Sacramento region exits stay-at-home order, allowing many businesses to reopen
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FILE - The dome and exterior of the State Capitol building is viewed on January 27, 2015, in Sacramento, California. The state is expected to lift the stay-at-home order for the Sacramento region on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021.
The state of California lifted the stay-at-home order in the greater Sacramento region effective today, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday. So California remains in its most intense surge to date, but there are some good things to report, Newsom said in a video posted on Twitter. We re starting to see some stabilization both in ICUs as well as stabilization in our positivity rate. We re also starting to see the rate of growth for hospitalizations beginning to decline. So much so that today, effective immediately, we re pulling the Sacramento region out of the stay-at-home order.
Jan. 11 California is taking steps to ramp up its lagging vaccination efforts, including setting up sites at Sacramento's Cal Expo, Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium and San Diego's Petco Park, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. "We recognize that the current strategy is not going to get us to where we need to go as quickly as we all need to go," Newsom said. California's rollout has been among the .
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Show Transcript DELAYS AND THE PLAN TO NOTIFY PATIENTS WHEN THE VACCINES ARE AVAILABLE. IT’S BEEN A LITTLE SLOWER RAMP-UP THAN MANY OF US HOPED. STEPHANIE: ACTING STATE HEALTH OFFICER, DR. ERICA PAN, ACKNOWLEDGING CRTICISM OVER THE STATE’S SLOW ROLL-OUT OF THE COVID VACCINE, SHARING THIS DURING A VACCINE ADVISORY MEETING THIS WEEK. THE VACCINE ARRIVED IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR HUGE SURGE, SO A LOT OF OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AGAIN IS STRETCHED. STEPHANIE: THE WORK CONTINUING BY COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS TO KEEP VACCINATIONS GOING WHEN AND WHERE POSSIBLE. WE ARE WORKING ON A LOT OF THINGS BEHIND THE SCENES. STEPHANIE: YOLO COUNTY WRAPPING OVER TWO DOZEN VACCINATION CLINICS THIS WEEK ALONE. IT’S NOW ON TRACK TO GO THROUGH ITS FIRST SHIPMENT OF OVER 4,000 VACCINES AS SOON
Perhaps one of the most polarizing issues to face Americans since the Vietnam War, COVID-19 has pitted neighbor against neighbor, and Galt residents and business owners are not immune from this division.
For months now, proponents on both sides have argued about masks, compliance, business closures, job loss, comorbidities and legitimacy of reported numbers.
Just last week, a local news television station ran a story about Galt using provocative words such as âhot spotâ and âsurgeâ, using data reported by Sacramento County to back up its claim.
But what are those numbers and what exactly do they mean?
The Galt Herald has been corresponding with the Sacramento County public health information officer and other county officials for over three weeks, seeking responses to questions that those officials couldnât answer and, in some cases, wouldnât answer.
Monday, December 14, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
A nursing student does patient check-in and hands out requisition forms allowing patients to get their COVID-19 test results online at Cal Expo in Sacramento.
Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
When Russell Rawlings attempted to get a COVID-19 test earlier this month after being exposed by one of his home health care aides, the process took him four days.
Rawlings, a prominent Sacramento disability rights activist, has cerebral palsy and uses a power wheelchair. Typically, public transportation helps him get around, but once he was exposed to the virus, he said he couldn’t get a company to take him to a test site.