News Director Michelle Marques talks with State Senator Mike McGuire about the last 15 months of the pandemic and how it has impacted our community, as well as
Sonoma County is not headed in the right direction as statewide COVID-19 restrictions are about to be lifted. Our 7-day daily average of active cases was at 305
March 17, 2021
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State health officials say 42 of California’s 58 counties have advanced into the second-highest Red Tier in the Blueprint for a Safer Economy recovery plan. That represents nearly 88-percent of the state’s population. The state’s vaccine equity metric allows a county to qualify for the Red Tier if they average less than ten new cases a day for every 100-thousand residents. The prior threshold was seven. The vaccine equity metric refers to the two-million vaccinations that have so far been administered across the state’s hardest-hit communities. There are still 11 counties stuck in the most restrictive Purple Tier.
Today the State announced that Alameda County has met the metrics for the red tier for two weeks, and effective tomorrow, March 10, activities and businesses permitted in the red tier per the Stateâs Blueprint for a Safer Economy may resume operation.
With an adjusted daily new case rate per 100,000 residents of 4.8, a testing positivity rate of 1.8%, and a health equity quartile positivity rate of 2.6%, the state of the pandemic has improved greatly in Alameda County since the peak of the winter surge in early January.
âAlameda Countyâs case rate is on the decline and vaccinations of vulnerable residents and our frontline workers are progressing, but the COVID-19 pandemic is not over,â said Dr. Nicholas Moss, Alameda County Health Officer. âAs more activities and businesses open indoors and more people from different households mix, the risk of becoming infected increases. The majority of Alameda County residents have not been vaccinated, so we must contin