A San Francisco police officer died Saturday of complications from COVID-19, multiple media outlets reported.

Officer Jack Nyce, 47, worked for the police department for more than 17 years. He was most recently assigned to Park Station, SF Police Chief Bill Scott said in a statement.

Scott didn’t comment on the cause of death, but his wife, Melissa Nyce, told the Stockton Record that he tested positive for coronavirus on November 2 and later went to the hospital with complications from the virus. He died in a Kaiser hospital in Manteca, where he and his wife lived.

“Nyce was among 41 officers who were furloughed for failing to meet the city’s Nov. 1 immunization deadline,” NBC Bay Area reported.

The San Francisco Police Officers Association honored Nyce in a statement.

“Our heartfelt condolences go out to Jack’s wife, family and friends,” said Tony Montoya, president of the association. “This is a sad time for our department. Jack leaves a void that will be difficult to fill. Rest in peace, Officer Nyce.”

SFPD said it will share more information about plans for Nyce’s memorial as it becomes available. “In the meantime, please keep Jack, his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time,” Scott said.

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The coronavirus husband who tore off his oxygen mask after hearing his wife died of the disease in another ward: Bill, 90, died just days after Mary, his 63-year-old wife

• Mary Dartnall, 90, stopped responding and went to the hospital in Southampton
• After initially things seemed to be better, Ms. Dartnall died a few days later
• Bill Dartnall took off his oxygen mask after learning of his wife’s death
• How to help people affected by Covid-19

By Henry Martin for Mailonline

Released: 4:50 AM EDT, April 29, 2020 | Updated: 11:09 AM EDT, April 29, 2020

A retiree with coronavirus died on the same day as his 63-year-old wife after she was refused treatment when he learned of her death.

Bill Dartnall, 90, took off his oxygen mask after learning of the death of his wife Mary, 81, who had also tested positive for the virus.

Mr Dartnall worked as a chimney sweep in Southampton for over 40 years and was also a noted beekeeper with his wife.

After Ms. Dartnall fell ill, she stopped responding and was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where she tested positive for Covid-19.

A few days later, her husband suffered a stroke and was admitted to the same hospital where he was found to have the virus.

The couple who lived in Millbrook were both treated for something called Covid-19 pneumonia.

Bill and Mary Dartnall at the hospital on March 17th before landing on the coronavirus ward

Bill and Mary Dartnall on their wedding day in November 1956. It was a devastating double tragedy for the couple’s two daughters, Rosemary and Ann

After initially improving, Ms. Dartnall deteriorated for the worse and died a few days after she was admitted.

When her husband was given the news, he refused any further oxygen and died five hours later.

It was a devastating double tragedy for the couple’s two daughters, Rosemary and Ann.

Rosemary said, “When he was told that Mom had died, he tried to pull the mask off his face and made it clear that he no longer wanted oxygen.

When Mr. Dartnall was given the news, he refused any further oxygen and died five hours later

Mr and Mrs Dartnell in their garden. According to the NHS England, patients have the right to refuse treatment

“Dad refused to wear the mask – we don’t know exactly why, but he didn’t want to continue.

“He continued to receive care and passed away peacefully in his sleep a few hours later.

“Dad probably wouldn’t have wanted to live without mum. They were very much a couple and it’s hard to imagine either of them without the other. ‘

According to the NHS England, patients have the right to refuse treatment.

The website states, “If you refuse treatment, your decision must be respected, even if it is believed that refusing treatment would result in your death.”

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San Francisco health officials extended the district’s stay-at-home order indefinitely Thursday as coronavirus cases rose and outdoor restaurants and a host of other businesses remained closed.

Individuals traveling to the county from outside the Bay Area must be quarantined for 10 days upon arrival, while gyms and personal care services, as well as outdoor restaurants, museums, and entertainment centers such as roller skating rinks must remain closed until the order is canceled.

The decision came as California had its worst coronavirus surge since the pandemic began, and a day after southern California health officials identified a more contagious strain of COVID-19. Given that intensive care unit capacity is unlikely to shift significantly in the coming weeks – and in anticipation of even more cases due to holiday gatherings – extending the order is the safest way forward, said Grant Colfax, Breed and Health Officer by Mayor London Breed, on Thursday.

“We have proactively kept order at home and quarantine on travel to protect the Franciscans and in the hope that by acting quickly, we can flatten the curve and reopen it more quickly,” said Breed in an explanation. “It seems to be working, but we need more time to realize that we are going in the right direction and that the December break is not throwing us back. There are glimmers of hope and now is not the time to let up. “

The most recent contract was awarded nationwide on December 3 and regionally strengthened two weeks later by the state when hospital capacity in the Bay Area fell below 15%. Although the state could try to overturn the order on Jan. 7, infection rates and intensive care unit capacity suggest it is unlikely, Breed said.

