“I’ve said before that additional rollbacks or closures must remain on the table,” said Los Angeles County public health director Barbara Ferrer on Monday. “But at this stag…
“I’ve said before that additional rollbacks or closures must remain on the table,” saidCounty public health director Barbara Ferrer on Monday. “But at this stage in the pandemic, we believe we have a lot of tools available that if fully utilized should allow us to slow the spread without going back to the more stringent Safer-At-Home orders that were in place earlier in the pandemic.”
“I’m the first one to admit, you know, how wrong we were when we thought there wasn’t a lot of asymptomatic spread, and how wrong we were when we didn’t think that masking up, wearing cloth face coverings, was going to afford a lot of protection,” she said. “As we move through, I keep top of mind as we continue to learn more about this virus we have to make other adjustments in the future, and that’s just the path that we’re on.”Many have questioned if the county and state reopened too early.
10. Does lowering the infection rate remain the top state goal or has it been replaced with a desire to reopen the economy even if infection rates go up? If so, how high a rate will be acceptable?in Monday’s Sacramento Bee asked a similar question about Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to reopen the state in May.
Newsom appeared to be “caving in to the vocal minority,” said Elizabeth Ashford, who advised both Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gov. Jerry Brown.Newsom, Ferrer and L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti have each manintained their decisions to reopen were data-driven. Ferrer made a similar evidence-based argument on Monday.
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