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![]() Palo Alto Unified managed to stave off closures this week by drafting nearly 800 parent volunteers on Thursday, an advocacy group called the San Francisco Parent Coalition announced that 58 parents and community members plan to apply as substitute teachers to help plug their district’s staff shortage. A Sutter County campus is closing today amid surging infection rates. 31 to August.Īlso shuttered: Schools in Alpine County, after the public health officer on Tuesday declared a local health emergency due to spiking COVID cases and low vaccination rates. We were told the vaccine was over 95 effective and especially seniors and those. Meanwhile, with nearly a third of kids 12 and older still not fully vaccinated, the district will likely delay enforcement of its student vaccine mandate from Jan. There is a possibility of another lockdown We’re apparently headed in whatever direction our leaders drag us. Nine Oakland schools canceled instruction Thursday after teachers held their second sickout in less than a week, and students are threatening their own sickout next week unless the district ramps up safety protocols. Schools are also struggling to stay open - and many could turn to remote learning in the next few weeks as staff shortages soar, Troy Flint of the California School Boards Association told Politico. ![]() The state health department projects that more than 70,000 Californians will be hospitalized at the end of January - a massive uptick from last winter’s peak of 54,000, CalMatters’ Kristen Hwang reports.Ĭarmela Coyle, CEO of the California Hospital Association: “We find ourselves on the precipice of the most challenging time to date for California’s health care system. They say the country as a whole doesn’t appear to. That was the Thursday assessment from the California Hospital Association, which warned the state’s hospitals - already on the verge of collapse - are expecting the number of COVID-positive patients to triple by the end of the month and the overall surge in admissions to last until the end of February. Experts say it’s unlikely there will be a second lockdown in the United States no matter how high COVID-19 cases climb this fall and winter. ![]() ![]() California is facing what could be its toughest months yet of the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]()
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