During a press conference Friday, Bay Area Counties announced rather than wait until only 15% of the region ICU beds to be available, they are shutting down Sunday.
Most of the Bay Area Health Officers will implement the State’s Regional Stay At Home Order as of Sunday December 6, 2020. In Alameda County, it is scheduled to take effect on Monday, December 7, 2020, and Marin County’s order will take effect Tuesday, December 8. The new restrictions will remain in place until January 4, 2021.
According to a release, yesterday, Governor Newsom announced that all sectors other than retail and essential operations would be closed in regions of the State where less than 15 percent of ICU beds are available under a new Regional Stay Home Order. Although health officials throughout the Bay Area are glad to see the State take action in light of the rapidly escalating surge in hospitalizations statewide, many believe even more aggressive action is necessary in the Bay Area to slow the surge and prevent our local hospitals from being overwhelmed.
Rather than waiting until Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed availability reaches critical levels and delaying closures that are inevitable, the Health Officers for the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and Santa Clara as well as the City of Berkeley are jointly announcing that they will implement the State’s Regional Stay Home Order now.
“It takes several weeks for new restrictions to slow rising hospitalizations and waiting until only 15 percent of a region’s ICU beds are available is just too late,” said San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragon. “Many heavily impacted parts of our region already have less than 15 percent of ICU beds available, and the time to act is now.”
“We are seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations here in Contra Costa County and across our region,” said Contra Costa County Health Officer Dr. Christopher Farnitano. “The number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in our county has doubled in just the past couple of weeks, and we are at risk of exceeding our hospital capacity later this month if current trends continue.”
Editors Note:
Dr. Christopher Farnitano stated they agree with the Governor and they needed to act now and will require many local business to change operations:
- Those who operate indoors must further reduce occupancy to 20% and write and enforce plans to ensure occupancy and face covering rules are followed.
- Personal care services, such as hair cutting and nails must close.
- Restaurants must close outside operations and convert to takeout and delivery only.
- Outdoor wineries and cardrooms must close.
- Contra Costa County Openings at a Glance: click here
“We cannot wait until after we have driven off the cliff to pull the emergency break,” said Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody. “We understand that the closures under the State order will have a profound impact on our local businesses. However, if we act quickly, we can both save lives and reduce the amount of time these restrictions have to stay in place, allowing businesses and activities to reopen much sooner.”
“Rising hospitalization rates across the region threaten not only our community members with severe COVID-19, but anyone who may need care because of a heart attack, stroke, accident, or other critical health need,” said Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss. “By acting together now we will have the greatest impact on the surge and save more lives.”
“Each of us can fight the spread,” said Dr. Lisa B. Hernandez, the City of Berkeley Health Officer. “Keep your family safe by avoiding even small gatherings outside of your household and not traveling. We don’t want holiday gatherings and travel to create a spike of cases on top of the surge we’re already seeing.”
“Although Marin has fared better than some other counties in our region over the last few weeks, we know it is only a matter of time before rising case and hospitalization put pressure on our hospitals too,” said Marin County Health Officer Dr. Matthew Willis. “We must act now, and must act together to ensure all hospitals in the Bay Area have the capacity they need to care for our residents.”
Consistent with the State framework, the six jurisdictions are working to ensure that all sectors have at least 48-hour notice of these closures. Most of the Bay Area Health Officers will implement the State’s Regional Stay At Home Order as of Sunday December 6, 2020. In Alameda County, it is scheduled to take effect on Monday, December 7, 2020, and Marin County’s order will take effect Tuesday, December 8. The new restrictions will remain in place until January 4, 2021.
The sector closures and restrictions on activity under the State’s Regional Stay Home Order are described here.
Health officers from Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, San Francisco and the City of Berkeley participated in the Press Conference a day after Governor Gavin Newsom announced a Stat-at-Home Order triggered by ICU Bed capacity.
