LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – FireScape Mendocino is hosting a workshop this week on the impact of the Ranch and August fires on the Mendocino National Forest and the current recovery process.
The workshop, entitled “Our Future in a Fire-adapted Landscape,” will take place from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 28 and 29. Different topics will be covered each day.
FireScape Mendocino is a voluntary, inclusive and collaborative effort to shape the future of the fire-prone landscape in and near the Mendocino National Forest. Working together, they emphasize shared learning, problem-solving and action on the ground.
This week’s workshop will explore post-fire observations and experiences from the Ranch and August Complex wildfires, factors influencing future forests and landscapes, and upcoming land management projects being proposed by the Mendocino National Forest in response to the August Complex.
Organizers are seeking participants with local perspectives, interests in outdoor recreation, experiences living with wildfires, experience owning or managing land, thoughts about community and landscape planning, enthusiasm and an interest in shaping the future of local landscapes.
Participants will engage with a variety of collaborators. Guided by the best practices of the North America Fire Learning Network, FireScape Mendocino is designed to enable people with diverse perspectives to find ways to work together to achieve tangible results in communities and the surrounding landscapes.
The workshop is free and open to the public; everyone is welcome to participate.
Community participation in this workshop will help guide FireScape Mendocino as its community-based collaboration transitions from planning to project development and implementation.
California Fawn Lilly (Erythronium californiacum). Photo by Kim Riley. LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – There are some plants (just like people and other animals) that just do better when they grow together and such is the case with buck brush and fawn lilies, two great friends that often grow together because it may be beneficial to both.
It’s not an exclusive relationship, but buck brush (Ceanothus cuneatus) provides the shade that the California Fawn Lilly (Erythronium californiacum) likes, so they are oftentimes found growing and blooming together.
One of the most widespread native plants in California, buck brush, as you might guess by it’s common name, is a food source for deer and is found throughout California and particularly in chaparral landscapes, growing to about 9 feet tall and covered with clusters of small white flowers in April and May here in Lake County.
Dotting the hillsides with the pretty white bush, you can be sure of your ID as no other California native in Lake County presents itself in this way and if you're lucky enough to be hiking a trail while it is blooming, you'll enjoy a beautiful scent welcoming spring!
Buck brush (Ceanothus cuneatus). Photo by Kim Riley. After flowering, seeds of the buckbrush are, “dispersed when the capsule explodes and propels them some distance. Harvester ants have been known to cache the seeds, which can lie dormant for a long time since fire is required for germination,” according to the California Native Plant Society.
Oftentimes you will find the spectacular fawnlily growing under and nearby buck brush on singular stalks, with one to three flowers each that range from six to 12 inches tall that typically begin blooming just before buck brush, and seeing these two in bloom together is a treat for both your eyes and nose!
Terre Logsdon is an environmentalist, certified master composter, and advocate for agroecology solutions to farming. An avid fan and protector of California wildflowers, plants, natural resources, and the environment, she seeks collaborative solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change. Kim Riley is retired, an avid hiker at Highland Springs, and has lived in Lake County since 1985. After 15 years of trail recovery and maintenance on the Highland Springs trails, she is now focused on native plants, including a native plant and pollinator garden on her property as well as promoting and preserving the beauty of the Highland Springs Recreation Area. Karen Sullivan has operated two nurseries to propagate and cultivate native plants and wildflowers, has lived in Kelseyville for the past 30 years, rides horses far and wide to see as many flowers as possible, and offers native plants and wildflowers for sale to the public. You can check her nursery stock here. They are collaborating on a book, Highland Springs Recreation Area: A Field Guide, which will be published in the future. In the meanwhile, please visit https://www.facebook.com/HighlandSpringsNaturalists and https://www.facebook.com/HighlandSpringsRecreationArea.
Buck brush (Ceanothus cuneatus). Photo by Kim Riley.
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant "celebrity star," one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust.
