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    Five Bay Area counties on Friday ordered the most severe shelter-in-place directives since March, shutting down large swaths of the regional economy and requiring that people largely stay at home for the rest of the year in an urgent attempt to slow down the surge and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed.

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    • 1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 263 Tonight a brief update on our local situation, as 5 Bay Area counties announce that the region will adopt CA’s stay-at-home orders, even before we hit the state’s 15% ICU capacity threshold. https://t.co/C8kUCBLI9V It's a prudent move.

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    Vast swaths of California will fall under new stay-at-home orders in the coming weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced additional restrictions Thursday to try to slow the surging number of coronavirus cases in areas where intensive care unit capacity is dwindling.

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    • Kudos to @GavinNewsom & team for "pulling emergency brake." Nobody wants stay at home, but it beats hospitals/ICUs being unable to care for a tsunami of Covid (& other) patients – & pts dying from it. With vaccines on the way, we must turn this around now https://t.co/WpAF82sHTw

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    Corks popped in the Bay Area and across the nation after Joe Biden ended President Trump’s presidential reign. But the huge crowds did not observe social distancing — stoking coronavirus concern, especially amid the current surge.

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    • It was unbelievably frustrating to watch this all weekend. It’s not fair to only criticize Trump rallies for being super spreader events. People were outrageously irresponsible this weekend. We need better public health messaging for all. https://t.co/aRUG006FHQ