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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Skip to the Bay Area public transit you use: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#muni\">San Francisco Muni\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#bart\">BART\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#actransit\">AC Transit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ferry\">Ferry Service\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#caltrain\">Caltrain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no other way to put it: Bay Area transit agencies are struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coronavirus pandemic hit, many businesses told employees to work from home. Local public health authorities mandated that non-essential workers stay home, too. Ridership on all Bay Area public transit systems plummeted as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies have struggled to maintain basic service, keep riders and workers safe and avoid mass layoffs. An infusion of emergency aid from the federal government allowed transit systems to survive, but getting back to “normal” is still far in the future. “We are now facing the complete economic devastation that is the aftermath of this pandemic,” San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin said on Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101877803/how-covid-19-is-changing-public-transit\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What About Safety?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Transit operators have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue since shelter-at-home orders were imposed in March. One of the major challenges they face now is convincing patrons that it’s safe to ride again, even with the coronavirus pandemic still simmering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s some evidence that transit isn’t to blame for as much transmission of the coronavirus as authorities and the riding public might believe. Studies of outbreaks in various cities around the world have not detected infection clusters linked to public transportation. And a new article from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/fear-transit-bad-cities/612979/\">The Atlantic\u003c/a> notes that the incidence of COVID-19 has been low in one of the world’s most crowded, transit-reliant cities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If transit itself were a global super-spreader, then a large outbreak would have been expected in Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people dependent on a public transportation system that, before the pandemic, was carrying \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/transport.pdf\">12.9 million people a day\u003c/a>. Ridership there … fell considerably less than in other transit systems around the world. Yet Hong Kong has recorded only about \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html\">1,100 COVID-19 cases\u003c/a>, one-tenth the number in Kansas, which has fewer than half as many people. Replicating Hong Kong’s success may involve safety measures, such as mask wearing, that are not yet ingrained in the U.S., but the evidence only underscores that the coronavirus can spread outside of transit and dense urban environments—which are not inherently harmful.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Scroll down for a status report on the Bay Area’s biggest public transit providers, and see how your local service is being impacted — whether that's\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"#muni\">SF Muni\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#bart\">BART\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#actransit\">AC Transit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ferry\">Bay Area ferries\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> or \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#caltrain\">Caltrain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've also got a look at \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#next\">what could be next\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"muni\">\u003c/a>San Francisco Muni\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muni bus stops in front of the nightclub Bruno's, which has a sign that reads, 'Save Lives. 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That means he doesn’t expect Muni will be able to restore all the lines it suspended for up to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the financial calamity that’s affecting so many households across the nation, and is also affecting every public agency,” Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Muni is doing everything it can to make buses safe to ride and to operate. Drivers have protective barriers, wear masks and keep the windows down to increase air circulation. Most buses have rear boarding to facilitate passengers spreading out. The buses are cleaned and sterilized at the end of every shift, about three times a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And as far as we know, there are no cases of passengers having contracted COVID-19 on Muni,” Tumlin said. He added that there have been just 14 COVID-19 cases among the agency’s 6,000 employees, and all have recovered. 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However, the agency has closed streets like the Great Highway, Page, Shotwell and Sanchez to traffic — part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/slow-streets-program\">Slow Streets program\u003c/a> — in order to make more safe spaces for residents to get outside and move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our next step is to try and knit those pilot projects together, filling in critical gaps, to allow most San Franciscans on their own steam, to get to work, to get groceries, etc,” Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Jeffrey Tumlin, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\"]'Our next step is to try and knit those pilot projects together, filling in critical gaps, to allow most San Franciscans on their own steam, to get to work, to get groceries, etc,.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA is considering a massive network of protected bike lanes that could help make many more San Franciscans feel safer getting around by bike, scooter or on foot. He said they are beginning the political process to get approval for such a plan, but noted similar efforts in the past have come up against stiff pushback from citizens that don’t like change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people wonder how agencies like Muni and BART will enforce safety protocols like mask-wearing. Tumlin acknowledges this is a delicate matter. Right now, most agencies do not want their frontline workers confronting passengers in order to make them wear masks. Tumlin says Muni drivers have even been assaulted when they tried to shame passengers into wearing masks. And the conversation about mask enforcement comes in the middle of a national reckoning with policing, making the matter even more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"bart\">\u003c/a>BART\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11806560 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; color: #767676;\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A mostly empty BART train travels from Oakland to San Francisco on Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mostly empty BART train travels from Oakland to San Francisco on March 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART ridership, which averaged over 400,000 people per weekday in pre-pandemic times, dropped to the low 20,000s in April. It has inched up to about 40,000 now — but that's still 90% of its former level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the agency depends heavily on fare dollars for daily operations, BART, too, slashed service on both its weekday and weekend schedules. The system is currently open from 5 a.m. through 9 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. And instead of running trains every 15 minutes on each of its five lines, it cut service to once every 30 minutes, effectively cutting the number of trains it runs by half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, like others, is working hard to persuade riders it is safe to return to the trains. It has a \u003ca href=\"https://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/BOMAsf/attach/BART_15_StepWelcomeBackFactSheet.pdf\">15-point plan \u003c/a>to ensure the safety of passengers, including things like fogging the trains every night, sanitizing all touch points at the end of every run, using the longest trains possible so riders can spread out and requiring masks. Some “Forum” listeners commented, though, that they haven’t seen much enforcement of the mask requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one sign of recovery: BART responded to increased ridership on its “Yellow” line, from Antioch to San Francisco International Airport, and has added trains in both the morning and afternoon between Pleasant Hill and Daly City. The new trains restore the former 15-minute headways between Pleasant Hill and the West Bay from 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. and from 3:40 p.m. to 5:10 p.m. weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"actransit\">\u003c/a>AC Transit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-121589 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7039_AC_Transit_14oct2013_0217_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit bus in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>AC Transit has not suffered quite the ridership loss that Muni has experienced, with patronage falling a maximum of about 83% in April and rebounding to a 72% loss by the end of May. But like Muni, the East Bay operator is running an essentially free service, with riders required to board through rear doors to maintain physical distancing from drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit is running a Sunday schedule on its East Bay lines and is operating just three of its nearly 30 transbay routes — the F from Berkeley and Emeryville, the O from Fruitvale BART and Alameda and the NL from East Oakland. Popular routes like the double-decker J line through Berkeley are sidelined indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ferry\">\u003c/a>Ferry Service\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765444 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-1200x858.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond ferry terminal at the Craneway Pavilion, July 2019. