Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom modified the reopening guidelines for counties in the State of California.
Newsom revealed a new framework with four tiers with colors attached to them to indicate severity.The governor described the new framework as “simple, stringent and slow.”Case rates and test positivity rates will be the metrics that will determine movement within the tiers which, in terms of severity run from purple to red to orange to yellow.
These categories replace the state watchlist that had previously dictated whether counties could reopen or would need to close.
Los Angeles County is on the border between purple and red, but the Los Angeles County Health Department said it will not, in.
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