The price for the monster star's opulence is "living on the edge." The star, called AG Carinae, is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction.
The expanding shell of gas and dust that surrounds the star is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to the nearest star beyond the Sun, Proxima Centauri.
The huge structure was created from one or more giant eruptions about 10,000 years ago. The star's outer layers were blown into space – like a boiling teapot popping off its lid. The expelled material amounts to roughly 10 times our Sun's mass.
These outbursts are the typical life of a rare breed of star called a luminous blue variable, a brief convulsive phase in the short life of an ultra-bright, glamorous star that lives fast and dies young. These stars are among the most massive and brightest stars known. They live for only a few million years, compared to the roughly 10-billion-year lifetime of our Sun. AG Carinae is a few million years old and resides 20,000 light-years away inside our Milky Way galaxy.
Luminous blue variables exhibit a dual personality: They appear to spend years in quiescent bliss and then they erupt in a petulant outburst. These behemoths are stars in the extreme, far different from normal stars like our Sun. In fact, AG Carinae is estimated to be up to 70 times more massive than our Sun and shines with the blinding brilliance of one million suns.
"I like studying these kinds of stars because I am fascinated by their instability. They are doing something weird," said Kerstin Weis, a luminous blue variable expert at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.
Major outbursts such as the one that produced the nebula occur once or twice during a luminous blue variable's lifetime. A luminous blue variable star only casts off material when it is in danger of self-destruction as a supernova. Because of their massive forms and super-hot temperatures, luminous blue variable stars like AG Carinae are in a constant battle to maintain stability.
It's an arm-wrestling contest between radiation pressure from within the star pushing outward and gravity pressing inward. This cosmic match results in the star expanding and contracting.
The outward pressure occasionally wins the battle, and the star expands to such an immense size that it blows off its outer layers, like a volcano erupting. But this outburst only happens when the star is on the verge of coming apart. After the star ejects the material, it contracts to its normal size, settles back down, and becomes quiescent for a while.
Like many other luminous blue variables, AG Carinae remains unstable. It has experienced lesser outbursts that have not been as powerful as the one that created the present nebula.
Although AG Carinae is quiescent now, as a super-hot star it continues pouring out searing radiation and powerful stellar wind (streams of charged particles). This outflow continues shaping the ancient nebula, sculpting intricate structures as outflowing gas slams into the slower-moving outer nebula.
The wind is traveling at up to 670,000 miles per hour, about 10 times faster than the expanding nebula. Over time, the hot wind catches up with the cooler expelled material, plows into it, and pushes it farther away from the star. This "snowplow" effect has cleared a cavity around the star.
The red material is glowing hydrogen gas laced with nitrogen gas. The diffuse red material at upper left pinpoints where the wind has broken through a tenuous region of material and swept it into space.
The most prominent features, highlighted in blue, are filamentary structures shaped like tadpoles and lopsided bubbles. These structures are dust clumps illuminated by the star's reflected light.
The tadpole-shaped features, most prominent at left and bottom, are denser dust clumps that have been sculpted by the stellar wind. Hubble's sharp vision reveals these delicate-looking structures in great detail.
The image was taken in visible and ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet light offers a slightly clearer view of the filamentary dust structures that extend all the way down toward the star. Hubble is ideally suited for ultraviolet-light observations because this wavelength range can only be viewed from space.
Massive stars, like AG Carinae, are important to astronomers because of their far-reaching effects on their environment. The largest program in Hubble's history – the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards – is studying the ultraviolet light of young stars and the way they shape their surroundings.
Luminous blue variable stars are rare: Less than 50 are known among the galaxies in our local group of neighboring galaxies. These stars spend tens of thousands of years in this phase, a blink of an eye in cosmic time. Many are expected to end their lives in titanic supernova blasts, which enrich the universe with heavier elements beyond iron.
