Posted on 03/19/2020 6:01:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
California estimates that more than half of the state — 25.5 million people — will get the new coronavirus over the next eight weeks, according to a letter sent by Gov. Gavin Newsom to U.S. President Donald Trump.
“In the last 24 hours, we had 126 new COVID-19 cases, a 21 percent increase. In some parts of our state, our case rate is doubling every four days,” Newsom wrote in a letter dated Wednesday. Newsom asked Trump to dispatch the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to the Port of Los Angeles through Sept. 1 to help with the influx of expected cases.
The state reported nearly 699 confirmed cases as of 9 p.m. ET Wednesday night, according to the California health department. Newsom said the virus is spreading in the community in 23 counties across the state. It is the third hardest hit state in the U.S., behind Washington state which has 1,376 cases as of 6 p.m. EDT Thursday and New York which has at least 5,000 cases.
Earlier this week, Newsom ordered all non-essential businesses to close, including bars, beer pubs and wineries. Grocery stores, pharmacies, banks, cannabis clubs and other businesses deemed as essential are still open, state and local officials say.
San Francisco Bay area officials ordered some 7 million residents to “shelter in place” on Monday, prohibiting people from leaving their homes, except under “limited circumstances,” according to the order.
People who venture out are expected to remain six feet apart, wash their hands, cover their coughs or sneezes and abide by a number of other restrictions. Non-essential businesses across the state, including wineries and bars, will be closed. But essential services such as grocery stores, banks and pharmacies will remain open.
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L.A. and San Fagsicko mostly I suspect. They like to live like ant in an antill in SF, and :A is conducive to spreading the stuff everywhere..
Well, places like LA, ya got 12 lanes of 500,000 cars in front of ya, sucking down an ocean of exhaust, now some fool 3 cars up is sneezing like a mule, and everyone behind him gets the Chinese cootie.
Life in the cootie lane.
China stopped the virus. As did South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong & Singapore.
For millions of Americans to get the virus means we have failed.
They’re hoping, hoping, this happens......with panting breath they are hoping.
So, like most flu cycles. People “get” the flu virus without ever exhibiting any obvious symptoms.
Sounds like we should quarantine California - no one in or out.
I do not believe it will take eight weeks to get hydroxychloroquine into wide distribution.
Just an idea...
And New York.
One problem - it’s Gavin Newsom writing this.
They didn't exactly stop it but they slowed down the rate of infection quite a bit through draconian means. The goal is stop too many people from getting infected at the same time and overwhelming the health care system.
There goes those illegal vote!
And every one of them is Newsome’s fault for not doing his job as a Governor in our federal system.
It's the price of manicured lawns and dusted homes. :-/
Enjoy your bum and lawless hellhole
why 8 weeks if everyone mostly is sheltering in place?
("Restrictions and terms apply...")
I’m not buying Newson’s pitch for federal covid dollars. He will get some but not what he thinks he will get.
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