San Luis Obispo County remained in California’s coronavirus red tier for the seventh consecutive week on Nov. 10, but public health officials warn that the county is going in the wrong direction, with case counts soaring over the past 10 days, and a downgrade in status could follow.
Public Health Officer Penny Borenstein told the SLO County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 10 that local COVID-19 metrics are currently exceeding the requirements of the state’s red tier, which allows some businesses to operate indoors at limited capacity.
As of Nov. 10, SLO County had 500 active cases, its highest number of the pandemic, adding 52 cases that day. “At least half” of the active cases are Cal Poly students, Borenstein said, and nine residents are in the hospital.
On Nov. 10, the county also reported an outbreak of 23 cases at the Atascadero State Hospital.
“I don’t want people to panic at this point but our numbers are changing dramatically,” Borenstein said. “People are coming together in large numbers, at all manner of events, and those are the right conditions for seeing lots and lots of cases of disease.”
State data released on Nov. 10 for the week ending in Oct. 31 show that SLO County had a 7.2 adjusted case rate per 100,000 people—a rate that just exceeds the criteria for the red tier.
But because that data is delayed 10 days, Borenstein said she expects next week’s data to look even worse. In order for a county to move down tiers, it must have poor numbers for two consecutive weeks, meaning that SLO County could go down to the purple tier starting the week of Nov. 23.
California’s purple tier closes all indoor dining, gyms, fitness centers, and movie theaters, and puts more restrictions on other business sectors. It does not require schools that have already opened for in-person learning to shut down .
Borenstein emphasized that the upcoming week to 10 days will be crucial to possibly avoiding a downgrade in tiers—if the community can get the spread under control.
The state carves out a stipulation that if a county is on the brink of going backward, it can attempt to show “objective signs of improvement” to state officials and avoid the slide. If the county moves backward, it will take three weeks of improved numbers to move forward again.
“Please double down,” Borenstein said. “A lot of the parts of the community who are not taking precautions are also very strident in their messaging that we should be wide open. … Everyone do their part to allow us to have the conditions where we can be further open. That means taking this disease seriously.” ∆
This article appears in Nov 5-15, 2020.
Cal Poly needs to take a break from “Learn by Doing”.
Please stop reporting this propaganda as though it is the truth. There is not now and never was a Covid-19 “pandemic” and “cases” do not equate to “deaths.” People are blindly getting tested by using the RT-PCR (Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction) test, which cannot and does not test for infection, according to the inventor of the test. In other words, the test is being misused to falsely inflate “case” numbers which the media report and dictatorial politicians report almost as if these cases of false “positive” test results are deaths.
As far as CV-19 goes, if you believe it is real, we are approaching a global recovery rate of 99.999%, meaning that everyone recovers or they died from other causes. Does this pre-school-like color-coded tier system remind you of anything else? How about the same fear-mongering system put in place after 9/11 and used to justify the freedom-shredding Patriot Act?
I have done extensive research on CV-19 and other such “viruses” and have come to consider germ theory a big lie coopted by the Rockellers to cash in on the stupidity of most people, telling them that so-called “viruses” are invisible, deathly infectious, and can transmit between humans. This has been debunked in actual scientific experiments that (surprise!) have been scuttled by Daddy Government, Mommy Medicine, OBE Education, and the sycophantic media.
Intelligent people would question everything purported about this “pandemic” including the extreme tyranny being thrust on humanity, stripping us of our most basic unalienable rights. Wake up, people. You’re being lied to and mind-controlled by the constant propaganda and fear-porn. On this trajectory, things will not only not get better, they will certainly get worse, and you are stoking the engines by remaining stupid and silent.
I agree with sharpen completely. He is destroying lives. More people die from suicides. Homicides. Drug overdose and car accidents than covid ever. A vaccine better not be forced upon us to keep our jobs as is being implied. Sandra W.