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Local Recommendations for COVID-19 Prevention: “There are still so many people infected, and 40 percent of those people don’t know it.Inyo County is currently in the LOW transmission level of the CDC’s COVID-19 Community Index. “What people read is OK, things are better so now we can go back to being less cautious,” he said. He worried that lifting the stay-home orders will send the wrong message to residents. one, along with the L452R variant in California. The state’s seven-day positivity rate has fallen to 8.1 percent, the lowest it has been in weeks.īut Swartzberg said there’s still a lot of unknowns about the new variants - the U.K. But the state is also testing more than at any point of the pandemic. The 14-day-rolling average is still 31,299 cases a day, more than three times what it was during the summer surge. While the average daily case rate has fallen, it remains high.

In early December, the California Department of Public Health divided the state into five regions, and only a rural swath at the northern end of the state never had stay-at-home orders in effect. The state hasn’t made public the exact formula to determine its ICU projections, and the Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions remain below the 15 percent capacity threshold. “Late this evening, senior officials in the Newsom administration informed us that the governor will announce tomorrow that the stay-at-home order will be lifted in all regions of the state,” the California Restaurant Association told members in an email Sunday night. And state health chief Mark Ghaly indicated in December he ban was intended mostly to deter residents from venturing outside their homes. Restaurateurs have argued that outdoor dining doesn’t lead to an increase in coronavirus cases. The governor has faced litigation over the stay-at-home restrictions on dining. Most non-retail indoor activities will remain banned, including religious services. That makes California’s color-based Blueprint for a Safer Economy the operative rulebook for determining when and how sectors can reopen.Īll but four of California’s 58 counties remain in the state’s most restrictive purple tier status and are expected to remain there for weeks, albeit without the same prohibitions that come with stay-at-home orders. COVID-19 is still here and still deadly, so our work is not over, but it’s important to recognize our collective actions saved lives and we are turning a critical corner.” “Together, we changed our activities knowing our short-term sacrifices would lead to longer-term gains. “Californians heard the urgent message to stay home as much as possible and accepted that challenge to slow the surge and save lives,” said Tomás Aragón, CDPH director and state public health officer, in a statement. While hospitals in California remain stretched thin - particularly in hardest-hit Southern California - state health officials said they believe residents have helped bring coronavirus rates down enough that hospitals won’t be as strained over the next few weeks. “Can’t we learn from the past, and can’t we do this a little more slowly?” “My initial reaction was I’ve seen this before,” he said. Swartzberg acknowledged the state’s case rates and hospitalizations are going in the right direction, but he called Newsom’s move an “aggressively loosening” of the entire order. Newsom said that in four weeks’ time, the entire state will have twice that capacity at 30.3 percent. The state has not fully explained how it calculates that projection. That includes Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties, which have been among those willing to impose stricter rules than the state in past months.ĬDPH said it released the rest of the state from stay-at-home orders based on a determination there will be at least 15 percent ICU capacity within four weeks.

Officials in large California counties said later Monday that they generally plan to allow outdoor dining and hair salon services to resume. “It suggests there’s an enormous amount on pressure on Newsom,” said John Swartzberg, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, Berkeley.

California lockdown update