When Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs submitted an ordinance requiring residents to wear masks in public, he did not get a single vote from the six other members of the city council
STOCKTON, Calif. - The first wave of COVID-19 came slowly to San Joaquin County in the heart of California’s breadbasket, but the much-feared second surge is roaring through, sickening as many people in the two weeks since Memorial Day as in March and April combined.
But when Michael Tubbs, mayor of the county seat of Stockton, submitted an ordinance requiring residents to wear masks when they are in public, he did not get a single vote from the six other members of the city council. Last week, the chief health officer for Orange County in Southern California resigned amid protests and personal attacks after she issued an order to wear masks in public. Four other health officers in California have resigned or retired in the last two months, as have two public health department directors, local media have reported as cases and deaths continue to rise in the state.Health directors and the U.S.
City council seats in California are non partisan, and San Joaquin County leans Democratic like much of California. But the percentage of voters here who are Republican is higher than the state as a whole. Tubbs is a Democrat. Already, more people have been hospitalized with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19 in San Joaquin county than at its earlier peak on April 4, a Reuters analysis of state and county data show.
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