Contra Costa County’s top health official rescinded “any and all” active COVID-19-related health orders Friday, arguing that they are no longer necessary at this stage in the pandemic.
Health Officer Dr. Ori Tzvieli rescinded 69 outstanding health orders, including those that restricted individual residents’ activities, required business owners to limit their operations, required the use of a mask and required vaccination for certain workers.
“Based on current trends and the availability of vaccinations and treatments, it is no longer necessary to have any active health officer orders pertaining to COVID-19,” Tzvieli said in Friday’s health order.
Several of the county’s most-restrictive COVID-related orders have not been active for some time.
The county lifted its requirement in February that patrons of indoor businesses verify their vaccination status and lifted a requirement last month that first responders and other medical personnel had to get vaccinated or test regularly for the virus.
As of Wednesday, 84.3 percent of all county residents have gotten fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Roughly 55 percent have also received at least one booster vaccine dose.
Can we stop wearing masks in hospitals now please?
No…..This sounds like Russian Disinformation. We need to wear two masks at all times, social distance at exactly 6 feet, shelter in place, lock it down, close all schools, and work remotely. Remember: we are all in this together. How dare this official take away our fun? Call your local health department and tell them we need both vaccine and mask mandates now!
You forgot “It’s for the Children” There fixed it for you.
I feel sort of dumb wearing those things. You can’t hear people through plastic shields and masks wearing hearing aids. They don’t do anything anyway.
Do what I do, keep saying, ‘Huh? I can’t understand you” until they take their stupid mask off.
The ‘powers that be’ have seen the light as the tides turn with pending litigations and the awareness of the feeble minded to the farce we have been living the last 32 months…lest we never let this happen again and demand a fail-safe from the government overreach and stripping of our civil liberties!
Only about 50,000 people have COVID-19 in the county at the moment. 23 people died from COVID-19 in August and another 23 in September. 300 known variants are circulating. An election is coming up, oh, let’s cancel all of the COVID-19 safety orders. We’ll reinstate them after the election and as the winter surge kicks in.
Correction Died WITH covid.
@Oh, please – The CC county health department has been consistently clear on their criteria for deaths due to COVID-19 vs. deaths from other causes where COVID-19 was detected. They use the phrase “COVID-associated deaths have a positive PCR test and contain COVID-19 on the death certificate as either a cause of death or other significant condition contributing to death.” If you want to dispute the cause of a particular death then you will need to take it up with the person that signed the death certificate.
You forgot “It’s for the Children” There fixed it for you.
@WC Resident – you just outlined exactly why you should not use the phrase “died from COVID-19” in your comment.
Not according to Our Leader in Sleepy Hollow. He just got another shot.
So bets on them coming back November 9th?