California's coronavirus curve: Fewer deaths but a long stay-at-home period, experts say

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California's coronavirus curve: Fewer deaths but a long stay-at-home period, experts say
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California coronavirus curve: Fewer deaths, long quarantine

Coronavirus: When will California stay-at-home end? Newsom says a team is working on timing

The Santa Clara County public health officer, Dr. Sara Cody, said four things need to happen for stay-at-home orders to be eased: Robust hospital capacity; the ability to test for the virus broadly; the ability to rapidly investigate new cases, isolate the infected and identify those who may have been exposed and quarantine them to see if they get sick; and a sustained reduction in new coronavirus cases.

Possible ideas include keeping schools closed, suggesting masks be worn outdoors, extending a ban on mass gatherings and keeping older people sheltered in place, Rutherford said. Perhaps only a fraction of people — or only certain industries — might return to their physical workplaces initially. “If you pull the triggers off too early, not only is there a circulating virus to do what it naturally does, but you will have incurred all the economic and social disruptions of [stay-at-home orders] for nothing,” Markel said in a, more than 20 U.S. cities that relaxed physical distancing orders too quickly — even as the flu virus was still circulating — soon saw a new rise in cases.Advertisementdeveloped by researchers at the Harvard T.H.

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