California will start tracking a metric intended to determine the inequity of the coronavirus’ spread, the state’s two top public health officials said this week.
The state’s Healthy Places Index provides coronavirus test positivity data on a census tract-level with the goal of highlighting the areas of the state that are either healthier or unhealthier than others, allowing for more targeted support for communities that are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus.
Since late August, state public health officials have tracked the case rate per 100,000 residents and the test positivity rate for each of the state’s 58 counties to determine how widespread the virus is and whether it is safe for a county to open certain businesses.
Starting Tuesday, the state also began tracking the HPI scores for individual counties. Those with lower scores will be able to move quicker through the state’s color-coded, tiered reopening system, according to Dr. Erica Pan, the state’s acting public health officer.
“We have to prioritize our interventions to the communities where we’re seeing the most disease,” Pan said, noting that communities with the most coronavirus transmission are often those inhabited by essential workers.
So far, Humboldt County is the only county to move to a less restrictive reopening tier based on its HPI score, moving to the least restrictive yellow tier.
Pan and state Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly argued California is the first state in the country to tie economic reopening to reducing unequal test positivity.
Ghaly also emphasized the importance of “ensuring that we invest dollars that the state has received from the federal government to work on mitigating and reducing transmission, that counties are using those dollars
in targeted ways to focus … on communities with a disproportionate impact.”
Only two counties in the greater Bay Area — Sonoma and Monterey counties — are in the most restrictive reopening tier.
None of the Bay Area’s other counties changed tiers when the state updated its tier assignments on Tuesday.
Inequity? As in systemic? Well doh. The metropolis is filthy (San Francisco, ell-Aaay). Its not about race, its about overpopulation. How about closing the borders so we can reroute funding where it belongs. 21.8 Billion, folks. That’s alot of bread, man.
Borders are closed…..to Americans because apparently wearing a mask and staying distant is too hard for us. To be fair we are talking about the country that elected the most corrupt and incompetent person in the last 200 years.
@Yogurt – Obama’s been out of office for four years.
The dims called Trump xenophobic when he closed the borders. Pelosi herself went to Chinatown and invited everyone to come have a good time. Nothing to worry about” Remember that?
By the way, at his point it’s not a matter of competence. It’s good vs evil. Communism is pure evil. The dims are communists. Simple choice this election.
@patriot
Did I mention Obama? I find it funny that it is always right side on the isle that brings up Obama and Hilary. its been 4 years and you can’t let it go…..
As for the border closing….that really helped! 210k AMERICANS DEAD ON OUR OWN SOIL.
Plus, 40,000 Chinese nationalists still got in after the ban, because he wasn’t smart enough to not allow them to fly to Canada or mexico first and then come here.
AND since your memory is short, the northeast was getting hammered because of people coming from Europe.
So his ban effectively did nothing. Another meaningless gesture that has zero positive outcome for the people of this country.
@yogurt: 8 years of Obama did a lot of damage to the country the news media is very happy to just let slide. You ask why we keep bringing it up? Will it just happen. You lefties, on the other hand keep bringing up and blaming Reagan and that was 40 years ago!
Sounds fishy – moving the goalposts again?
Anytime we hear “equity” or “ disproportionate impact“ beware.
Sure, let’s talk inequity, starting with government employees vs the rest of us.
They get paid regardless, we get our businesses shut down while still having to pay their salary, WHILE they lecture us about critical race theory, and turn everyone into a victim.
Very unfair. Almost too much to take.
This activists need to go, time to gut the state government from top to bottom.
I concur!!!
Government retirees, take a good look at what their pensions and health care are costing.
Recallgavin2020.com
Economic suicide. California is morally and financially bankrupt.
Yet more bureaucratic crap & waste of taxpayer money.
Less government – lower taxes!
Trump pulling all troops in afghanistan home by Christmas. Best president ever.
Sounds like they think the Chinese came up with a racist virus.
Do they really think we are stupid. I agree GUT state government from top to bottom and get people in there that know how manage money with credibility and are accountable. No more smoking mirror and enablers that such us dry.
Less government and lower taxes- Gee isn’t that the Republican platform?????
So Gavin how are you going to blame the conservatives on your folks getting COVID-19?
Ah yes, more New World Order buzzwords….inequity….Reimagine.
Perhaps, 1 – they wouldn’t listen or heed warnings.
2 – Police don’t DARE try to enforce anything with that hornets nest.
It amazes me that they are still harping on the sh..it. I has been almost a year and the total deaths in the world still do not add up to the deaths the US has every year for the flu. Enough is enough. Move on.
That is so wrong its not even funny. Where do you people get this stuff?
COVID deaths USA (8 months)-210,000
Flu Deaths in 2019-63,000
I was going to say try again, but please just stop
“the inequity of coronavirus spread”??? This just keeps getting better and better.
If Trump is better and so far it appears he is everyone should get what he got and get over this garbage. Another week or so should tell.
Most of the population doesn’t have access to a private helicopter, a team of top notch doctors 24 hours a day, plus access to drugs that are usually only administered after you get really sick.
No, I don’t want what Trump (allegedly) had, because I don’t have the same level of care if things go bad.
He is not better. He is even more delusional today than ever and that is scary.
Look at the Herman Cain timeline
6/24-Attend maskless Trump Rally
7/2- Tested positive
7/10- Says he is improving
7/15- Doctors seem happy with his recovery
7/27- He says he is feeling better
7/30-dies
So what is this all about? Inequality of what? So not enough people of one social or economic group are getting it .. or we are not spreading the COVID evenly .. What? yeah … nothing to see here.
Yes, they want more white people to get Covid (and die, probably) and less minorities to get it. How in the world we are supposed to accomplish that is beyond me. Of course, since Gavin and the Dems are in charge it involves a large transfer of $$$.
So to review, more white people need to go out and get Covid (hey, don’t put your mask on between bites!) and somehow less minorities should get Covid. Meanwhile Gav is going to continue the shutdown that will punish minorites far more that it is punishing middle and upper class folks.
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before.”
–Rahm Emanuel former mayor Chicago
Wall Street Journal interview November 2008
They could not have invented a more perfect opportunity to, ….
OH wait . . . . they did INVENT, the perfect opportunity.
Well, Jane Fonda said that Covid was “God’s gift to the left”.
“I’ve never wished a man dead,
but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
Oh my goodness. 99% survival rate. These people forget who they SERVE. They SERVE US. They do not command. They need to be reminded of that NOW.
Of course more “minorities” are going to get it when they are truly the “majority” of the population in said area.
It’s another excuse to keep everything shut down.
We need more White social justice warriors to get this virus in the name of equality and as a first installment on reparations.
The poorer you are, the worst hygiene you tend to have, it’s a fact. Maybe if you were to target these communities telling them to wash their hands properly, to carry hand sanitizer on their person 24/7 and use it properly, to glove up properly, to wear a proper respirator as a mask to protect themselves. When I go to Oakland for business I notice a far lower rate of mask wearing, and of lower quality masks, than I see in other communities.
In observation riding a bike transportation recently, IE, Bart and bus,a lot of the people in those supposed groups are very lax in covering up.. and with masks off seem to mouth off quite loudly, spreading germs a lot more than 6 ft.