- Rancho Las Positas Elementary School known cases on site: 158
- Livermore cases: 13,883; overall vaccination rate: 79.2%
- Alameda County cases: 267,361; deaths: 1,820; overall vaccination rate: 84.2%
- U.S. cases: 83,712,000+; deaths: 1,001,000+; overall vaccination rate: 66.6%
Over 1 million deaths from COVID was passed this week in the U.S.
Things had been going pretty well. April was a pretty stable month for COVID. But it's been ticking up again throughout May. A couple weeks ago Alameda county crossed into the "medium community transmission" category (from "low") per the CDC monitoring.
The Lab has renewed its strong recommendation that employees wear N-95 or KN-95 masks when meeting together, but hasn't moved to a requirement.
We got an exposure notification for Heather almost every day during the week her class was practicing for the play.
The girls became eligible for a booster shot this week and we did that on Thursday afternoon. They felt kind of lousy on Friday morning, so they stayed home from school. But by dinner time they were fine.