Thread by @CapitolAlert

Right as his press conference is set to start, Newsom's office releases what California needs to do in order to modify the stay-at-home order:

1. Monitor communities through testing, contract tracing, isolating and supporting those infected or exposed.

2. Ability to "prevent infection" of at-risk people
3) Hospital and health systems have to be able to handle the surges
4) Have to "develop therapeutics to meet the demand"
5) Businesses, schools and child care centers have to "support physical distancing"

6. There has to be a framework for reinstituting stay-at-home orders and other measures.

"The models have changed because of your behavior," Newsom said.

But he also said today marks a record number of COVID-19 deaths in California.

Newsom said all things that mark life as normal - especially the elective surgeries that, after a while, aren't so elective - need his administration to start thinking publicly about how to reopen the economy and lift restrictions.

Without the strong restrictions, the surge capacity would have gone well beyond what the hospital and health care system could've handled, said @CDPHDirector.

But we're "doing even better" than expected with the stay-at-home order.

But if we let them up that order too soon, Angell continued, we face another surge of infections and subsequent patients in the system.

One of the slides Dr. Angell is using to explain how the administration will lift restrictions says that "current efforts are hard to sustain," i.e. on the economy, poverty and health care system.

But she adds that it's not going to be an immediate change and reversion back to "normal."

"This is a thoughtful process," she said.

Things won't look the same, @CDPHDirector said.

There will be changes to how we do everything we're used to.

For example, face coverings will become more likely in public. Restaurants might have fewer tables. Intervention programs to help "contact tracing" will be enhanced.

So WHEN will this happen?

It's still TBD.

Everything depends on whether the state can answer those six framework questions. Local governments will get the greater say about what's best for their community.

"There's no light switch here," Newsom said. "It's more like a dimmer."

It's a "toggling" between stricter and more relaxed interventions.

Newsom said it's also likely other western states will join in on the reopening framework California, Oregon and Washington have built together.

"Normal? It will not be. Until we have herd immunity or a vaccine," Newsom said.

We're going to have to get used to ordering from a waiter with gloves on, where we might have to get our temperature taken when we enter an establishment.

This academic year is still over, Newsom said. The focus is now on making sure physical contact is reduced in the fall, that classes can be staggered, that there's greater distancing in classrooms.

So here's what needs to happen before the stay-at-home order is limited:

1) Hospitalization numbers need to flatten
2) Specifically, the ICU numbers need to come down
3) Administration has to build a workforce that can handle the massive tracing requirements.

"We are this week going to announce our new economic team," Newsom said.

That task force will be made public soon, he continued, with explanation of how it plans to jump start the economy

Newsom declines to comment on federal chatter about governors v. President Trump.

"I'm not going there," he said...just wants to "get things done."

Newsom cautions against too much optimism about the announcement. He reiterated "the incredible importance of the stay-at-home orders."

The administration wants to see the curve not just decreasing, but flattening.

The governor gets a question about public health funding (or lack thereof) in recent years.

More on that below:

sacbee.com/news/coronavir…

"The process of mass gatherings is negligible at best," Newsom said, until there's a vaccine and expansive therapeutics, he explained.

So hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of strangers coming together "is not in the cards based on our current guidelines and expectations."

June? July? August?

Unlikely, he said.

School year? "We have to get our kids back to school," Newsom said.

Students might have to be staggered later this year in cohorts. So a group comes to school in the morning, a group comes later that afternoon.

The new reality will also include "massive deep cleaning, lots of sanitation," he said. Disinfecting parks, playgrounds, benches, sidewalks, streets, etc., will be the new norm.