Coronavirus updates: Marin County reports a death, marking deadliest day for Bay Area

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LATEST, April 7, 8:35 p.m. Marin County reported an additional death Tuesday evening, bringing the county's death toll to 10. Five additional cases were also announced; the county now has 148 cases.

The death marks the 13th fatality reported across the nine Bay Area counties Tuesday, making it the deadliest day of the coronavirus outbreak thus far.

April 7, 4 p.m. Solano County reported 11 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total in the county to 99. Additionally, the county reported a new death, its second.

The death marks the 12th death reported across the nine Bay Area counties Tuesday, making it the deadliest day of the coronavirus outbreak thus far.

April 7, 3:50 p.m. President Trump suggested Tuesday he might "put a hold" on funding to the World Health Organization, before later saying he was just considering the notion, adding, “I’m not saying I’m going to do it.”

He nevertheless criticized the organization, saying they “they missed the call” on the pandemic. He claimed that they seem to be “very China-centric," and that "they should have known and they probably did know.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

April 7, 3:45 p.m. In a White House Press conference Tuesday, President Trump confirmed data suggesting the effects of the coronavirus are disproportionately affecting African American, calling the finding a "tremendous challenge."

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was also present, said diseases like hypertension, diabetes and asthma — underlying conditions for coronavirus patients — tend to impact minority populations, and African Americans in particular.

April 7, 3:20 p.m. Three inmates at the Santa Rita Jail tested positive for coronavirus, officials announced Tuesday. The count includes two new cases; the first positive test result was announced Saturday.

Alameda County Assistant Sheriff Thomas Madigan stated all inmates are in stable condition and in recovery.

About 600 low-level offenders have thus far been released from Santa Rita in an effort to mitigate coronavirus spread, Madigan said. He added that he expects the jail will release 100 more to meet a rule recently issued by the California Judicial Council.

A press release from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office stated Tuesday that the jail population has decreased from 2,597 to 2,012. Jail officials have conducted 51 tests; 23 have come back negative, 3 positive, and 25 are still pending.

April 7, 2:50 p.m. President Donald Trump said in a press conference Tuesday that General Motors, G.E. and other American companies will produce 2,200 by April 13, 5,500 by May 4, 12,000 ventilators by May 18, 20,000 more by June 1, and 60,000 more by June 29. In total, Trump said the U.S. will have a total of more than 100,000 in its stockpile.

"A total of 110,000 in a short period of time," he added. "Hopefully we won’t need them."

Any ventilators the U.S. doesn't urgently need will be sent to other countries needing them.

Additionally, Trump said there are currently 10 drugs in active trials, with "15 more to follow." Two vaccines are also being tested.

April 7, 2:45 p.m. The city of San Francisco is expanding access to public portable toilets and hand-washing stations in high-need areas of the city: the Tenderloin, South of Market, Bayview-Hunters Point, Castro, and Mission neighborhoods.

The new stops, to be installed Wednesday, will be staffed by Urban Alchemy, a nonprofit workforce development program. They will be available for use 24 hours a day.

“These extra bathrooms will help people take care of their basic needs with dignity and help keep our public spaces sanitary,” said Alaric Degrafinried, Acting Public Works Director. “That is important for the public at large and for our street cleaning crews who, as essential workers, remain on the job during this unprecedented pandemic helping to take care of San Francisco.”

Edit: This update initially stated these new portable toilets and hand-washing stations would be open Tuesday. It has been corrected to reflect that they will be installed Wednesday.

April 7, 2:15 p.m. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, announced Tuesday he would be moving approximately $1 billion of his equity in Square — "~28% of my wealth" — to a new LLC called Start Small intended to help fund global COVID-19 relief. He added that the fund would operate transparently, with tracking updating here.

"After we disarm this pandemic," Dorsey said in a tweet, "the focus will shift to girl's health and education" and universal basic income, or "U.B.I."

"Why UBI and girl's health and education?" he added. "I believe they represent the best long-term solutions to the existential problems facing the world ... UBI is a great idea needing experimentation. Girl's health and education is critical to balance."

April 7, 1:50 p.m. San Francisco and Oakland will cumulatively receive about $822.6 million in transit stimulus funds, the LA Times reported Tuesday. The specific transit agencies receiving the money have not yet been identified.

Other Bay Area cities receiving funds include Antioch ($35 million), Concord ($161 million), Fairfield ($7.8 million), Livermore ($4.6 million), Napa ($7.8 million), Petaluma ($3.5 million), San Jose ($197 million), Santa Rosa ($20.6 million), Vacaville ($6.9 million), and Vallejo ($11.4 million).

April 7, 1:25 p.m. Three counties in the Bay Area announced new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday:

Contra Costa counted 25, bringing the total there to 442.

Napa County counted one more case, bringing the total to 23.

Santa Clara County counted 61 more cases, bringing the total to 1,285. Santa Clara also recorded an additional death, bringing the toll in the county to 43.

April 7, 1:10 p.m. UC Berkeley engineers have figured out a way to convert sleep apnea machines into ventilators for use by patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms.

"We believe that using sleep apnea machines is a viable solution for non-ICU patients," researchers said in a press release. "This way, higher-grade ventilators can be reserved for patients with more advanced stages of respiratory disease." More here.

April 7, 12:55 p.m. Six counties, including San Francisco, officially announced that schools would be closed through the end of the academic year, with teacher-led virtual distance learning set to begin on April 13.

In a letter to San Francisco school district parents Tuesday, school officials noted the challenges of distance learning under these circumstances.

