Santa Clara County, with 43 confirmed coronavirus cases and one death, has California’s largest number of confirmed infections.
After declining an earlier recommendation to halt mass gatherings late last week, the San Jose Sharks saidby the county’s new order at SAP Center in downtown San Jose, which is enforceable by the county sheriff and city police agencies.
There has been a rapid increase in the number of confirmed cases in Santa Clara County, rising from 11 cases on Thursday to 43 on Monday. Of the total, 21 in Silicon Valley are believed to have been infected by someone unknown in the community, and not by getting infected by traveling to an area where the virus is circulating, nor by having been infected by someone with a confirmed case.
Older adults and those with underlying health conditions, such as diabetes, obesity, asthma, disease of the heart, lung or kidney, and those with weakened immune systems, are at much greater risk for severe illness and death. The virus can cause severe illness by moving from the throat, nose and sinuses into the lungs and airways, where it hijacks those cells, destroying them and spreading more copies of the virus throughout the body.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said it’s imperative nursing homes get up to speed with regard to infection control.
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