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents say the ferries are their favorite mode of public transit, but a 98% to 99% loss in ridership has forced both San Francisco Bay Ferry and Golden Gate Transit to suspend some service and significantly cut runs that continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are starting to turn around. S.F. Bay Ferry has restored some runs on its popular Vallejo-San Francisco route, and it resumed service Monday on its Richmond-San Francisco route with five weekday runs each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One piece of good news on the ferry front is that more money may be on the way to help facilitate S.F. Bay Ferry’s planned expansion. Regional Measure 3, a 2018 bridge toll increase to raise funds for dozens of regional transportation projects, would provide $300 million for the system. A lawsuit challenging the measure — and blocking release of funds — lost in San Francisco Superior Court and is now on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"caltrain\">\u003c/a>Caltrain\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11472079\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11472079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain locomotives at San Francisco's Fourth Street/Townsend station. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://flic.kr/p/8hnHZ\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Lappin\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caltrain is in an even more precarious situation than other local transit agencies because it has no local tax revenue to help fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is discussion of a one-eighth cent sales tax in counties that Caltrain serves on the November ballot, which would help. However, during the pandemic Caltrain cut down to run fewer than 50 trains, about half of normal. Recently they’ve increased service to around 70 trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"next\">\u003c/a>So... What's Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 24th Street BART Station in San Francisco on March 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All the local transit agencies are appealing for more federal funds to get them through the next few years. Without it, most agencies won’t be able to afford to return to pre-pandemic levels of service, especially because new cleaning and distancing rules cost money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener from San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288\">introduced legislation\u003c/a> that would allow local agencies with readily available funds to use them quickly, sidestepping the often cumbersome and drawn out California Environmental Quality Act process. That bill has only just begun to make its way through the legislative process, and wouldn’t produce change until September or October at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Ridership on all Bay Area public transit systems plummeted as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies have struggled to maintain basic service, keep riders and workers safe and avoid mass layoffs. An infusion of emergency aid from the federal government allowed transit systems to survive, but getting back to “normal” is still far in the future. “We are now facing the complete economic devastation that is the aftermath of this pandemic,” San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin said on Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101877803/how-covid-19-is-changing-public-transit\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What About Safety?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Transit operators have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue since shelter-at-home orders were imposed in March. 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And a new article from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/fear-transit-bad-cities/612979/\">The Atlantic\u003c/a> notes that the incidence of COVID-19 has been low in one of the world’s most crowded, transit-reliant cities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If transit itself were a global super-spreader, then a large outbreak would have been expected in Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people dependent on a public transportation system that, before the pandemic, was carrying \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/transport.pdf\">12.9 million people a day\u003c/a>. Ridership there … fell considerably less than in other transit systems around the world. Yet Hong Kong has recorded only about \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html\">1,100 COVID-19 cases\u003c/a>, one-tenth the number in Kansas, which has fewer than half as many people. Replicating Hong Kong’s success may involve safety measures, such as mask wearing, that are not yet ingrained in the U.S., but the evidence only underscores that the coronavirus can spread outside of transit and dense urban environments—which are not inherently harmful.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Scroll down for a status report on the Bay Area’s biggest public transit providers, and see how your local service is being impacted — whether that's\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"#muni\">SF Muni\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#bart\">BART\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#actransit\">AC Transit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ferry\">Bay Area ferries\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> or \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#caltrain\">Caltrain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've also got a look at \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#next\">what could be next\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"muni\">\u003c/a>San Francisco Muni\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muni bus stops in front of the nightclub Bruno's, which has a sign that reads, 'Save Lives. 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And the conversation about mask enforcement comes in the middle of a national reckoning with policing, making the matter even more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"bart\">\u003c/a>BART\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11806560 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; color: #767676;\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A mostly empty BART train travels from Oakland to San Francisco on Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mostly empty BART train travels from Oakland to San Francisco on March 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART ridership, which averaged over 400,000 people per weekday in pre-pandemic times, dropped to the low 20,000s in April. It has inched up to about 40,000 now — but that's still 90% of its former level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the agency depends heavily on fare dollars for daily operations, BART, too, slashed service on both its weekday and weekend schedules. The system is currently open from 5 a.m. through 9 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. And instead of running trains every 15 minutes on each of its five lines, it cut service to once every 30 minutes, effectively cutting the number of trains it runs by half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, like others, is working hard to persuade riders it is safe to return to the trains. 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"content": "\u003cp>In late March, Imperial County had just nine confirmed cases of COVID-19, and the head of the largest hospital there thought his community had dodged a bullet. But Dr. Adolphe Edward soon realized his assessment was premature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden, we had 65 patients with COVID,” Edward recounted during a recent interview, “which was over 70 percent of my hospital admissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the rural county on the U.S.-Mexico border with 180,000 residents has the highest coronavirus infection rate per capita of any California county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of June 16, the county’s public health department \u003ca href=\"http://www.icphd.org/health-information-and-resources/healthy-facts/covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> that 4,389 people had tested positive, and 52 people had died with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cross-Border Lives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge in cases is partly due to the county’s location right on the international boundary, health officials say. Edward’s hospital, the 150-bed El Centro Regional Medical Center, is just a half-hour drive north of Mexicali, a city with over a million residents in Baja California that has become the epicenter of the pandemic in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward said he expected that when COVID-19 hit Mexicali hard, the sickness would hit his hospital too. And in fact, many of the patients seeking treatment at the medical center were U.S. citizens or legal U.S. residents who live in Mexicali, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Dr. Adolphe Edward, El Centro Regional Medical Center\"]‘Disease does not know borders, does not know boundaries. We’re really the community of Imperial County and Mexicali, and what happens over there comes to us, and what happens over here affects them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disease does not know borders, does not know boundaries,” Edward said. “We’re really the community of Imperial County and Mexicali and what happens over there comes to us, and what happens over here affects them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward added that 60 of his employees live in Mexicali and commute across the border to work each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not sure if people are aware of just how common that is for us,” said Andrea Bowers, a spokeswoman for the Imperial County Public Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people live on one side of the border and work or go to school on the other side, a practice that’s common in most border communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the U.S. and Mexico extended until July 21, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/06/16/fact-sheet-dhs-measures-border-limit-further-spread-coronavirus\">agreement\u003c/a> to restrict “non-essential” travel between the countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m always afraid that people are imagining this rush on the border,” Bowers said. “It’s just folks living their everyday life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824836\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11824836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/IMG_1489-2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An emergency treatment area erected for COVID-19 patients at El Centro Regional Medical Center, Imperial County’s largest hospital. