Public Health Officials Lift Regional Stay at Home Order for All Regions

Press release from California Department of Public Health (CDPH):

SACRAMENTO – Officials with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today ended the Regional Stay at Home Order, lifting the order for all regions statewide, including the three regions that had still been under the order – San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area and Southern California. Four-week ICU capacity projections for these three regions are above 15%, the threshold that allows regions to exit the order. The Sacramento Region exited the order on January 12 and the Northern California region never entered the order.

 

This action allows all counties statewide to return to the rules and framework of the Blueprint for a Safer Economy and color-coded tiers that indicate which activities and businesses are open based on local case rates and test positivity. The majority of the counties are in the strictest, or purple tier. Tier updates are provided weekly on Tuesdays. Individual counties could choose to impose stricter rules.

 

“Californians heard the urgent message to stay home as much as possible and accepted that challenge to slow the surge and save lives,” said Dr. Tomás Aragón, CDPH director and state public health officer. “Together, we changed our activities knowing our short-term sacrifices would lead to longer-term gains. 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.” 

 

While there are positive signs that the virus is spreading at a slower rate across the state, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. It is still critical that Californians continue to wear masks when they leave their homes, maintain physical distance of at least 6 feet, wash their hands frequently, avoid gatherings and mixing with other households, follow all state and local health department guidance and get the vaccine when it’s their turn.

 

The state, in collaboration with local health departments and health care facilities statewide, took a long list of actions to support California’s hospitals and slow the surge in cases and hospitalizations.

 

  • The Regional Stay at Home Order urged Californians to stay home except for essential activities, which helped lower disease transmission levels and reduce burden on the hospital system.
  • California deployed more than 4,100 medical professionals to facilities across the state to ease the burden on frontline health care workers.
  • The state provided assistance within hospitals in the form of personal protective equipment, ventilators and help with oxygen supply.
  • California also helped hospitals expand their capacity by opening 16 alternate care sites, lower-acuity facilities where COVID-19 patients get a bridge from hospital to home as they are recovering.
  • Public health leaders implemented a statewide order to make it easier to transfer patients from over-crowded hospitals to those with more space and staff.
  • The administration of vaccines to health care workers has meant that fewer health care workers are falling ill to the virus, which helps keep staffing levels more stable.

 

“California is slowly starting to emerge from the most dangerous surge of this pandemic yet, which is the light at the end of the tunnel we’ve been hoping for,” said California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly. “Seven weeks ago, our hospitals and front-line medical workers were stretched to their limits, but Californians heard the urgent message to stay home when possible and our surge after the December holidays did not overwhelm the health care system to the degree we had feared.”

 

Nearly all the counties exiting the Regional Stay at Home Order today are in the Purple or widespread (most restrictive) tier. Services and activities, such as outdoor dining and personal services, may resume immediately with required modifications, subject to any additional restrictions required by local jurisdictions. See the county map to find the status of activities open in each county.

 

Because case rates remain high across most of the state, the state’s Hospital Surge Order remains in place to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. The Limited Stay at Home Order, which limits non-essential activities between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., expires with the Regional Stay At Home Order ending.

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Frank Pembleton
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Frank Pembleton
3 years ago

Panic move by Gov Hairgel. The recall effort that he dismissed earlier is getting serious. His minions also threw out the LA Times disinformation article to try and slow it down. This move, like most of his others, is going to cost lives. That’s why they stopped publishing the accurate rate-of-infection and ICU statistics. But hey, at least he’s not Cuomo. People are still dying! Don’t trust these people! Be safe!

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago

I’ve been thinking about why the ICU figures stopped being posted and used for tier assessment.
If people started using this information to determine where the most availability was in an ICU setting when they become ill with Covid19 and then travelled there to be admitted, it would potentially inappropriately lock down undeserving areas until there was a complete statewide shutdown.

Restrictions should be based on where people become ill, not where the hospital they end up in is.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

ICU figures are available, if somewhat spotty locally. St. Josephs had 13% ICU availability as of January 21st.

https://covidtracking.com/data/hospital-facilities#-113.86483603445811,35.843814352932256,4.5

I don’t see “COVID tourism” among the sick as a real issue. In the areas with large numbers of COVID cases there are also multiple hospitals within a local area. Going out of the local area is not in the interests of someone who needs health support short of hospitalization. There is probably some co-ordination among local hospitals to allocate patients based on ICU availability.

The current lockdown decisions are based on health system impacts, as they should be. Other considerations come into play when hospital usage is further from crisis levels.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

“The current lockdown decisions are based on health system impacts, as they should be. Other considerations come into play when hospital usage is further from crisis levels.”

