San Francisco is no longer the only Bay Area county in the orange.
Both Alameda and Santa Clara counties made the leap Tuesday from the red tier into the less restrictive orange tier in California's COVID-19 reopening plan.
The new status paves the way for Santa Clara and Alameda to operate most businesses and indoor activities at higher capacity levels including movie theaters, gyms and houses of worship. Santa Clara will make an announcement later Tuesday afternoon on how it will proceed and is expected to require some business sectors to continue following the more strict red-tier guidelines.
There was no movement among any of the other Bay Area counties, with San Francisco still in the orange, and all other counties in the red, except for Sonoma, which is purple.
In the seventh week of California's new color-coded reopening structure, state Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announced that several counties outside the Bay Area advanced to less stringent tiers.
Colusa, Kern, Kings, San Benito and Stanislaus counties moved from purple to red. Alameda and Placer advanced from red to orange along with Santa Clara, and Sierra moved from orange to yellow, the tier indicating minimal virus spread.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's system sorts counties into four tiers — "purple" (widespread), "red" (substantial), "orange" (moderate) or "yellow" (minimal) — that measure the spread of COVID-19 and dictate what types of businesses and activities are allowed to open. The structure allows counties to be more restrictive and move more slowly than the state in its reopening if they wish.
The county tier status is based on the number of new cases per 100,000 residents and the adjusted positivity rate. Last week, the state announced it's now also taking into account an equity metric to address the fact that low-income, Latino, Black and Pacific Islander communities have been disproportionately impacted.
For a county to move into the red tier, it must report fewer than seven daily cases per 100,000 residents and a test positivity under 8% for 14 consecutive days. The orange tier requires fewer than 3.9 cases per 100,000 and a test positivity under 4.9% and the yellow less than 1 case per 100,000 and lower than 2% positivity.
Counties with low racial and economic disparities between who gets COVID-19 and who doesn't will "move quicker through color tiers," said Dr. Erica Pan, California's acting state public health officer, last Tuesday. Counties with large disparities will advance more slowly.
Each county is assigned its tier every Tuesday, and a county must remain in a tier for 21 consecutive days before moving to the next one. To move forward, a county must meet the next tier's criteria for 14 consecutive days.
On each day of assessment, the case counts are calculated by taking a seven-day average of daily cases per capita lagged an additional seven days to account for reporting delays.
A county can move backward by failing to meet the criteria for two consecutive weeks, or if state officials see a rapid rise in hospitalizations.
October 14, 2020 at 03:30AM
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