.@GavinNewsom, in Mustard's Grill restaurant in Napa Valley: "We have 24 counties that have self-attested, certified, with containment and protection plans -- for regional variation to the state order. We announced that variation process on May 7."
"We recognize conditions are unique depending on where you are in the state. We've been working very collaboratively with those counties' health directors and have their attestations up online. You can check how those counties are doing against their commitments."
"We've been tracking, over last 14 days, a hospitalization decline of over 7%. We've seen an 8.7% decline in ICU patients over 14 days. We've also seen an unprecedented number of masks be delivered, tens of millions of masks. All of these things matter."
"We were able to distribute 11 million masks on Friday to critical sectors of our economy. The inventory this morning was 56.1 million masks in our possession, and we've distributed 46.1 million procedure masks. We also have millions of N95 masks. PPE is coming in & going out."
"We're also significantly increasing testing capacity - 1.3 million tests to date. 57,000 in the last 24 hours. We're making real progress on our testing. A tracing workforce is also foundational. We have a very sophisticated tracing corps going back decades."
"23 counties were actively tracing COVID-19. We had a workforce of over 2,800 already trained at local level. We now have trained an additional 500 thru partnership with UCSF and UCLA. That cohort is being distributed in real time, many are already in counties."
"All of those are very good trendlines. Thus the reason we're here today. In our additional modifications, we are moving forward to allow some of the larger counties to progress further into phase 2, effective immediately but at their own pace."
"We estimate roughly 53 of 58 counties would be eligible to move into this phase. Not everyone will move into it, and the eligibility is conditioned on the criteria we're moving out. But we're really starting to focus in on the hotspots within counties."
"We're looking to advance guidelines related to total hospitalizations, no greater than 5% over a 7-day period, and enough tracers to have 15 per 100,000 population. We want the positivity rate to track at less than 8% -- that's the % of people who have tested positive."
"1,591 people tested positive out of the 57,000 tested yesterday. That's the rate we're tracking more closely. As the testing significantly increases, that rate becomes more important than the total number of positives in many respects. We want to see that below 8%."
"It's the rate of positives that is really the focus from a health perspective.
We have encouraging progress as we move forward deeper into phase 2 into the state, and we're looking forward in the next few weeks, at a number of significant milestones."
We have encouraging progress as we move forward deeper into phase 2 into the state, and we're looking forward in the next few weeks, at a number of significant milestones."
"If we hold the positivity rate down, we expect to make announcements statewide that would allow for retail not just to be picked up, but in-store retail loosened up. Pro sports -- in the first week of June without spectators, and very significant modifications."
Dr. Ghaly: "Today, we're announcing eligibility to move through stage 2 at a pace faster than the state is. No greater than 5% hospitalizations over past week on average. For counties that don't have many cases, no more than 20 people hospitalized."
"No more than 25 people diagnosed with COVID-19 per 100,000 people in last 14 days, or a test positivity rate of less than 8%. That's what we're more and more focused on as testing increases."
*no more than 5% increase in hospitalizations (from last tweet)
*no more than 5% increase in hospitalizations (from last tweet)
"Also counties need work closer with skilled nursing facilities in their county - weekly communications, elevating best practices, strategies to address staffing/PPE shortages. We need to protect a very vulnerable population."
.@GavinNewsom: "Bottom line is people can go at their own pace, and we're empowering local health officials. At the same time, we need to hold each other to account to follow these rules and regulations. It's an iterative period. We're not locked into presuppose anything."
"I know many people want to see us move more quickly, and others are concerned we're moving too quickly. As I respect localism, let me respect their decision-making at local level. Bay Area, LA are in different situations than rest of state. They can move at their own pace."
"But we're broadening the pace people can move into phase 2 and move other sectors at other levels of our society. We're also working with faith-based leaders for when congregations can start coming back to pews. It's a few weeks away. We're encouraged by the progress."
"We're moving into an important few weeks ahead of us and we're going to see a lot more of activity. Let's just make sure we do it thoughtfully and strategically."
