San Francisco has extended its stay-at-home order indefinitely before the new year, citing a worrying increase in hospitalization numbers around the Bay. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on Sunday revealed that Bay Area’s current ICU capacity is now at 8.4% – but according to regional health officials, it looks like the boom after Thanksgiving is at least losing.
According to a news release published today by the CDPH, the Bay [current stay-at-home order] to at least January 8 and can be involuntarily extended beyond the date, the projections of the ICU capacity would prove to be poor. (Pampering alarm: they probably will … because they’re already pretty bad.) At the moment, the only region in Northern California that has an ICU capacity of 35.5% is not under the mandatory home order. By comparison, the Greater Sacramento region sits at 10.3% – while Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley are at 0.0%.
But there could be a resignation like some health officials in the Bay Area as COVID-19’s record ballooning experience begins to erode from the Thanksgiving holiday.
‘[…] we saw a slight deterioration in the increase in our cases, “Santa Clara County health officer Dr. Sara Cody said according to KPIX just before Christmas. Although UCSF epidemiologist George Rutherford was positive, he added that it was not it is quite clear how long this “mitigation” of COVID-19 infections will last. Rutherford has grown, which we may not know for a week or more. And that is the assumption “there [hasn’t] was [any] damage caused “by Christmas holiday travel New Year’s Eve gatherings with members outside the immediate circle of people.
With the rollout of vaccines that are slower and clumsy than expected, social distance and mask wear will exist for some time in 2021 as norms exist. Rutherford also notes that we will be able to ‘withdraw’ ourselves from the pandemic – or at least these massive COVID-19 surges – once a significant portion of the population has been vaccinated. (Many epidemiologists believe that the successful vaccination of between 50% and 90% of the population will produce a herd immunity; however, the percentage is directly linked to the nothingness of any pathogen.)
So far, California has so far 2,391,261 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of more than 391,000 cases since California became the first state in the country last week to pass the two million confirmed cases of the new respiratory disease.
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