REGIONAL STAY-AT-HOME ORDER LIFTED, SOLANO COUNTY RETURNS TO PURPLE TIER
Some significant changes resulting from Solano County’s return to the purple tier include:
Restaurants may offer outdoor dining
Hair salons, barbershops, and personal services may reopen
Outdoor social gatherings involving 25 or fewer people, from three or fewer different households, are now permitted
Remember: PLEASE CONTINUE to physical distance and wear face covering outside of the home.
MORE DETAIL:
Find the status for specific activities in your county: COVID19.CA.GOV
BELOW is a convenient SUMMARY CHART from California Department of Public Health (click on each image for larger, easily readable version). For details on the “modifications” mentioned in the chart, you will need to go to the California Department of Public Health’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy framework.
The surge hasn’t slowed in Solano and some other California locations, but more ICU beds don’t get us out of the “purple tier”
Something changed dramatically and suddenly in Solano County on Thursday, January 14, and the State seems to have followed suit lately.
Solano County reported the following percentage of ICU beds available during January. Note the remarkable jump on January 14:
Date
Total Confirmed Cases
Daily or Weekend Δ
ICU Beds Available
Monday, January 4, 2021
20,953
90
17.0%
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
21,223
270
20.0%
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
21,520
297
15.0%
Thursday, January 7, 2021
21,855
335
12.0%
Friday, January 8, 2021
22,232
377
4.0%
Monday, January 11, 2021
23,314
1,082
20.0%
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
23,554
240
5.0%
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
23,889
335
1.0%
Thursday, January 14, 2021
24,291
402
23.0%
Friday, January 15, 2021
24,654
363
23.0%
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
25,806
1,152
24.0%
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
25,983
177
28.0%
Thursday, January 21, 2021
26,191
208
20.0%
Friday, January 22, 2021
26,494
303
26.0%
According to the Fairfield Daily Republic on 1/14/21, Solano County Public Health Officer Dr. Bela Matyas said in a phone interview, “‘NorthBay has opened up additional ICU space and Kaiser and Sutter plan to.’”
My worst fear is that the COVID surge will rage on here in Solano County, and with more ICU beds now available, we will only fill them with those who become seriously ill with the virus. It seems the State of California could do the same. We may be lifting the strict stay-at-home order, but the purple tier restrictions are incredibly important. We don’t want to fill those additional ICU beds!
Monday: Hospital capacity is increasing in some areas. The vaccine rollout is still chaotic.
People waiting in line at a super vaccination station set up in an empty department store in Chula Vista. Mike Blake/Mike Blake
New York Times, By Jill Cowan, 1/25/21, 9:07 a.m. ET (This article is part of the California Today newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox.)
Good morning.
If you’re confused about the state of the virus in California, you’re not alone.
In the Bay Area, intensive care unit capacity has risen to 23.4 percent, according to the state as of Sunday — well above the 15 percent threshold that triggered the stay-at-home order for the region. Yet the Sacramento area has just 11.9 percent intensive care unit capacity, and was allowed to exit the strict order more than a week ago.
Although The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Saturday that officials in the region were feeling hopeful that the order would be lifted soon, the state’s department of public health reported on Sunday that the Bay Area wasn’t eligible to have restrictions loosened based on its projections.
The Associated Press reported that Mr. Newsom’s administration has refused to disclose key data that would help explain the difference in approaches between the Bay Area and Sacramento.
In any case, the state hinted in a news release on Sunday that Sacramento may be required to re-enter the stay-at-home order, which would force many businesses to shut back down. (We can expect to get an update from state officials in coming days.)
And even after President Biden unveiled what experts have long said is a desperately needed national strategy for finally controlling the pandemic, there are still major hurdles in the vaccine rollout, which in California has contributed to continuing chaos, in which vaccine eligibility rules have been implemented differently county by county.
As CalMatters reported, the state quietly rolled out a promised clearinghouse website to help people find vaccination appointments. But it’s still a work in progress.
One of the biggest contributors to Los Angeles County’s surge is its overcrowded housing. [The New York Times]
Mandatory masking for interstate travel. Ramped up manufacturing. Here’s more of what’s in President Biden’s pandemic executive orders. [The New York Times]
Experts believe as many as thousands of coronavirus deaths have not been counted in San Bernardino County, giving a false sense of the disease’s deadliness. [The Riverside Press-Enterprise]
Fear over testing positive for Covid-19 and not being able to return to work, as well as worries over the vaccines, are hurting the eastern Coachella Valley. [The Desert Sun]
A coalition of more than 50 Bay Area restaurants and wineries sued Governor Newsom over the state’s outdoor dining ban. [The San Francisco Chronicle]
Getting millions of people vaccinated will help reduce infections. But vaccines alone won’t end the pandemic. [The New York Times]
The governor’s $2 billion school reopening fund could actually cost districts money. [CalMatters]
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