Bend it like the Bay Area: Doctors see flatter curve after 2 weeks of social isolation

SAN FRANCISCO — State leaders and doctors are cautiously optimistic that the Bay Area's early moves to lock down residents two weeks ago have prevented surges of coronavirus patients from overwhelming the region's health care capacity thus far.

"We believe very strongly the stay-at-home order has helped advance our efforts in reducing the stress on the system that we believe would have already materialized in more acute ways had we not advanced those protocols when we did," Newsom said Monday in his daily press conference. "While we still predict an upcoming surge, the partnership between the health system and public health officials on the local and state levels to implement social distancing has given us more time to put a lot of pieces in place to prepare for a potential surge," Parodi said in a statement.

The Bay Area's other eight counties have been faring better, reporting 1,352 cases and 24 deaths total, according to the Johns Hopkins data. Statewide, California has 6,400 confirmed cases and 146 deaths. "What I can say is how many critically ill patients we have, and that has not surged," he said. "Something is working."

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower California has very good planners. Just give them a problem and expect quality results.

We have stuff going on that we don't know because California is not testing enough. Hence an increase of people in the ICU in CA. Yamiche WHO DrTedros RepMaxineWaters GavinNewsom SpeakerPelosi SenSchumer

We don’t need Floridians coming over please keep a secret

I'm very proud of us and our leadership here in the Bay Area. I'm cautiously optimistic since we still don't have the sufficient levels of testing to really paint the picture of what's going on. StayAtHome QuedateEnCasa

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Fingers crossed we see the same thing in the DC area!

We can hope. Don't ease up, we're not over the hump yet!

As a Silicon Valley resident I am proud of the way people here have practiced social distancing. It was indeed a smart move to act early. The news from around other parts of the country is horrifying but we don't see it here.

Well someone did something right. Not out of the woods yet though.

2 weeks ago is frankly pretty late to the game. If they get by with a low level of cases in the Bay Area, they will have been very lucky and will have to thank others for restricting travel from China back in January.

This is great news for California, as big as we are, to have done the right things. Kudos to Gavin Newsom and all of California authorities for taking charge of this pandemic inside of this state.

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