EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for May 25, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for May 25, 2020! Stay safe and healthy! Pick an action or two and commit yourself to doing them. As President Obama said in his farewell speech: Believe in your ability to bring change. Show up, dive in, stay at it.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Latest Coronavirus Death Toll Shows A Surge In South San Diego County and Widespread COVID-19 Testing Still Elusive in Senior Homes,
- Read-up on Scripps, Sharp HealthCare Voice Concerns Over County Reopening Plan, San Diego Wants State Officials To Allow Speedier Reopening and Many California Counties Get State OK For Faster Reopening.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and Board of Supervisors and express hope that San Diego County will continue to closely monitor COVID-19 cases and trends, especially as SDC has entered its accelerated stage 2nd re-opening phase, and that SDC will also continue to expand its testing and tracing capacity.
- Note that in 7 days from May 17th to May 24th, San Diego County had 865 new positive cases, 128 new hospitalization cases, 37 new intensive care cases and 40 new death cases. We’ve reached 249 total death cases or 7.5 per 100k (up 1.2), and 6,701 total positive cases or 202.9 per 100k (up 26.2). Se LA Times’ San Diego County coronavirus cases and California coronavirus cases.
- Note that Escondido currently has 217 total positive cases (up 31) or 142.6 per 100k (up 20.4). See San Diego County COVID-19 Cases.
- In-related News: read-up on Is It Safe To Go To The Beach? Camp? Eat Out? Here's How To Evaluate The Risks and Coronavirus tips: How to go out and stay safe in a Covid-19 pandemic.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Remembering the Nearly 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in America and Covid-19’s deadly new surge is in rural America as states re-open.
- Read-up on Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show, Trump's Europe travel ban caused chaos, surge of infected passengers and 'We've been muzzled': CDC staffers say White House putting politics ahead of science.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief proposed by the HEROES Act. See Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.
- In-related News: read-up on Pompeo's elite taxpayer-funded dinners raise new concerns.
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