The number of hospitalizations in California reached 9,948 on Friday - up 246 from the prior day total.Their order comes into effect at 10pm on Sunday and will last until January 4.On Friday health experts overruled him and took matters into their own hands, imposing their own lockdown.Newsom predicted that restrictions would not be necessary for the Bay Area until the middle of December.Newsom said that four areas would likely be in lockdown in a few days, but the Bay Area would wait.The Bay Area was seen as the least concerning area out of five cited by Gavin Newsom on Thursday.Now, they are calling closer to 70 percent.Īnd because California has fewer hospital beds per capita than all but two states, it takes less to overwhelm the state’s health infrastructure.Bay Area orders month-long lockdown for 8.5M people at 10pm on Sunday ahead of California's stay-at-home order as 22,000 daily cases are recorded, 145 people die in 24 hours and hospitalizations hit 10K A month ago, the city’s contact tracers, whose job it is to connect with everyone an infected person may have come into contact with, were reaching 90 percent of contacts.
San Francisco has reported 164 coronavirus-related deaths.īut even with per capita case totals in San Francisco that are one-fifth the level of states such as North Dakota or South Dakota, officials in the city are feeling the strain of the current surge. Northern California has managed to maintain very low case and death rates compared with other parts of the country. On a per capita basis California has fewer cases than 40 other states, but its overall numbers are jarring: 1.3 million and counting. In California, the overarching story throughout the pandemic has been of a state that by dint of its population has huge numbers of cases. Thanksgiving travel, he said, was a clear example. Over the last few months, even as public health experts and politicians urged people to remain vigilant, not everyone was on board, Dr.
“You go from thinking, like, ‘Oh, I don’t know anyone that has it,’ to in the blink of an eye, everyone you know has it, and you have it,” said Janet Rodriguez, a resident of Pico Rivera, outside Los Angeles, who believed she became infected at an outdoor meal with friends. Paxlovid Study: The Covid-19 medication Paxlovid reduced hospitalizations and deaths in older patients, but made no difference for patients under 65, new research from Israel found.Boosters: An influential panel of expert advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended updated coronavirus booster shots to the vast majority of Americans, clearing the way for health workers to begin giving people the redesigned shots within days.The decline, largely driven by the pandemic, was particularly pronounced among Indigenous communities. Heavy Toll: The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 20.students: The math and reading scores of 9-year-olds dropped steeply, erasing two decades of progress. Educational Declines : Test results show the pandemic’s effect on U.S.
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