Posted on 10/12/2020 3:11:58 PM PDT by Vendome
September 30, 2020
As announced on August 28, 2020, the Blueprint for a Safer Economy includes a health equity metric which will be used (along with other metrics) to determine a county's tier. The purpose of this metric is to ensure California reopens its economy safely by reducing disease transmission in all communities. This document outlines the equity metric and requirements which is effective October 6, 2020.
It has been clearly documented that certain communities - low-income, Black, Latino, Pacific Islander, and essential workers – have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 in terms of higher rates of infection, hospitalizations, and deaths. These disparities create a public health imperative to address exposure in all communities, including especially those disproportionately impacted, as a measure to protect all communities.
The Blueprint for a Safer Economy relies on two measures – case rate[i] and test positivity[ii] – to determine when a county can move to a less restrictive tier with more sector openings and resultant increased interaction among residents. In order to avoid a surge of infections, the level of baseline infection in a community should be progressively lower as there is more movement and mixing.
Most counties have significant differences in test positivity among more and less advantaged neighborhoods, with these differences often also overlapping with race and likelihood of employment as essential workers. Especially as counties move into less restrictive tiers with more movement, the importance of this differential prevalence of infection grows because mixing and opportunities for transmission increase. Therefore, it is imperative to reduce disease transmission in all communities to ensure California reopens its economy safely.
In order to advance to the next less restrictive tier, depending on its size, a county will need to meet an equity metric and/or demonstrate targeted investments to eliminate disparities in levels of transmission.
In addition, to support a data-driven approach to protecting public health and eliminating COVID-19 disparities, the state is committed to partnering with counties to improve the collection of race and ethnicity data associated with testing and cases. To date, approximately a third of cases and up to half of test results reported to the state so do not have required race/ethnicity data. The state will partner with counties to determine milestones in improving the collection of this data. The state will provide county-level data on the completeness of race/ethnicity for COVID-19 tests and cases, and will continue to track and publicly post county level data on testing, case rates and deaths by race and ethnicity.
The California Healthy Places Index (HPI) is a composite measure of socioeconomic opportunity applied to census tracts that includes 25 individual indicators across economic, social, education, transportation, housing, environmental and neighborhood sectors.
Each county's census tracts will be divided into quartiles based on HPI. While the state's lowest quartile HPI census tracts are home to 24% of Californians, they account for 40% of COVID-19 cases. Consequently, the Blueprint for a Safer Economy framework includes two measures to address the public health impact of populations mixing more as counties move through tiers and more activities are allowed.
The equity metric will not be considered as a factor in whether a county needs to move to a more restrictive tier.
Due to the limited number of census tracts, test positivity cannot be reliably calculated by quartile for smaller counties. Therefore, at this time, counties with a total population of fewer than or equal to 106,000 are excluded from this equity metric but must meet the targeted investment requirement described above. Twenty-three counties with a total population of fewer than 1 million (2.4% of state population) are exempted from this measure. These counties collectively account for fewer than 1% of the state's Asian-American population, 1% of the Latino, Black and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander populations, 4% percent of the white population, and 6% of the Native American population.
CDPH will assemble a Health Equity Technical Assistance Team that will partner with key regional collaboratives and advocacy groups to develop a menu of best practices, resources, and vendors with an equity focus to share and provide resources to counties. In addition, CDPH will coordinate regional hubs to provide resources relevant to each area.
[i] Case Rate: Calculated as the average daily number of COVID-19+ cases (excluding certain cases) over 7 days, divided by the number of people living in the county/region/state. For purposes of the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, the adjusted case rate is used to determine tiers. The adjusted case rate is calculated as the case rate multiplied by a case rate adjustment factor that is based on the difference between the county testing volume (testing volume, tests per 100,000 per day) and the median testing volume calculated across all counties. See Blueprint for a Safer Economy for more information.
[ii] Calculated as the total number of positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 over a 7-day period (based on specimen collected date) divided by the total number of PCR tests conducted; this excludes tests for certain cases. This number is then multiplied by 100 to get a percentage. Due to reporting delay (which may be different between positive and negative tests), there is a 7-day lag. See Blueprint for a Safer Economy for more information.
OMG. A fascist can figure a way to tie anything to their agenda. Kinda admirable in a way, at least till it gets them introduced to the wood chipper.
What pretentious fraud wrote that jargon-laden tripe?
The racism of the past can now be corrected with racism today.
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Make everybody miserable.
LOL!
When you allow bureaucrats to get involved, all you get is bullshit!
Kali-fornia’s budget problems are caused by TOO MANY bureaucrats!
I am glad I left in 1994!
And I am trying (without much success, dammit!) to get my two children to sell their property and leave NOW, before Kali-fornia REALLY does collapse!
My prediction:
Those who provide jobs in Calif will leave at an unprecedented rate & the JOBS will leave WITH them.
That will not only reduce the population & cause constantly changing basis for calculating the numbers, the economy of California WILL tank even sooner.
Gruesome Newsom is riding this all the way to jail, IMO.
I knew I’d seen something like this before—No Child Left Behind. For a district to pass NCLB, every school in the district had to pass. For a school to pass it wasn’t enough to have kids pass the tests at the target rate, but each subgroup had to pass at the rate as well. Subgroups included: free/reduced lunch, boys/girls, each minority group—black, non-english speaking, hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islanders, Indians, Aleuts, Inuit—if your school had more than a few of these minorities, they had to pass at the same rate. And the handicapped. The handicapped, no matter how severe their handicap, had to pass the tests at the required percentage—although they were given modified tests.
If a district passed in every category, but one school failed in a single category, the district failed.
So it looks like California is just implementing the same kind of thinking on the health and economies of its counties. Glad I left many years ago.
You just have to figure out which county officials you are supposed to target your investments at. This is very much like the way business is done in China. I think Targeted Investment is another way of saying Bribe.
The ‘blueprint’ states “a COUNTRY’S tier”, yet it is focused on the STATE of California.
We, who have, at the least, graduated high school, before Jimmah Carter took over the edjumication of the nation, can tally up the present state of finance within the state of California, in the following:
“Y’all are phooked!”
Any devised plan with any semblance of any contrived “equity” is of a COMMUNIST financial ideology, which has been demonstrated as a failure, from Plymouth Colony, to Soviet Russia/Cuba/Venezuela, and is now being demonstrated with Marxist Communist China.
I will be using that line often. Thx!
Who comes with crap like this? and why aren’t they immediately silenced and ridiculed before being hanged??
Just open the economy, those most vulnerable to Covid can remain locked down. I suspect our productivity will not be noticeably impacted.
California....you are beautiful but you have idiots and arses and evil people in control....good people please get out before its too late....
I can see them demanding you sell your house or your car to a Mattered person just to be "fair".
Total misery for everyone unless there’s 100% racial equality in infection and recovery rates. California is becoming a nut house.
I know. The simple ones are effective.
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