Retail businesses such as malls, hardware stores, and convenience stores may have 20% utilization, while standalone grocery stores may have 35% utilization. Low-contact retail – such as electronics and shoe repair shops – may only be operated in connection with the handover at the roadside.

Small outdoor gatherings are allowed, but only with one household and a maximum of 12 people or two people from two separate households. We strongly advise against unnecessary travel.

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LOS ANGELES – When Angeleno Wine Co. reopened its tasting room, co-owner Amy Luftig Viste was torn as old friends reunited for the first time since the pandemic closed so many stores that big cities looked like ghost towns.

Even with limited capacity, lively conversations flowed from the tables between the casks of aging wine and echoed off the brick walls of the winery, tucked away in an industrial area on the edge of downtown Los Angeles.

“It felt like the winery had come back to life,” Luftig Viste said on Sunday, the day after it reopened after being closed for but two weeks for the past 13 months.

The noise in a small space is expected to get louder if capacity is allowed to double to 50% as Los Angeles and San Francisco lead the way for California operations to reopen more widely.

The state’s major cities are likely to be the only major urban areas in the state that have met virus case thresholds for the least restrictive level as of Tuesday. This allows indoor bars to reopen, allows larger crowds to cheer for Major League Baseball Dodgers and Giants, and expand capacity in restaurants, cinemas, amusement parks, gyms, and other facilities.

It’s a notable turnaround considering that California was the epicenter of the US virus outbreak just a few months ago.

The two cities weathered the pandemic differently, but appear in the same spot after a nationwide shutdown in March 2020. Streets, shutters and restaurants have been closed and office buildings have been darkened.

While San Francisco largely defeated coronavirus by avoiding it, Los Angeles was nearly beaten during the winter flood. In the worst case scenario, more than 500 people died daily in California, and hospitals in the LA area were barely able to handle the overwhelming influx of patients.

San Francisco briefly hit the Least Restrictive Yellow Level for a brief period in October, the only urban area to do so before an alarming spike forced a withdrawal in some cases. LA only emerged from the most restrictive tier in March.

Now California has the lowest case rate in the country. Los Angeles County, home to a quarter of the state’s nearly 40 million residents and a disproportionately large number of the state’s 60,000 deaths, did not record a single COVID-19 death on Sunday or Monday.

As the spring warms up, the highways are congested, workers are returning to offices, and people are going to restaurants and breweries.

On Sunday, drivers in the Arts District in downtown LA circled the block looking for parking. The guests filled the sidewalk tables in the sausage kitchen, ate sausages and drank Belgian and German beer. A line of people waiting to be seated at Angel City Brewery stretched down the street.

Chris Sammons said he felt a civic obligation to get out and support businesses.

“It almost feels like a chore to be involved with the city,” said Sammons. “We have to bring LA back to life.”

It was the first time for his friend Stephen Tyler to say he was excited after crouching and vaccinating himself for so long.

“It’s just good to be back in town, to be with people,” said Tyler.

In San Francisco, business has picked up in Mixt, a popular lunch spot for salad lovers in the financial district. But it’s not pre-pandemic levels with lines spilling outdoors, said Leslie Silverglide, the chain’s co-founder and CEO. She plans to open two more stores in the city center in the coming weeks.

“It seems like people are coming back,” she said. “They look forward to having lunch with colleagues again.”

Fear of contracting the virus resulted in a huge drop in the number of local transport drivers. Jason Alderman said he felt like a kid on his first day of school riding a local train to San Francisco. He works for the online payment start-up Fast, which will reopen its headquarters as soon as San Francisco allows it at the end of March.

“Instead of feeling like a hollowed-out ghost town that people were quick to leave, it felt like there were green shoots of life,” he said. “I felt a stab of energy that was there earlier.”

When the lockdown was issued in March 2020, an estimated 137,500 employees at companies in San Francisco, including Google, Facebook and Uber, appeared to have disappeared overnight.

Moving trucks being moved from households to more spacious suburban homes and younger folks just packed up their cars and left as they could work from anywhere. Apartment rents have gone down, but now they’re increasing.

The vacancy rate in San Francisco is 18% compared to 10% last year, said John Chang, senior vice president at Marcus & Millichap, a commercial real estate finance and advisory firm. In Los Angeles the vacancy rate is 17.5% compared to 13.5% in the previous year.

Perhaps more tellingly, only 14% of key cards are used to access offices in San Francisco, compared to 24% in LA. At the other end of the spectrum is Dallas, where data showed that 41% of the cards were used, reflecting the different approaches to the virus across the two states.

Chang said workers suddenly left San Francisco when the original shutdown order went into effect. He expects the return to be gradual.

