Stating that the people of California need to do more in the face of the growing coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday evening announced a statewide stay-at-home order to reduced the threat of COVID-19.
“There’s a social contract here. People will self-regulate their behavior,” Newsom said during an address announcing the new order.
Newsom noted that the Bay Area had already been under such an order for several days with much of the population abiding by the new restrictions.
Earlier Thursday, Newsom offered a sobering prediction on the surge of coronavirus cases coming to the state, projecting that more than half of the state’s residents will become infected over an eight-week period.
My CA son emphatically told me that Newsom had amended that statement shortly afterwards, to "....MIGHT become infected WITHOUT MITIGATION".
He spoke as he was appealing to the federal government for emergency aid money so perhaps he was catastrophizing a bit for effect (if the verb applies to a real catastrophe).
Where WOULD he get such a precise statistic anyhow?
Jodi