Hubble trivia
– Launched on April 24, 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.5 million observations of about 48,000 celestial objects. – In its 31-year lifetime, the telescope has racked up more than 181,000 orbits around our planet, totaling over 4.5 billion miles. – Hubble observations have produced more than 169 terabytes of data, which are available for present and future generations of researchers. – Astronomers using Hubble data have published more than 18,000 scientific papers, with more than 900 of those papers published in 2020.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.
UPDATE: As of Monday morning, authorities said Creighton was located and is safe.
NORTH COAST, Calif. – Authorities are trying to locate a missing Sonoma County man who is elderly and at-risk.
Ronald Creighton, 73, was reported missing on Sunday night.
The Napa County Sheriff’s Office said Creighton is from Sonoma County but was last seen in Napa County.
Creighton was driving a 2021 white Hyundai Accent subcompact car, license plate 8VRR257.
He is described as being 5 feet 10 inches tall and 178 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair.
Anyone with information about Creighton’s whereabouts should call 911 or their local law enforcement agency.
Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Bentham Paulos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Dev Millstein, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Joseph Rand, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system.
So far 17 states plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. And 46 U.S. utilities have pledged to go carbon-free. Now the Biden administration and some members of Congress are proposing to decarbonize the power sector by 2035.
While this much change in 15 years seems ambitious, our new report, “Halfway to Zero,” looks back at the past 15 and finds that power sector emissions are half of what they were projected to be.
We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. government’s official agency for data collection and analysis. It projected that annual carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector would rise from 2,400 million to 3,000 million metric tons from 2005 to 2020.
Instead, they fell to 1,450 million metric tons – 52% below projected levels. In short, the U.S. electricity sector has managed to march halfway to zero in just 15 years.
The U.S. is using much more low-carbon and carbon-free electricity today than projected in 2005.Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, CC BY-ND
Cleaner fuels and more efficient devices
This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers.
Overall demand for electricity in 2020 was almost exactly the same as in 2005, and 24% lower than projected by federal energy forecasters. This was due partly to economic changes, such as lower economic growth from two recessions and slightly lower population growth.
The U.S. has also become more energy efficient since 2005, thanks to policies and technology improvements. Many devices that power our lives, such as LED lights, get more performance from a kilowatt-hour of electricity now than they did 15 years ago.
Finally, natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices. This pushed much of the generation of coal – the most carbon-intensive electricity source – out of the market.
These shifts have delivered many benefits. Total electric bills for consumers were 18% lower in 2020 than the Energy Information Administration had previously projected, saving households US$86 billion per year.
Reduced sulfur and nitrogen emissions, especially from less coal generation, led to a steep drop in such health impacts as respiratory disease. Premature deaths due to power-sector air pollution fell from 38,000 to 3,100 per year. And declining employment in the coal industry was more than offset by job growth in other areas, notably solar power.
The other 50%
Many assessments of energy transitions assert that it takes decades for societies to shift fully from one energy source to another. But our study shows that dramatic changes in emissions can happen much more quickly.
This doesn’t guarantee that getting to zero will be easy, though.
Wind, solar and battery technologies will be central to further decarbonization. Accelerating their deployment will require a laser focus on maintaining reliability, with new transmission lines and changes to power-system planning and operations. It will also call for careful attention to ecological impacts and heightened sensitivity to effects on workers and communities.
Fortunately, much of the generation and storage needed to hit a zero-carbon target is already in development. Developers have requested access to the transmission grid for 660 gigawatts of new wind and solar generating capacity and 200 gigawatts of storage. That represents more than half of what could be required. Not all proposed projects will be built, but the scale indicates tremendous commercial interest.
Using this much wind and solar raises the question of how to meet the last portion of demand on cloudy or windless days. Many technologies could fill this gap, such as longer-duration storage, hydrogen or synthetic fuels, fossil or biomass generation with carbon capture, advanced nuclear power, and geothermal energy. All require more research.
