August 12, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Vaccine verification spreading as OC COVID-19 cases keep increasing
Starting today, people looking to visit local hospitals and other health care settings — like retirement homes — will also have to prove they’re fully vaccinated or tested negative for the virus in the past 72 hours, according to a mandate from state Health Officer Tomás Aragón.
OC Register: OC hospitals, medical facilities hope to change minds of remaining unvaccinated employees in face of mandate
As coronavirus infections, propelled by the highly contagious delta variant, climb in Orange County and beyond, the push is on to get the remainder of California’s millions of health care workers fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
OC Register: In OC, reactions run the gamut to new vaccine mandate for teachers
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new order requiring teachers and employees to be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing was welcomed by many Orange County educators and parents as a necessary tool in protecting students – and lambasted by others as government overreach.
OC Register: Coronavirus: Vaccination and test positivity rates by zip code in OC as of Aug. 11
Case rates and testing positivity (which are both provided as the average over seven days, lagging for a week to give time for more complete data to be factored in) are updated each Tuesday, reflecting information up to the prior day for testing data, and same day for case data.
Daily Pilot: As climate change reaches ‘code red,’ Irvine becomes first city in O.C. to pledge carbon neutrality
With the Irvine City Council’s unanimous approval of an aggressive climate resolution on Tuesday night, it became the first city in Orange County and the third in the state to make a pledge of carbon neutrality.
Labor
OC Register: Southern California congressman Mark Takano proposes 32-hour work week
Takano recently introduced legislation that would create a 32-hour work week for most Americans. The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act would do this by lowering the threshold that triggers overtime pay from 40 hours to 32 hours under the federal Fair Labor Practices Act.
California
KTLA: California Supreme Court declines to consider limiting Gov. Newsom’s emergency powers
The justices unanimously denied the petition for review filed by Republican Assemblymen James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley, without giving an explanation beyond the one-line order.
National
Associated Press: Dozens exposed to COVID after Nevada parent knowingly sent infected child to school: District
Unvaccinated students sent home may return to school if they take COVID-19 tests after five days of quarantine and test negative and are free of symptoms, the district said. Fully vaccinated students may return to school if they are free of symptoms and bring their vaccination records for validation by a school nurse, the district said.
Publication Date: August 12, 2021
