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FAIRFIELD — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently completed the release of 2 million juvenile fall-run Chinook salmon from the Success on the Coleman National Fish Hatchery into the Sacramento River. The hatchery is located in Anderson. “Nobody here at . . . Coleman has ever transported that small of fry before despite staff having a lot of experience transporting fish,” Brett Galyean, hatchery manager and project leader with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said in a statement. “When you do something new, you’re always just a little bit leery of the outcome, so we started off with really small loads and then as we gained confidence in our technique and watched what the fish were
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Newly released salmon fry in the Sacramento River. showing us during the transport, we upped that number throughout the day.” The project included 600,000 fish released Dec. 17. “I was really surprised at how well the fry swam immediately,” Galyean said in the
statement. “Most of the time when you put them in a Raceway, they go straight to the bottom and they try to ball up in safety. I watched the fry swim back in towards the boat ramp, some swim up the See Salmon, Page A8
Travis School Board members will hear a legally required update Tuesday on how the school district is managing several million dollars in pandemicrelated funding received from both the state and federal governments. The report to the trustees is officially called the Supplement to the Annual Update for the 2021-22 Local Control Accountability Plan. California 202122 budget, the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and other state and federal pandemic relief acts have provided schools and related entities – called local educational agencies – with what’s described in a staff report as a significant increase in funding to support students, teachers, staff and their communities
Tribune Content Agency Coronavirus cases have plummeted across the Bay Area since the peak of the omicron surge a month ago, and health officials increasingly are talking about the next phase of the 2-year-old pandemic: specifically, what living with endemic Covid might look like. But first it would help, these officials say, to define what endemic means. Or rather, what it doesn’t mean. “‘End’ is in the word ‘endemic,’ and people are so sick of all this that they’re interpreting endemic as the end. And it does not mean that,” said Dr. Scott Morrow, the San Mateo County health officer. Covid would instead join the ranks of dozens of other endemic diseases, including seasonal threats like the flu and illnesses of varying degrees of severity from the common cold to malaria. Endemic “just means Covid is here and we
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Jayden Perez, 6, receives a Covid-19 vaccination shot from Chi Pham during Touro University’s 100th Mobile Vaccination Program clinic, Jan. 26, 2022. have to figure out how to live with it,” Morrow said. “We need to manage it, probably forever.” Endemic might also mean the end of the pandemic – the era of chaotic peaks and valleys of infection and recurring concerns that hospitals will be overwhelmed – for places like the Bay Area, with its widespread vaccination and, presumably, plenty of access to testing and treatments.
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It’s possible the Bay Area could settle into an endemic stage once the omicron surge is over. Though Covid would not go away, and might remain a highly visible part of daily lives, endemicity could be a viral chapter that involves less stress than any other time over the past two years. People might still choose to wear masks indoors or get tested before visiting the grandparents, but those
behaviors would be normalized, and come with a clearer understanding of when and why to use them. There are caveats, of course, particularly with regard to the potential for troublesome new variants, and the same experts who are hopeful that Covid will calm down soon also caution that much uncertainty remains – and admit that previous attempts to declare the pandemic over were premature. But parts of Europe that are emerging from omicron a few weeks ahead of the United States are already dropping restrictions and re-evaluating whether Covid remains an urgent, deadly threat or something to be lived with. And in the Bay Area, among the most restrictive places in the United States in terms of Covid control, health officials say that in the coming weeks and months they expect to relax, though
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As U.S. predicts Russia could seize Kyiv, Moscow calls assessment ‘scaremongering’ Rachel Pannett, K aren DeYoung, Dan Lamothe, Robyn Dixon, Amy B Wang THE WASHINGTON POST
As cases plummet, experts chart Bay Area life after Covid – and when it might arrive
in recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The money is targeted to address the impacts of distance learning on students, according to a staff report. Section 124(e) of Assembly Bill 130 requires local educational agencies to present an update on the Annual Update to the 2021-22 Local Control Accountability Plan and Budget Overview for parents on or before Feb. 28. That update must occur during a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board or body of the educational agency. A staff report to the trustees outlines the steps taken by the district since last spring. The Travis School District surveyed elementary students (fifth and sixth grade), sec-
A senior Russian diplomat dismissed new U.S. military and intelligence assessments - which estimated Russia could seize Kyiv in days and leave up to 50,000 civilians killed or wounded – as alarmist and as unlikely as an attack by Washington on London. “Madness and scaremongering continues. . . . what if we would say that US could seize London in a week and cause 300K civilian deaths?” Russia’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, tweeted Sunday. And parliamentary deputy Artem Turov, a member of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, accused the United States of disseminating fake infor-
mation and of “doing everything possible to fan a new conflict.” However, national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday defended the updated U.S. military and intelligence assessments briefed to lawmakers and European partners over the past several days, which were U.S. officials’ bleakest appraisal yet of the deteriorating security situation in Ukraine. “We’re in the window where something could happen. That is, a military escalation and invasion of Ukraine could happen at any time,” Sullivan said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” adding: “We believe that the Russians have put in place the capabilities to mount a significant military operation into Ukraine, and we have been working hard to See Ukraine, Page A8
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