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COVID and beyond The Enterprise’s top stories of 2021
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movie premieres and even a Super Bowl. But it always seemed like the virus was merely paused, or slowed, and gathering for the next blow. So as we look ahead to 2022, with the omicron variant already starting to wreak havoc, here's one last look back at the big news of 2021, as selected by Davis Enterprise journalists:
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fter 2020, we thought we were ready for anything 2021 might throw at us. But the ensuing 12 months proved to more challenging and unpredictable than we could have possibly anticipated. Locally, nationally and worldwide, all walks of life were overshadowed by the inescapable reality of the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the constant tragedies that hardly left a family not mourning the loss of a loved one, the economy, jobs, travel, education, cultural life and sports were all derailed or massively curtailed by the ongoing health disaster. Despite that, there were other bits of news, good and bad, as people tried to put their heads down and forge ahead. Between waves and variants, we managed Anne Ternu to have graduas-Bella my/Ente tion ceremonies, rprise fi le
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Davis High graduates, above, toss their hats in the air to celebrate their long, strange journey through the school system in June. At left, Jessica DeZarn, a UC Davis nurse, pulls individual doses from a vial of COVID-19 vaccine during a clinic at Woodland Community College in April.
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The coronavirus pandemic was the salient fact of 2021,
impacting almost every facet of life all around the country, and Yolo County was no exception. Local health officials, from County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson on down, had to juggle a constant change in variants, test statistics, positivity
rates, new vaccines and newer variants to determine how best to keep the public safe. All the while, local businesses — restaurants, gyms, hair salons and stores, for example — along
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Sac City ready for spring semester Omicron fueling rise
in Davis virus cases
By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer Although UC Davis is a premier educational institute, it’s not the only one in town. As viable as it is affordable, The Sacramento City College Davis Center is gearing up for the spring semester with a variety of classes, programs and opportunities for its student body. Located in the UCD West Village, this two-year college endured the COVID-related hardships alongside every other school and college in the country. In the wake of the pandemic’s initial impact, however, Dean Andrea Gaytan is excited to see things on campus return to relative normalcy.
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Sacramento City College in West Village. “We’ve returned to inperson classes and I’m excited seeing students and faculty back on campus. We still have a lot of classes I’d like to see in full-force in making our return to the
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The Omicron variant was responsible for nearly 80 percent of new cases of COVID-19 processed by the UC Davis Genome Center during the week before Christmas. Omicron cases jumped from 46 detected during the week of Dec. 12-18 to 220 found during the week of Dec. 19-25. The Genome Center is sequencing all positive test results collected by Healthy Davis Together and reports all variants found on the HDT website. An update posted
Thursday morning showed 57 cases of the Delta variant were found during the week of Dec. 19-25 along with the 220 Omicron variant cases. The total new cases last week were the most reported by the UC Davis Genome Center since mid August. Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson said Wednesday that nearly all new cases of COVID-19 in Yolo County are now caused by Omicron. The county, meanwhile, has reported 517 new COVID-19 cases over the
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