Bay Space ICU Capability Tumbles To 0.7%; Keep-At-Residence Order To Be Prolonged – CBS San Francisco
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) – Hopes that the Bay Area could get out of the current COVID-at-home regulation was reality-checked Monday after Governor Gavin Newsom announced the region’s ICU capacity had fallen to a new low of 0.7%.
During its press conference on Monday to get an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in California, Newsom said that state director of health and human services, Dr. Mark Ghaly, likely on Tuesday, will announce the continuation of the stay-at-home order in the Bay Area.
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“Given the current ICU capacity, we can assume that the stay at home will continue unless these prognoses differ materially,” Newsom said.
The health order is triggered when the intensive capacity of a region falls below 15%. Currently, ICU capacities across the state were as follows:
Southern California: 0%
San Joaquin Valley: 0%
Bay Area: 0.7%
Greater Sacramento: 9.7%
Northern California: 35%
According to the state’s COVID dashboard, California has 2,710,801 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, resulting in 29,965 deaths. Other data from Johns Hopkins University showed the state topped 30,000 deaths.
Newsom re-listed the staggering number of casualties the pandemic has caused for residents of the state. Another 264 people died of COVID on Sunday, and an average of 476 people died per day over the past seven days. Another 5,681 people have died in the past 14 days, Newsom said.
The governor said there was evidence that the contagion rate had increased over the past week. While COVID hospital stays increased 6% in the past two weeks, they increased 0.3% in the past week. Similarly, there was a 13% increase in intensive care admissions in the last 14 days compared to a 5% increase in the last seven days.
Newsom said as part of California’s “all hands on deck” approach to adopting the COVID vaccine, the state has added the pool of those who can deliver COVID vaccines to dentists, pharmacy technicians, National Guard strike teams, paramedics, and rescue workers Doctors expanded assistants, midwives, psychiatric technicians, and others.
The governor also said the state was opening three major vaccination sites at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Padres Stadium in San Diego, and the CalEXPO racetrack in Sacramento to expedite vaccination for priority groups while maintaining social distancing with other facilities allow to be announced.
Later on Monday, Oakland Athletics and Alameda County’s health officials announced that the Oakland Coliseum would also host a drive-through vaccination clinic.
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Newsom recalled that the current focus for vaccination continued to be on the first group of subjects, particularly in the healthcare sector and among residents of long-term care facilities.
“These frontline workers – that’s why we want to vaccinate the vaccines – so many of them themselves are among those categories of vaccines and the residents who are most vulnerable in these congregation facilities,” Newsom said. “We’ve teamed up with CVS and Walgreens, who make up the lion’s share – not in every county. LA County is a big exception – but especially and in terms of content in all of these other community care facilities. “
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Newsom said the state has built-in flexibility to administer the more than two million doses being delivered into the next stages and stages of vaccine priority groups in the event that doses are queued where no one is on hand to handle the dose to obtain.
“And we’ll fill in details when we start getting more doses … We’re obviously going to need more doses to get into this next phase, and we hope to learn more with the new one.” [Biden-Harris] Administration soon what their intention is to release more of the stock of cans, ”Newsom said. “And we’re going to start seeing more clarity and then meet your expectations and set some schedules, or at least some expected schedules, so we can deal with the fear that I know will be felt out there when we have this availability to have.”
Newsom said the state is investing $ 40 million in a media campaign in 18 languages to get people to vaccinate.
During the Q&A session with reporters, Newsom was asked about concerns about the possibility of armed protests at the State Capitol in Sacramento following the deadly siege of the US Capitol last week
“The answer is pretty much taken for granted by anyone who has been near the Capitol, that everyone, I believe, is on high alert to make sure everyone is safe and secure,” Newsom said. People’s freedom of speech can be improved, but there is no violence. “
Newsom also said the National Guard would be activated “as needed”.
When asked about the possibility of President Donald Trump facing a second trial after instigating the US Capitol riot, Newsom said “I’m all for it” before returning his attention to the pandemic response.
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“I’m focusing on this vaccine distribution, I’m focusing on the climb, I’m trying to drive to get us through this extraordinarily challenging period,” he said. “I support it … but that’s not my focus right now. My focus is openly on you, your family and your safety when it comes to issues related to getting us through this very challenging wave of this pandemic. “
