Mostly Code Red — And That's a Good Thing
Mar. 16th, 2021 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's "Tier Tuesday" in California. That means an update to the state's Covid-19 risk assignment tiers. The headline this week is that most of the state has gone into Code Red... and that's a good thing! (Why? Because red is better than purple, and purple is the highest Covid level... for now.) Here's this week's chart:
Just from a glance at the map you can see that "most" of the state is now in the red tier. I quote "most" because geographic representations can be misleading when what we really mean to count is people. But look at the statistics block: now nearly 90% of the state population is in Red Tier or lower.
The second headline I'd give to this week's update is that one SF Bay Area county, San Mateo, has dropped to Orange Tier. With a population of over 750,000 they make up most of the state population that's in Orange Tier. Some news coverage, for example this KRON 4 article today (16 Mar 2021) calls this the first area county to reach orange, but actually Santa Clara (my county) was there before... back in October, before disease rates started climbing rapidly in November and basically the whole state went to purple— and worse.
Just from a glance at the map you can see that "most" of the state is now in the red tier. I quote "most" because geographic representations can be misleading when what we really mean to count is people. But look at the statistics block: now nearly 90% of the state population is in Red Tier or lower.
The second headline I'd give to this week's update is that one SF Bay Area county, San Mateo, has dropped to Orange Tier. With a population of over 750,000 they make up most of the state population that's in Orange Tier. Some news coverage, for example this KRON 4 article today (16 Mar 2021) calls this the first area county to reach orange, but actually Santa Clara (my county) was there before... back in October, before disease rates started climbing rapidly in November and basically the whole state went to purple— and worse.