The problem here is two-fold, Thirdeye :

We, as Californians, are not privy to the details of why there was any lockdown. As was posted in other comment sections (I can look for it), the state decided we would all just be confused if given this information.

That’s problematic. Kinda petty, dictator-tyrant-type ideas. And we, the “children”.

Secondly, it’s a rights thingy. The idea of all personal liberties being tossed out because of a disease has never really been attempted to this extent before. And it’s debatable whether it’s actually legal.

“The Bill of Rights applies to all. Unless a virus is making it’s rounds”. Land of the free. Sometimes.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago

I wondered how long they would wait to start easing up restrictions after Biden took office. Two weeks ago we were all going to die now we have turned a “critical corner” based on absolutely nothing. Except a regime change.

TrumpLost2020
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TrumpLost2020
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

This would not have been necessary at all if the twice impeached Cheeto head had taken this seriously and come up with a plan. We all know he’s too stupid to come up with a plan, but he could have leaned on those with knowledge.

Funny part for him is that if he had handled the pandemic in a semi responsible manner, it probably would have been enough to get him re-elected.

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago
Reply to  TrumpLost2020

Yet somehow we ended up with the same casualty rates as other countries. Everything bad is Trump’s fault. Everything good is the DEM heroes. I don’t like Trump but your narrative is weak and tired. Your unbalanced hatred seeps out and puts into question any objectivity on your part.

TrumpLost2020
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TrumpLost2020
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

Yeah, I’m sooo far off. Trump did so much to try and keep people from dying. If only hitting golf balls could have stopped covid.

We are a first world country, a superpower, with far more resources than most countries so the standard should be higher. Our federal response was pathetic.

I don’t blame the virus on Cheeto, but he tried to sweep it under the rug and had no plan to slow the spread and save lives. He also made mask wearing a political issue which was completely unnecessary and harmful.

Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  TrumpLost2020

Yes, you are so far off. On capita wealth for one The US is 22nd in the world at this point. Which I suspect is too high a ranking because of our almost unprecedented level of illegal immigration reducing the capita part of that equation. Not to mention coutries with much high wealth have done poorly with Covid while countries with much less have done better. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult#:~:text=By%20country%20%20%20%20Country%20or%20subnational,%20%206%2C267%20%2060%20more%20rows%20

You should notice that places with a single government entity see able to order their citizens around without much limit did do better at isolation. But places that have diverse demographics have a much, much harder time handing down orders successfully. You should be especially aware of that as California had the nerve to directly oppose federal laws unilaterally on several issues and did not see the federal government send in troops. The army and police was the first things called out to enforce lockdowns in the few countries that were successful at it. Unfortunately the US Constitution protects the citizen’s rights from such action.

Lastly stats vary from country to country on covid. It is likely that the US will end up having done modestly well when the toll is scientically evaluated in a couple of years. Your desire to down the US is unfortunately not reasonable. You must suffer from too much privilege to think that it has failed you by not being superior to everyone else.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

The US migration rate isn’t “unprecedented,” its been flatlined since the ’90’s.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/net-migration

I like stars
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I like stars
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

Do those statistics include those who come here without a visa or only legal, documented immigrants?

Lmao
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3 years ago
Reply to  TrumpLost2020

I’m no Trump lover either but trying to blame everything on him is just regurgitating what you have been spoon fed. Trying thinking like a independent human being. Not a mind controlled buy product of the media.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Lmao

Everyone knows Trump downplayed the virus.

He made masking political.

He restricted Fauci from speaking freely.

These are facts that undermined our efforts to get better off, quicker.

No way around it.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I’m with Lmao 100% here. He’s Gone, great song, now ain’t it time to look ahead? (and turn the tv’s off?)

We can all argue about our orangeness or lack thereof in 2024 (or not).

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  TrumpLost2020

Too funny, he wasn’t looking to be re elected, he can make more money off the publicity now that he isn’t president. He acted and did what he needed to do , so he would be set up financially, just like any other low down rotten politician. If you can’t see this than people are pretty niave. Money equals power. Media attention equals money, and we gave him plenty.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  TrumpLost2020

Biden 6 days ago, “I have a plan” Biden today “nothing we can do will change the trajectory over the next few months” there’s your man with the plan.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

So rent? Oh thank god we’re all saved

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

All he is going to do is push the foreclosures and evictions out further. If your waiting for government to bail you out, good luck. If there isn’t something in it for them ,your screwed. As for Biden , he is no better than the past presidents.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

If they use the 25th amendment on Trump they will be able to use it on all presidents, past, current and future.
That should be interesting.

Justice Roberts just refused to oversee it. So it’s been passed to Leahy (sp?).