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of El Centro Regional Medical Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deaths Exceed Morgue Capacity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Imperial County is part of a binational region, the agricultural county has only two mortuaries. Only one, Frye Chapel & Mortuary, is taking the bodies of people who die with COVID-19. In addition, the county coroner’s office lacks a facility of its own and uses space at Frye for the county morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Managing owner, Sheila Kruger, says the mortuary is holding more than double the number of decedents it had last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m it,” Kruger said. “We are bursting at the seams, literally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the mortuary handling all of the coronavirus funerals in the county, Kruger worries that the disease could keep spreading among the grieving families, who were often caring for their loved ones who died of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These families that have been with the people that have COVID… they actually should be quarantined,” Kruger said. “[But] they come out here and try to make funeral arrangements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kruger says she will now only make plans for services by phone or email. And she says funerals are restricted to ten people at a time inside the chapel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What people have been doing is they’ll come in for a few minutes, and then they’ll leave, and another set will come in,” Kruger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability for larger numbers of people to take turns paying their last respects means a lot to the families, she said, but it can increase the risk of infection because the funeral-goers typically will congregate in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve asked them to stay in their cars until it’s time for them to come in, but they don’t follow that,” said Kruger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large family gatherings are also a problem in other settings, according to Edward, the hospital director, who said the coronavirus cases spiked about a week after two recent holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of parties around Mother’s Day. There’s a lot of get-togethers on Memorial Day,” Edward said. “[And] I still see people out in the community that are not wearing their masks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials have warned residents against congregating, and they are issuing guidelines in English and Spanish urging people to wear masks and keep a safe distance from one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baja officials are also urging residents to wipe their hands, disinfect and always wear masks in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Baja California government\u003ca href=\"http://www.bajacalifornia.gob.mx/coronavirus?id=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> website\u003c/a> reported 3,826 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mexicali, as of Tuesday. That’s fewer than the number of cases in Imperial County. However, Mexicali had 664 reported deaths from COVID-19, and health services there have been strained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Imperial County Wants More Control Over Safe Reopening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial is one of six counties in California that had not yet received state approval for advanced stage 2 reopening. It’s one of 11 counties on a state monitoring\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/CountyMonitoringDataStep2.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> list\u003c/a> for “targeted engagement” from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Luis Plancarte, Chairman Imperial County Board of Supervisors\"]‘Employees are starting to say we want to work. Bills are stacking up.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imperial County is experiencing elevated disease transmission,” according to the department’s website. “Drivers of this include U.S. citizens coming across the Mexican border seeking healthcare and continued need for staffing solutions at hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the high caseload, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors wrote to Gov. 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According to 2018 U.S. Census data, 21% of county residents lived in poverty compared with 13% statewide average, and the median household income was $46,000 compared to the state median of $71,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employees are starting to say we want to work,” Chairman Luis Plancarte said on a recent press call. “Bills are stacking up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board wants to reopen restaurants and retail stores to get the economy rolling again and says small businesses are committed to doing so safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said Tuesday they will meet with leaders in the California Department of Public Health on Thursday to discuss the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, state health officials have stepped in to help supplement local medical resources — sending teams of doctors and nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since April 1, hospitals around California have accepted 300 patients from Imperial County who need higher levels of care. The state helped airlift them to hospitals in neighboring San Diego and Riverside counties and as far north as Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward said the assistance is giving his staff a much-needed breather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re nonstop,” he said. “There is no Friday. There’s no Saturday. There’s no Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She admits she’s not much of a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I see the actual nature, I feel like it’s going to be that beautiful in the picture,” she said. “But then I look at the picture, it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, this is nothing like what is actually outside!'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snapping and then posting her favorite photos on social media is one thing that’s helping this nurse practitioner get through her day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since this COVID thing, I’m paying more attention to the beauty of the nature,” Moghaddam said. “I feel like the sky is more blue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820603\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 691px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11820603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43334_flowers-qut-e1591999671355.jpg\" alt=\"A photo Moghaddam snapped on a recent stroll near her home in Benicia.\" width=\"691\" height=\"623\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo Moghaddam snapped on a recent stroll near her home in Benicia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ameneh Moghaddam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As if risking exposure to the coronavirus weren’t stressful enough, frontline health care workers have also been facing high burnout rates from the pressures of taking care of patients in overloaded hospitals and clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moghaddam is one California nurse who’s figured out creative ways to stay grounded in these challenging times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her newfound photography habit stands in stark contrast to her working life. Right now, she’s spending a lot of it in a sweaty tent, sticking swabs up people’s noses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m going to put this swab inside your nose for 20 seconds, so put your head back and relax,” she said, gently coaxing a nervous patient during one of her recent shifts testing people for the COVID-19 virus. “You can do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moghaddam usually works in primary care and cardiology at \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/medicalcenter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Costa Regional Medical Center\u003c/a> in Martinez. She’s volunteering her time in the testing tent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said when she was a little girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, her mom showed her the importance of putting others first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom was very involved in helping the soldiers, helping everybody,” she said. “So it’s kind of like, in situations like that, you feel like you have to go help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11824241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Ameneh-in-PPE.jpg\" alt=\"Ameneh Moghaddam dressed in PPE for work as a COVID-19 tester at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1436\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Ameneh-in-PPE.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Ameneh-in-PPE-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Ameneh-in-PPE-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Ameneh-in-PPE-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Ameneh-in-PPE-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Ameneh-in-PPE-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moghaddam dressed in PPE for work as a COVID-19 tester at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Ameneh Moghaddam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She spent her early career helping soldiers who had returned with PTSD from the war in Afghanistan. But dealing with the current pandemic is pushing this resilient professional to her emotional limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I swab and the test comes positive a few days later, something in my heart drops,” she said. “I’m like, ‘uh oh.’ I get scared every time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re just starting to get a sense of the psychological impacts of COVID-19 on health care workers. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32202646/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journal of the American Medical Association survey\u003c/a> of more than 1,800 nurses and doctors in China, around 44 percent of the respondents said they were suffering from anxiety and 34 percent reported bouts of insomnia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moghaddam has also struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started having these really, really bad nightmares,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her sister-in-law in Iran suggested she write down whatever’s on her mind. So recently, Moghaddam started keeping a journal. Sometimes, she writes about tough encounters with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Ameneh Moghaddam']‘Whenever I swab and the test comes positive a few days later, something in my heart drops’[/pullquote]“Either I keep them and look at them later, or I just shred them,” she said of the entries. “This way, it’s kind of coming out of your mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other times, she fills the pages of her journal with other stuff going on in her life, like what she’s up to in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cooking makes me very happy,” Moghaddam said. “But it doesn’t make my husband very happy, because I think we both have gained some weight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s taken up baking with a passion during the coronavirus lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yesterday I made a strawberry banana cheesecake,” she said. “My son, he likes moist chocolate cakes. So I made that last week. