Submitted to The Union
The regional stay-at-home order announced last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom, applicable to any of the state’s five regions for three weeks should their regional ICU bed availability fall below 15%, will go into effect in Nevada County today.
According to the order’s guidelines, restrictions are to take effect 11:59 p.m. the day after a region falls under the 15% ICU availability threshold. For the region Nevada County is in, that happened Wednesday, meaning the stay-at-home order kicks in just before midnight today.
ICU bed availability in the Greater Sacramento region a 13-county area which includes Nevada County as designated by the order was 14.3% as of Wednesday afternoon.