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Blueprint for a Safer Economy
The State of California's Blueprint for a Safer Economy is a tool to reopen our community safely.
To move forward we must:
- Have been in the current tier for a minimum of three weeks.
- Meet criteria to move to the next less restrictive tier for both measures for the prior two consecutive weeks to progress to the next tier.
Moving backward is based on:
- During a weekly assessment, if our county's adjusted case rate and/or test positivity rate has fallen within a more restrictive tier for two consecutive weekly periods, the state will review the most recent 10 days of data, and if CDPH determines there are objective signs of improvement the county may remain in the tier. In the county's most recent 10 days data does not show objective signs of improvement the county must revert to the more restrictive tier. For subsequent weekly assessments, the above rules apply.
- At any time, state and county public health officials may work together to determine targeted interventions or county-wide modifications necessary to address impacted hospital capacity and drivers of disease transmission, as needed, including movement across more than one-tier. Key considerations will also include the rate of increase in new cases and/or test positivity, more recent data as noted above, public health capacity, and other epidemiological factors.
- Counties will have three days, beginning the Wednesday after tier assignments are announced on Tuesdays, to implement any sector changes or closures unless extreme circumstances merit immediate action.
For more information regarding moving forward or backward in tiers, please visit: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID19CountyMonitoringOverview.aspx
Why are certain sectors closed or modified?
Many factors are taken into consideration. The activities and businesses that have a lower risk of spreading COVID-19 are allowed to open sooner. Higher-risk activities or businesses aren’t allowed until later tiers. An activity or business’s tier depends on whether it can:
- Accommodate mask-wearing at all times (for example, eating and drinking requires removing masks)
- Allow physical distance between individuals from different households
- Limit the number of people per square foot
- Limit time that an individual is at the business or activity
- Limit time of exposure
- Limit mixing of people from different households
- Limit amount of physical interactions of visitors/patrons
- Increase airflow (such as operating outdoors or opening windows and doors)
- Limit activities that are known to increase virus spread (like singing, shouting, and heavy breathing)
To learn more about the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, please visit: covid19.ca.gov webpage
Keeping up with the tier system as a business owner or a community member may be confusing. Below are each tier and the type of things that can and cannot be open if our county is in a specific tier.