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moghaddam’s college-age son, Kaveh Boostanpour, said when his mom comes home from a hard day at the hospital, she doesn’t lay on the couch or watch TV. She heads straight to the kitchen and starts cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a way for her to let go and release all her stress and anxiety, and put it in something that she’s very passionate about and that she’s very good at,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moghaddam routinely brings her homemade dishes to the \u003ca href=\"https://iccnc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820787\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11820787 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43340_food-delivery-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ameneh Moghaddam routinely brings her homemade dishes to the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California in Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Last updated July 17, 3:45pm. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Looking for the latest reopening news? This post is no longer being updated, but click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">here\u003c/a> for up-to-date \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">information\u003c/a> on what's open (or closed) in your county.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom always said that his approach to reopening California during the COVID-19 pandemic would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812296/newsoms-roadmap-to-guide-california-out-of-isolation\">more of a \"dimmer switch\"\u003c/a> than an on/off button —\u003cem> \u003c/em>and now we're seeing how drastically that switch can move down as well as up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to surge across much of California, on July 13 Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap-counties/\">ordered every county in the state\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753\">immediately shutter\u003c/a> all bars and shut down indoor service in restaurants, wineries, zoos, museums, cardrooms, movie theaters and family entertainment centers (like bowling alleys and batting cages). Additionally, he ordered 30 counties — comprising about 80% of the state's population — to close indoor operations at fitness centers, places of worship, non-essential business offices, personal care services, malls, hair salons and barbershops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003cem>has\u003c/em> targeted the indoor operations of businesses like bars and restaurants — but not on this statewide scale. Just days before the July holiday, he announced the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\"> three-week closure of many commercial indoor activities\u003c/a> in 19 counties, to address the increase in confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's COVID-19 \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID19CountyDataTable.aspx\">watch list \u003c/a>now includes San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Napa in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Closures Come One Month After \"Reopening\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom's last major statewide order, back on June 12, was about \u003cem>reopening\u003c/em> not closing. While much of the Bay Area chose to hold back, many counties across California were able to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR20-113.aspx#\">reopen public businesses\u003c/a> including movie theaters, gyms and bars, after getting a green light from the state's Department of Public Health. Many of these were the same businesses that are now being ordered to close back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That June loosening of COVID-19-related restrictions represented California’s shift into \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap/#top\">Stage 3\u003c/a> of its reopening plans. The majority of California’s counties — including Napa, Solano and Sonoma — were quickly approved by the state to move into this next phase, pending clearance from local public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bay Area's six other counties — San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara — initially opted for a slower, more cautious reopening timeline, they all then also chose to apply for this \"variance attestation\" to follow the state's timeline, with Alameda as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-zoo-may-reopen-soon-after-county-votes-to-support-covid-19-variance/2326079/\">the last to apply\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As COVID-19 cases began to rise again locally, San Francisco's surge toward and then \u003cem>away\u003c/em> from reopening was perhaps one of the most dramatic in the Bay Area. In mid-June, S.F. applied for its variance alongside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/supes-support-greater-flexibility-in-easing-covid-19-restrictions/\">newly-accelerated timeline\u003c/a> that would have seen \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\">businesses like outdoor bars reopening\u003c/a> on June 29, several weeks before originally projected. On June 26 those plans were then \"temporarily\" placed on hold by Mayor London Breed, who attributed her decision to the number of COVID-19 cases in the city \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1276596917770715136?s=20\">\"rapidly rising.\" \u003c/a>A revised date of July 13 was set for these S.F. reopenings, but on July 7 that projection was \u003cem>also\u003c/em> put on pause, with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1280573763239596032\">Breed saying\u003c/a> \"our public health experts feel it is not safe to move forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroll down to see what's still cleared for reopening in California from that June order, what's been closed again by the most recent announcement, and whether these new rules will apply to \u003cem>your\u003c/em> county ... or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gyms\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824024 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California has given the green light to gyms reopening in the state. But don't expect to see the Bay Area's fitness facilities opening up en masse any time soon. \u003ccite>(Victor Freitas/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California's gyms were \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-fitness.pdf\">permitted to open their doors again\u003c/a> starting June 12 in approved counties, but counties on the state's watch list have now been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753/photo/2\">ordered to close them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State guidance (understandably) emphasizes the cleaning and disinfecting of exercise equipment and locker rooms and the provision of sanitation products like hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes for gym-goers. It also recommends facilities provide special gym hours for seniors and the medically vulnerable, and limit exercise class sizes. Swimming pools can reopen, but saunas and steam rooms must stay closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Napa are on the state's watch list, which means their gyms must now shut — or pause any plans for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that look like? \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32289\">Solano\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/order-of-the-health-officer-c19-15-stay-well-sonoma-county/\">Sonoma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a> counties \u003cem>had\u003c/em> already reopened gyms, and now only San Mateo can keep theirs open. Marin had planned to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Marin\">reopen gyms on June 29\u003c/a>, but postponed after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Santa Clara previously wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/07-02-20_executive_summary.pdf\">open its gyms\u003c/a> soon after its application to join the state's reopening timeline is approved (if it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> approved.) Alameda had \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">listed gym reopening\u003c/a> in its plan, but provided no set timeframe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0629-Postpone-COVID-19-Reopening-Timeline.php\">postponed its July 1 reopening of gyms\u003c/a> after being placed on the state Department of Public Health watch list for rising COVID-19 cases, and on July 2 announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/order-health-officer-07-13-20.