To reopen, governor gavin newsom pleaded with californians to take covid19 seriously, he cited sobering trendlines including tuesdays record new cases, and a surge in hospitalizations and icu patients. Estate performed 96,000 tests in the last day, the Positivity Rate rose to 5. 1 over two weeks. Weve seen increased numbers. Seen a lot of numbers reflecting increases in the bay area. Thats the part of the state that has moved last into the new phase. The governor also pointed to memorial day and statewide receipt protests, and icu capacities at 30 . The state remains confident in preparation. We have crushed the curve and we made it Crystal Clear when we did that, we never experienced the big spike, where we were not prepared for an increase. The governor also threatened to withhold relief funding from counties who refused to comply with the state reopening criteria, including a new facemask order. We are going to attach some considerations and consequences to that. Two and half billio
Abc special correspondent dr. Nt alok patel. Dr. Patel, good afternoon, good to see you and thanks for joining us. Good to digitally see you as well. Yes, thats how we got to do it these days. Dr. Patel, lets start off by giving you a big picture of what we see in california. We hear cases are going up. What does that really mean . California is one of over 20 cases where theyve gone up including napa and marin county. Theres a wide variety of factors of why this may be. Some suspect it was related to memorial day, which was a little bit more than two weeks ago and people kind of getting quarantine fatigue and going outside and breaking some of those physical distancing measures, and so we just have to be a little bit more vigilant and see how this plays out as more businesses reopen. One of the things we continue to hear though is, oh, well, testing is really going cases are going up because testing is going up. What do you make of that . What i make of that is its multifactorial. Yes
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