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California Governor Gavin Newsom Gives COVID-19 Update Plus The Latest Numbers For California And San Francisco
Today (Monday, July 27, 2020), California Governor Newsom gave his COVID-19 update and the focus of his remarks was California’s Central Valley, but there is much to report. Below, details for your convenience.
A. Central Valley
During today’s update, Governor Newsom announced that eight counties in the Central Valley will receive an investment of $52 million dollars due to an increase of coronavirus cases in that region. Further, the Governor explained that the $52 million is a part of a grant, totaling $499 million, that California was awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Lastly, Governor Newsom also announced that “strike teams” will also be deployed to these eight (8) Central Valley counties to support essential workers there, this is the same model that was (successfully) deployed in Imperial County and that focused on transmission. These strike teams consist of members from Officer of Emergency Services, OSHA, and Social Services, among others.
Those 8 counties in the Central Valley that were the focus of the Governor’s remarks today and that will be receiving the $52 million for testing, contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine efforts are the following: Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, and Kern.
B. This Past Week California Saw A Record-Breaking Number Of New Cases And San Francisco Is Also Experiencing An Increase in New Cases
For California:
As of today (July 27, 2020), there are: (1) 460,550 new cases (+1.5% increase); (2) 8,445 total deaths (+0.3% increase); (3) 7,296,578 tests reported. This is the update as of 11AM today (July 27) with data from Sunday, July 26, 2020.
To learn more, please click here:
https://covid19.ca.gov/
San Francisco:
As of today (July 27, 2020), there were: (1) 1,288 new cases in the last 14 days (a total of 5,823 total cases); (2) 6 new deaths in the last 14 days (for 56 total deaths); and (3) 58,027 tests reported in the last 14 days.
To learn more, please click here:
https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap-counties/#track-data
C. Housing For The Harvest Program Launched In California To Keep Agricultural Workers And Their Families Safe
California has launched a new program – Housing for the Harvest – that will offer temporary hotel housing to farm and food processing workers who need to isolate to COVID-19.
Who qualifies?
Participants must: (1) work in California food processing or agriculture; (2) meet FEMA non-congregate sheltering criteria (PDF) for COVID-19 (i.e., have tested positive or been exposed as documented by a public health official or medical health professional); and (3) be unable to self-isolate at home.
To learn more about the Housing for the Harvest program, please click here:
https://covid19.ca.gov/housing-for-agricultural-workers/
The District 11 office would like to extend our gratitude to all essential workers, particularly those harvesting our food who are not visible to many but who continue to work hard to feed Californians and the rest of the country. THANK YOU.
D. New California Counties Added To The State’s Watch List
Unfortunately, today Governor Newsom also announced that new counties were added to the State’s watch list. There are now 37 (of 58) counties on the State’s monitoring list, and to get on the list there are six criteria (as of today) used to assess whether a county needs to be listed on our State’s county watch list.
Those six (6) criteria are the following: (1) Doing fewer than 150 tests per 100,000 residents daily (over a 7-day average); (2) more than 100 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past 14 days or (3) having more than 25 new cases per 100,000 residents and an 8% test positivity rate; (4) 10% or greater increase in COVID-19 hospitalized patients over the past 3 days; (5) fewer than 20% of ICU beds available; (6) fewer than 25% ventilators available. As of today, if a county is on the watch list three days or longer the state will order them to roll back re-opening per the Governor’s remarks.
E. List Of 37 Counties (Of Our 58) Currently On The State's Monitoring Watch List For COVID-19 (San Francisco Is Still Listed)
As of today (Monday, July 27, 2020), these are the 37 counties (of 58) on the State’s monitoring list:
• Alameda
• Butte
• Colusa
• Contra Costa
• Fresno
• Glenn
• Imperial
• Kern
• Kings
• Los Angeles
• Madera
• Marin
• Merced
• Mono
• Monterey
• Napa
• Orange
• Placer
• Riverside
• Sacramento
• San Benito
• San Bernardino
• San Diego
• San Francisco
• San Joaquin
• San Luis Obispo
• Santa Barbara
• Santa Clara
• Santa Cruz (on the list less than 3 days)
• Solano
• Sonoma
• Stanislaus
• Sutter
• Tulare
• Ventura
• Yolo
• Yuba
The State’s county monitoring list may be found here:
https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap-counties/#track-data
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