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new health order\u003c/a> establishing mandatory criteria that businesses must meet to reopen. The new order does not include \"phases\" or specific dates when businesses might reopen — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/07-02-20_executive_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strategy\u003c/a> that county officials say is about long-term risk reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about counties \u003cem>not\u003c/em> on the watch list? San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/reopening-san-francisco\">says its gyms will reopen\u003c/a> in its \"August and beyond\" period for Phase 3, but has also declared\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829432/san-francisco-added-to-states-covid-19-watch-list-reopening-plans-paused-indefinitely\"> all reopening plans on pause\u003c/a> now the county is on the state watch list. Other Bay Area counties have opted to not yet specifically address gyms in their reopening schedules, or have not provided a projected date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gyms have been among the businesses hit especially hard by the coronavirus closures. The San Ramon-headquartered gym chain 24 Hour Fitness\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/24-Hour-Fitness-closes-10-Bay-Area-clubs-15339441.php\"> announced on June 15\u003c/a> that it was filing for bankruptcy and permanently closing over 100 of its locations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.24hourfitness.com/health_clubs/club-closures/\">including these 13 in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are Bay Area bars reopening? It's... complicated. \u003ccite>(Chris F/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom's statewide order now mandates the closure of all bars in California, regardless of whether a county is on the state monitoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's bars had previously got the state's greenlight to reopen starting June 12, although only ones in counties that met the state's requirements. That guidance also\u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.ca.gov/modification-of-covid-19-relief-regarding-on-premises-meal-requirements/\"> removed the previous stipulation\u003c/a> that a bar had to serve food to be able to serve alcohol, although this rule still applied to bars offering to-go drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of their potential to enable the spread of COVID-19, Newsom had previously targeted bars for widepread closure back on June 28, when he ordered the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826532/newsom-orders-bars-closed-in-7-counties-hit-hardest-by-covid-19\">mandatory and immediate closure of all bars for 14 days or more\u003c/a> in the other counties on the state's \"County Monitoring List,\" citing the need for Californians to \"remain vigilant against this virus\" amid rising case numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules for bars that were allowed to remain open were much like those for \u003ca href=\"#restaurants\">restaurants\u003c/a>, although bars with games like pool tables or shuffleboard are directed to follow the state's \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-family-entertainment.pdf\">guidelines for Family Entertainment Centers\u003c/a>, which encourage the disinfecting of equipment and the use of partitions between activity spaces to maintain social distancing. Like restaurants, bars were also not yet permitted to host any concerts, performances or private parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like at a restaurant, you could have expected to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms upon arrival, asked to use hand sanitizer and asked to wear a face covering when you were not eating or drinking. An establishment could also cancel your reservation if you arrived with symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All bars in the Bay Area must now shut, or pause any plans for reopening. Previously, bars were able to reopen whenever the county you live in allowed it (provided your county met the state's reopening requirements).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statewide order does allows bars, pubs, brewpubs, and breweries, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf\">continue \u003cem>outdoor\u003c/em> operations\u003c/a> if they are \"offering sit-down, outdoor, dine-in meals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's July 1 three-week closure order for bars, wineries and tasting rooms had already affected Solano, where bars and wineries \u003cem>had\u003c/em> opened, and Santa Clara and Contra Costa, which paused any existing plans to reopen these establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineries and tasting rooms are included in the statewide closure order, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf\">are permitted\u003c/a> to keep their outdoor operations open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137342/wine-country-reopens-for-tastings\">Wineries had opened their doors again several weeks ago\u003c/a> in Sonoma and Napa. Sonoma's \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/17932-2/\">guidance\u003c/a> had allowed wineries and breweries to reopen but not bars, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a> \u003cem>did\u003c/em> also permit their bars to reopen. San Mateo had announced its bars were allowed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">reopen on June 17.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the new closure order, the rest of the Bay Area was being cautious when it came to bars. San Francisco originally set a tentative date of \"August and beyond\" for its booze-only bars, then moved that up to June 29 (and then July 13) for its outdoor bars \u003cem>if\u003c/em> the state approved \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\">its newly-accelerated timeline for certain businesses \u003c/a>— but declared those plans \"on hold\" due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. No other Bay Area counties have given dates for bars to reopen ... yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"restaurants\">\u003c/a>Restaurants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor dining has reopened around the Bay Area, but dine-in services will be a while longer. \u003ccite>(Creative Vix/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom has ordered the closure of all indoor restaurant operations in California, regardless of whether a county is on the state monitoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11817749/gov-newsom-announces-guidance-for-reopening-dine-in-restaurants\">permitted the reopening of restaurants\u003c/a> in state-approved counties back in May, but then began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\">mandating closures\u003c/a> in counties on the state's watch list. The statewide reopening advisory included \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-restaurants-bars.pdf\">additional guidance\u003c/a> for restaurants, including cleaning protocols, temperature checks for workers, the use of face coverings when not actively drinking or eating and keeping restaurant music low so servers could keep their distance from diners and still hear their orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=bayareabites_137434 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2020/06/ZAK02755-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All indoor restaurant operations in the Bay Area must now shut — or pause any plans for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137434/this-is-what-restaurant-reopening-looks-like-bizarre-and-confusing\">Dine-in restaurant service\u003c/a> had previously returned to several Bay Area counties including Sonoma, Napa and San Mateo — and \u003cem>had\u003c/em> returned to Solano and Marin, which had already been forced to close those establishments owing to their spots on the state's watch list. Likewise, Santa Clara and Contra Costa had to halt their plans for reopening indoor restaurants. All the while, more Bay Area counties were actively planning for the return of indoor dining, although on July 7 San Francisco announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1280573763239596032\">hitting pause\u003c/a> on its planned reopening date of\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\"> July 13\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor dining service has already been reintroduced in all Bay Area counties, where it can still continue even as indoor operations shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda was the last county to reopen outdoor restaurant operations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">on June 19 ,\u003c/a> and was initially \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alameda-County-outdoor-dining-reopening-variance-15401548.php\">ordered to \u003cem>close\u003c/em> it again\u003c/a> by the state — because the county hadn't yet applied for a variance attestation. As of July 15, with Alameda's newly-approved variance, they've been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-zoo-may-reopen-soon-after-county-votes-to-support-covid-19-variance/2326079/\">ok-ed to open outdoor dining\u003c/a> once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check where your county stands \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Movie Theaters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"heatr\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movie theaters have been cleared to reopen in California -- with caveats. \u003ccite>(Donald Tong/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All movie theaters in California have been ordered to close. Movie theaters in California \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-family-entertainment.pdf\">were previously permitted to reopen\u003c/a> if they limited theater capacity to 25% or no more than 100 attendees, but more and more counties on the state's watch list were then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\">ordered to close them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State guidance recommended movie theaters implement reservation systems, designate arrival times and assign certain seats that people can use so that moviegoers could maintain 6 feet of distance from other groups. Patrons were asked, at a minimum, wear face coverings when entering and exiting the theater or buying concessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only \u003ca href=\"http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/roadmap_to_recovery.asp\">Solano\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a> counties had permitted movie theaters to reopen at 25%, capacity per state guidance — and they must now close their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're not seeing any counties with active plans to reopen their indoor movie theaters … yet. That said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13879772/hooray-you-can-go-to-the-movies-again-at-a-drive-in-theater\">a few drive-in movie theaters have reopened\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California just released new guidelines for schools reopening. \u003ccite>(Caleb Oquendo/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the new guidance for California's public schools technically started on June 12, most will reopen with the new school year. In that guidance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823500/california-schools-reopening-education-chief-details-plan\">California’s education chief\u003c/a> provided a glimpse of what 6.2 million California students can expect when they return to school, including temperature checks upon entering schools and buses, extensive hand washing throughout the day, physical distancing requirements and face coverings for students and staff at all times except when eating and drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region's public schools remain closed, and still plan to reopen in the fall, along with most other schools in California, although districts are divided on whether instruction will be in-person or remote. Schools in Napa County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Napa\">were actually permitted to reopen\u003c/a> June 1 subject to rules and modifications — but the county opted to continue to suspend teaching through the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Museums\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824068 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums.jpg\" alt=\"Indoor museums are cleared for reopening in California — but the Bay Area isn't following suit immediately.