UpdatedFri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:11 pm PT
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MoneyGeek released its safest and most dangerous cities and towns. (Shutterstock)
REDONDO BEACH, CA MoneyGeek, a personal finance technology company, has released its ranking of the safest and most dangerous small cities and towns in the U.S. The study found that in 2020, many Americans fled large cities in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, searching for a sense of security in small-town America. While many smaller cities and towns do have fewer crime incidents than big cities, small cities and towns are not universally safer than their larger counterparts.
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The safest American town is Franklin, Massachusetts. A majority of the safest small cities and towns are located in the Northeast. Small cities and towns get less safe the further west they are.
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There have been 2,897,114 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 32,544 coronavirus-related deaths in California as of Friday afternoon according to data from Johns Hopkins University. (Shutterstock)
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA The Santa Clara County Public Health Department reported 1,608 additional coronavirus cases Friday.
The latest report brings the countywide case count to 89,983.
The county reported 12 additional coronavirus-related fatalities Friday, bringing its COVID-19 death toll to 1,040.
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There were 638 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the county as of Friday of which 150 were being treated in intensive care units.
Elsewhere around the Bay Area and beyond, state officials have launched an online hub intended for school staff and parents to find guidance and resources on the state s planned resumption of in-person classes, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 30: In an aerial view from a drone, vehicles line up at a COVID-19 testing site at Dodger Stadium (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA Dodger Stadium, the nation s largest COVID-19 testing site, reopened Friday as a mass vaccination center as part of the county s ambitious plan to innoculate up to more than 10,000 people daily at the home of the Dodgers. If the project lives up to expectations, the venerated baseball stadium would become the nation s largest vaccination site.
According to Mayor Eric Garcetti, it will eventually have the capacity to vaccinate 12,000 people a day, but for now, it will cater only to health care workers. While counties such as Riverside and Orange have already begun vaccinating seniors 65 and older, LA County still has 500,000 healthcare workers left to vaccinate, making it unlikely that Los Angeles seniors will have access to the vaccine before February.
UpdatedFri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:35 am PT
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Manhattan Beach Mayor Suzanne Hadley decided to green light holiday construction for Skechers in Manhattan Beach on two upcoming holidays. Previously, she was a No vote. (Shutterstock)
MANHATTAN BEACH, CA Breaking from her previous consistent votes to be the lone dissenter to not allow Skechers to work on its Sepulveda Boulevard construction project on city holidays, Manhattan Beach Mayor Suzanne Hadley did not pull the item from the consent calendar to state her opposition. The scenario played out in the last Manhattan Beach City Council meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
Previously, Hadley has pulled the Skechers construction item, when the company asks to be allowed to have construction work continue on city holidays, and did so most recently as Mayor Pro Tem at a City Council meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 6. At the time she said, I don t like exceptions. It smacks of favoritism to me. Everyone should be treated equally in the city of Man
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At the current rate of the federal government s vaccine roll-out, it will take six months to reach critical mass, Cuomo said Friday. (NY Governor s Office. )
NEW YORK, NY Despite a crush of demand for coronavirus vaccinations and what some have called a chaotic rollout of the program after eligibility expanded dramatically across New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state received less dosages this week than it has in the past.
In a week that has seen eligibility opened to 7.1 million New Yorkers, only 300,000 vaccinations dosages had been received weekly statewide. Cuomo said Friday that the state received only 250,000 vaccine dosages this week.