Stay-at-home orders issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and California Department of Public Health went into effect in Santa Clarita on Monday after the number of available ICU beds dropped below a critical threshold.
The percentage of ICU beds remaining available in the southern California region, as designated by the state’s Department of Public Health (CDPH), fell to 10.6 percent, below the 15 percent threshold previously set by the department which triggered the implementation of the state’s Regional Stay-At-Home order on Monday.
The southern California region includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Imperial, Inyo, Mono, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) issued the “Temporary Targeted Safer At Home Health Order” on the same day, a similar order which largely aligned with the requirements outlined in the state order but also filled in some additional details.
“Because of the continuing increase in new cases and test positivity within the County and the Region and the lag between case identification and hospitalizations, the Health Officer expects both the number of new cases and hospitalizations, including adult ICU admissions in the region, to continue to increase,” reads the county order.
Under the new order, gatherings of any size of people from more than one household are prohibited and many additional restrictions have been applied in various business sectors.
Individuals are still permitted to leave their home to travel to and from essential businesses, healthcare operations or essential infrastructure, to work at, perform or obtain essential government service, or to participate in permitted individual household activities, while practicing social distancing and using face coverings, according to county officials.
Worship and political expression remain permitted outdoors as well, consistent with existing guidance for those activities, according to the county order.
People may still leave their homes to get outside, as parks and beaches remain open, but are required to do so only with people from their household and to follow masking and social distancing guidelines. The two areas of the order with the largest impact on outdoor recreation were the closure of playgrounds and the prohibition of overnight stays at campgrounds.
Among the businesses spared from closure though were the ski and snowboard resorts, as outdoor recreation facilities may continue to operate but may not serve food or drink for on-site consumption.
However, other businesses have been forced to make changes in the wake of the surge in COVID-19 cases.
Personal grooming services, such as salons and barbershops have been forced to close and restaurants have had to close for in-person dining. Breweries and wineries must similarly cease to offer in-person, on-site food and beverage service.
Retailers must operate at no more than 20 percent capacity and are required to meter customers to ensure that the threshold is maintained, per the county order.
Schools are required to stay in the state of opening they were in at the time the order took effect.
The terms of both the county and state orders are to remain in place for at least three weeks.
The state order “shall continue until CDPH’s four-week projections of the Region’s total available adult ICU bed capacity is greater than or equal to 15 percent.”
Those projections are to be made approximately twice a week.
The full Regional Stay at Home Order from the CDPH is available here, the county’s Temporary Targeted Safer At Home Health Order is available here.
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