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indoor museums are cleared for reopening in California — but the Bay Area isn't following suit immediately. \u003ccite>(Una Laurencic/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All museums in California have been ordered to close with Newsom's latest announcement. California had \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-zoos-museums.pdf\">OK'd the reopening of \u003cem>outdoor\u003c/em> museums\u003c/a> back in May, and then permitted the state's indoor museums to reopen too — including galleries, botanical gardens, zoos and aquariums. Museums were already being closed in counties on the state watch list with that July 1 closure order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state guidance for these establishments didn't apply to amusement, theme or water parks, which must remain closed. The guidance issued emphasized facilitating social distancing and one-way movement through exhibits, and cleaning protocols for shared areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32398\">Solano \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a> were the only Bay Area counties to have reopened their indoor museums, which must now stay closed after their \u003cem>initial\u003c/em> closure due to being on the state's watch list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All other Bay Area counties must now keep their plans for reopening indoor museums on pause. Contra Costa County had already postponed the return of indoor museums when they opted to\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0629-Postpone-COVID-19-Reopening-Timeline.php\"> pause their July 1 reopening plans\u003c/a>, even before they were included in Newsom's closure order for being on the watch list. San Francisco originally set indoor museum reopenings for \"August and beyond,\" and then moved that up to June 29, according to its newly-accelerated timeline for certain businesses, but \u003cem>then\u003c/em> the city\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\"> declared the reopening \"on hold.\"\u003c/a> Alameda County was planning for indoor museums to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">still \u003cem>several\u003c/em> phases of reopening away\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Final Reminder\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Remember: certain businesses and activities remain firmly \u003cem>off\u003c/em> California’s list for imminent reopening, including live theater, saunas and steam rooms, nightclubs, concert venues, festivals and theme parks. This means it’ll definitely be more time before you see any of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> open back up in the Bay Area, even if Newsom and the state Department of Public Health decide to give the green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what state officials announce, whether \u003cem>you\u003c/em> can finally return to your gym, hair salon or beloved bar in the future is almost entirely dependent on what your particular county decides. How far a county can “reopen” depends on whether it meets certain metrics, including number of cases, positive test rates and testing and tracing capabilities. We're tracking what's reopening around the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Marin\">here\u003c/a>, but if in doubt, check your county's reopening plans directly below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/2019-ncov.aspx\">Alameda \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://marinrecovers.com/\">Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/reopening-san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/shelter-place-faqs\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/public-health-orders.aspx\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/roadmap_to_recovery.asp\">Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/?v=1\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://laist.com/projects/2020/coronavirus-tracker/app/california/index.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"2300\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003cem>has\u003c/em> targeted the indoor operations of businesses like bars and restaurants — but not on this statewide scale. Just days before the July holiday, he announced the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\"> three-week closure of many commercial indoor activities\u003c/a> in 19 counties, to address the increase in confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's COVID-19 \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID19CountyDataTable.aspx\">watch list \u003c/a>now includes San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Napa in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Closures Come One Month After \"Reopening\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom's last major statewide order, back on June 12, was about \u003cem>reopening\u003c/em> not closing. While much of the Bay Area chose to hold back, many counties across California were able to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR20-113.aspx#\">reopen public businesses\u003c/a> including movie theaters, gyms and bars, after getting a green light from the state's Department of Public Health. Many of these were the same businesses that are now being ordered to close back up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That June loosening of COVID-19-related restrictions represented California’s shift into \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap/#top\">Stage 3\u003c/a> of its reopening plans. The majority of California’s counties — including Napa, Solano and Sonoma — were quickly approved by the state to move into this next phase, pending clearance from local public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Bay Area's six other counties — San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara — initially opted for a slower, more cautious reopening timeline, they all then also chose to apply for this \"variance attestation\" to follow the state's timeline, with Alameda as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-zoo-may-reopen-soon-after-county-votes-to-support-covid-19-variance/2326079/\">the last to apply\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As COVID-19 cases began to rise again locally, San Francisco's surge toward and then \u003cem>away\u003c/em> from reopening was perhaps one of the most dramatic in the Bay Area. In mid-June, S.F. applied for its variance alongside a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/supes-support-greater-flexibility-in-easing-covid-19-restrictions/\">newly-accelerated timeline\u003c/a> that would have seen \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\">businesses like outdoor bars reopening\u003c/a> on June 29, several weeks before originally projected. On June 26 those plans were then \"temporarily\" placed on hold by Mayor London Breed, who attributed her decision to the number of COVID-19 cases in the city \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1276596917770715136?s=20\">\"rapidly rising.\" \u003c/a>A revised date of July 13 was set for these S.F. reopenings, but on July 7 that projection was \u003cem>also\u003c/em> put on pause, with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1280573763239596032\">Breed saying\u003c/a> \"our public health experts feel it is not safe to move forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroll down to see what's still cleared for reopening in California from that June order, what's been closed again by the most recent announcement, and whether these new rules will apply to \u003cem>your\u003c/em> county ... or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Gyms\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824024 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW.jpg 1900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/10-lb-rogue-weight-plate-near-people-gathered-703016-NEW-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California has given the green light to gyms reopening in the state. But don't expect to see the Bay Area's fitness facilities opening up en masse any time soon. \u003ccite>(Victor Freitas/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California's gyms were \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-fitness.pdf\">permitted to open their doors again\u003c/a> starting June 12 in approved counties, but counties on the state's watch list have now been \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1283068880747978753/photo/2\">ordered to close them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State guidance (understandably) emphasizes the cleaning and disinfecting of exercise equipment and locker rooms and the provision of sanitation products like hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes for gym-goers. It also recommends facilities provide special gym hours for seniors and the medically vulnerable, and limit exercise class sizes. Swimming pools can reopen, but saunas and steam rooms must stay closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Napa are on the state's watch list, which means their gyms must now shut — or pause any plans for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that look like? \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32289\">Solano\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/order-of-the-health-officer-c19-15-stay-well-sonoma-county/\">Sonoma\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a> counties \u003cem>had\u003c/em> already reopened gyms, and now only San Mateo can keep theirs open. Marin had planned to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Marin\">reopen gyms on June 29\u003c/a>, but postponed after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Santa Clara previously wanted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/07-02-20_executive_summary.pdf\">open its gyms\u003c/a> soon after its application to join the state's reopening timeline is approved (if it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> approved.) Alameda had \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">listed gym reopening\u003c/a> in its plan, but provided no set timeframe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0629-Postpone-COVID-19-Reopening-Timeline.php\">postponed its July 1 reopening of gyms\u003c/a> after being placed on the state Department of Public Health watch list for rising COVID-19 cases, and on July 2 announced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/order-health-officer-07-13-20.