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Less than 1% of the Bay Area’s intensive care unit beds remain available amid the region’s latest coronavirus surge, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
Approximately 0.7% of the 11-county greater Bay Area region’s ICU beds remain open, according to state public health data. If ICU capacity hits 0%, the region would then pivot to its surge capacity of additional ICU beds.
Statewide, hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have risen 6% over the past two weeks to 21,668 while ICU admissions have increased 13% to 1,868 as of Sunday.
“That’s among the smallest increases we’ve seen over a two-week period in some time,” Newsom said.
The region’s ICU capacity has steadily dwindled since falling below 15% in mid-December, triggering the state’s stay-at-home order.
That order will almost assuredly be extended, Newsom said Monday during a briefing on the pandemic, but state public health officials are not expected to formally announce the length of its extension until Tuesday.
According to Newsom, the state has deployed nearly 1,900 state and federal staff members to health care systems throughout the state to tend to the surge of cases, which has kept ICU capacity in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley at 0% for several days.
The rise in hospitalizations and ICU admissions has also come with a rise in deaths, with an average of 476 coronavirus-related deaths confirmed each day over the last seven days, according to Newsom.
That surge in deaths has also not evaded the Bay Area. Last week, Sonoma County received a refrigerated trailer to serve as a temporary morgue in anticipation of an increase in COVID-19 deaths.
San Bernardino, Monterey, Los Angeles and Imperial counties have also received trailers from the state’s Office of Emergency Services.
“Most of the requests have come from the areas that have been hit the hardest and either they need the extra storage, or they anticipate that they will need the extra storage very soon,” a spokesperson for the OES said Friday.
Meanwhile, Newsom reiterated the state’s plan to administer 1 million vaccine doses by the end of the week in addition to those that have already been administered.
The state plans to utilize additional medical practitioners such as pharmacists and dentists as well as the National Guard to meet that goal.
Nearly 2.5 million vaccine doses have been shipped to the state’s counties, local health jurisdictions and health care systems as of Sunday, Newsom said.
To date, 783,476 of those doses have been administered.
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Raven, I’m so sorry for your loss. If you would like to share your story about Curtis, please email me at gchannell@pleasantonweekly.com.
Since this has devolved into a conversation between 2 or 3 people, I am closing this topic.
Open up the economy NOW!
and schools still are not open, businesses are dying at record paces, while more and more people are recovering from covid than dying from it.
Greater harm is coming from these inconsistent and irresponsible orders.
Freedom above all else.
You might feel differently if someone close to you died of covid-19. Flatten the curve. Wear your mask. Social distance. Wash your hands.
When will the liars behind these guidelines be held accountable for their failures?
We’ve worn masks, murdered businesses, infection/death numbers in Pleasanton are below requirements and our schools still are not open. I’m sorry if you’re not going to return to society what you’ve stripped away when numbers are met, you loose all credibility.
It’s time to move on cautiously.
Vaccines are already here. I lost a personal friend last week. We need to hang on for a while longer until we get herd immunity. This isn’t fake.
No one said it’s fake.
Ignoring the side effects that are becoming more pronounced in occurrence than the worst of the infection is akin to ignoring the science of the infection
To all those who thinking feed you faces is more important than saving children, my beautiful son, Curtis, who passed away at age 31, graduate of AVHS says GTH. Shame on all of you!!!!!
Raven,
Apologies for your loss. Never easy to loose a family member, let alone a don or daughter.
And while it may not be sympathetic, did your son have underlying conditions? Doesn’t make his loss less hurtful, but you can’t scream “listen to science “ and then ignore the data even though the you’re in the minority.
Not saying throw everything out because the majority will be ok, but you can’t ignore it entirely either.
@Pleasanton Parent,
You can’t just say well 99% of people won’t die from it, so let’s just let it spread and to heck with all the overwhelmed hospitals and ICUs and so on.
Vaccines are being distributed now. This isn’t forever. Why can’t you at least just wear a mask? What is the problem?
BobB,
Nor did I. I said our district and counties and the state are making decisions based on 1 variable, and to ignore the other impacts based on their decisions is equally ignorant as saying covid isn’t harmful.
And based on those other impacts plus our specific situation (ie Pleasanton infection/death/icu/etc) we should be opening things safely, not hiding our heads in the sand waiting.
Vaccines are coming out, but businesses should be allowed to operate safely in parallel. People should still wear masks and kids should be in schools.
Why is it so hard to listen to the science and experts BobB? Why can’t “you” wear a mask at school?
There you go again BobB. Remember WAMWYDSD.
@PP,
I do wear a mask. You were the one asking for me to respect your decision not to wear one. We are the ones following science.
WAMWYHSD