Combined with the new federal policies announced yesterday, these actions will help ensure everyone in California has access to testing throughout the holiday season and that K-12 public school students can return to school safely. The COVID-19 booster requirement for health care workers will mitigate potential staffing shortages while helping to safeguard the state’s hospital capacity and protect the health and safety of Californians. SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced new booster requirements and testing measures to better protect all Californians as the Omicron variant becomes the dominant COVID-19 strain in the nation. Hours to be extended at testing sites with increased demand This is not a permanent state it is a moment in time.State to require health care workers to get boosters by February 1, 2022Īt-home test kits to be distributed statewide for students returning to public school “Home isolation is not my preferred choice, but it is a necessary one. “Go about the essential patterns of life, but do so by socially distancing themselves from others and do so using a common sense,” Newsom said. Officials plan to use dorm rooms at state universities to temporarily house coronavirus patients, along with hospitals that will support containment efforts.Įven with the order, California residents who take part in essential activities will have to maintain a social distance. “If we change our behaviors, that inventory will come down if we meet this moment, we can truly bend the curve to reduce the need to surge – to have to go out to have to cobble together all those assets together,” Newsom said. He warned that infection rates are doubling every four days in some parts of the state.Ĭoronavirus tracking models show its spread in California could require the hospitalization of more than 19,000 people beyond the state’s current capacity.
“We project that roughly 56% of our state’s population – 25.5 million people – will be infected with the virus over an eight-week period,” he said in a Wednesday letter to Trump asking him to send the USNS Mercy hospital ship to the Port of Los Angeles for use through September 1.Ĭalifornia has been helping people returning to the US from overseas and needs the San Diego-based ship to help “decompress” its health care system as infection rates skyrocket, Newsom wrote. Newsom’s order follows his request to President Donald Trump to send a US Navy medical ship to provide more health care options for the state. How grocery stores restock shelves in the age of coronavirus The dedicated shopping times are designed to allow seniors, pregnant women and people with underlying health conditions to shop among smaller crowds and reduce their chances of acquiring the virus.
This week grocery store chains and other retailers began offering special shopping hours for seniors and other groups considered the most vulnerable to the new coronavirus. Nonessential services such as dine-in restaurants, bars, gyms and convention centers will shut down, the governor said.Ī worker restocks the meat section of a Stop & Shop supermarket during hours open daily only for seniors Thursday, March 19, 2020, in North Providence, R.I. So will banks, local government offices that provide services and law enforcement agencies. Under the order, essential services such as groceries, pharmacies, gas stations, farmers markets, food banks, convenience stores and delivery restaurants will remain open. “We are confident that the people of the state of California will abide by it and do the right thing.” “I don’t believe the people of California need to be told through law enforcement that it’s appropriate just to home-isolate, protect themselves,” Newsom said. The order will not be enforced by law enforcement, he added. “As individuals and as a community, we need to do more to meet this moment.” “This is a moment where we need some straight talk,” Newsom told reporters. The restrictions will remain in place until further notice and come a day after Newsom warned that more than half the state is projected to be infected by the virus in two months. It went into effect at midnight Thursday, meaning Californians should not leave home except for essential things such as food, prescriptions, health care and commuting to jobs considered crucial. Gavin Newsom’s order marks the first statewide mandatory restrictions in the United States to help combat the outbreak. What is and isn't allowed during a 'shelter-in-place' orderĬalifornia Gov. The order says residents must stay inside and venture out only for necessities for three weeks starting Tuesday.
Officials in seven San Francisco Bay Area counties have issued a shelter-in-place mandate affecting about 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. A man crosses a nearly empty street in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
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