Stay-at-home order provided for San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area health authorities revealed on Friday that they would carry out California’s brand-new stay-at-home order early, despite the fact that they have not reached the state’s limit setting off the brand-new limitations.

“Today is a really tough day,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed stated throughout a press instruction. “Our hospitalization rates are rising locally, especially in our ICU right now. And just as importantly, hospitalizations are rising everywhere, so if we run out of beds, there won’t be another county that can help us.” 

On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom stated the state would be divided into 5 areas — the Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, Northern California, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. If the staying ICU capability in an area falls listed below 15%, it will activate a three-week stay-at-home order, Newsom stated.

The order would need bars, wineries, individual services, hairdresser and hair salons to momentarily close. Personal services are services like nail beauty parlors, tattoo parlors and body waxing, according to the state’s site.

Schools that fulfill the state’s health requirements and important facilities would be permitted to stay open. Retail shops might run at 20% capability and dining establishments would be permitted to use take-out and shipment, Newsom stated

While none of the areas satisfied the ICU limit to activate the stay-at-home order on Thursday, Newsom cautioned that every location was forecasted to drop listed below 15% ICU capability eventually in December. The Bay Area was anticipated to be the last area to reach that mark, he stated.

Health officers for the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and Santa Clara along with the city of Berkeley made the joint statement on Friday, stating they would carry out the order early. The brand-new limitations will last till Jan. 4, 2021, according to the order.

However, the statement did not consist of some counties in the Bay Area area, as specified by the state’s order, consisting of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Napa, San Mateo, Solano, Sonoma.

“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,” stated Dr. Tomas Aragon, San Francisco health officer, in a declaration. “Many heavily impacted parts of our region already have less than 15 percent of ICU beds available, and the time to act is now.”

California is reporting a weekly average of approximately 16,392 Covid-19 cases daily, a more than 21% boost compared to a week earlier, according to a CNBC analysis of information put together by Johns Hopkins University.

San Francisco public health director Dr. Grant Colfax stated based upon present patterns, San Francisco’s health centers would lack ICU beds on Dec. 26.

“Our San Francisco ICU, intensive care unit, bed capacity is quickly decreasing,” Colfax stated. “We are in an extremely volatile position for our health-care system.”

Breed in a tweet after Newsom’s statement on Thursday stated that while the order didn’t use to San Francisco yet, the county was “looking closely at local data and talking to our neighboring counties about next steps.”

“I don’t want do any of this,” Breed stated on Friday. “I know this means people’s jobs, their businesses, their livelihoods are at stake. This is going to be painful.”