Under Newsom’s Order, regions will remain in the Regional Stay at Home Order status for at least three weeks once triggered. Counties are eligible to come off the Regional Stay at Home Order after three weeks if their hospital ICU capacity projected four weeks out reaches 15 percent. Counties will return to the Blueprint for a Safer Economy tier determined by their case rate and test positivity after they are eligible to exit the Regional Stay at Home Order.
As of December 4, according to the State Dashboard, California has 1,286,557 confirmed cases of COVID-19, resulting in 19,582 deaths. The number of COVID-related deaths increased by 0.7 percent from the prior day total of 19,437.
The number of hospitalizations due to confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases in California reached a total of 9,948, an increase of 246 from the prior day total. The number of ICU patients due to confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases in California reached a total of 2,248, an increase of 101 from the prior day total.
Actual ICU capacity remaining as of December 3, 2020 for the 5 regions:
- 60% – Northern California
- 70% – San Joaquin Valley
- 60% – Southern California
- 20% – Greater Sacramento
- 30% – Bay Area
Numbers via State (click here)
STATE ORDER
What does the Regional Stay at Home Order do?
The Regional Stay at Home Order would be in effect for 3 weeks after the trigger and instructs Californians to stay at home as much as possible to limit the mixing with other households that can lead to COVID-19 spread. It allows access to (including travel for) critical services and allows outdoor activities to preserve Californians’ physical and mental health. This limited closure will help stop the surge and prevent overwhelming regional ICU capacity.
In any region that triggers a Regional Stay at Home Order because it drops below 15 percent ICU capacity, all operations in the following sectors must be closed:
- Indoor and Outdoor Playgrounds
- Indoor Recreational Facilities
- Hair Salons and Barbershops
- Personal Care Services
- Museums, Zoos, and Aquariums
- Movie Theaters
- Wineries
- Bars, Breweries and Distilleries
- Family Entertainment Centers
- Cardrooms and Satellite Wagering
- Limited Services
- Live Audience Sports
- Amusement Parks
The following sectors will have additional modifications in addition to 100 percent masking and physical distancing:
- Outdoor Recreational Facilities: Allow outdoor operation only without any food, drink or alcohol sales. Additionally, overnight stays at campgrounds will not be permitted.
- Retail: Allow indoor operation at 20 percent capacity with entrance metering and no eating or drinking in the stores. Additionally, special hours should be instituted for seniors and others with chronic conditions or compromised immune systems.
- Shopping Centers: Allow indoor operation at 20 percent capacity with entrance metering and no eating or drinking in the stores. Additionally, special hours should be instituted for seniors and others with chronic conditions or compromised immune systems.
- Hotels and Lodging: Allow to open for critical infrastructure support only.
- Restaurants: Allow only for take-out or pick-up.
- Offices: Allow remote only except for critical infrastructure sectors where remote working is not possible.
- Places of Worship: Allow outdoor services only.
- Entertainment Production including Professional Sports: Allow operation without live audiences. Additionally, testing protocol and “bubbles” are highly encouraged.
The Order does not modify existing state guidance regarding K-12 schools.
The following sectors are allowed to remain open when a remote option is not possible with appropriate infectious disease preventative measures including 100 percent masking and physical distancing:
- Critical Infrastructure
- Non-urgent medical and dental care
- Child care and pre-K
When does a Regional Stay at Home Order end?
The Regional Stay at Home Order will be implemented regionally once there is less than 15 percent ICU capacity remaining in the designated region. After three weeks from the start of the Stay-at-Home Order, the following criteria would apply:
- End for a county in a region if the region’s ICU capacity projected out four weeks (from three weeks since the Stay-at-Home Order started) is above or equal to 15 percent. Each county in the region would be assigned to a tier based on the Blueprint for a Safer Economy.
- Remain in effect in a county if the region’s ICU capacity projected out four weeks (from three weeks since the Stay-at-Home Order started) is less than 15 percent. The order would remain in effect until the region’s ICU capacity meets criteria (1) above. This would be assessed on a weekly basis.
