Trump's briefings were meant to show him in charge -- now they are becoming absurd

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22. Cali's problem is a mix

of covidiots (I’m in the OC, and although it has finally turned purple politically, there are still plenty of RWNJs around), the social inequities that the pandemic has exposed everywhere (especially in the Latinx communities and/or among essential workers) and problems in prisons/nursing homes.

Here’s a recent LA Times report.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-24/coronavirus-hospitalizations-for-children-younger-adults-dramatically-worsen-in-l-a-county

Sorry if there’s a paywall, I’m not sure if the LAT is publishing Covid stories for free or not. Here are four paragraphs as a synopsis”
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"The epidemic in the West is particularly among the Latinx community. ... They are both in urban, as well as rural, agricultural areas,” said Dr. George Rutherford, an epidemiologist and infectious diseases expert at UC San Francisco. “There’s tremendous amount of transmission in Southern California, in particular in Orange and Los Angeles counties.”
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And while much was said early in the pandemic about how urban, dense areas like New York City were primed for catastrophe, it’s now clear that agricultural and rural areas are suffering too, with coronavirus case rates high throughout California’s Central Valley, Salinas Valley and Imperial Valley, all part of the state’s agricultural heartland.
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Social gatherings are also worsening the spread, public health officials have said. Summer parties at fraternities at UC Berkeley have been linked to 72 cases, a factor the campus cited in determining it would begin the fall semester with fully remote instruction.

As case counts and death tolls continue to spike across the state, health officials are also battling significant resistance to wearing masks in some places. In Huntington Beach, some view the pandemic as a hoax, and much of the public refuses to wear face coverings. On Wednesday, there were 690 people with confirmed coronavirus infections at Orange County’s hospitals, a 157% increase from two months ago.
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