Also note from yesterday's Berkeleyside (and other sources) the recent COVID19-related news 'Alameda County could enforce COVID-19 stay-at-home orders if regional ICU capacity drops below 15%, or sooner' [4] . That's of course directly related to yesterday's State of California's 'Current guidance on the California coronavirus / COVID-19 stay home order' revision described at [5].Quoting from the Berkeleyside article [4]:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Alameda County, which is in the Bay Area region of the new guidelines, currently has 33% ICU capacity.
Update, 9 p.m.: Alameda County health officials said in a statement that they may enforce the shelter-at-home orders sooner than the state requires if community spread worsens and ICU capacity begins to drop. The latest numbers put capacity at 33%, according to the county’s data on hospitalizations.“Although Alameda County’s ICU capacity currently exceeds 15%, if this situation worsens, we may need to enact the State’s Stay-at-Home restrictions before the Bay Area region meets the threshold in order to protect ICU bed availability and save lives,” officials said.
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Although BerkeleyLUG isn't having its next virtual meetup until the following Sunday of 2020-12-13 (see [6]), SF-LUG *is* having its first Sunday-of-the-month virtual meetup this particular Sunday 2020-12-06 (see details in reference [7]).