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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2020
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Davis Community Church, like places of worship throughout Yolo County, will be allowed to open their doors for services as soon as this weekend. They will have to limit attendance to 25 percent of building capacity or 100 people — whichever is less.
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UC Davis Health nurse practitioner Paula Wagner volunteered for 13 days at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn.
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Entering the next stage Haircuts, religious services on tap BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Davis residents will be able to get a haircut, go out to dinner, do a little retail shopping and attend church services in just a matter of days. But they’ll do all of it with face masks on while following guidelines aimed at limiting the spread of the novel coronavirus. All Yolo County restaurants will be able to open for dine-in service and nonessential retail stores for indoor shopping beginning Wednesday, county officials have announced. They will be followed on Thursday by hair salons and barbershops reopening to clients. Meanwhile, places of worship will be able to open their doors
Students who had enrolled in fall study abroad programs will not be charged withdrawal or cancellation fees. UCEAP program specialists will discuss with students the option of transferring their study
Paula Wagner, a nurse practitioner at the UC Davis Medical Center, returned to California on May 18 after volunteering for two weeks at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. As the number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the Sacramento area remained low, Wagner was one of a number of UC Davis health care workers who used vacation time or took leave to volunteer in New York hospitals. While the infection rate has slowed in New York, Wagner described a severely stressed health care system in the city that has been the COVID19 epicenter in the United States. More than 16,000 people have died of COVID-19 in New York. Like other staff at Coney Island Hospital, Wagner worked 12-hour shifts, walking 2 miles to and from her hotel each day. After two weeks, the dedication of the nurses and physicians working alongside her left a strong impression on Wagner. “The locals working in the EDs there from the start are superhuman,” Wagner said. “At the peak, people there worked 20-30 days straight. They still work 12-hour days and almost every day.” Even though Wagner was not in New York during its peak of COVID19 hospitalizations, the Coney Island Hospital had a constant stream of patients while she was there. “My team saw 16 people my first day. There were still patients coming in on ambulances requiring intubation
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Resler Brothers barbershop on G Street — like all hair salons and barbershops in Yolo County — will likely get the green light to reopen for haircuts later this week. current health order were supported by all five members of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. “We’re open for business,”
Yolo County Supervisor Gary Sandy said following Tuesday’s board meeting. “Let’s go.”
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UC announces suspension of fall study-abroad programs Enterprise staff writer The University of California Education Abroad Program has suspended all study abroad programs for fall 2020 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, UCEAP informed students in an email Tuesday. Last year, more than 6,000 UC students studied abroad through UCEAP programs in over 40 countries. According to the email sent to students, UCEAP took several factors into
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beginning Friday. All will be required to follow guidelines set out by the state related to physical distancing and hygiene. That will mean fewer tables available to diners in restaurants and fewer customers allowed inside a store at any time. Salons will be limited to services where both the employee and client can wear face masks and churches and other places of worship will have to limit attendance to 25 percent of a building’s capacity or 100 people — whichever is less. The county health order requiring residents to wear face coverings when in public will continue. All of those changes to the
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UCD nurse practitioner back from front lines
consideration — including logistical and public-health concerns — before determining that their programming could not take place in the fall. “At UCEAP, we seek signs of normalcy by way of borders reopening and travel advisories being reduced to lower levels,” the email stated. “Additionally, we also consider the likelihood of a second wave of COVID-19 and how well universities abroad will be prepared to support exchange students this fall.” “These uncertainties have led UCEAP to
make the difficult yet responsible decision not to move forward with fall 2020 programming. All fall programs, regardless of the location, have been suspended this year and will not run, even if conditions related to COVID-19 improve,” the email stated.
Sheltering in place shifts local political activism online Special to The Enterprise In early March, two local political-action organizations jointly hosted a rousing kickoff rally and celebrated the festive grand opening of their brand new joint Volunteer Center on Olive Drive. Days later, they were reading through emergency stay-at-home guidelines from the Yolo County Health Department and putting revised signs on the door that effectively shut down their newly opened center and suspended all of their planned activities, due to the global pandemic. Kelly Wilkerson of Sister District CA-3 and Rachel Beck of Indivisible Yolo gathered their leadership teams and began to quickly regroup. Dozens of volunteers scrubbed
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long-made plans for events and activities that would take them through the November 2020 election and began to strategize options for alternative ways of getting the work done. “For three years, we’ve worked hard to recruit and activate hundreds of volunteers in our community who are distressed about the direction our country has gone since the 2016 election and are motivated to do whatever it takes to bring about a change in 2020,” said Beck. Added Wilkerson, “We’ve bussed and carpooled to districts all over the West for canvassing. We’ve registered hundreds of voters. We’ve met in homes and cafes all over town and written thousands of postcards. We’ve
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marched, made thousands of phone calls, and sent hundreds of thousands of texts. “We were able to raise enough money to open a huge, two-story center that would serve as a hub of operation to coordinate our efforts through November. We were ready to ensure a Blue Wave of change in 2020.” And then the novel coronavirus hit. State and county guidelines restricted in-person activities, meetings and events. Wholesale change was required. By mid-March, leadership teams developed a whole new set of action plans and “At-Home Activism” was launched. “I am so impressed by
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WEATHER Th Thursday: Su Sunny and hot. Hig High 100. Low 63.
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Here’s the story: Local activists knew that it was much more than a hunch that Zoom would help them keep their work going.
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