I noted that tomorrow an update on those tiers will be provided by Dr. Purple tier, just as an example and now that we are in purple tier for those vast majority of counties, means restaurants can open for outdoor dining with modifications, nail/hair salons can open with modifications, certain youth sports can resume for competition, in particular with, again, modifications and considerations. And I’ll remind everybody if they want to learn more about the tiering and remind themselves or just dust off a little bit of understanding of what red means versus orange, go to the covid19.ca.gov website, covid19.ca.gov website. But you can see the current status and all the commensurate requirements, modifications, and restrictions that are part of each tier. And by the way, tomorrow this status will be updated when Dr. Many of you, again, recall that blueprint on the basis, the most restrictive tier being the purple tier, and the least restrictive tier being the yellow tier. We simplified that blueprint a number of months ago. I’ll remind people that blueprint was established with purple, red, orange, and yellow tiers. Everything that should be down is down: case rates, positivity rates, hospitalizations, ICUs, testing starting to go back up, as well as vaccination rates in this state, but we are not out of the woods. It’s in that respect that I want to remind folks we’re not out of the woods. So the goal of this announcement is to socialize our projections, as well as luminate and further advance an understanding, a deeper understanding of what today means and what it doesn’t mean. San Joaquin Valley, a little bit below, Bay area, tiny bit below, greater Sacramento, Northern California. You can see in Southern California it would exceed even that state rate. They’re, again, variables that are constantly changing, but these are the projections. Our projection statewide is in the aggregate being at 30.3% on the 21st of February. So you can take a look here at the regions, these being the five regions in the state. Ghaly’s talked a lot about this, percentage of cases, individuals that are hospitalized that end up in the ICU. We look at case rates more broadly defined on a regional basis, and clearly, we look at the proportion that percentage, Dr. What’s happening with positivity rates, case rates, community spread really is the forecast that gives us confidence on where we will land in a number of weeks. But we also look at community transmission rates. That’s foundational, 15% being that baseline. We look, again, at capacity, looking through the lens of a number of variables, clearly estimated ICU capacity. Here is the projection of capacity on February 21st. Ghaly is here as well to talk more about our projections and our confidence level as it relates to the decision that we are announcing here today. In order to come out of the stay-at-home order, as greater Sacramento region did just recently, we project forward over a four-week period, and we determine ICU capacity either meets or exceeds 15%. The regional stay-at-home order went into effect after a region fell below 15% ICU capacity. You recall, again, those five regions, Northern to Southern California, San Joaquin Valley, the Bay area, and the greater Sacramento regions. We’ll talk more about that in just a moment. Effective immediately, all the regions in the state of California, recall there are five regions that we have defined when we established our stay-at-home order last month, all regions effective immediately are no longer in the stay-at-home order and will move back into the blueprint, a blueprint many of you are familiar with, the blueprint we refer to as a blueprint for a safer economy. Let me just jump right into the news of the day.
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