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Watsonville homicide detectives are investigating a fatal shooting that took place on South Green Valley Road Thursday night. The incident happened at about 8 p-m on South Green Valley Road where patrol units responded to reports of a driver struck by gunfire. The 30 year old victim was pronounced dead at the scene. It has yet to be determined whether the shooting is gang related.
The Kaiser Santa Teresa hospital in San Jose faces a 43-thousand dollar fine for a corona virus outbreak that infected at least 60 people.
The super spreading event that happened in the emergency room of the hospital Christmas Day… is blamed on a staff member wearing an inflatable Christmas tree costume.
According to initial reports… the staff member unknowingly had the virus and was apparently blowing it around the hospital with the fan inside her costume.
Health experts admit they’re not convinced the costume is entirely to blame… there may have been other factors that contributed to the massive spread and that’s what they’re investigating now..
Metro bus riders in Santa Cruz be advised that even with complete sanitization of buses an estimated 20 Santa Cruz metro employees have the corona virus.
14 out of the 20 who tested positive are bus drivers… this comes despite precautions like shields around the driver and around the passengers.
The transportation agency has been doing its own contact tracing and weekly testing of employees.
While the stay-at-home order was due to expire today… it’s likely it will be extended another week as the bay area has failed to meet the 15-percent i-c-u bed capacity.
Yesterday(thurs.) There were 76 people from Santa Cruz county who are hospitalized with the Covid 19 virus and they occupied 14 of the 22 available i-c-u beds.
The numbers in our county indicate that 90-percent of the deaths are those individuals over the age of 60.
As the pandemic drags on, the loss at the Monterey Bay Aquarium mounts. Recently, the aquarium announced it will lay off an additional 27 employees.
According to the executive director, the aquarium has lost 55-million dollars in revenue since march. With an operating cost of 1-point-three million dollars a week to care for all the animals and collections… the administration has sought to secure more donations but is still falling way short.
Meanwhile, the goal now is to maintain long term viability and the fiscal health of a local treasure.