Governor Brown Makes Phase II Draft Available
Governor’s Goals:
- Minimize hospitalizations and deaths
- Allow people to safely return to work so they can support themselves and their families
- Minimize risk to frontline workers
- Avoid overwhelming health systems
- Protect those at highest risk of severe illness, especially communities of color
- Support for small local gatherings that preserve community cohesion and cultural
Metrics for Phase II:
Original Prerequisites Apply
- Declining disease prevalence
- Adequate number of contact tracers, reflective of community
- Minimum Testing Regimen
- Adequate isolation and quarantine facilities
- Sufficient hospital surge capacity
- Sufficient PPE supply for hospitals and first-responders
Additional Criteria
- 21 Days minimum in Phase I
- Timely contact tracing
- A minimum of 95% of all new cases must be contact traced within 24 hours as reported in ORPHEUS
- Successful contact tracing
- A minimum of 70% of new COVID-19 positive cases must be traced to an existing positive case
- No significant increase in incident cases or positivity
Phase II General Guidance
- Gatherings limited to 50 indoors, 100 outdoors
- Increased travel allowed
- Limited Return to Work; remote working strongly recommended
Limited Reopening of Certain Sectors
- Venues: Theaters, Movie theaters, Churches
- Occupancy limitations, sanitization requirements, physical distancing
- Indoor/Outdoor Activities: Bowling, Pool, Arcades, Axe throwing, Jet boats, Batting cages, Mini golf
- Physical distancing, sanitization requirements
- Youth sports – with physical distancing, equipment sharing
- Overnight Camps – with cohorts
Additional Guidance for Phase II
- Restaurant/Bars
- Extend curfew to midnight; increase footprint for table space with approved outdoor space; allow partitions to curb physical distancing in booths
Outdoor Recreation – guidance forthcoming
- Pools
- Sports courts
Be well.
Shannon Buckmaster
CEO, Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce
mobile (503) 758-5585