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FAIRFIELD — The 43 new coronavirus cases reported Thursday gave Solano County a six-day average of 33.67 cases – keeping the county above the red tier threshold. The county has to be below 31 cases per day, and below the 8% seven-day positivity testing rate – for two weeks before it can be moved from purple to red. The county had scratched the top end of the red tier over the weekend, a three-day average of 31 cases. The positivity rate Thursday was 5.73%, the county reported. If the county can get below a 14-day average of 31 cases per day by March 5, then Solano would be back in the less restrictive red tier March 9. California’s color-based monitoring system designates the purple tier for counties where transmission of the novel coronavirus is considered to be widespread. Shutdown orders for counties in the purple tier are the most severe. The red tier is for counties with
a substantial spread of the virus. The orange tier designates moderate virus transmission, while the yellow tier is reserved for counties where the spread of the virus is deemed to be minimal. Restrictions to slow the spread of the virus are eased as counties move from purple to red, red to orange and orange to yellow. There were no new deaths reported Thursday, holding that number at 164, while the number of individuals hospitalized with Covid-19 held at 45. The intensive care unit capacity also held steady at 29%. Fairfield’s count climbed by 13 to 8,148, and Vallejo added 15 confirmed cases to take its total to 8,898. Vacaville, with five new cases, has a tally of 7,886 cases, the county reported.
Suisun City (2,029) added eight cases; Benicia (848) added one; and one more case was reported in the unincorporated area of the county, taking that total to 88. There were no new cases reported in Dixon (1,751) or in Rio Vista (320), the county noted. The number of active cases increased from 318 Wednesday to 335 Thursday. The number of individuals tested was at 179,958 and the total number of tests administered was at 269,887, the county reported. Most people who have Covid-19 experience only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. Some people, especially older adults and those with underlying health problems, experience more severe illness such as pneumonia and at times, death. The vast majority of people recover. The World Health Organization reports people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.
Ex-US Olympics gymnastics coach with ties to Nassar kills himself Tribune Content Agency DETROIT — A former U.S. Olympics gymnastics coach from the Lansing area with ties to disgraced sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar died from suicide Thursday, hours after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed human trafficking, sexual assault and racketeering charges against him, the attorney general’s office confirmed. “My office has been notified that the body of John Geddert was found late this afternoon after taking his own life,” Nessel said in a statement. “This is a
tragic end to a tragic story for everyone involved.” Geddert’s body was found by Michigan State Police troopers at 3:24 p.m. EST at a rest area off eastbound Interstate 96 in Clinton County, Michigan State Police said. Geddert had been expected to turn himself in at 2:15 p.m. to the Eaton County Sheriff Department. Michigan State Police will be leading the investigation into Geddert’s death, Lt. Mike Shaw said. No other details were released. The 24 charges against
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John Geddert was given the coach of the year award at the 2012 Visa Championships gymnastics competition in St. Louis.
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FAIRFIELD — Police continued their investigation Thursday into a shooting at a homeless encampment that left a man seriously injured. A 23-year-old Fairfield man was shot in the abdomen during a dispute that was reported at approximately 11:15 a.m. Wednesday along the railroad tracks behind the 300 block of State Street. The Fairfield man suffered what police described as “life-threatening” injuries, and was in surgery in the later afternoon hours. Attempts Thursday to get an update on the man’s condition and a status report about
the investigation were not successful. Police have said both individuals involved in the dispute had guns. It was not known if the injured man was able to fire his weapon. The nature of the dispute is known to investigators but was not being released, Lt. Jausiah Jacobsen, the Police Department public information officer, said Wednesday during a phone interview. Railroad traffic was stopped for about two hours as police investigated the shooting. Anyone with information about what happened is asked to call the Investigations Bureau at 428-7600.
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Fairfield police officers, firefighters and a crew from Medic Ambulance respond to the scene of an incident after a victim was placed into an ambulance near the train tracks separating Suisun City and Fairfield, Wednesday.
Acting Capitol Police chief downplays value of FBI warning Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman told House appropriators Thursday that although a communication breakdown kept her and other department leaders in the dark about an FBI warning of “war” at the Capitol, they would not have changed the security posture leading up to the Jan. 6 attack even if they had seen the message. The intelligence from the FBI’s field office in Norfolk, Virginia, was emailed to a Capitol Police lieutenant in the department’s Protective and Intelligence Operations unit on Jan. 5. “That information was not then forwarded any further up the chain,” Pittman said. Before P it tman ascended to chief on Jan. 8, she was assistant chief of protective and intelligence operations,
a position with oversight of the police force’s Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division, which partners with security and law enforcement agencies about potential threats to Congress. Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Ryan was floored. “It’s stunning to think that the FBI would issue this kind of report and [it] never makes its way to the head of intelligence for the United States Capitol Police,” the Ohio Democrat said. “And it was emailed, and no one picked up the phone and said, ‘Hey, you know, this is what we got.’ ” Pittman’s testimony differs from that of her predecessor, former Chief Steven Sund, who testified Tuesday before a joint Senate panel that the FBI report reached a sergeant and did not go higher up
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