California has moved San Mateo County into the orange COVID-19 restriction tier and 10 other counties also showed enough improvement to move from the purple tier to the less-restrictive red tier. To aggressively reduce case transmission to as low a rate as possible across the state so the potential burden of COVID-19 does not challenge our healthcare delivery system's ability to surge with space, supplies and staff; and to prevent the emergence and transmission of variants of the disease, including those resistant to vaccines. Reduced likelihood of the threat of variants as variants depend on high levels of community transmission to emerge, spread, and dominate. This framework lays out the measures that each county must meet, based on indicators that capture disease burden, testing, and health equity. The adjustment factor remains at 0.5 if the county testing volume is greater than 2x the state median. Six Northern California counties with a population exceeding 3 million moved from the Red to the Orange tier of the state’s reopening plan on Tuesday. … (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images). Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Small counties are defined as having fewer than 106,000 residents.[1]. Click here for the state’s official COVID website, including details of what activities are allowed in the various tiers. Watch … For counties with a testing volume above the median, the adjustment factor is less than 1, decreasing in a linear manner from 1.0 to 0.5 as testing volume increases from the anchor point to 2x that value. See chart below for the framework metrics as set according to tiers based on risk of community disease transmission. If a county meets absolute case count criteria and test positivity, CDPH will also review county level vaccine coverage to determine if the county is vaccinating within or equal to 5% (absolute value) of the statewide average vaccine coverage to make the final tier assignment. After several weeks in the orange, or moderate, tier of California’s COVID-19 reopening system, Orange County is now within striking distance of its widest reopening. Here's a List of Some Orange Tier Rules. Dear Abby: I'm thinking of telling his wife what he does on these trips, Tristyn Bailey: Missing girl's cause of death, video clues revealed, Alec Baldwin told wife, Hilaria, is facing 'consequences' for heritage scandal, after he complains about 'cancel culture'. Because California's case rate metric is normalized per 100,000 population, a number of counties with small populations have experienced large swings in their daily case rate as a result of a small number of newly reported cases. PUBLISHED 5:23 PM PT Mar. The looser regulations in the reassigned counties will take effect Wednesday. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday morning. The county has been in the yellow tier for positivity rates for a few weeks but remained in the orange tier after the weekly rankings were released last Tuesday when Orange … Four California counties improved their COVID restriction status with the latest reassignment announcement Tuesday. By City News Service California. Los Angeles fully entered the … An LHJ may continue to implement or maintain more restrictive public health measures if the local health officer determines that health conditions in that jurisdiction warrant such measures. Because the State wants to avoid swift shifts in tier status based on small absolute case number changes, we created a small county case assessment measure to apply to small counties. The shift to orange at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, March 17, 2021, comes one year to the day of the Bay Area’s first stay-at-home order. Purple (Widespread) tier threshold will remain at greater than 10 cases per 100,000, Red (Substantial) tier case rate range will narrow to 6-10 cases per 100,000; and the Orange (Moderate) tier case rate range will shift to 2-5.9 cases per 100,0000. There had been speculation that Marin County would move into the yellow tier, but its public health officer said Tuesday morning that the earliest it could reach that level would be May 4. Tier status goes into effect the Wednesday following each weekly tier assignment announcement on Tuesdays. Decrease, Reset