Gov. Gavin Newsom lays out the next steps in the weeks and months ahead in California's fight against the coronavirus.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says California needs to increase testing, protect high-risk residents from infection and expand hospital capacity before the state can begin to modify the unprecedented stay-at-home order he imposed one month ago and gradually return to a sense of normalcy.
The Democratic governor and officials in his administration say their strategy to slow the spread of the virus is working, pointing to relatively low growth in COVID-19 hospitalizations as evidence that staying home and social distancing are preventing a surge of infections.More than 2.3 million Californians filed for unemployment benefits in the last month as businesses closed their doors due to state mandates, and the economy continues to unravel.
The governor has predicted a peak in COVID-19 cases to begin in May and said last week that hospitalizations continue to fall below expectations. "It’s not helpful to give an end date if we don’t know an end date," Berkman said."I don’t think that any governor should be saying that we’re going to end this in three, four or five weeks when it’s completely unknown. You don’t want to end this until you see a leveling out of the curve. You don’t want to end it early and have an uprising in cases."
Berkman and other academic experts support Newsom's call for the state to expand its testing beyond sick patients to attempt to ascertain the percentage of the population that is infected, or to determine how many people previously contracted the disease and have immunity. The governor has said testing broader samples of the public throughout the state, and not just people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, will help officials determine when to lift the restrictions.
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