Our study offers two central lessons as the nation moves forward. First, policy and technology are both key to cutting emissions. Second, our ability to predict the future is limited. It will be crucial to adapt as government agencies and power companies gain policy experience, and technologies advance in unexpected ways.
A banner in Lower Lake, California, honoring high school students in the Konocti Unified School District. Courtesy photo. LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Community members honored the high school seniors of Konocti Unified School District with streetlight banners again this year, thanks in large part to the efforts of parent Rachelle Sapeta.
Last spring, Sapeta wondered how she could make her daughter’s high school graduation special during a global pandemic, when traditional graduation ceremonies were not permitted.
Her idea? To hang banners featuring portraits of high school seniors from the lamp posts along the roads most commonly traveled near Konocti Unified’s four high schools: Lower Lake, Konocti Education Center, Lewis School and Carle.
With community and parent support, the project was fully funded in less than two weeks.
This year, Sapeta’s son is graduating from Lower Lake High School, and given the popularity of last year’s project, Sapeta decided to organize the banners again.
This week, the banners returned to Main Street in Lower Lake, and to Lakeshore Drive and Olympic Drive in Clearlake to highlight this year’s seniors.
“It’s been so fun to hear from community members who share that they take the long way home just to see the banners, or to witness students posing under their photos in their caps and gowns,” she said.
Lake County Fire Protection District Chief Willie Sapeta installs banners on popular traffic routes to honor Konocti Unified seniors in Lake County, California. Courtesy photo. Sapeta thought last year would be the only year she would do something like this, but the pandemic lasted longer than anyone expected.
Although students just returned to in-person school part-time, COVID-19 will likely prevent traditional graduation ceremonies once again. This project felt like a way to celebrate these hard-working students.
Sapeta credits Konocti Unified Superintendent Dr. Becky Salato for letting her run with the idea, Lower Lake High School secretary Sherry Hoeckendorf for her help coordinating the project, the Lake County Fire Protection District for rallying together and putting up the banners in just two nights, and the parents and organizations that made it possible through funding and other support.
Salato said, “Our goal is to help our students build both academic skills and the coping skills that enable them to thrive, and we believe the best way to do so is through personal connection. This has been a hard year for many, and we are so grateful to the community members who united around our students to remind them that they are loved and their accomplishments did not go unnoticed.”
The banners will be up until the week after graduation when students will be invited to take their banners home with them.
Last year, the banner project cost $10,000. This year, because much of the hardware could be reused, the total cost was slightly less, but still a significant investment.
Project funders include Sober Grad, Action Sanitary, First American Title, Chernoh Excavating, Clearlake Police Association, Clearlake Oaks Glenhaven Business Association, Rotary Club of Clearlake and Case Excavating, as well as community members and families.
A banner in Lower Lake, California, honoring a high school student in the Konocti Unified School District. Courtesy photo.
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To give the planning commission adequate time to review your questions and comments, please submit written comments prior to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 27.
The main item on the agenda is the commission’s consideration of a conditional use permit for Akwaaba LLC.
The company is proposing a commercial cannabis microbusiness in an existing dispensary at 3995 Alvita Ave., with the permit to allow cultivation – nursery only – as well as manufacturing, distribution and retail.
During the public hearing, the commission will consider if the project is exempt from environmental review in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act.
The commission’s members are Chair Kathryn Davis, Vice Chair Robert Coker and commissioners Lisa Wilson, Erin McCarrick and Fawn Williams.
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Over approximately 2.5 million years, North America likely hosted 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes, a minuscule proportion of which have been dug up and studied by paleontologists, according to a UC Berkeley study. Image by Julius Csotonyi, courtesy of Science magazine. How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the Cretaceous period?
That's a question Charles Marshall pestered his paleontologist colleagues with for years until he finally teamed up with his students to find an answer.
What the team found, published this month in the journal Science, is that about 20,000 adult T. rexes probably lived at any one time, give or take a factor of 10, which is in the ballpark of what most of his colleagues guessed.
