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On March 3, 2020, Placer County declared a public health emergency, following the confirmation of a second coronavirus case in that county. [ 128 ] On March 7, 2020, a family in Elk Grove contracted the virus and was quarantined [ 129 ] which led to the school district of Elk Grove decision to close down all schools until March 13.
On February 6, 57-year-old Patricia Dowd of San Jose, California became the first COVID-19 death in the United States discovered by April 2020. She died at home without any known recent foreign travel, after being unusually sick from flu in late January, then recovering, remote working, and suddenly dying on February 6.
Ten of the first 20 confirmed COVID-19 infections in the United States were detected in California, and the first infection was confirmed on January 26, 2020. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] All of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to China, as testing was restricted to this group, but there were some other people infected by ...
The state of emergency has been in effect for more than two years.
[1] [2] [3] There was a link between public health outcomes and partisanship between states. At the beginning of the pandemic to early June 2020, Democratic-led states had higher case rates than Republican-led states, while in the second half of 2020, Republican-led states saw higher case and death rates than states led by Democrats.
For the week that ended Saturday, the CDC estimated that KP.3.1.1 comprised 27.8% of coronavirus samples nationwide, an astonishing jump from its 7.2% share a month ago.
[110] He said later that he and his family contracted COVID-19 and that he developed pneumonia because of it, but he still does not believe that the state needs to be shut down. [111] On September 18, 2020, Reopen Maryland and Return2Learn Maryland Schools organized a protest march in downtown Annapolis urging the governor to reopen all ...
Even before the policy change, many people in California weren’t testing for Covid — or, if they did test positive, were returning to school or work once they felt better, said Dr. Peter Chin ...