To test or not to test: Conflicting advice for those who are vaccinated
Yolo County and Healthy Davis Together appear to be at odds over whether fully vaccinated individuals should continue to get regularly tested for COVID-19.
During a Davis City Council meeting last week, Healthy Davis Together officials urged residents to continue to get tested even after being vaccinated, citing breakthrough cases of fully vaccinated individuals who have tested positive.
But Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson said Thursday she discourages routine testing of people who are fully vaccinated and have no COVID symptoms, in part because of the possibility of false positives that lead to “unnecessary isolation and quarantine.”
Letter: Time for the nine
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The Joint Subcommittee on Reimagining Public safety has presented nine recommendations to the Davis City Council. These recommendations would start to move our law-enforcement system from a reactive and punitive system, to a true public-safety system that moves toward equity for everyone in our community. Our community is calling for nonviolent crimes to be handled by unarmed, public safety personnel trained to deal with service requests that do not require guns the vast majority of calls.
The deaths of black people at the hands of police throughout our nation and our own police data show unequivocally that our current system does not work for everyone in our community. It is time for a new system. It is past time.
DJUSD plans for in-person graduation ceremonies
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Long Beach State-bound Alex Harris was one of hundreds of seniors that made their way through the Davis High parking lot at the school’s class of 2020 celebration. Owen Yancher/Enterprise file photo
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The Davis school district is in the process of planning in-person high school graduation ceremonies.
Troy Allen, director of secondary education and leadership for the district, said that while firm plans don’t exist yet, ceremonies are being designed with guidance from two California Department of Public Health documents released on March 26. One of documents is specifically about preventing COVID-19 spread at graduation ceremonies and the other is guidance on how to manage outdoor seating at live events and performances.
Davis school district details safety measures as in-person learning approaches
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The Davis school district sent out a letter to parents Monday about safety measures students will have to follow if they’re returning to five-day in-person instruction, which begins on April 12.
Next Monday, the district will welcome back students for in-person learning for the first time since March 2020. Students have instead been learning virtually, using the internet, for the duration of the the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students will continue with pure distance learning for the remainder of the school year About 70% of of the district’s 8,200 students are entering back into in-person learning, while roughly 30% will continue with distance learning, according to a Thursday press release.
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