
gynecologist charged with sexual assault. The University of California system agreed to pay $73 million to more than 5,500 women who were patients of a former U.C.L.A. More California elections have been called: The Republican Young Kim narrowly defeated Representative Gil Cisneros, flipping a second Orange County seat. “Politics plays a role.” In 2019, hate crimes in the United States rose to their highest level in more than a decade. Still, big changes are coming, as President-elect Joe Biden works to roll back Trump administration immigration policies. The incoming administration is intent on keeping the Department of Homeland Security, which has been bent to President Trump’s will. But they could also usher in more invasive forms of surveillance. Wearable trackers are the next phase of early Covid detection. The case rates suggest it’s working to keep spread low among the ranks. But the fundamentals of discipline are the same. īasic training for Marine recruits looks different during Covid. Ĭalifornia’s new guidelines have left Bay Area health officials scrambling to decide what to do about college football games scheduled for this weekend. Over the weekend, reports of empty shelves prompted grocers to reinstate limits on buying items like hand soap and toilet paper. Īnd read about Jason Kinney, the political operative whose birthday it was. Ĭatch up on the French Laundry birthday party the governor attended. The governor wasn’t the only California lawmaker not leading by example: An unknown number of legislators went to an annual summit in Maui even as the state announced travel advisories and restrictions. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox.)ĭoctors and nurses are burning out and calling it quits under the prolonged stress of the pandemic. (This article is part of the California Today newsletter.

“Whether or not it’s enough, I guess we’ll see.” “This strikes me as a reasonable set of actions, particularly with Thanksgiving coming up,” Dr. Bob Wachter, a professor and chair of the University of California, San Francisco’s department of medicine, told me on Monday that the moves by the state seemed prudent in light of rising case numbers. “I expect more from myself and you have that commitment in my resolve.”ĭr. “You own the mistake and you don’t ever make it again,” he said. The gathering did not technically violate the state’s rules, because there is no formal limit on the number of households at each outdoor restaurant table, but as critics noted, the governor’s attendance undermined the spirit of restrictions. Newsom attended an outdoor dinner for one of his political advisers at the French Laundry, the famed Napa Valley destination, with guests from several households. Much of the recent rise in cases, state officials say, appears to have grown from at-home parties or family gatherings.īut in what is likely to be remembered as one of the governor’s more damaging - not to mention embarrassing - episodes of the pandemic, The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Mr. Newsom, have told residents not to gather with people from outside their households, and to resist visiting relatives over the holidays. In Los Angeles County, which has struggled for months with higher case numbers, officials stopped short of ordering additional closures, but urged residents to behave more cautiously. The increases, the governor said, cross age and racial or ethnic groups and appear throughout the state. Newsom said that California’s daily case numbers had doubled in the last 10 days, the fastest increase the state had seen since the beginning of the pandemic. While the dire outlook across the rest of the country has perhaps made California look almost stable by comparison, Mr. New Mexico is under a two-week lockdown, and North Dakota has imposed a mask mandate. On Monday, a sweeping stay-at-home advisory went into effect in Chicago.

One million cases were recorded in the country over the past week alone.ĭaily case reports are rising in 48 states, and with little action from the Trump administration, governors and mayors across the country are taking new steps to try to halt the spread. The announcement came as the United States reported its 11 millionth confirmed case on Sunday, with a recent average of 150,000 new cases a day, and will probably reach 250,000 total deaths sometime this week. The state is also looking into a possible curfew and will adjust restriction levels more frequently than has been the case.
