Hydrologic and erosional processes in hollows, Lone Tree Creek, Marin County, California

Background: The first shelter-in-place (SIP) order in the United States was issued across six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on critical care resources. We sought to assess the impact of this large-scale intervention on emergency departments (ED) in Marin County, California. Methods: We conducted a retrospective descriptive and trend analysis of all ED visits in Marin County, California from January 1, 2018 to May 4, 2020 to quantify the temporal dynamics of ED utilization before and after the March 17, 2020 SIP order. Results: The average number of ED visits per day decreased by 52.3% following the SIP order compared to corresponding time periods in 2018 and 2019. Both respiratory and non-respiratory visits declined, but this negative trend was most pronounced for non-respiratory admissions. Conclusions: The first SIP order to be issued in the United States in response to COVID-19 was associated with a significant reduction in ED utilization in Marin County.

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10. Invertebrates: A Case Study Of China Camp State Park, Marin County

Ecology, Conservation, and Restoration of Tidal Marshes ◽

10.1525/9780520954014-013 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 147-160

Keyword(s):

Marin County

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Be All That You Can Buy: The Human Potential Movement in Marin County

Agitpop ◽

10.4324/9781315082783-5 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 66-79

Author(s):

Asa Berger Arthur

Keyword(s):

Human Potential ◽

Human Potential Movement ◽

Marin County

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How War Makes (and Unmakes) the Democratic State

Cannons and Codes ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197509371.003.0016 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 278-295

Author(s):

Aziz Z. Huq

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

National Culture ◽

September 11 ◽

First Century ◽

Right Wing ◽

Marin County ◽

Democratic State ◽

September 11 Attacks ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Greek Island

Focusing on the figures of the terrorist and the migrant, Huq suggests that war in the twenty-first century, in partial contrast to its precursors, may prove costly to democracy. Whereas war once served to develop bureaucratic capacity, shrink wealth gaps, and expand the franchise, it is less likely to perform these functions in a period when war is increasingly cabined to distant zones of violence, mechanized, and privatized. Huq considers a pair of novels by Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West. The former documents the transformation, and potential radicalization, of a young Pakistani professional in the wake of the September 11 attacks; the latter follows a couple from an unspecified city on the brink of civil war to the Greek island of Mykonos, then to London, and finally to Marin County, California, where their relationship dissolves. Whereas right-wing populists cast the terrorist and the migrant as racialized threats to civilization and national culture, Hamid’s protagonists instead embody a commitment to pluralism, inclusion, and democratic openness.

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