The vast majority of California isn't close to meeting Gov. Gavin Newsom's reopening requirements, a Times analysis finds.
Most big California counties are not close to meeting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s strict standards that would allow a wider reopening of the economy, including dine-in restaurants and shopping malls, a Times data analysis found.
In fact, 95% of Californians live in counties that don’t meet that standard, The Times analysis found. Not a single county in Southern California nor the San Francisco Bay Area met the criteria.The 24 counties that did meet the criteria, for the two-week period that ended on Thursday, are all in Northern California and most are sparsely populated.
With the exception of Santa Cruz County, all 24 counties are located north of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento and the Yosemite Valley.The failure of most California counties to meet the criteria demonstrates just how persistent the coronavirus is in the Golden State’s most populous areas. The Times analysis found that 92% of Californians live in counties that in the last two weeks have recorded at least one death from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Riverside County comes up second, recording 92 fatalities in the past two weeks. Riverside County’s health officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser has been
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