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OAKLAND, Calif. — California has launched the nation's first mandate on reopening that requires local officials to control the coronavirus in their most impoverished communities before easing business restrictions across their entire county.
The approach is aimed at tackling a persistent inequity in California, where low-income people of color have disproportionately struggled to avoid contracting the disease.
California's "equity metric" attempts to tackle that disparity by requiring that the 35 largest counties invest more in testing and ensure that positive rates of infection in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods come close to meeting the county's overall positivity rate. The rule ensures that restaurants in Beverly Hills can't resume indoor dining unless the most impoverished census tracts also show low rates of infection.
OAKLAND, Calif. — California has launched the nation's first mandate on reopening that requires local officials to control the coronavirus in their most impoverished communities before easing business restrictions across their entire county.
The approach is aimed at tackling a persistent inequity in California, where low-income people of color have disproportionately struggled to avoid contracting the disease.
California's "equity metric" attempts to tackle that disparity by requiring that the 35 largest counties invest more in testing and ensure that positive rates of infection in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods come close to meeting the county's overall positivity rate. The rule ensures that restaurants in Beverly Hills can't resume indoor dining unless the most impoverished census tracts also show low rates of infection.