money and time.”
Still, she said, she agreed with the university taking preventative measures, and said that others who aren’t collecting salaries during the shutdown have it worse.“People losing jobs, like waiters, Ubers, restaurants, small businesses — it’s terrible,” she said.
After waiting a week, Araújo Borges finally heard back from the university: she could go back to work.
For UC San Francisco graduate student Johnny Yu, the novel coronavirus pandemic chased him out of the lab, and out of San Francisco entirely. This academic year, UCSF set graduate student stipends at $40,000, according to the university, which Yu said is too low to afford to live in San Francisco.
That’s why he lives in a van — a tiny space with a chemical toilet where he can’t envision quarantining if he got sick or weathering an extended shelter-in-place order. “It’s suitable for sleeping at night. But for a two-month lockdown, it would be pretty impossible,” Yu said. He fled instead to a rented yurt in Grass Valley with his wife, where they’re digging into savings to pay for their stay.
Yu studies how a cancer evolves from a primary tumor to become a metastatic tumor, and looks for potential treatments. “You can treat a primary tumor, you can remove a primary tumor, but if you have a metastatic tumor, it’s pretty much the end of the game,” Yu said.
He’s had to abruptly end his experiments as he prepares to stay away from the lab for the foreseeable future. “I can’t do any of the experiments I had,” Yu said. “We killed everything. We killed all the mice, we killed all the cells.”
He estimates that stopping now will set his experiments back six months — and as other cancer research grinds to a halt, the search for new treatments could be delayed even longer. “If we can’t find the cancer drugs and cancer targets, industry can’t take it and develop it into a drug,” he said. “At least a year, I think it will set back the entire field of cancer.”
Yu’s Ph.D. mentor, assistant professor Hani Goodarzi (who is not responsible for setting Yu’s salary), said the same story is true for many of Yu’s colleagues. Half of Goodarzi’s lab studies cancer progression from the lab bench, like Yu; the other half models cancer computationally.
The experimental researchers, Goodarzi said, are at a scientific standstill right now. “We actually shut down the lab a few days before UCSF shut down,” he said. “So we’re focused on writing papers, and grants, and added a journal club discussion via Zoom — to keep everyone engaged while they can’t be at the bench.”
With no ongoing lab research and no way to pivot to studying the novel coronavirus, Goodarzi did what he could to help with the fight. He gathered up all the gloves and surgical masks his team doesn’t need now and donated them to UCSF Health.
“I wish we could do more,” Goodarzi said. “We kind of feel useless, to be honest …The way that we can contribute is really just like everyone else, just by staying home.”
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