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California is bringing back a statewide indoor mask mandate that will start on Dec. 15 and last until Jan. 15, 2022. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP) Faced with rising coronavirus cases and growing concerns ...
The four-county capital region of Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Yolo remained in the CDC’s high level this week. CDPH reports all four counties with lower positivity than the state average ...
While COVID-19 has become less deadly, it remains a significant public health challenge. Since Oct. 1, at least 24,000 COVID-19 deaths have been reported nationally, including at least 1,900 in ...
Head of Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly stated that "health equity benchmarks" would also be a factor in classifications, with the Department of Public Health listing "data collection, testing access, contact tracing, supportive isolation, and outreach that demonstrate a county's ability to address the most impacted communities within a ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in California began earlier than in some other parts of the United States. Ten of the first 20 confirmed COVID-19 infections in the United States were detected in California, and the first infection was confirmed on January 26, 2020. [6] [7] [8] All of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to ...
October. On October 3, the CDPH reported over 810,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 16,000 deaths in the course of the pandemic. [159] In the first week of October, the average new daily case count is around 3,000 and the statewide new case positivity rate, although varies by county, is below 4%.
Amid concerns about a potential winter COVID-19 wave, cases linked to newer coronavirus subvariants are starting to creep up in California as officials in both Los Angeles County and the San ...
Timeline CDC poster recommending the use of non-medical face masks to slow transmission of COVID-19. 2020 Early recommendations. Initially, the U.S. government did not recommend the use of face masks by the general public outside of medical settings to protect themselves from COVID-19, as to prevent shortages of medical-grade personal protective equipment (PPE) for doctors treating COVID-19 ...