Non-Essential Travel Lodging
Except as otherwise required by law, no hotel or lodging entity in California shall accept or honor out of state reservations for non-essential travel, unless the reservation is for at least the minimum time period required for quarantine and the persons identified in the reservation will quarantine in the hotel or lodging entity until after that time period has expired.
Can people go outside?
Members of the same household are encouraged to maintain physical and mental health by safely going to a park, hike, walk or bike ride when safe to do so and socially distanced. Californians are also encouraged to keep connected with loved ones virtually.
The Regional Stay at Home Order can be found here.
15 comments
These Bay Area Health Officers are overstepping their role and should be removed. This is not a lawful order and we have a constitution, not run by a rogue health care dictators.
Another citing the constitution qhen they have little understanding. The constitution to CON-servatives just means let me do what i want because i have the impulse control and social skills of a petulant toddler. Please bro go get sick so we dont have to hear you anymore and go buy anither gun so u can feel like your genitals are larger than they r.
Health “Officers”…..can not enact or write any kind of Law, whatsoever.
There is no “pandemic”. They need the supposed “Overwhelmed State Health Services”, it is a benchmark in the California Emergency Services Act, required for the declaration of a “State of Emergency”. This is THEATER, look around you. Use discernment.
—The filthy Treacherous Governor is sticking to his fellow Traitors preplanned script.
Smoke and mirrors, fraudulent numbers, fraudulent projections, false positives and PCR cycle-counts, co-morbidities, financial incentives, Presstitute media lockstep, conflicts of interest, no excess 2020 US deaths, just LIES, distortions, MORE LIES, distractions, AND BIGGER LIES.
-TREASON-
-This whole charade is one big orchestrated show, theater, produced to keep most of the non-thinking zombie Americans masturbating to the FEAR-PORN……. . .
too distracted and divided to realize there is actually an active Coup upon their Country.
Stand. Or fall.
Jaime man you are creative. You should flesh out that plot your working up and write it out, id pay to see the movie. Sell the rights and get that money bro
Lmao, time to change your tin foil it’s a little dirty. I am sure no one is going to give a rats ass about your input! You probably have an online degree from some “specialty” college.
All the factory have to close in stay home order ？
The division of the state into 5 or 6 regions (and imposing consistant restrictions regionwide) would have made sense IF it had been done last March at the beginning.
Instead, we now have a massively confusing blur of state actions, “region” actions, county actions and (in some cases) city actions, color codes and weekly two-hour monologues from Newson filled with mind-numbing stats. Is it any surprise that people are confused. After a while, you just have to tune out and just observe common-sense behavior.
The authorities have forgotten the lesson of KISS. If you want to get your point over, KEEP IT SIMPLE….
Man, all you tough guys out there I was expecting to see a lot of non mask wearing going on. I went to Target, winco, Costco and even Walmart, did not see a single non complaint person. I guess y’all just hide in your houses with MAGA hats afraid of the Blackman. Y’all a bunch of cowards…….. Especially those “Jamie’s”
Any of you schuckster troll’s want to comment…..
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Que the paid troll chumps…,.
Good people like you should not have babies
327k dose of the COVID vaccine? Man that is gonna do a whole lot
Ok, let me start with: I am a conservative. I am so sick of hearing this “tin foil hats” , “won’t wear a mask” talk. I am also a medical professional, so yes, there is a pandemic. There,…Happy?
Now on the however… part. I walk through Target, and Best buy today and see sooo many people with there masks down under their nose it just makes me sick!, one of which yelled at another customer in the parking lot because he didn’t have his mask on yet! while his was only covering his mouth! Talk about smart? it comes with both sides.
Please stop. We are all individuals and our political party does not make who we are, despite what you hear on television. got it?
i’ve seen a lot of people (mostly guys) with THEIR masks under THEIR noses! A few cashiers at Raley’s did that and I “suggested” they pull them up which they did. One said he couldn’t breathe, so I told him he was wearing the wrong mask. I suggested he take a look at mine.
PAID TROLLS ABOUND….
You are a Karen
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