California Coronavirus Update: ➡️ Governor Gavin Newsom’s little-noticed reopening requirement could trip L.A. up
But later in his presentation, Newsom mentioned that the state is also considering “equity” among its many populations as a factor.
The equity component received little more than a mention in most coverage — if that — and Newsom did not stress the point.But on Monday, at the tail end of a news conference, the state’s head of Health and Human Services, Dr. Mark Ghaly, explained that “health equity benchmarks” would be an important factor in determining county reopenings.
Ghaly went on to say that California officials had looked both overseas and stateside for an appropriate framework to emulate, but none really apply specific measurables to the task. Such requirements might include “focusing on testing and contact tracing and isolation or one of the other metrics,” said Ghaly.under guidelines to advance from one tier to another:
In addition, the state will establish health equity measures on activities such as data collection, testing access, contact tracing, supportive isolation, and outreach that demonstrate a county’s ability to address the most impacted communities within a county. Additional measures addressing health outcomes such as case rates, hospitalizations and deaths, will also be developed and tracked for improvement.
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