San Francisco is poised to advance from California’s purple reopening tier to red this week, and as cases continue to drop throughout the Bay Area, many in the city may already be looking toward the next step: orange.
California’s counties continue to see progress, with an additional seven likely to move to less restrictive tiers when the state announces updated assignments this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. Mayor London Breed had signaled last week that she expected San Francisco to be among those counties.
Tier assignments are determined by the state based on a county’s daily coronavirus cases per 100,000 population, adjusted for the amount of testing it performs, as well as its positive test rate. To move to a less restrictive tier, a county must have been in its current tier for a minimum of three weeks, and must meet the criteria for the next-least-restrictive tier for two consecutive weeks.
To move from the purple to red tier, a county must have an adjusted case rate of 7 or fewer, and a positive test rate of 5-8%. To move from red to orange, a county needs to report an adjusted case rate between 1 and 3.9, and a positive test rate between 2% and 4.9%.
County tier assignments in California's Blueprint for a Safer Economy coronavirus reopening website, as of Feb. 23, 2021.
State of CaliforniaBased on the most recent state tier assignment data for the week ending Feb. 13, San Francisco’s unadjusted case rate is 9.4, the adjusted case rate is 5.2, and the positive test rate is 1.9%. The data used by the state to determine tier assignments lags by two weeks.
According to the most recent county dashboard data, San Francisco’s unadjusted case rate was 7.5 and the positive test rate was 1.5% as of Feb. 21. The county does not list the most recent adjusted case rate.
Last week, Marin and San Mateo counties became the first Bay Area counties to advance to the red tier after the state ended its regional lockdowns in January, even though Marin reported an adjusted case rate of 7.4%. That’s due to a third metric, the health equity score, which reflects the positive test rate for disadvantaged populations in a community and is only considered for larger counties moving to a less restrictive tier. That metric held San Francisco back last week, but it is expected to meet the threshold this week.
San Francisco has generally had some of the lowest case and positive test rates in the Bay Area throughout the pandemic, and has also overall performed well for a big city compared to other urban areas nationwide. City officials have taken a very cautious approach to reopening, and declined to allow some businesses to resume despite being in less restrictive tiers.
But last week, San Francisco officials confirmed to the Chronicle that it will move along with state reopening guidelines, and anticipates reopening indoor dining, with limitations, after moving into the red tier.
Late last summer, California launched the new color-coded, four tier system and San Francisco was first placed in the red tier on Sept. 1. The red tier allows businesses including restaurants, movie theaters, museums, zoos and aquariums to reopen indoors at 25% capacity, retail and indoor malls to open at 50% capacity, and gyms to reopen indoors at 10%% capacity.
But San Francisco kept indoor operations of salons and personal care services shuttered until Sept. 14, and museums and aquariums couldn’t reopen indoors until Sept. 21, and gyms remained closed.
Indoor dining wasn’t allowed until San Francisco moved to the orange tier on Sept. 30, and only at 25% capacity, along with indoor malls at 50% capacity and indoor gyms at 10% capacity. Movie theaters were allowed to reopen indoors with limited capacity on Oct. 7.
On Oct. 20, San Francisco became the first and only major urban area in California to move to the least restrictive yellow tier. At that level, most businesses including indoor operations of restaurants, movie theaters, gyms, bars and breweries, family entertainment centers and places of worship can open at 50% capacity.
In the yellow tier, San Francisco allowed non-essential offices and some indoor personal care services that require mask removal to reopen, but indoor dining remained at 25% and indoor bars and breweries remained closed. Reopening was rolled back less than a month later on Nov. 13, and indoor dining was promptly halted as the winter surge got underway.
Kellie Hwang is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kellie.hwang@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @KellieHwang
March 02, 2021 at 08:51AM
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