California once quelled COVID-19 with stay-at-home order; heres why this one isnt working – KTLA Los Angeles

Californias first coronavirus lockdown order, in the spring, produced benefits within a month. By April, Gov. Gavin Newsom was able to crow that the statehad arguably flattened the curveon infections.

It has been two weeks since a second stay-at-home order was issued, and no such flattening has yet occurred across most of California. This may be because restrictions are looser than those in the spring, and because many Californians are so fatigued by public health orders or militantly resistant to them that they are mixing with people from outside their households.

But experts say the most pertinent explanation has to do with the amount of the coronavirus in the community. The latest orders came after the virus was already raging out of control, in part because of Thanksgiving travel a difference experts say will make the current surge much harder to corral.

The virus is unforgiving and relentless, and there is just so much community transmission, said Dr. Toms Aragn, who next monthwill take overas director of the California Department of Public Health.

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California once quelled COVID-19 with stay-at-home order; heres why this one isnt working - KTLA Los Angeles