August 11, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: OC schools reopen for fall without alternate plans if COVID outbreaks hit
At Tuesday’s news conference, Chinsio-Kwong said county public health officials recently confirmed the county’s first COVID-induced psychosis case in a child. “Primarily we think it’s the inflammation of the brain that occurs,” officials said. “This is what we should all be concerned about.”
OC Register: Coronavirus: Orange County reported 640 new cases and two new deaths on Aug. 10
The data on deaths in the county is compiled from death certificates or gathered through the course of case investigations and can take weeks to process. The most recent death recorded was on July 30.
Voice of OC: Supervisors bury public COVID updates, shut down effort to have experts answer questions
At the direction of Chairman Andrew Do, OC is now the only major county in Southern California that is not providing public COVID updates at their public meetings, despite a 700% increase in local coronavirus hospitalizations since June when Do stopped the updates.
OC Register: Hospital, nursing home visitors will need proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test
Under the order from state Health Officer Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, anyone wanting to visit hospital patients or residents of nursing homes and some other care facilities must either show they’re fully vaccinated or provide results of a recent negative COVID-19 test.
Voice of OC: Should OC homeowners’ park taxes fund free police patrols for Newport Bay?
The Performance Audit Division report noted that the costs for Sheriff’s Harbor Patrol services were skyrocketing for contract users because of the enhanced pensions that county supervisors granted to Deputy Sheriffs around 2001.
Voice of OC: Laguna Beach City Council censures another colleague
On Tuesday night, City council members voted 3-2 to censure Weiss for disclosing “confidential information” from a June 29 closed session meeting regarding the renovation of Hotel Laguna. Weiss apparently gave information surrounding the renovation to a resident who is appealing elements of the project.
Voice of OC: Tustin to consider what to do with old Marine Corps Air Station
Tustin City Council members will today examine what to do with 85-acres of a former Marine Corps Air Station after decades of inaction on the site — which was slated to become a regional park.
Nation
CNN.COM: More than 98% of US residents live in an area with ‘high’ or ‘substantial’ risk of COVID-19 transmission
The latest figures from the CDC show an alarming rise in the number of counties that are considered at high risk of community transmission.
Publication Date: August 11, 2021