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new health order\u003c/a> establishing mandatory criteria that businesses must meet to reopen. The new order does not include \"phases\" or specific dates when businesses might reopen — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Documents/07-02-20_executive_summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strategy\u003c/a> that county officials say is about long-term risk reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about counties \u003cem>not\u003c/em> on the watch list? San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/reopening-san-francisco\">says its gyms will reopen\u003c/a> in its \"August and beyond\" period for Phase 3, but has also declared\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829432/san-francisco-added-to-states-covid-19-watch-list-reopening-plans-paused-indefinitely\"> all reopening plans on pause\u003c/a> now the county is on the state watch list. Other Bay Area counties have opted to not yet specifically address gyms in their reopening schedules, or have not provided a projected date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gyms have been among the businesses hit especially hard by the coronavirus closures. The San Ramon-headquartered gym chain 24 Hour Fitness\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/24-Hour-Fitness-closes-10-Bay-Area-clubs-15339441.php\"> announced on June 15\u003c/a> that it was filing for bankruptcy and permanently closing over 100 of its locations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.24hourfitness.com/health_clubs/club-closures/\">including these 13 in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/bars-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are Bay Area bars reopening? It's... complicated. \u003ccite>(Chris F/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom's statewide order now mandates the closure of all bars in California, regardless of whether a county is on the state monitoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's bars had previously got the state's greenlight to reopen starting June 12, although only ones in counties that met the state's requirements. That guidance also\u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.ca.gov/modification-of-covid-19-relief-regarding-on-premises-meal-requirements/\"> removed the previous stipulation\u003c/a> that a bar had to serve food to be able to serve alcohol, although this rule still applied to bars offering to-go drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of their potential to enable the spread of COVID-19, Newsom had previously targeted bars for widepread closure back on June 28, when he ordered the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826532/newsom-orders-bars-closed-in-7-counties-hit-hardest-by-covid-19\">mandatory and immediate closure of all bars for 14 days or more\u003c/a> in the other counties on the state's \"County Monitoring List,\" citing the need for Californians to \"remain vigilant against this virus\" amid rising case numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules for bars that were allowed to remain open were much like those for \u003ca href=\"#restaurants\">restaurants\u003c/a>, although bars with games like pool tables or shuffleboard are directed to follow the state's \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-family-entertainment.pdf\">guidelines for Family Entertainment Centers\u003c/a>, which encourage the disinfecting of equipment and the use of partitions between activity spaces to maintain social distancing. Like restaurants, bars were also not yet permitted to host any concerts, performances or private parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like at a restaurant, you could have expected to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms upon arrival, asked to use hand sanitizer and asked to wear a face covering when you were not eating or drinking. An establishment could also cancel your reservation if you arrived with symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All bars in the Bay Area must now shut, or pause any plans for reopening. Previously, bars were able to reopen whenever the county you live in allowed it (provided your county met the state's reopening requirements).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statewide order does allows bars, pubs, brewpubs, and breweries, to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf\">continue \u003cem>outdoor\u003c/em> operations\u003c/a> if they are \"offering sit-down, outdoor, dine-in meals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom's July 1 three-week closure order for bars, wineries and tasting rooms had already affected Solano, where bars and wineries \u003cem>had\u003c/em> opened, and Santa Clara and Contra Costa, which paused any existing plans to reopen these establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wineries and tasting rooms are included in the statewide closure order, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/SHO%20Order%20Dimming%20Entire%20State%207-13-2020.pdf\">are permitted\u003c/a> to keep their outdoor operations open. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137342/wine-country-reopens-for-tastings\">Wineries had opened their doors again several weeks ago\u003c/a> in Sonoma and Napa. Sonoma's \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/17932-2/\">guidance\u003c/a> had allowed wineries and breweries to reopen but not bars, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a> \u003cem>did\u003c/em> also permit their bars to reopen. San Mateo had announced its bars were allowed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">reopen on June 17.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the new closure order, the rest of the Bay Area was being cautious when it came to bars. San Francisco originally set a tentative date of \"August and beyond\" for its booze-only bars, then moved that up to June 29 (and then July 13) for its outdoor bars \u003cem>if\u003c/em> the state approved \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\">its newly-accelerated timeline for certain businesses \u003c/a>— but declared those plans \"on hold\" due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. No other Bay Area counties have given dates for bars to reopen ... yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"restaurants\">\u003c/a>Restaurants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824061\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/restaurants-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outdoor dining has reopened around the Bay Area, but dine-in services will be a while longer. \u003ccite>(Creative Vix/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom has ordered the closure of all indoor restaurant operations in California, regardless of whether a county is on the state monitoring list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had previously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11817749/gov-newsom-announces-guidance-for-reopening-dine-in-restaurants\">permitted the reopening of restaurants\u003c/a> in state-approved counties back in May, but then began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\">mandating closures\u003c/a> in counties on the state's watch list. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All indoor restaurant operations in the Bay Area must now shut — or pause any plans for reopening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/137434/this-is-what-restaurant-reopening-looks-like-bizarre-and-confusing\">Dine-in restaurant service\u003c/a> had previously returned to several Bay Area counties including Sonoma, Napa and San Mateo — and \u003cem>had\u003c/em> returned to Solano and Marin, which had already been forced to close those establishments owing to their spots on the state's watch list. Likewise, Santa Clara and Contra Costa had to halt their plans for reopening indoor restaurants. All the while, more Bay Area counties were actively planning for the return of indoor dining, although on July 7 San Francisco announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1280573763239596032\">hitting pause\u003c/a> on its planned reopening date of\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\"> July 13\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outdoor dining service has already been reintroduced in all Bay Area counties, where it can still continue even as indoor operations shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda was the last county to reopen outdoor restaurant operations, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">on June 19 ,\u003c/a> and was initially \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Alameda-County-outdoor-dining-reopening-variance-15401548.php\">ordered to \u003cem>close\u003c/em> it again\u003c/a> by the state — because the county hadn't yet applied for a variance attestation. As of July 15, with Alameda's newly-approved variance, they've been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-zoo-may-reopen-soon-after-county-votes-to-support-covid-19-variance/2326079/\">ok-ed to open outdoor dining\u003c/a> once more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check where your county stands \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Movie Theaters\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"heatr\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824062\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/cinema-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movie theaters have been cleared to reopen in California -- with caveats. \u003ccite>(Donald Tong/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All movie theaters in California have been ordered to close. Movie theaters in California \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-family-entertainment.pdf\">were previously permitted to reopen\u003c/a> if they limited theater capacity to 25% or no more than 100 attendees, but more and more counties on the state's watch list were then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827083/newsoms-california-closures-ahead-of-july-4th-what-you-need-to-know\">ordered to close them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State guidance recommended movie theaters implement reservation systems, designate arrival times and assign certain seats that people can use so that moviegoers could maintain 6 feet of distance from other groups. Patrons were asked, at a minimum, wear face coverings when entering and exiting the theater or buying concessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only \u003ca href=\"http://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/roadmap_to_recovery.asp\">Solano\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a> counties had permitted movie theaters to reopen at 25%, capacity per state guidance — and they must now close their operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're not seeing any counties with active plans to reopen their indoor movie