Stay-Home Orders In Marin County Could Be Extended: Newsom

MARIN COUNTY, CA — California's Stay-Home orders are likely to be extended into the next year as overwhelmed hospitals across the region run out of intensive care-unit capacity, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.

The state's stay-at-home order, triggered when a region's average intensive care unit capacity falls below 15 percent, now affects 98 percent of the state's population in the Greater Sacramento, Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions.

Newsom warned community leaders, businesses and residents to expect Stay-at-home orders to remain in effect past the minimum of three weeks as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to skyrocket.

"We are likely, I think it's pretty self-evident, going to need to extend those regional dates," Newsom said. "... Based upon all the data and based upon all these trend lines, it is very likely based on those current trends that we'll need to extend that stay at home order, (which) you recall was a three-week order when we announced it."

The Bay Area's order went into effect Thursday and is scheduled to last, at least, through Jan. 7. In he San Joaquin Valley and in Southern California the stay-at-home order could expire on Dec. 28 and Dec. 30.

Newsom said current trends in coronavirus hospitalizations and ICU admissions will require the state to extend those expiration dates later into January.

For its part, Airbnb cracked down on some house listings in the Bay Area following a ban on parties at Airbnb listings around the world, the short-term vacation rental company said Monday.

Airbnb recently suspended or removed more than 65 properties in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose from its platform after they received complaints or violated the company's party and event policy.

"Everyone in the Bay Area has a role to play in reducing the number of large gatherings and parties, and that includes Airbnb," said Matt Middlebrook, Airbnb's regional policy lead.

As of Monday, at 5:30 p.m., officials have confirmed the following number of cases around the greater Bay Area region:

Marin County: 9,133 cases, 136 deaths (8,851 cases, 136 deaths on Friday) (Totals include San Quentin State Prison)

Alameda County: 43,736 cases, 588 deaths (40,284 cases, 574 deaths on Friday) (Totals include Berkeley Health Department data.)
Contra Costa County: 35,322 cases, 298 deaths (33,713 cases, 297 deaths on Friday)

• Monterey County: 23,582 cases, 178 deaths (22,255 cases, 170 deaths on Friday)
• Napa County: 4,809 cases, 24 deaths (4,646 cases, 24 deaths on Friday)
• San Francisco County: 20,708 cases, 176 deaths (19,863 cases, 173 deaths on Friday)
• San Joaquin County: 38,564 cases, 588 deaths (36,428 cases, 561 deaths on Friday)
• San Mateo County: 21,160 cases, 198 deaths (20,089 cases, 198 deaths on Friday)
• Santa Clara County: 57,452 cases, 607 deaths (53,885 cases, 583 deaths on Friday)
• Santa Cruz County: 7,135 cases, 73 deaths (6,689 cases, 70 deaths on Friday)
• Solano County: 16,224 cases, 94 deaths (15,008 cases, 93 deaths on Friday)
• Sonoma County: 16,706 cases, 174 deaths (16,024 cases, 171 deaths on Friday)

Statewide: 1,892,348 cases, 22,676 deaths (1,764,374 cases, 22,160 deaths on Friday)

Bay City News and Patch Staffer contributed to this report.