California is reopening too quickly, posing 'very serious risk,' health officer warns

A key architect of the nation's first coronavirus shelter-in-place order is criticizing California's increasingly fast pace of lifting stay-at-home restrictions.

Cody has been credited with helping to spearhead the San Francisco Bay Area's regional shelter-in-place order. Issued March 16, the mandate that affected 6.6 million people in six counties initially stunned the nation. But it quickly became a model for the rest of California and other states, with Gov. Gavin Newsom enacting a statewide stay-at-home order March 19 and New York state following suit three days later.

Story continuesReopening so fast, she said, means there isn't enough time to implement new procedures to make reopened activities safe. As of Tuesday night, the six Bay Area counties had reported a coronavirus death rate of six fatalities per 100,000 residents; Los Angeles County has a death rate of 21 fatalities per 100,000 residents. Statewide, California has a death rate of about 10 fatalities per 100,000 residents. Across the nation, New Jersey's rate is 126 fatalities per 100,000 residents, while New York's is 149 fatalities per 100,000 residents.

Also last week, more than 1,200 pastors vowed to hold in-person services May 31, Pentecost Sunday, intending to defy Newsom's stay-at-home order. In another outbreak, pre-symptomatic tourists from Wuhan, China — the global epicenter of the pandemic — visited a church in Singapore on Jan. 19 and started showing symptoms several days later. Three other people who attended the same church on the same day also got sick, including one who sat in the same seat as the tourists, according to the CDC.

Los Angeles County has also begun allowing the reopening of houses of worship and in-person political protests, shortly after state rules were relaxed. Retail stores and malls got the green light to in-person shopping in L.A. County but must operate at 50% of capacity.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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