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*[[Santa Clara County, California|Santa Clara County]] reported 5 new cases, bringing the total number of known cases in the county to 37.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/new-coronavirus-cases-reported-in-santa-clara-county-bring-total-to-37|title=New coronavirus cases reported in Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties|date=2020-03-08|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-08}}</ref>
*[[Santa Clara County, California|Santa Clara County]] reported 5 new cases, bringing the total number of known cases in the county to 37.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/new-coronavirus-cases-reported-in-santa-clara-county-bring-total-to-37|title=New coronavirus cases reported in Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties|date=2020-03-08|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-08}}</ref>
*[[Rocklin, California|Rocklin]]: [[Sierra College]] announces all classes and lectures to be moved online by March 18 after two office staff members are quarantined following exposure to COVID-19, with students being tested. In addition, the campus announced it would be limiting student activities, including continuing sporting events with no spectators.<ref>https://www.kcra.com/article/sierra-college-declares-campus-state-of-emergency-coronavirus/31279475</ref>
*[[Rocklin, California|Rocklin]]: [[Sierra College]] announces all classes and lectures to be moved online by March 18 after two office staff members are quarantined following exposure to COVID-19, with students being tested. In addition, the campus announced it would be limiting student activities, including continuing sporting events with no spectators.<ref>https://www.kcra.com/article/sierra-college-declares-campus-state-of-emergency-coronavirus/31279475</ref>

==== March 9 ====

* [[Santa Clara County, California|Santa Clara County]] announced the states 2nd COVID-19 death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sccgov.org/sites/phd/news/Pages/first-covid-19-death.aspx|title=County of Santa Clara Public Health Department Announces First Death from COVID-19 in Santa Clara County - Public Health Department - County of Santa Clara|website=www.sccgov.org|access-date=2020-03-10}}</ref>
* Elementary aged kid attending grammar school in [[Elk Grove, California|Elk Grove]] tests positive for COVID-19.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/03/09/elk-grove-unified-positive-coronavirus/|title=Student From Elk Grove Unified Tests Positive For Coronavirus|last=Says|first=Religionofcannibals|date=2020-03-09|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-10}}</ref>


==Government response==
==Government response==

Revision as of 03:04, 10 March 2020

2020 coronavirus outbreak in California
Map of the outbreak in California (as of 7 March)
  Confirmed cases
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationCalifornia, U.S
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China
Arrival dateJanuary 25, 2020
Confirmed cases105 (as of March 8, 2020)

Timeline

January

January 25: The CDC confirmed the first case in California, the third case in the United States. The person, a man in his 50s, was released from the hospital in Orange County on February 1 in good condition to in-home isolation.[1]

January 31: The CDC confirmed the seventh case in the U.S., a man in Santa Clara County, California, who had recently traveled to Wuhan.[2] The man recovered at home and was released from in-home isolation on February 20.[3]

February

February 2: The CDC confirmed the U.S.'s ninth case in a woman in Santa Clara County, California, who had recently traveled to Wuhan. This case is unrelated to the first case in Santa Clara.[4] On the same day, the CDC reported the tenth and eleventh cases in San Benito County, California, including the second instance of human-to-human transmission.[5]

March

March 1

Two cases were reported in Alameda and Solano Counties, in health care workers at the NorthBay VacaValley Hospital. The workers were exposed to the patient in the case reported February 26 in Solano County.[6] In Santa Clara County, three more cases were reported, bringing the total number of cases in the county to seven. A fifth case was reported in a woman with chronic health conditions who is hospitalized; a sixth and seventh cases were reported in a couple who are both hospitalized, and who had recently traveled to Egypt.[7]

March 2

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department reported two new cases, bringing the total to nine. Both were household contacts of previously confirmed cases and were in home isolation.[8] In Placer County, a healthcare worker who had close contact with a confirmed case in Solano County's NorthBay VacaValley Hospital was presumptively tested positive.[9] In Sonoma County, a resident was presumptively tested positive after returning from a cruise ship that departed San Francisco to Mexico.[10] In San Mateo County, an adult resident was presumptively tested positive; they were placed in isolation in a hospital. The source of exposure was reported as unknown.[10]

March 3

12 new cases were reported. Public health officials in Santa Clara County, California confirmed two new cases of unknown origin there.[11] Public health officials in Contra Costa County confirmed a new case of unknown origin. The new case was hospitalized.[12] Public health officials in Los Angeles County confirmed six new cases.[13][14][15][16] Public health officials in Berkeley confirmed the city's first case of coronavirus in an individual who had recently traveled to Italy. The new case is isolated at home.[17] Two new cases were confirmed in Orange County: one in a man in his 60s and another in a woman in her 30s. Both had recently traveled to foreign countries impacted by coronavirus.[18]

