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A worker cleans up the entryway of the Westfield San Francisco Centre in San Francisco Calif. on June 26,2020
LATEST July 20, 5: 45 p.m. In a Monday night letter to the neighborhood, San Mateo County health officer Dr. Scott Morrow called for “less reliance on company sector closures” and more individual prudence as it relates to mask wearing, social distancing and not combining with non-household individuals.
“Keep in mind to stem the spread of this very transmissible virus, people who are infected requirement to be separated from others (seclusion and quarantine), not go out in public, and not go to work while they are infectious.
” And when they go to work they will, maybe, connect at that job with you. There is inadequate enforcement capacity on the planet to stop this from occurring. The implication of this is that the present business focused constraints will do little to stem the spread of the virus when the spread is exacerbated by these conditions.”
Morrow stated that he believes there are structural issues with the U.S. economy that are “illogical, even immoral” that require systemic change.
” We need to see far more operate in this area, and we need to have less dependence on business sector closures and limitations, beyond getting organisations to do the fundamental transmission control steps,” he composed. “Failure to fix a few of these issues will extend our cumulative discomfort.”
He concluded by stating that the majority of the county’s new cases originate from social gatherings, and called for no gatherings beyond immediate homes.
” Please note, your seemingly harmless get togethers are driving the spread and are a significant reason that you can’t go to a dining establishment, why you can’t go to the fitness center, why you can’t go get your hair cut, why kids can’t go to school,” he wrote. “Until, or unless more people get this reality, we will continue to be stuck in the situation we are in. To leave this situation depends upon everybody. Our cumulative finest strategy: No gatherings beyond instant households, utilize facial coverings thoroughly, and social distancing.”
July 20, 3: 30 p.m. Troy Ashmus, a 58- year-old prisoner at San Quentin State Prison convicted of raping and killing a seven-year-old in 1984, has died at an outdoors healthcare facility following the prison’s coronavirus break out.
State authorities stated the death appears to be attributable to the virus, and is pending an examination. The death toll at the prison is now 13.
July 20, 2: 00 p.m. Throughout a Monday press conference, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state is seeing “some stabilization” after weeks of boosts in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and test positivity.
Newsom shared that the state’s 14- day average for the percentage of positive tests is “holding,” and the seven-day average is really down week-over-week.
” Our positivity rate over a 14- day duration is holding at 7.4%,” he stated. “This time last week it was at 7.4%. Our seven-day positivity average was last week at 7.7%, this week it’s at 7.2%… we’re seeing some stabilization however nobody is pleased being north of 7%, and we got near 8%recently.”
The guv duplicated that the bending of the curve is conditioned to private behavior, and mentioned that the reopening of businesses and schools will depend upon the choices residents make in their lives.
” These numbers can alter extremely, very rapidly once again depending upon our individual habits,” Newsom said. “Some overall of which will determine the direction of the lines on this chart and eventually the instructions of our capability to resume this economy and get our schools back open, as all of us so frantically eagerly anticipate.”
In addition, Newsom mentioned that while hospitalizations are still increasing, the percent increases weekly are reducing.
” 2 weeks ago we put up on Monday our hospitalization numbers that said we were increasing over