Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, July 21, and for emergency room doctors, there’s little escape from the pandemic, even at home. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Test cases
Oakland and Berkeley have set themselves on a path to fundamentally rethink policing. The question now is whether they can deliver.
As the cities look to cut police funding in half — slashing $150 million in Oakland and about $36 million in Berkeley — they face obstacles ranging from collective bargaining agreements, to peculiar tax issues, to tense debates that, in Oakland’s case, have already been part of the political discourse for decades.
Read more from Rachel Swan and Brett Simpson.
Portland protests: President Trump threatens to send federal troops to a list of cities, including Oakland, similar to his controversial deployment in Portland of Homeland Security agents in unmarked cars and camouflage uniforms.
Oregon officials have already said they want the federal agents gone and California leaders pushed back against the threat on Monday.
Patients, family and PPE
The pandemic plagues everyone with fear, but for those on the front lines, stress is exponential. Emergency room doctors across the country reported their anxiety increasing during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new UCSF study.
And the stress didn’t stay at work, Mallory Moench reports.
• Health care workers begin 5-day strike at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
• Californians can get their hair done outdoors under new health order.
• San Mateo County suspends jury trials after employee tests positive for COVID-19.
• Case surge continues: California could overtake New York in total coronavirus cases this week, but total deaths are far lower.
Treatment questions
The cause of death of the Theodore Roosevelt sailor who contracted the coronavirus aboard the stricken aircraft carrier was a severe brain injury brought on by lack of oxygen, cardiac arrest and COVID-19 sepsis, according to a Navy line of duty death investigation report obtained exclusively by The Chronicle.
The report also raised questions about his care once he contracted coronavirus, Matthias Gafni reports.
Background: Capt. Brett Crozier chose his crew over his career. His decision surprised no one who knows him.
The Throughline
Grocery store cashiers, farmworkers, food processors, social workers: These are some of the many jobs deemed essential amid a lingering pandemic that were previously little-noticed and less well-paid.
After an initial swell of interest, cheers and earnest thank-yous, essential workers are still in harms’ way when they go to work — and the pay has not significantly changed. In California, essential workers make 14% less than the average worker, according to one analysis. Nationwide, the disparity is closer to 18%.
After the cheers and the (temporary) hazard bonuses, Ryan Kost writes, what might be enough to support the people working in jobs we’ve deemed essential?
More: The Throughline, week two — closing the gap.
Around the Bay
• Already behind: The Bay Area would need to more than double its housing production over the next decade to meet preliminary state goals aimed at easing the housing shortage that has driven out thousands of families over the past decade and made the region the nation’s most expensive.
• Alleged discrimination and harassment: Former NFL player turned Redwood City firefighter sues department for racial discrimination.
• Endangering cleaners: Hotel groups sue San Francisco over coronavirus daily room-cleaning law.
• Saint Joseph’s: Storied Tosca Cafe is now a pop-up restaurant outside a former SoMa church.
• Gone: Judge issues warrant for fugitive East Bay priest who skipped sexual battery arraignment. Previously: East Bay diocese moves priest to another parish after concluding he sexually harassed employees.
• A ‘self-inflicted wound’: San Quentin coronavirus outbreak apparently result of missed steps by prison overseer. 12 deaths so far: Another Death Row inmate dies at San Quentin; COVID-19 suspected.
• Quick meat test: Natural-meat stalwart Bill Niman’s newest company: an “antibiotic-free” labeling brand.
Baseball Notebook
Among the people suggested to replace the name of an Army post in Texas named after a Confederate general is baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who served at the post during his time in the U.S. Army — and stood up against segregation there.
With that in mind, Bruce Jenkins notes two major baseball awards he thinks should be renamed to help Major League Baseball sever links to its racist past.
More from Sporting Green:
• The Giants won their exhibition game against the A’s, but more attention was paid to who knelt for the national anthem and why. The players, and Manager Gabe Kapler, explained.
• Giants’ Brandon Belt, Evan Longoria will not be ready by Opening Day, manager says.
• NFL players use power of their voices to get some progress on virus testing.
• Sign up for our weekly MLB team-specific newsletters: Giants Splash and A’s Plus.
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