theaters … yet. That said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13879772/hooray-you-can-go-to-the-movies-again-at-a-drive-in-theater\">a few drive-in movie theaters have reopened\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Schools\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/school-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California just released new guidelines for schools reopening. \u003ccite>(Caleb Oquendo/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the new guidance for California's public schools technically started on June 12, most will reopen with the new school year. In that guidance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823500/california-schools-reopening-education-chief-details-plan\">California’s education chief\u003c/a> provided a glimpse of what 6.2 million California students can expect when they return to school, including temperature checks upon entering schools and buses, extensive hand washing throughout the day, physical distancing requirements and face coverings for students and staff at all times except when eating and drinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The region's public schools remain closed, and still plan to reopen in the fall, along with most other schools in California, although districts are divided on whether instruction will be in-person or remote. Schools in Napa County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Napa\">were actually permitted to reopen\u003c/a> June 1 subject to rules and modifications — but the county opted to continue to suspend teaching through the end of the school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Museums\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824068 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums.jpg\" alt=\"Indoor museums are cleared for reopening in California — but the Bay Area isn't following suit immediately.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/museums-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indoor museums are cleared for reopening in California — but the Bay Area isn't following suit immediately. \u003ccite>(Una Laurencic/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All museums in California have been ordered to close with Newsom's latest announcement. California had \u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-zoos-museums.pdf\">OK'd the reopening of \u003cem>outdoor\u003c/em> museums\u003c/a> back in May, and then permitted the state's indoor museums to reopen too — including galleries, botanical gardens, zoos and aquariums. Museums were already being closed in counties on the state watch list with that July 1 closure order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state guidance for these establishments didn't apply to amusement, theme or water parks, which must remain closed. The guidance issued emphasized facilitating social distancing and one-way movement through exhibits, and cleaning protocols for shared areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=32398\">Solano \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/smc-reopening\">San Mateo\u003c/a> were the only Bay Area counties to have reopened their indoor museums, which must now stay closed after their \u003cem>initial\u003c/em> closure due to being on the state's watch list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All other Bay Area counties must now keep their plans for reopening indoor museums on pause. Contra Costa County had already postponed the return of indoor museums when they opted to\u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2020/0629-Postpone-COVID-19-Reopening-Timeline.php\"> pause their July 1 reopening plans\u003c/a>, even before they were included in Newsom's closure order for being on the watch list. San Francisco originally set indoor museum reopenings for \"August and beyond,\" and then moved that up to June 29, according to its newly-accelerated timeline for certain businesses, but \u003cem>then\u003c/em> the city\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/step-by-step/reopening-san-francisco\"> declared the reopening \"on hold.\"\u003c/a> Alameda County was planning for indoor museums to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/584319/alameda-county-covid-19-reopening-plan-english.pdf\">still \u003cem>several\u003c/em> phases of reopening away\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Final Reminder\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Remember: certain businesses and activities remain firmly \u003cem>off\u003c/em> California’s list for imminent reopening, including live theater, saunas and steam rooms, nightclubs, concert venues, festivals and theme parks. This means it’ll definitely be more time before you see any of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> open back up in the Bay Area, even if Newsom and the state Department of Public Health decide to give the green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what state officials announce, whether \u003cem>you\u003c/em> can finally return to your gym, hair salon or beloved bar in the future is almost entirely dependent on what your particular county decides. How far a county can “reopen” depends on whether it meets certain metrics, including number of cases, positive test rates and testing and tracing capabilities. We're tracking what's reopening around the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1963889/coronavirus-some-bay-area-counties-are-about-to-open-up-more-heres-where-your-county-stands#Marin\">here\u003c/a>, but if in doubt, check your county's reopening plans directly below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/2019-ncov.aspx\">Alameda \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/\">Contra Costa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://marinrecovers.com/\">Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.countyofnapa.org/2840/Industry-Guidance\">Napa\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/reopening-san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/shelter-place-faqs\">San Mateo\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/public-health-orders.aspx\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ph/coronavirus_links/roadmap_to_recovery.asp\">Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/novel-coronavirus/?v=1\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://laist.com/projects/2020/coronavirus-tracker/app/california/index.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"2300\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An effort to test all prison staff at San Quentin State Prison for COVID-19 is underway this week after 16 inmates who recently transferred there have tested positive for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, the state’s oldest prison battled back the coronavirus in its inmate population — even as some members of its staff tested positive. Now, after a controversial inmate transfer from another prison, some officials are worried that an outbreak could spread rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late May, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) transferred about 120 “potentially higher risk” men from the California Institution for Men (CIM) in Chino to San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIM was the location of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816272/cluster-of-covid-19-cases-in-chino-prison-alarms-advocates\">first serious outbreak\u003c/a> in the state prison system, and 13 people incarcerated there have died from complications related to the virus as of Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Asey, who is serving a life sentence at San Quentin, said he and fellow inmates had already been worried about the coronavirus and the inability to physically distance within the prison. The transfer of new people added a layer of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people worried about that. Like ‘Man, I don’t want any of these dudes up in here,’” he said in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said that all inmates recently transferred to San Quentin had been previously tested and had been screened by health professionals shortly before traveling. A department spokesperson said in an email that when prisoners arrived at San Quentin, they “remained cohorted in celled housing and have been placed on 14-day quarantine and are undergoing additional testing for COVID-19.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But state Assemblymember Marc Levine, who represents the North Bay district where San Quentin is based, said Wednesday that the transfer was “botched” and the department didn’t take enough precautionary measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What occurred was a series of preventable errors that will likely cause an outbreak at San Quentin,” he said. Levine said that state officials didn’t test close enough to the transfer date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To claim that a prisoner was tested prior to transfer when that test occurred as long as a month ago is just not accurate,” he said. “It does nothing to protect the health and safety of the prisoners and staff at San Quentin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levine is calling for CDCR to conduct a review of the transfer and for them to create an incident command center at San Quentin and develop a public containment and prevention plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"cdcr\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, a CDCR spokesperson said that future transfers will require that a test be performed within seven days of the transfer date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County’s public health officer, Dr. Matt Willis, said he is worried that the situation at San Quentin could get much worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way these outbreaks have occurred in other prisons across the nation and the state, you know that it’s hard to feel reassured that we’re not going to see another outbreak here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willis said testing San Quentin’s 1,800 staff members is a good step, but managing this new COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin will be “an uphill battle” for the state corrections department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a facility like that, where it’s at near capacity, there may not be a lot of places to put people where they can be successfully isolated from others,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said all of the current positive cases are isolated in secure cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Office of the Inspector General is currently looking into the state prison system’s handling of COVID-19, at the request of the Speaker of the Assembly, Anthony Rendon.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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