Health & Fitness
CA Announces 6.5% Positivity Rate, Adds 5 Counties To Watch List
After crunching a backlog of COVID-19 cases, Gov. Gavin Newsom presented new data, suggesting that the state is 'broadly' improving.
CALIFORNIA — California has cleared its backlog, adding 14,861 new cases, five new counties to the monitoring list and uncovering a new positivity rate of 6.5%, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday.
Santa Cruz county was also removed from that monitoring list and San Diego is expected to come off tomorrow. Despite the 42 out of 58 counties that remain on the monitoring list, Newsom said the state is "moving broadly in the right direction," given that the new positivity rate is down from 8% in late July.
The new counties added to the list are:
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- Amador
- Mendocino
- Inyo
- Calaveras
- Sierra
Newsom also announced a 21% decline in hospitalizations and a 16% decrease in ICU occupants over a two week period, but warned Californians not to adopt a false sense of security. He added that the Golden State is seeing 132 deaths a day on average from COVID-19.
"This disease is deadly," Newsom said. "Please take it seriously. If we do continue to, we'll be back in the modified world at least until we have a vaccine and higher quality therapeutics."
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