What few paleontologists had fully grasped, he said, including himself, is that this means that some 2.5 billion lived and died over the approximately 2 1/2 million years the dinosaur walked the earth.
Until now, no one has been able to compute population numbers for long-extinct animals, and George Gaylord Simpson, one of the most influential paleontologists of the last century, felt that it couldn't be done.
Marshall, director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, the Philip Sandford Boone Chair in Paleontology and a UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology and of earth and planetary science, was also surprised that such a calculation was possible.
"The project just started off as a lark, in a way," he said. "When I hold a fossil in my hand, I can’t help wondering at the improbability that this very beast was alive millions of years ago, and here I am holding part of its skeleton — it seems so improbable. The question just kept popping into my head, 'Just how improbable is it? Is it one in a thousand, one in a million, one in a billion?' And then I began to realize that maybe we can actually estimate how many were alive, and thus, that I could answer that question."
Marshall is quick to point out that the uncertainties in the estimates are large. While the population of T. rexes was most likely 20,000 adults at any given time, the 95% confidence range — the population range within which there's a 95% chance that the real number lies — is from 1,300 to 328,000 individuals. Thus, the total number of individuals that existed over the lifetime of the species could have been anywhere from 140 million to 42 billion.
"As Simpson observed, it is very hard to make quantitative estimates with the fossil record," he said. "In our study, we focused in developing robust constraints on the variables we needed to make our calculations, rather than on focusing on making best estimates, per se."
He and his team then used Monte Carlo computer simulation to determine how the uncertainties in the data translated into uncertainties in the results.
The greatest uncertainty in these numbers, Marshall said, centers around questions about the exact nature of the dinosaur's ecology, including how warm-blooded T. rex was.
The study relies on data published by John Damuth of UC Santa Barbara that relates body mass to population density for living animals, a relationship known as Damuth’s Law.
While the relationship is strong, he said, ecological differences result in large variations in population densities for animals with the same physiology and ecological niche.
For example, jaguars and hyenas are about the same size, but hyenas are found in their habitat at a density 50 times greater than the density of jaguars in their habitat.
"Our calculations depend on this relationship for living animals between their body mass and their population density, but the uncertainty in the relationship spans about two orders of magnitude," Marshall said. "Surprisingly, then, the uncertainty in our estimates is dominated by this ecological variability and not from the uncertainty in the paleontological data we used."
As part of the calculations, Marshall chose to treat T. rex as a predator with energy requirements halfway between those of a lion and a Komodo dragon, the largest lizard on Earth.
The issue of T. rex's place in the ecosystem led Marshall and his team to ignore juvenile T. rexes, which are underrepresented in the fossil record and may, in fact, have lived apart from adults and pursued different prey.
As T. rex crossed into maturity, its jaws became stronger by an order of magnitude, enabling it to crush bone. This suggests that juveniles and adults ate different prey and were almost like different predator species.
This possibility is supported by a recent study, led by evolutionary biologist Felicia Smith of the University of New Mexico, which hypothesized that the absence of medium-size predators alongside the massive predatory T. rex during the late Cretaceous was because juvenile T. rex filled that ecological niche.
What the fossils tell us
The UC Berkeley scientists mined the scientific literature and the expertise of colleagues for data they used to estimate that the likely age at sexual maturity of a T. rex was 15.5 years; its maximum lifespan was probably into its late 20s; and its average body mass as an adult — its so-called ecological body mass, — was about 5,200 kilograms, or 5.2 tons.
They also used data on how quickly T. rexes grew over their life span: They had a growth spurt around sexual maturity and could grow to weigh about 7,000 kilograms, or 7 tons.
From these estimates, they also calculated that each generation lasted about 19 years, and that the average population density was about one dinosaur for every 100 square kilometers.