Lisa Elder, a paralegal who has been with her office since July, said that even with some restaurants and cafes that recently reopened, the area is a shadow of their former selves.

“Before COVID filled this place, there were tons of people eating in the alley, and now it’s like quiet. It’s crazy, ”she said.

At Angeleno Wine, Luftig Viste said most of their customers had been vaccinated and they were all looking forward to being back outside.

“It’s just a great honor to be where people come to break the seal when we get out,” she said.

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Har reported from San Francisco. Olga R. Rodriguez contributed to this report from San Francisco.

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SACRAMENTO (AP) – California lawmakers on Monday revived a multi-billion dollar tax break for some businesses after the Biden government assured them the proposal would not jeopardize federal state aid to coronavirus.

The federal government granted approximately $ 97 billion in loans to California businesses during the pandemic, most of which entrepreneurs do not have to repay. Congress is already allowing entrepreneurs to deduct the costs associated with these loans from their federal taxes. But California entrepreneurs still owe state taxes on that money.

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California lawmakers wanted to change that, and they were ready to do so earlier this year. But they put it off because they feared the proposal could force them to lose some of their own federal coronavirus aid.

That’s because Congress has banned states from using coronavirus bailouts to pay for tax cuts. Because the proposal would reduce the amount of money entrepreneurs pay in state taxes, Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration feared it would be seen as a tax cut and jeopardize some of the $ 26 billion in state aid.

The US Treasury Department assured the state it could pass the bill without sacrificing billions of dollars in federal aid. The Senate voted 37-0 on Monday. The bill is now going to the state assembly, where assembly spokesman Anthony Rendon described it as “one of the largest proposed tax cuts in California history”. The California Treasury Department says the tax break will cost the state between $ 4.4 billion and $ 6.8 billion over the next six years.

Rendon’s office said the congregation plans to review the proposal in committee and then take it “as soon as possible”.

“The large number of co-authors on this bill shows his broad legislative support,” he said.

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The proposal is a relief for tax advisors who have advised clients to postpone filing their state taxes while waiting for the fate of the law in the legislature. Now that the bill is moving again, it will spark a flurry of activity as accountants rush to determine its impact, which depends on how regulators interpret it.

“That has been our big problem for the past three to four months, a lack of clarity about who might qualify for forgiveness,” said John P. Schultz, an accountant in the city of Ontario east of Los Angeles and a member of the California Society Auditors. “It will be a mystery to get everything ready.”

But not every company will benefit from it. The tax break only applies to companies that are not publicly traded and to companies that have reported a loss of at least 25% of gross income in at least one quarter of 2020.

“While it excludes some companies, it’s a very small number,” said Senator Nancy Skinner, a Berkeley Democrat and chair of the Senate Budget and Tax Audit Committee.

State Senator Andreas Borgeas, a Republican from Fresno, said he could draft another bill later this year to help companies excluded from the proposal. But he said he voted for the proposal on Monday because it “affects the vast majority of businesses that need help now”.

“It is fundamentally unfair for California to tax federal emergency funds,” he said. “This is a huge win for companies in California.”

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San Francisco health officials extended the district’s stay-at-home order indefinitely Thursday as coronavirus cases rose and outdoor restaurants and a host of other businesses remained closed.

Individuals traveling to the county from outside the Bay Area must be quarantined for 10 days upon arrival, while gyms and personal care services, as well as outdoor restaurants, museums, and entertainment centers such as roller skating rinks must remain closed until the order is canceled.

The decision came as California had its worst coronavirus surge since the pandemic began, and a day after southern California health officials identified a more contagious strain of COVID-19. Given that intensive care unit capacity is unlikely to shift significantly in the coming weeks – and in anticipation of even more cases due to holiday gatherings – extending the order is the safest way forward, said Grant Colfax, Breed and Health Officer by Mayor London Breed, on Thursday.

“We have proactively kept order at home and quarantine on travel to protect the Franciscans and in the hope that by acting quickly we can flatten the curve and reopen it faster,” Breed said in an explanation. “It seems to be working, but we need more time to realize that we are going in the right direction and that the December break is not throwing us back. There are glimmers of hope and now is not the time to let up. “

The most recent contract was awarded nationwide on December 3 and regionally strengthened two weeks later by the state when hospital capacity in the Bay Area fell below 15%. Although the state could try to overturn the order on Jan. 7, infection rates and intensive care unit capacity suggest it is unlikely, Breed said.

Retail businesses such as malls, hardware stores, and convenience stores may have 20% occupancy, while standalone grocery stores may have 35% occupancy. Low-contact retail – such as electronics and shoe repair shops – may only be operated in connection with the delivery on the roadside.

Small outdoor gatherings are allowed, but only with one household and a maximum of 12 people or two people from two separate households. We strongly advise against unnecessary travel.

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