The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, July 29, 2020

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Survey details students’ anxieties BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer

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Diners hit the asphalt on G Street in downtown Davis on June 27, as restaurants expand into the closed roadway for the weekend to try to serve more customers safely during the coronavirus pandemic.

How did we get here? Businesses struggle as cases surge BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

the first time the county's test positivity rate — the percentage of all tests that come back positive for COVID-19 — topped 10 percent on the county's online dashboard. All told, 1,446 county residents have tested positive for the disease; 122 have been hospitalized; and 39 have died. In just the last two weeks, 423 have tested positive, 30 have been hospitalized and 10 have died. Meanwhile, businesses in Davis continue to struggle, with many having been forced to

Enterprise staff writer Nearly every day for five months now, Yolo County has released a new batch of numbers indicating just where things stand in the battle to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. On Tuesday, two of those numbers were historic. And not in a good way. For the first time ever, the county had more than 20 residents hospitalized with COVID-19 on a single day. Twenty-three, in fact. Also for

shut down again recently in response to those rising case numbers. Without another round of federal aid for small businesses, many may be shutting down permanently by fall. How did things reach this point? It was, after all, just two months ago, in late May, that Yolo County Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland declared the county “open for business.” From mid April into late May, the county’s coronavirus numbers had fallen and remained low, even as testing had increased. The county had successfully flattened the curve, officials said, by staying home,

wearing face coverings and avoiding gatherings. Following the state’s lead, Yolo County in late May gave the green light to hair salons, churches, restaurants and nonessential retailers to finally reopen for business after having been closed for 11 weeks during the shelter in place. After more than two months of not being able to dine inside a restaurant, get a haircut or attend religious services, county residents entered the month of June allowed to do all of the above. Less than two weeks later, gyms and bars had

SEE STRUGGLE, PAGE A3

More COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations in Yolo County BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer COVID-19 brought more misery to Yolo County on Tuesday, including two deaths and multiple hospitalizations. The deaths came in West Sacramento and Woodland, including one individual at Woodland Residential Services, a program for the developmentally disabled where an outbreak has taken four lives. To date the county has lost 39 residents to the novel coronavirus, including 10 in the last two weeks. The county has also seen an increase in hospitalizations, including more than 30 in

the last 14 days. A total of 23 county residents were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Tuesday, the most on a single day since the pandemic began. The county now fails to meet either of the two epidemiological stability criteria on its attestation — the total number of new cases in the last 14 days and having no more than 20 total confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized on any single day in the last 14 days. Meanwhile, the test positivity rate — the percentage of COVID-19 tests that came back positive during the first seven days of the last two-week period — increased to 10.52 percent on Tuesday, up from 7.49

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As fall term approaches, college students in California are experiencing a high rate of financial instability, coupled with great uncertainty about their future plans. A new survey, which was conducted in May and whose results were published last week, sheds light on how California college students have been impacted by the COVID19 pandemic and what their plans are for the coming year. The “Covid-19 Student Survey” was conducted by the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) in partnership with the UC Davis School of Education’s California Education Lab. Roughly 60,000 currently enrolled college students and 16,000 high school seniors completed the survey, which was emailed to a random sample of students statewide who submitted financial aid applications to CSAC for intended college enrollment in the coming year. “Many of the 76,000 student respondents expressed great concern about what the future holds. They

SEE SURVEY, PAGE A3

Suspect in visa fraud case makes court appearance BY CALEB HAMPTON

percent the week before. Testing delays and struggles with contact tracing also continue to hamper the spread of the virus. In many cases, people are reporting waits of two weeks or more for their test results, which makes it difficult for contact tracers and investigators to do their job before the virus spreads further. Despite more than 400 county residents having received positive test results in the last two weeks, just 53 people were in isolation on Monday because they’d tested positive. Another 79 people were in quarantine

Juan Tang, 37, a Chinese national who was recently a visiting cancer researcher at UC TANG Davis, made her first In custody appearance in federal court on Monday, appearing by video. Tang, who was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on July 24, is charged with visa fraud and has

SEE YOLO, PAGE A3

SEE VISA, PAGE A3

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