SACRAMENTO — A sharp rise in coronavirus cases could lead California to move some counties backward on its tier scale for reopening the economy during the pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
“I anticipate that we’ll see some counties moving backwards, not forwards,” Newsom said during news conference in Sacramento County.
The governor said the state would release more information Tuesday, but he suggested that several rural counties, including Shasta, Mono, Alpine and Kings counties, could be moved to more stringent tiers.
California’s tiered system allows counties with lower coronavirus rates to reopen sectors of their economy more quickly. Those with higher infection rates can go backward and be forced to shut down or limit certain types of businesses.
Newsom spoke after the U.S. hit the 10 million mark on recorded coronavirus cases. Daily infections have surged more than 60% in the last two weeks, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The virus has killed more than 237,000 Americans, and daily deaths nationwide have increased 18% over the last two weeks.
New coronavirus cases have also increased in California, albeit at a slower rate than the country as a whole. The state’s seven-day average for new cases has increased to 5,899 from 4,471 a week ago, and the proportion of people tested who have the virus has risen to 3.7% over 14 days from 2.9%.
Newsom also cautioned that the news that a coronavirus vaccine could soon be ready for distribution was not an excuse for people to stop abiding by public-health recommendations such as wearing masks and avoiding large indoor gatherings.
“People may go back to their original form. That would be a terrible mistake,” Newsom said. “A vaccine will come, but it will not come soon enough.”
Widespread public inoculations, the governor said, are unlikely until “well into the next year.”
Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, said household gatherings, where people are less inclined to wear masks and distance, have become a particular source of concern.
Pfizer said Monday that its coronavirus vaccine is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, based on a first interim analysis of a Phase 3 clinical trial. The drug company said it had observed no serious safety concerns in trials of the two-dose vaccine.
It could take months for the vaccine to receive FDA authorization and be widely distributed, a reality that President-elect Joe Biden emphasized Monday after meeting virtually with his new virus task force.
“It’s time to end the politicization of basic, responsible public-health step like mask wearing and social distancing,” Biden said.
He said that “for the foreseeable future, a mask remains the most potent weapon against the virus.”
Dustin Gardiner is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: dustin.gardiner@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @dustingardiner
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