In the words of Gov. Gavin Newsom, "there’s light at the end of the tunnel."
Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have fallen dramatically in the last month.
"One month ago today we had 11.3 percent positivity in the state of California. Today it’s 3.3 percent,” said Gov. Newsom, speaking at a vaccine clinic for farmworkers in Riverside County on Wednesday.
The number of people hospitalized is also down nearly 40 percent over the past two weeks in California.
New cases and hospitalizations have dropped to levels not seen since before Thanksgiving.
As conditions improve in areas across the state, several Bay Area counties are now close to moving from purple into the less restrictive red tier of reopening.
San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties could soon be allowed to reopen indoor dining and gyms and increase indoor capacity at venues like stores and hair salons. Gov. Newsom said while the improvements are encouraging, more needs to be done to increase vaccinations and make the process streamlined and easy to navigate.
"Clearly on the basis of what we are administering on a daily basis, it’s not enough. We’ll run through that supply in less than a week."
The governor pointed to the temporary closure of San Francisco’s two mass vaccination clinics as an example of ongoing supply issues.
Some shipments to the Bay Area have been hampered by winter storms in other parts of the country.
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