OCEA Media Brief
OCEA monitors local, state-wide and national news outlets to keep members up to date on the issues that impact working people. Media briefs are compiled and sent to members in a daily email blast. To receive OCEA media briefs, please register for an account.
January 11, 2021
Today: Coronavirus: 50 new deaths, 3,121 new cases in Orange County; Rep. Lou Correa reflects on DC Capital attack and airport confrontation, and judge pushes back over jail releases, prepares to appoint an expert.
January 8, 2021
Today: Coronavirus trends worsen as hospital staff are pushed to the limit; OC Sheriff faces questions in court about virus outbreak in the jails, and OC’s first safe parking program runs out of money.
January 7, 2021
Today: Santa Ana to consider funding their own testing, future vaccine distribution; Huntington Beach’s new council to step up virus and homeless aid efforts, and County jail virus outbreak explodes to over 1000 inmates.
January 6, 2021
Today: Protesters clash in downtown L.A., Trump rallies unfold in OC; Orange County is on a coronavirus case rate record-breaking streak, and high stakes election for coastal cities go public next week.
January 5, 2021
Today: Former OC sheriff Sandra Hutchens dies of cancer; OC’s poorest residents hit hardest by virus, and school districts return to distance learning due to COVID-19 surge.
January 4, 2021
Today: What can we learn from Orange County’s worst public sector COVID bosses? OC headed into what could be toughest month yet of Coronavirus pandemic and reflecting on Orange County’s resiliency in the year of the pandemic, protests, fires elections.
December 29, 2020
Today: Mental health challenges abound during pandemic for people most at risk; hospitals continue to see Coronavirus spike at virus hits north and central OC, and high unemployment rates in Orange County slowly dropping.
December 28, 2020
Today: COVID, lockdown, economy, and lack of health care causing mental health crisis; UC Irvine docs learn early detection of vulnerable COVID patients, and Fountain Valley Regional respiratory therapists at epicenter of COVID-19 battle are burning out.
December 23, 2020
Today: Coronavirus hits OC homeless shelters as hospitalizations continue to skyrocket; three developers, plus Orange County, looking at Willowick Golf Course land, and new Santa Ana mayor aims to improve pandemic response, housing affordability and police oversight.
December 22, 2020
Today: Some OC doctors worry they can’t get Coronavirus vaccine; OC Transportation Authority urges state to place transit workers in second vaccine tier, and city commissioners, often overlooked, but influential force.
