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Fairfield condemns hate, violence toward Asians
covid-19 pandemic
Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — The March shootings at three Atlanta spas that killed eight – including six Asian women – have underscored the months of hatespawned attacks on the Asian-American community across the country. But for Fairfield Vice Mayor Rick Vaccaro, this behavior is not a new phenomenon. “It’s very personal to me,” Vaccaro said at the start of his comments Tuesday during the Fairfield City Council meeting. The council adopted a resolution “Condemning Hate Crimes, panduro Attacks and Attitudes against AsianAmerican and Pacific Islander Communities.” Councilwoman Doriss Panduro brought the matter to the council. It was originally placed on the consent agenda, but moved to new business for a formal presentation. Vaccaro said he rarely brings his personal life to the council, but this vaccaro situation was different. “Thirty-six years ago I was on a cross-country flight with my wife. Sue was back in New York on assignment with Channel 7 and on our way back she was
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Margaret Pay gives Jared Alex his second shot of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at the Kroc Center, Monday.
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Solano’s case numbers drop for 3rd straight day Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — No Solano County jurisdiction reported double-digit new coronavirus case increases, and the county as a whole experienced declines for the third straight day. In fact, the county’s reporting shows a consistent decrease since Friday’s spike of 61 confirmed cases. The number of new cases Thursday was 27, down from 30 Wednesday, 31 Tuesday and a three-day average over the weekend matyas into Monday of 33.3 cases. The total number of cases for the pandemic is 31,489, the county Public Health Division reported. The best news, Dr. Bela Matyas
said, is the state announced Thursday that no county will “backslide” into a more restrictive tier. “That is a recognition by the state that the blueprint (for economic recovery) is harmful to the state without any benefits to the counties,” said Matyas, the county public health officer. That means Solano County will not go back to the purple tier, though the most recent numbers have been pushing it closer to the orange tier. For the past six days, the daily average is at 31.3, the county reported. “But we have not yet seen the impact of the Easter weekend,” said Matyas, who noted those numbers will begin showing up
over the weekend. The county has to have a daily new case average of fewer than 27 for a two-week period to graduate into the orange tier. The seven-day positivity testing rate, another key component, held at 5.3%, slightly above the 5% threshold for the orange tier. Solano County remains the only Bay Area county to be in the red tier after three more counties entered the orange tier this week. Neighboring Yolo County is also in the orange tier. Matyas reported that 42% of the county’s adult population, 16 and older, have been vaccinated. Seventy percent of residents 65 or older have received their shots. However, the county will be
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MURDER TRIAL OF DEREK CHAUVIN
Expert: Floyd died of low level of oxygen The Washington Post MINNEAPOLIS — The pressure of Derek Chauvin’s knees on George Floyd’s neck and back made it virtually impossible for the handcuffed man to breathe as he was pinned face down on a street and would have killed any healthy person, an expert on the respiratory system testified Thursday. Martin Tobin, a Chicago-area pulmonologist and critical care doctor who specializes in the science of breathing, testified that the pressure of Chauvin “jamming” his knees into Floyd’s body
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Review of work-from-home strategies during pandemic offers mixed results Daily Republic Staff
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FAIR F IELD — Working from home in California has advantages and disadvantages, according to a new study from WalletHub. The state ranks best
for internet cost, 12th for share of population working from home, preCovid-19, and household internet access. California fell below in share of potential telecommuters (36th), average home square
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cut off oxygen and led to brain damage within minutes, sparking an arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop. He characterized Chauvin’s knee as being on Floyd’s neck “the vast majority of the time.” “One second, he’s alive, and one second, he’s no longer,” Tobin said as he narrated a clip of a bystander’s video zoomed in to show Floyd’s face pressed into the asphalt, while the former police officer’s knee pressed unrelentingly on his neck as Floyd slowly stopped moving. “That’s the
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