California Will Pull ‘Emergency Brake’ on Reopening Plan

Daily cases, though, in the state of California have doubled just in the last 10 days. This is simply the fastest increase California has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. As it relates to our blueprint that we put out some 11 weeks ago, when we announced the blueprint for a safer economy, we talked about our ability to make advances not only forward, but also move through — toggling backwards. We also talked about an emergency brake based upon data and based upon conditions that would provide for a framework of flexibility to tighten restrictions. We have counties now that we are moving back based on that blueprint, based upon the emergency brake, based upon the protocols that we put into place when we announced this blueprint 11 weeks ago, that will allow us to move back or for that matter, to the extent we see some stability to allow us flexibility going forward. But counties to move back after one week, not just two weeks. As you may recall, we collect data, we adjudicate the data with our local health officers with the state of California. We have a two-week protocol and process to do that pursuant to the announcement we’re making today. Counties will move back after one week, not two weeks.