Gavin Newsom has said all along that the state has to rely on social pressure to keep people apart. In the meantime, the state is running out of levers to control the spread, leaving public health officers little choice but to implore residents to adhere to the rules. We get big numbers when things go wrong,” said George Rutherford, professor of epidemiology and statistics at the University of California, San Francisco.Ĭalifornia has begun providing its initial vaccine allotments to health care workers, but immunizations are not expected to have a dramatic impact on infection spread for months, until broader distribution takes place. But it has no real hammer against people gathering or engaging in everyday social activities, and many local law enforcement agencies have made a point of declaring they will not become the stay-at-home police. The state hasn’t employed strict enforcement and has relied on its regulatory agencies to cite the worst-offending establishments in spot cases.
Others have said congregant settings remain a severe concern in a housing-constrained state, especially in low-income communities where residents live in tight quarters and must continue to work in-person to survive. Some have blamed the strict rules themselves, saying that cooped-up Californians couldn’t take it any longer and decided they need to live their lives. They blamed celebrations and postseason viewing parties when the Dodgers and Lakers won championships this fall. In Los Angeles, officials have said all along that people were gathering too often. The website Covid Exit Strategy shows a 97 percent rise in Covid throughout California, which has gone in the opposite direction from its West Coast counterparts, Oregon and Washington. “If we have a surge on top of a surge,” she added, “we will definitely break.”Īt more than 100 new daily cases per 100,000 residents, California’s case rate is second only to that in Tennessee, according to the nonprofit tracking site Covid Act Now - though it’s a state that does not mandate mask wearing and allows indoor gatherings of up to 10 people. All of our numbers are going in the wrong direction, and our reality is rather grim at the moment,” Santa Clara County public health officer Sara Cody said Wednesday. “We are facing a very, very difficult and very dangerous time in our county, in our region and in our state. It couldn’t come at a worse time, given that the Christmas and New Year’s holidays have arrived, and officials fear that residents are even more likely to travel and congregate than during the Thanksgiving period that propelled the current trends. But it is hard to pinpoint one single factor - and equally hard to find a silver bullet. They can point to any number of reasons that contributed to California’s surge over the past several weeks. The turnabout has confounded leaders and health experts.
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