Then, estimating that the total geographic range of T. rex was about 2.3 million square kilometers, and that the species survived for roughly 2 1/2 million years, they calculated a standing population size of 20,000. Over a total of about 127,000 generations that the species lived, that translates to about 2.5 billion individuals overall.
With such a large number of post-juvenile dinosaurs over the history of the species, not to mention the juveniles that were presumably more numerous, where did all those bones go? What proportion of these individuals have been discovered by paleontologists? To date, fewer than 100 T. rex individuals have been found, many represented by a single fossilized bone.
"There are about 32 relatively well-preserved, post-juvenile T. rexes in public museums today," he said. "Of all the post-juvenile adults that ever lived, this means we have about one in 80 million of them."
“If we restrict our analysis of the fossil recovery rate to where T. rex fossils are most common, a portion of the famous Hell Creek Formation in Montana, we estimate we have recovered about one in 16,000 of the T. rexes that lived in that region over that time interval that the rocks were deposited," he added. "We were surprised by this number; this fossil record has a much higher representation of the living than I first guessed. It could be as good as one in a 1,000, if hardly any lived there, or it could be as low as one in a quarter million, given the uncertainties in the estimated population densities of the beast.”
Marshall expects his colleagues will quibble with many, if not most, of the numbers, but he believes that his calculational framework for estimating extinct populations will stand and be useful for estimating populations of other fossilized creatures.
"In some ways, this has been a paleontological exercise in how much we can know, and how we go about knowing it," he said. "It's surprising how much we actually know about these dinosaurs and, from that, how much more we can compute. Our knowledge of T. rex has expanded so greatly in the past few decades thanks to more fossils, more ways of analyzing them and better ways of integrating information over the multiple fossils known."
The framework, which the researchers have made available as computer code, also lays the foundation for estimating how many species paleontologists might have missed when excavating for fossils, he said.
"With these numbers, we can start to estimate how many short-lived, geographically specialized species we might be missing in the fossil record," he said. "This may be a way of beginning to quantify what we don’t know."
Marshall's co-authors are UC Berkeley undergraduate Connor Wilson and graduate students Daniel Latorre, Tanner Frank, Katherine Magoulick, Joshua Zimmt and Ashley Poust, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Robert Sanders writes for the UC Berkeley News Center.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The number of Lake County residents who have been vaccinated is increasing while changes are ahead in how vaccinations will be conducted locally, Lake County’s Public Health officer reported.
“Very soon, 50 percent of the adult population in Lake County will have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, and everyone 16 and older is now eligible,” Dr. Gary Pace said on Friday.
Pace said Lake County is already starting to see some positive changes. That includes the county moving into the orange tier on the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Gov. Gavin Newsom expects the state will move past the blueprint altogether on June 15.
COVID-19 cases in Lake County are down to 5.7 per 100,000, test positivity is at 3.4 percent, there are few COVID hospitalizations and no reported deaths for several weeks, Pace said.
“We appear to be moving into a new phase of the pandemic – we still need to be careful and wear masks, but we can begin moving back to the routines of a more normal life, especially once vaccinated,” Pace said.
Because the situation has stabilized in Lake County, Pace said Public Health will stop its regular written COVID-19 update and instead issue public information when there are significant changes to announce.
Pace said changes in COVID-19 vaccine delivery are on the horizon.
“We will soon shift the way Lake County residents get vaccinated. The large drive-thru sites will be discontinued in the coming weeks, but vaccine will still be available at Sutter and Adventist’s clinics, for example, and some pharmacies,” Pace said.
Information on all options currently available in Lake County is available here.
Starting the week of May 3, OptumServe’s sites in Lakeport and Lower Lake will be open Monday through Friday.
– Lakeport, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Silveira Community Center, 500 N. Main St.: Vaccine, Mondays and Fridays; testing, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. – Lower Lake, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Lower Lake Town Hall, 16195 Main St.: Vaccine, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays; testing, Mondays and Tuesdays.
