Daily Admin Update
Day 44
Good Morning,
I had some thoughts of gratitude for our community yesterday. I tuned into the Governors briefing on Facebook and watching the comments made me cringe. People were very cruel in their comments and it was rather shocking to me. It made me think of how I have a rather lovely bubble in that my community does not use Facebook in that way and that we all work to appreciate the work that people are doing. I am grateful to be a part of such a positive, productive, supportive community.
I have a construction meeting that I am zooming off to and look forward to giving you any updates tomorrow.
With Love,
Sarah
How you feel is how your perspective is shaped. Focus on the good around you.
C.D.C. Adds New Symptoms to Its List of Possible Covid-19 Signs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded its list of possible symptoms of the coronavirus, a step that reflects the broad variation and unpredictability in the way the illness can affect individual patients.
Echoing the observations of doctors treating thousands of patients in the pandemic, the federal health agency changed its website to cite the following symptoms as possible indicators of Covid-19, the infection caused by the coronavirus:
chills
repeated shaking with chills
muscle pain
headache
sore throat
and, new loss of taste or smell.
Previously it had listed just three symptoms: fever, cough and shortness of breath.
The C.D.C. added the six symptoms earlier this month after new recommendations were issued by an organization of public health epidemiologists that is responsible for defining which infectious diseases are tracked and reported to the agency. The organization, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists or C.S.T.E., recommended that Covid-19 be considered a nationally reportable illness and gave guidelines about how cases should be defined and identified.
The group’s recommendations say that cases should be reported if there are positive lab tests, but also if there are clinical symptoms that meet one of several thresholds. One category involves people who have cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing. Another involves people with two of the following symptoms: fever, chills, shivers, muscle pain, headache, sore throat or new dysfunction of taste and smell. Cases of people in both categories should be reported as likely Covid-19 only if there is no other more plausible diagnosis, the recommendations say.
While people who become seriously ill from coronavirus infection primarily have acute respiratory distress, other symptoms that accompany the disease can vary widely, doctors and researchers have reported.
-New York Times
Will November be an all-mail election? All eyes on Newsom
With the November election approaching, experts say it’s inevitable Newsom will issue an executive order to make the election all vote-by-mail, CalMatters’ Ben Christopher reports. The main question: Will it uphold current state law requiring counties to provide a certain number of in-person polling places? Some advocates argue that a lack of physical voting sites will disenfranchise thousands of voters, while county registrars argue polling places may put voters and poll workers at increased health risk in the age of COVID-19. But California’s top election official seems to support an all-mail election supplemented with physical voting sites.
- Secretary of State Alex Padilla: “I think people who need or prefer an in-person option deserve it. And so we’re going to have to work really hard with counties to ensure we maintain as much in-person voting as we can.”