CSAC Bulletin Article

Governor Newsom Announces New Regional Stay Home Order

December 3, 2020

Governor Newsom announced a new Regional Stay Home Order framework for California regions where adult ICU capacity falls below 15 percent. No regions are currently below 15 percent adult ICU capacity, but the San Joaquin and Southern California regions are close, according to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). Beyond that comment, no data was released by CDPH at the time of this writing. 

Once triggered by dangerously low ICU capacity, the Stay Home order would remain in effect for at least three weeks in a region. After three weeks, CDPH will review the region’s transmission rate and projections for hospitalizations. If ICU capacity, transmission rates, and hospitalization rates are declining, the order for the region would be lifted. At that time, each county in the region would be placed in a tier based on the state’s existing Blueprint for a Safer Economy. 

The Regional Stay Home Order allows access to (and travel for) critical services and allows outdoor activities. However, it requires that restaurants close all onsite dining, limits retail stores and shopping centers to 20 percent of capacity, limits hotels and lodging to serving critical infrastructure workers only, closes all non-essential offices, and allows places of worship and events of political expression to take place outdoors.

We will have a more in-depth review of the new Regional State Home Order in tonight’s CSAC Evening Update.

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