Appointments can be accessed at https://MyTurn.ca.gov. People can return to locations where they received their first dose as long as they remain open, or get the second dose at another site. Both are scheduled on MyTurn.
Pace also noted that, over the past few weeks, national reports of rare problems with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine led to a pause in the use of this vaccine, with further scientific reviews expected later this week.
“Regional reports of people getting infected even after vaccination have also emerged,” Pace said.
“These concerns are valid, but should not cause people to delay getting vaccinated. By all reports, complications are very rare, the vaccines work against all variants currently circulating in the area, and the number of people getting infected after vaccination is in the expected low range. I am not aware of any Lake County residents testing positive after the two-week period following their final dose,” Pace said.
“As we move into this new phase of the pandemic, please continue to use common sense in protecting yourself and your family,” Pace said. “Vaccination is a game-changer, and as more people are protected, we will be able to resume a more normal lifestyle with less worry. Please do your part, by getting the vaccine as soon as you are able.”
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Actualización de COVID-19: Casi el 50% de los residentes del condado de Lake han recibido una dosis de vacuna
TODOS los residentes del condado de Lake mayores de 16 años ahora son elegibles
Condado de Lake, CA (23 de abril de 2021) - Muy pronto, el 50% de la población adulta en el condado de Lake habrá recibido al menos una dosis de la vacuna COVID, y todas las personas mayores de 16 años ahora son elegibles. Ya estamos empezando a ver algunos cambios positivos. El condado de Lake se trasladó al nivel de Naranja y el gobernador Newsom espera que superemos el Plan por completo el 15 de junio.
Los casos de COVID-19 se redujeron a 5.7 / 100,000 en el condado de Lake, la positividad de la prueba es del 3.4%, y tenemos pocas hospitalizaciones por COVID y no reportamos muertes durante varias semanas. Parece que nos estamos moviendo hacia una nueva fase de la pandemia; todavía debemos tener cuidado y usar máscaras, pero podemos comenzar a regresar a las rutinas de una vida más normal, especialmente una vez vacunados.
Debido a que la situación se ha estabilizado en el condado de Lake, el lanzamiento de hoy es nuestra última Actualización COVID-19 escrita regular; En el futuro, emitiremos información pública cuando haya cambios significativos que anunciar.
Los cambios en la entrega de la vacuna COVID-19 están en el horizonte
Pronto cambiaremos la forma en que se vacunan los residentes del condado de Lake. Los grandes sitios de Auto-servicio se descontinuarán en las próximas semanas, pero la vacuna seguirá estando disponible en las clínicas de Sutter y Adventist, por ejemplo, y en algunas farmacias.
La información sobre todas las opciones disponibles actualmente en el condado de Lake está disponible aquí: http://health.co.lake.ca.us/Coronavirus/Vaccines.htm .
Los sitios OptumServe en Lakeport y Lower Lake ofrecerán la vacuna COVID-19 a partir de la semana del 3 de mayo
A partir de la semana del 3 de mayo, los sitios de OptumServe en Lakeport y Lower Lake estarán abiertos de lunes a viernes. Aquí está el cronograma de servicios que se ofrecerán:
· Lakeport (10 am-7pm, Silveira Community Center, 500 N. Main St) - Vacunas Lunes y Viernes; Pruebas los martes, miércoles y jueves.
· Lower Lake (de 7 am a 7 pm, Lower Lake Town Hall, 16195 Main St.) - Vacuna los martes, miércoles y viernes; Pruebas los lunes y martes.
Se puede acceder a las citas en https://MyTurn.ca.gov. Las personas pueden regresar a los lugares donde recibieron su primera dosis siempre que permanezcan abiertos, o recibir la segunda dosis en otro lugar. Ambos están programados en MyTurn.
