Today, December 3, 2020, Governor Newsom announced a Regional Stay Home Order that will take effect within 48 hours after a region’s intensive care unit (ICU) capacity falls under 15% and to remain in effect for three weeks.
This order does not impact or modify the state’s guidance on school reopening process. A local educational agency that is preparing to open and is in a county that is in the Substantial (Red) Tier for at least two weeks, can proceed with their plans. Schools that have reopened for in-person services are not required to close if their county moves back to the Widespread (Purple) Tier.
The stay home order impacts the following sectors and industries:
Can Remain Open
- Critical infrastructure
- Schools that have received waivers to provide in-person instruction by their local county public health official or opened for in-person instruction when the county was in the Substantial (Red) Tier
- Non-urgent medical and dental care
- Child care and pre-Kindergarten programs
Must Close Temporarily
- Indoor and outdoor playgrounds
- Indoor recreational facilities
- Hair salons and barbershops
- Personal care services
- Museums, zoos, and aquariums
- Movie theaters
- Wineries
- Bars, breweries, and distilleries
- Family entertainment centers
- Cardrooms and satellite wagering
- Limited services
- Live audience sports
- Amusement parks
Modified with 100% Masking and Physical Distancing
- Outdoor recreational facilities
- Retail and shopping centers at 20% capacity
- Hotels and lodging for critical infrastructure support only
- Restaurants can serve take-out, pick-up, or delivery
- Offices are to allow for remote work, except for critical infrastructure where remote working is not possible
- Places of worship and political expression are to operate outdoors
- Entertainment production without live audiences and encouraged to have in place a testing protocol and “bubbles.”
The state has identified five regions and their current ICU capacity, as well as projected dates to fall under the 15% threshold, as follows:
- Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma (Projected date: mid-late December)
- Greater Sacramento: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba (Projected date: early December)
- Northern California: Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity (Projected date: early December)
- San Joaquin Valley: Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Benito, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne (Projected date: early December)
- Southern California: Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura (Projected date: early December)