"We are working to find ways to stay connected which will continue to help us learn together and celebrate important milestones," wrote Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews and SF Board of Education President Mark Sanchez. "In the coming weeks, we will provide families with information regarding how grades, graduation, transcripts, scholarships, summer school, and continued distance learning instruction will be handled.

April 7, 12:45 p.m. Alameda County announced two additional deaths in county Tuesday, bringing the total number to 15. Alameda County also announced 45 new cases, making that total 602.

The city of Berkeley, which operates a separate health department, added one more additional case for a total of 32. No deaths have been reported in Berkeley.

April 7, 12:40 p.m. During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, California Governor Gavin Newsom released official numbers for hospitalizations in the state due to the coronavirus. Currently, there are 2,611 individuals in California hospitals, a 4.1% increase over the previous day. Of those, 1,108 are in the ICU, which is a 2.1% increase over the previous day.

April 7, 12:20 p.m.: A downtown Pleasant Hill senior living facility has an outbreak of COVID-19, Contra Costa County health officials said Tuesday afternoon.

The Carlton Senior Living facility on Cleaveland Road has 13 cases, four among residents and nine in staff members. Three of the four infected residents are now hospitalized.

"We are testing symptomatic people at the site and are evaluating the feasibility of testing everyone who lives and works there," officials said on Twitter.

April 7, 11:50 a.m. President Donald Trump has removed the inspector general tapped to oversee spending of the $2.2 trillion economic package, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

That watchdog, acting Defense Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, had been nominated to the post last month. It's now unclear who will take over those duties.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the move, saying Trump is attempting to "undermine oversight.” More here.

April 7, 11:30 a.m. San Francisco officials have launched a more in-depth reporting tool in an effort to release more comprehensive information related to coronavirus cases in the city.

The new tool, accessible here, breaks down cases in terms of race and ethnicity, age, gender and transmission category (for example, if it was acquired within the community). As of Tuesday, nearly half of all cases in San Francisco are in those aged under 40.

The data also includes hospitalization numbers, and delineates how many of those, per day, are in the ICU.

Also included are testing rates, though as administrators explain, "due to the high degree of variation in the time needed to complete tests by different labs, there is a delay" in reporting. At this time, 5,645 tests have been administered, and 13% have returned a positive result. Increases in testing capabilities across the city, officials also note, will increase the number of positive results.

April 7, 11:00 a.m. The Grand Princess cruise ship, which has been off the coast of San Francisco in an extended self-isolation since March, will return to Port 35 to restock on food and supplies before sailing back out to the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge, KGO reported Tuesday. It's not yet clear where the ship will head next.

Six hundred and fifty crew members aboard the ship have now been allowed to leave their state rooms, as long as they wear face masks and remain at a six-foot difference from each other.

In early March, the Grand Princess came to the San Francisco Bay after 12 people contracted the novel coronavirus. Eventually, more than 100 people tested positive for it. Three people — two passengers and a crew member — died of complications from COVID-19.

April 7, 10:00 a.m. The total number of Bay Area COVID-19 cases neared 4,000 on Tuesday morning, and the death count surpassed 100, reaching a total of 105 fatalities.

San Mateo County reported eight additional deaths related to COVID-19 on Tuesday morning. This is the largest number of deaths any Bay Area county has reported in a single day.

Details on the patients weren't released. The county now has 21 fatalities and 589 cases. San Mateo County reported its first death on March 22 and the last time it saw a death was on April 3, when three fatalities were reported.

San Francisco reported 39 new cases Tuesday, bringing the total to 622. The number of deaths remains at 9.

April 7, 9:15 a.m. Dr. Bob Wachter, the chair of UCSF's Department of Medicine, was a guest on KQED's Forum Tuesday morning and said the Bay Area has made progress "flattening the curve," but "that does not mean that it’s time to... go back to our old habits. There still is virus in the community and the vast, vast majority of us have not been exposed."

Dr. Wachter has become a prominent local voice during the pandemic through his Twitter account where he openly shares data from UCSF.

Cumulative cases in the greater Bay Area (due to limited testing these numbers reflect only a small portion of likely cases):

ALAMEDA COUNTY: 602 confirmed cases, 15 deaths*

For more information on Alameda County cases, visit the public health department website.

*Number excludes infected patients in city of Berkeley, which has its own health department and 32 cases.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY: 417 confirmed cases, 7 deaths

For more information on Contra Costa County cases, visit the public health department website.

LAKE COUNTY: 0 confirmed cases

For information on Lake County and coronavirus, visit the public health department website.

MARIN COUNTY: 148 confirmed cases, 10 deaths

Fore more information on Marin County cases, visit the public health department website.

MONTEREY COUNTY: 63 confirmed cases, 2 deaths

For more information on Monterey County cases, visit the public health department website.

NAPA COUNTY: 23 cases, 2 deaths

For more information on Napa County cases, visit the public health department website.

SAN BENITO COUNTY: 30 confirmed cases, 2 deaths

For more information on San Benito County cases, visit the public health department website.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY: 622 confirmed cases, 9 deaths

For more information on San Francisco County cases, visit the public health department website.

SAN MATEO COUNTY: 589 confirmed cases, 21 deaths

For more information on San Mateo County cases, visit the public health department website.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY: 1,285 confirmed cases, 43 deaths

Fore more information on Santa Clara County cases, visit the public health department website.

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: 71 confirmed cases, 1 death

For more information on Santa Cruz County cases, visit the public health department website.

SOLANO COUNTY: 99 confirmed cases, 2 deaths

For more information on Solano County cases, visit the public health department website.

SONOMA COUNTY: 115 confirmed cases, 1 death

For more information on Sonoma County cases, visit the public health department website.

In California, 348 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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