He added, “I can assure you home isolation is not my preferred choice.
"To reduce the need to have to go out and begin to cobble all those assets together - though I want you to know we’re doing just that.” “If we meet this moment, we can truly bend the curve to reduce the need to surge," he said at the time. Party ends in violence: Six people shot at large California party amid stay-at-home order Newsom's office did not respond to USA TODAY's request for comment. He added about 19,543 people would have to be hospitalized under that assumption, well beyond the existing surge capacity of California’s system, which includes about 10,000 beds across 416 hospitals. Newsom enacted California’s stay-at-home order on March 19 New York’s order came three days later.Īt the time, Newsom said about 56% of the state’s population of nearly 40 million would contract the virus, according to data analyzed by his office. 26 – New York reported its first case more than a month later on March 1. Gavin Newsom: Home isolation 'necessary' to slow coronavirusĬalifornia reported its first coronavirus case on Jan. New York state, which has become the epicenter of the country's coronavirus outbreak, by comparison, had nearly 800 deaths on Wednesday and, according to the IHME's data, hit its daily death peak on Thursday. "I think the move to make these decisions quickly, to avoid further delays once the extent of spread and its rise became clear, have been absolutely vital and deserve a lot of the credit for us being at a place right now that’s much better than where we might have been had the epidemic continued to spread," Salomon said.Ĭalifornia is projected to reach its peak for COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, with an estimated 66 deaths, according to the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Golf, handshakes and a Mar-a-Lago conga line: Squandered week highlights Trump’s lack of COVID-19 focus “One thing that I think is known is that the earlier you’re able to act decisively to stop rise in infectious, the more that that will pay off in terms of higher impact in flattening the curve,” said Salomon, also the director of the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab at Stanford Medicine. Josh Salomon, a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Gavin Newsom – has California confident in its fight against the novel coronavirus, despite the state having the country’s second-most populated city in Los Angeles, said Dr. That decisive early action – followed soon by Gov. Sara Cody, The Mercury News of San Jose reported. The March 16 order was called "unprecedented" at the time by county public health officer Dr. Fast-forward a month, and more than 310 million Americans are familiar with what at first seemed like a drastic response, with just eight states holding out against “stay-at home” orders amid this public health emergency. The order had residents going to Google to find out what it meant. The coronavirus death toll in the U.S. had barely surpassed 100 in March when a group of counties in the San Francisco Bay Area enacted a sweeping “shelter-in-place” order.
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