The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, January 12, 2022

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2022

Newsom presents 2022 budget

County sees widest spread of COVID-19 By Anne Ternus-Bellamy

By Alexei Koseff

Enterprise staff writer

CalMatters It’s been a tumultuous few years in California, with record wildfire seasons, a worsening drought and a wave of smash-andgrab retail theft amid a coronavirus pandemic that just won’t seem to end. But when it comes to the state’s finances, things are looking up. Way up. Tens of billions of dollars up. On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a $286.4 billion budget proposal, 9% bigger than last year’s record state-spending plan. Buoyed by a strong economic recovery and tax revenues that continue to roll in even higher than anticipated, his administration projects a $21 billion discretionary surplus for 2022-23, plus tens of billions more in extra cash for schools, pension payments and reserve accounts. As he enters a reelection

There is a silver lining, however: “Hospitalizations have not increased as much as cases have increased,” said Sisson.

Yolo County saw its worst four-day stretch of the pandemic so far with 1,853 new cases of COVID-19 reported since Friday. The city of Davis, where residents test at a higher rate than elsewhere in the county, accounted for more than 45 percent of those cases, with 851. West Sacramento reported 382 new cases over that four-day period, followed by Woodland with 358. The city of Winters has had 27 new cases since Friday and unincorporated areas of the county reported 232. “Unfortunately, 2022 is off to an inauspicious start with COVID-19,” Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson said Tuesday. “Yolo County’s case rate,” she said, “has reached an unprecedented high of 90 cases per 100,000 residents per day and is still climbing. “In fact,” Sisson said, “today’s number is 110.” By comparison, the highest case rate previously seen in Yolo County during the pandemic was 66 back in January of 2021. The current case rate among the vaccinated is 87.9 per 100,000 residents and for the unvaccinated the rate is 269.4. In the city of Davis, cases since Friday were highest among the college-age population of 18- to 24-year-olds, with 475 new cases reported. According to the UC Davis COVID-19 dashboard, 1,230 students

See HOSPITALS, Page A2

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Gov. Gavin Newsom addressed the media during a press conference in Sacramento on Jan. 10, where he unveiled his budget proposal for 2022-23. campaign, Newsom is taking advantage of California’s unprecedented fiscal health to shift into crisis management mode. At a nearly three-hour press conference, he emphasized an agenda tackling what he characterized as the “greatest existential threats” facing the state — COVID19, climate change and homelessness among them

— while also sprinkling in some priorities, including an expansion of health care for undocumented immigrants, long sought by liberal supporters. “This proposal will be considered in light of the challenges today, and we will back in light of the challenges that present themselves tomorrow,” Newsom said.

The governor’s framework is just the opening bid in negotiations with the Legislature, which must pass a budget by June 15 in order to get paid — though the details are not worked out until well into the summer some years. A final deal could look significantly different from Newsom’s proposal once lawmakers have their say,

but the early response Monday from the Democratic majority was largely positive. Senate leader Toni Atkins said the governor’s plan aligned with her goal of helping the neediest Califorians. Revenue projections, which administration officials said were calculated in

See BUDGET, Page A5

Officials keep close eye on hospitals By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County is keeping a close eye on its two hospitals, both of which are near capacity with increasingly overwhelmed staff. Sutter Davis and Woodland Memorial hospitals have a combined 14 licensed ICU beds and 75 medical/ surgical beds, according to Dr. Aimee Sisson, the county’s health officer. On Tuesday, there was just one ICU bed available and no medical/surgical beds, according to the county’s online COVID-19 dashboard. The vast majority of those beds are not currently filled with COVID-19 patients; rather, on Tuesday, there were six total COVID-19 patients in the two hospitals, three of them in intensive care. But with the unprecedented spike in new cases thanks to the Omicron

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surge, fears are growing of a spike in COVID-19 patients as well. “One of the areas we are following closely with concern is COVID-19 hospitalizations,” said Sisson. “Currently they are well below the peak of 34 hospitalizations last winter.” However, she said, “we know from prior surges that hospitalizations peak

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