COVID

Potential Scams Should be Reported to rumors@cdph.ca.gov or 1-833-993-3873    

SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is asking Californians to be aware of and to quickly report any indications of possible fraudulent or other questionable activities by individuals attempting to take advantage of the state’s recently announced COVID-19 vaccination incentive programs.

Amid calls for more stringent research into the origins of the Covid-10 pandemic by scientists around the world, there is increasing evidence that the Covid-19 virus had escaped from research at the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology funded by the United States through organizations at the time controlled by Presidential Advisor Dr. Andrew Fauci and colleague Peter Daszak who has ties to several Chinese scientific organizations including the Wuhan Institute.

Read the full story in this week’s issue of the Cedar Street Times 5/28/2021

“If you were vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask outside,” Dr. Andrew Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said to CBS reporters Thursday on “CBS This Morning”. “If you were going into a completely crowded situation where people are essentially falling all over each other, then you wear a mask. But any other time, if you’re vaccinated and you’re outside, put aside your mask. You don’t have to wear it.”

Students in Mr. Ibrahim’s 4th grade class were sent home today, Wednesday, at noon when it was learned one student had tested positive for Covid-19 last week. Ibrahim and his students will be in quarantine until next Tuesday and perhaps longer if anyone develops Covid symptoms. While in quarantine, students will resume distance learning.

Pacific Grove Unified School District

Earlier this afternoon, we were notified that a student attending school via in-person instruction at Robert Down was diagnosed with COVID-19. The family is taking the necessary precautions to keep the student home and is in regular communication with me. The student wore their mask while in attendance and only removed it during snack and lunch for a limited time within their designated eating area. In addition, I conducted follow-up communication with the Monterey County Health Department for reporting and guidance. All families whose children are in the same class as the student diagnosed with COVID-19 have been notified separately.

A joint-venture between Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline applied to the U.S. FDA for emergency use authorization for their COVID-19 dual-action antibody which in a phase-3 clinical trial showed a remarkable 85% reduction in hospitalization or death for patients with confirmed disease.

Similar antibody treatments from Eli Lilly and Regeneron, have not been widely used because they require intravenous infusion in a hospital setting soon after patients become symptomatic. The Vir-Glaxo venture aims to develop an intramuscular injection which would be targeted to the pre-symptomatic at-risk population as soon as disease is detected by testing.

The new antibody is effective against all COVID variants according to a company spokesman.