Only Tennessee has more cases per 100,000 people. As of Sunday afternoon, California is 95.7 people infected per 100,000 and Tennessee is 119.7, according to the data. Medical experts in the bay area are urging people to be careful.
Doctors say there are two likely reasons for the high figure: coronavirus fatigue and private meetings.
Regional order to stay at the home of Gov. Gavin Newsom for Southern California will expire Monday, but with the capacity of the regional intensive care unit officially deemed null, he said the order will be expanded with certainty .
“We basically have a pandemic fatigue that has established it where people may not wear masks when they should be. They start trying to go out to see friends or have friends. And I think we really amplify events that happened with the seasons. consecutive holidays, “said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, a professor at Jonathan’s School and Karin Fielding School of Public Health.
To leave the home stay order, a region must return to the ICU capacity of at least 15%. After hitting that mark, projections should predict that the region will remain at that level for at least another four weeks before it can lift order.
“We are very aware that there is pandemic fatigue, that people are tired and I think their ability to take refuge and their will is definitely not the same as in the spring,” says Dr. Ahmad Kamal of Santa Clara. Northern California County. Dr. Kamal is the county’s health preparation director. He says we need to be strong by not traveling or meeting.
Those who are meeting, however, say they are protected.
“Whenever I wear a mask I feel pretty comfortable,” Giancarlo Pacheco told our sister chain KGO.
“We’re just the five of us, we don’t get together with any other family member,” says Adrianne Mendoza, who was with her family.
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Most also admitted to us that they have traveled.
“I’m actually from Los Angeles,” Pacheco says.
“Sacramento,” says Val Koshman.
And many admitted that they have had meetings, but that they kept them small.
“We only met with a group of no more than ten people. It’s our whole family that was close,” Karla Rivas said.
“If you can’t go out, you have to go visit some people and do something,” Koshman says.
Dr. Kamal says on a given day there are less than 30 beds available throughout Santa Clara County. He claims that even family reunions are dangerous, but he believes that by staying home we can reverse the high number of cases that would improve the number of ICUs, eliminate pressure from hospitals and lead to reopening.
“We’ve seen so many times that people get together in small groups even with their cousins, uncles, aunts or grandparents it happens and it often happens to people who don’t know they’re sick and we don’t know they have symptoms, so we really all have to go down and take refuge, ”says Dr. Kamal.
While California’s COVID-19 rates are the second highest in the country, it’s important to note that coronavirus mortality rates here in California are in the thirties. Doctors have previously said that mortality rates often lag behind for a couple of weeks.
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