Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered an update on California's response to the coronavirus. You can watch the full press conference above or read highlights below.
CALIFORNIA'S LATEST CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS
The state has a 5.6% coronavirus positivity rate over the last week days, 5.1% over the last two weeks. He also noted that it's below the 8% threshold required for counties to stay off the state's watchlist. (L.A.'s positivity rate is currently 8.5%, according to the county's public health director, Barbara Ferrer.)
The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 dropped today from 7,149, an all-time high, to 5,349. A record number of people were tested yesterday — more than 101,000.
Now roughly 3.7 million Californians have been tested over the course of this pandemic, with an average of 88,000 tests per day over the past week. But Newsom said that testing still needs to be increased as part of community COVID-19 surveillance. There have been about 56,000 new cases over the past two weeks.
Hospitalization numbers due to COVID-19 continue to increase — a 32% rise over the past 14 days. That's up from 29% in the rolling data yesterday.
Currently, 4,240 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, a 3.5% increase from the day before. Those patients are using 8% of the state's surge health care capacity.
ICU numbers are also up — a 19% increase over the past two weeks, up from an 18% rolling total yesterday. There are 1,306 ICU patients currently, using 34% of the state's available ICU beds. That's up from 31% of capacity being used yesterday.
Newsom addressed the different models used to predict where coronavirus cases are headed, saying he wanted to simplify things and make that modeling more relevant to people's lives. Those models guide the state's actions, but aren't determinative of our future, Newsom said.
Without any non-pharmaceutical interventions like social distancing, face masks, and stay-at-home orders, there was a predicted surge in transmission of COVID-19, Newsom said. The state avoided an initial overloading of the health care system, which flattened the curve, Newsom said, but the disease is still with us in a sizable way.
MAKING COVID DATA & MODELING PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
Newsom announced that California wants to build a model of models — he announced a California COVID Assessment Tool site to help inform both state and local response to the disease. According to the state, it will allow for better models and more actionable intelligence, as well as enable people to come together across sectors to work on COVID-19.
"The more robust, the more enriching that data is, the more it's shared, the more it's challenged, the more it's considered, the more likely we will be making decisions with clarity and understanding in real-time of the conditions on the ground," Newsom said.
The state's "Nowcast," available in the COVID Assessment Tool, says what is happening today with COVID-19, California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said. It's built around the idea of rate of spread. The forecast is essentially like a 10-day weather forecast, Ghaly said, letting you know what to expect over the next few weeks. There is also another part of the tool that shows scenarios, and what the potential consequences of today's actions are — such as lifting stay-at-home orders, or reopening bars and restaurants.
The state also announced an open-source tool, prototyped with county partners, to help refine insights and knowledge by giving the public access to the data the state has. They are sharing the code to help encourage collaboration with other states and researchers, Newsom said. They looked forward to input using this data from mathematicians, experts in AI, researchers, scientists, Nobel laureates, and others — including regular citizens.
The state wants the data to help promote better behavior, Newsom said.
DISNEYLAND REOPENING DELAYED
Newsom praised Disney for announcing yesterday the decision not to reopen Disneyland on July 19. He noted that, based upon data and local conditions, the state decided not to issue guidelines yet on how to reopen theme parks. According to Disney, the state won't be releasing those guidelines until after July 4.
HOW WILL SCHOOLS REOPEN?
The state is still in discussion with state education leaders on how schools will reopen, Newsom said. He described it as a "more complicated question than you can imagine, based on the thousand-plus school districts and the myriad of opinions that are coming back." He discussed specific concern over children being required to wear masks, a question that remains open.
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