March 4

California public health officials in Placer County reported a second confirmed case in an "older adult" resident with underlying health conditions who was aboard the Princess Cruises cruise ship Grand Princess on a cruise to Mexico that departed San Francisco on February 11 and returned on February 21.[19] Although initial reports indicated that the new case had been hospitalized in "critically ill" condition, public health officials in Placer County subsequently reported the new case's death later on the same day. This marked the eleventh death in the United States attributable to coronavirus, the first death in the United States attributable to coronavirus outside Washington state, and the first death in California attributable to coronavirus.[20][21] The source of the new case's infection appears to be the same as that of a resident of Sonoma County who tested positive on March 2 and who was also aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship on the same dates.[22][23] Consequently, Princess Cruises, the owner and operator of the Grand Princess cruise ship, working with the CDC, the state of California, and public health officials in San Francisco, terminated a port call in Ensenada, Mexico planned for March 5 and ordered the cruise ship to return to San Francisco over concerns about the potential for an outbreak of coronavirus aboard the cruise ship. Sixty-two passengers still aboard the Grand Princess who may have made contact with the Placer County case that died earlier in the day were quarantined aboard the cruise ship at the request of the CDC.[24] In addition, eleven passengers and ten crew members were exhibiting potential symptoms of coronavirus, and the Grand Princess was ordered by the state of California to remain offshore while test kits were being airlifted to the cruise ship.[25][26][27][28][29][30] Public health officials in Santa Clara County confirmed three new cases.[31]

March 5

The San Francisco Department of Public Health reported two community spread cases within the city.[32] The two cases are unrelated and both are hospitalized at different hospitals in San Francisco. One patient is a man in his 90s with underlying health conditions, and the second patient is a woman in her 40s. Neither of the patients recently traveled nor made contact with other coronavirus patients.[33] Six additional cases of coronavirus were reported in Santa Clara County,[34] while six AT&T retail stores in San Diego were closed after an employee at one of the stores tested positive for coronavirus.[35][36] In addition, public health officials in Sunnyvale reported that the death of a 72-year-old man found unresponsive in his home was under investigation as a possible second death in California attributable to coronavirus after they subsequently learned from one of the man's family members that the man had been aboard the same Grand Princess cruise to Mexico linked to two other coronavirus cases in Sonoma and Placer Counties.[37][38][39]

March 6

  • Alameda County: Officials confirmed the county's second case, a former passenger of the Grand Princess.[40]
  • Contra Costa County: Three new cases were reported, with two being former passengers on the Grand Princess cruise ship.[41]
  • Placer County: Three new cases were reported; all were passengers on the Grand Princess cruise ship.[42]
  • Santa Clara County: Four new cases were reported, bringing the county's total to 24.[43]
  • Yolo County: Yolo County reported its first case, through community transmission.[45]

March 7

  • Santa Clara County: Eight new cases were reported, bringing the total number of cases in the county to 32.[46]
  • Santa Cruz County: Officials confirmed the county's first case of coronavirus, a former passenger of the Grand Princess from 2020.02.11 to 2020.02.21 during its Mexican Riviera cruise.[48]
  • San Francisco: Six presumptive positive cases were reported. All were reported as isolated at home in good condition. Each patient had contact with a confirmed case.[49]
  • Elk Grove: An Elk Grove family tested positive for COVID-19 and was quarantined, resulting in the closure of Elk Grove Unified School District for the week of March 7-13, including student activities and events. In a letter to families, the school district announced no students or employees had tested positive.[50]
  • Madera County: Officials confirmed the county's first coronavirus case from a person who had been aboard the Grand Princess. Their spouse, whom they were with on the cruise, was also being monitored. Both were taken to the Madera Community Hospital and were reported as in monitored isolation.[51]
  • Fresno County: Two people returning from the Grand Princess were quarantined and tested for the virus, with one person testing positive, making them the county's first confirmed case.[52]

March 8

  • Contra Costa County reported 5 new cases. Four of the patients did not travel or have known contact with a coronavirus case and are currently being treated at hospitals around the county. The fifth person had contact with a previous case and is being isolated at home. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the county to nine.[53]
  • Santa Clara County reported 5 new cases, bringing the total number of known cases in the county to 37.[54]
  • Rocklin: Sierra College announces all classes and lectures to be moved online by March 18 after two office staff members are quarantined following exposure to COVID-19, with students being tested. In addition, the campus announced it would be limiting student activities, including continuing sporting events with no spectators.[55]

March 9

Government response

On February 10, Santa Clara County declared a local health emergency that would allow health authorities to deploy rapid response in the event of a potential coronavirus case. The state of emergency would be in effect for 30 days.[58] On February 14, San Diego County declared a local health emergency to ensure that the county had the resources needed to respond to the infections. The state of emergency lasted for seven days.[59]

On February 25, the mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, declared a state of emergency that would allow city officials to assemble resources and personnel to expedite emergency measures in the event of a potential coronavirus case in the city.[60][61] On February 26, Orange County declared a local health emergency to raise awareness and accelerate emergency planning.[61] On February 27, Solano County declared a local health emergency to bolster response to COVID-19 cases.[62] California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that, as of February 27, the number of people being monitored for the virus in California amounted to 8,400.[63] The same day, "Newsom said the state was limited in how many people it could test because it only had 200 testing kits."[64]

On March 3, Placer County declare a public health emergency following the confirmation of a second coronavirus case in that county.[65] On March 4, Newsom declared a state of emergency after the first death in California attributable to coronavirus occurred in Placer County.[66][67][68]

On March 7, a family in Elk Grove contracted the virus and was quarantined[69] which lead to the school district of Elk Grove decision to close down all schools until March 13.[70]

On March 8, Riverside County declared a public health emergency with a case being treated at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage.[71]

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