Me
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Me
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

He said he had a plan to get the pandemic under control though

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Literally he did say that he couldn’t do what he promised he would do before the election but went on to offer to try to get laws passed to moderate the effect of regulations that did most of the damage in the first place. Yup.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

If this was Trump it would be on CNN/MSNBC for a week

https://twitter.com/i/status/1353808829348122625

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

By opening the borders Biden has exposed Guatemala, Mexico and the USA to more Covid cases.

He has ticked off Canada, the Unions, Wyoming and Texas with his pipeline shutdown while making Russia, China and Hunter very happy.

Infuriated people that thought he had a Covid plan.

This was in less than his first week in office.

And with impeachment convinced many his unity talk is BS.

Gimmie a break
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Gimmie a break
3 years ago
Reply to  TrumpLost2020

Remember when the twice impeached “cheeto” shut down air traffic to and from China and the Democrats called him racist and xenophobic? Oh yeah, that was the same time Nancy Pelosi invited everyone to come on down over to SF Chinatown and walk the streets and try dim sum at all the local restaurants there.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  Gimmie a break

Case for a Newsom recall continues to grow

By Jon Coupal
After some fits and starts, the recall effort against Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to be gaining traction. Proponents say they have collected over 1 million signatures.
Media reports of a half-million dollar donation to the effort plus rumors of even more forthcoming are getting the attention of California’s political establishment. If the required 1.5 million valid signatures are submitted before the mid-March deadline and subsequently verified, a special election will be held and California voters will soon thereafter vote on the recall.
That is, unless the California Legislature pulls another fast one as it did in 2017, passing a last-minute change to the rules or the election calendar.
Any such attempt would be extremely unwise, with public confidence in government already low.
On the ballot, the recall question would be accompanied by a separate question of who would replace the incumbent if the recall passed. (In the October 2003 recall election of Gov. Gray Davis, a total of 135 candidates were on the ballot as replacement candidates, including pornographer Larry Flynt and former TV child star Gary Coleman).
Recalls are not easy and are fraught with many unknowns. They are expensive and the complicated politics of multiple replacement candidates, each seeking a plurality of votes, makes the state’s “jungle” primaries seem simple by comparison.
Polling is unreliable in such an environment, and there’s a Wild West atmosphere to the process. Nonetheless, recalls are a legitimate political remedy when the public loses confidence in an elected official. At least a million Californians have reached that point.
To read the entire column, please click here.

https://www.dailybulletin.com/2021/01/24/case-for-a-newsom-recall-continues-to-grow/

Linda L Allen
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Linda L Allen
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike I was thinking the same thing

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

So how do Biden’s new federal mask mandates figure into your conspiracy theory?

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

What is the penalty for no mask. Probably the same as jay walking, what a joke, let it go Joe. Dumb mandates to ease the panickers mind, deep breathes work too.

Rahem Kasam
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Second Class Citizen
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Second Class Citizen
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

I beg to differ.

The board of directors of this corporate government never change much, it’s the people who are selected /installed to navigate certain obstacles and public perception for the benefit of the few.

Period.

All the rest is fighting over who gets to earn a paycheck.

Farce
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Farce
3 years ago

I don’t know anybody who “changed their behavior”. It seems to me that the surge is over, cases are decreasing and it followed typical flu season dynamics. Albeit at higher rates and harsher consequences. Governor French Laundry is still bullshitting and coaching us to cover his own ass. (He lies when he says the recall effort is all Trumpers. He knows that many of who do not like Trump also do not want him yet he continues to feed the hate and the division for his own purposes)

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

I think most mask wearing has been out of respect for local businesses not because of mandates.

Specialist
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Specialist
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

I think most mask wearing has been out of respect for local businesses not because of mandates.

☕☕☕☕☕☕

Yes.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  Farce

👍

Maybe he will go in peace?

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago

Holidays are over , just like the flu season , covid cases shall drop like a rock , mask or no mask,shelter or no shelter. Give it a month or so, same ole same ole.

Mr and Mrs
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3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

I agree LR this would be great news all arguments aside we all want to get back to normal. Hopefully we can be more grateful and make better use of our limited time here also.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳Two. 🖖🖖

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago

In relation to the “lockdown” A group of lawyers in Germany have gone to court arguing against the restrictions there. I recently received this from a European acquaintance:

” The first german court (Weimar Amtsgericht) has now gone public with their verdict about the German Government’s corona measures and they agreed that the restrictions are unlawful at all levels.”

And:

“The court has found that all PCR tests/testing have no ground for the claim of determining contagion – thereby have no validity”

And:

“The consequences of the German Governments measurements has caused extensive damage resulting in multiple times higher deaths compared to real Covid-19 deaths.”

She was paraphrasing/translating as the video she linked is in German.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hFdRSagaEs