Las vacunas continúan teniendo un sólido historial de seguridad: la pausa de J&J demuestra compromiso con la seguridad
Durante las últimas semanas, los informes nacionales de problemas raros con la vacuna Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) llevaron a una pausa en el uso de esta vacuna, y se esperan más revisiones científicas a finales de esta semana. También han surgido informes regionales de personas infectadas incluso después de la vacunación.
Estas preocupaciones son válidas, pero no deben hacer que las personas demoren en vacunarse. Según todos los informes, las complicaciones son graves, las vacunas funcionan contra todas las variantes que circulan actualmente en el área y la cantidad de personas que se infectan después de la vacunación se encuentra en el rango bajo esperado. No tengo conocimiento de que ningún residente del condado de Lake haya dado positivo después del período de dos semanas después de la dosis final.
A medida que avanzamos hacia esta nueva fase de la pandemia, continúe usando el sentido común para protegerse y proteger a su familia. La vacunación cambia las reglas del juego y, a medida que más personas estén protegidas, podremos retomar un estilo de vida más normal con menos preocupaciones. Por favor, haga su parte y reciba la vacuna tan pronto como pueda.
“Ruby” is a female domestic long hair in cat room kennel No. 120, ID No. 14475. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. ‘Ruby’
“Ruby” is a female domestic long hair with a brown coat and gold eyes.
She is in cat room kennel No. 120, ID No. 14475.
“Moxi” is a female domestic longhair in cat room kennel No. 133, ID No. 14483. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. ‘Moxi’
“Moxi” is a female domestic longhair with a calico coat and blue eyes.
She is in cat room kennel No. 133, ID No. 14483.
“Chick-a-dee’ is a female domestic short hair cat in cat room kennel No. 138, ID No. 14474. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. ‘Chick-a-dee’
“Chick-a-dee’ is a female domestic short hair cat with a gray and white coat and gold eyes.
She is in cat room kennel No. 138, ID No. 14474.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Animal Care and Control has four dogs of various breeds up for adoption this week.
Dogs available for adoption this week include mixes of boxer, Maltese and pit bull.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
The following dogs at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (additional dogs on the animal control Web site not listed are still “on hold”).
“Sophie” is a female boxer-pit bull mix in kennel No. 18, ID No. 14356. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. ‘Sophie’
“Sophie” is a female boxer-pit bull mix with a short red coat.
She is in kennel No. 18, ID No. 14356.
This female pit bull terrier is in kennel No. 22, ID No. 14486. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. Female pit bull terrier
This female pit bull terrier has a short blue and white coat.
She is in kennel No. 22, ID No. 14486.
This senior male Maltese is in kennel No. 24, ID No. 14489. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. Male Maltese
This senior male Maltese has a long white coat.
He is in kennel No. 24, ID No. 14489.
“Cowboy” is a young male pit bull terrier in kennel No. 27, ID No. 14499. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. ‘Cowboy’
“Cowboy” is a young male pit bull terrier with a short white and tan coat.
He is in kennel No. 27, ID No. 14499.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The National Weather Service is forecasting cooler and wetter spring weather this weekend thanks to a cold front that is arriving over the region.
The forecast for Lake County calls for rain on Saturday night, with amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible and southwest winds with wind speeds of up to 14 miles per hour in parts of the county.
Daytime temperatures on Saturday will be into the high 50s, dropping into the low 40s at night.
On Sunday, up to half an inch of rain is possible during the day and potentially another tenth of an inch at night, with winds or more than 10 miles per hour predicted.
In the south county, there is the possibility of a thunderstorm with small hail after 11 a.m., and gusting winds of up to 21 miles per hour. Between a quarter and half of an inch of rain is possible.
Sunday’s temperatures will top out in the high 40s, with conditions dropping into the high 30s at night.
Conditions are forecast to clear on Monday, when temperatures will remain cooler – in the 50s during the day and high 30s at night.
By Thursday, daytime temperatures will be into the mid-70s in parts of the county and the low 80s in the south county, and nighttime temperatures will be into the high 50s.
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