The Guardian: California’s governor pulls ’emergency brake’ on reopening amid Covid surge

Daily case rates have doubled in California over the past 10 days, causing California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom to put nearly all of California back into the strictest reopening tier. The new restrictions come as the rest of the US is seeing new daily records and as the number of total cases in the US recently surpassed 1 million. Contact tracers have identified private indoor gatherings as the main contributor to the recent surge in cases and advise everyone to continue to social distance as the holidays approaches. To read more, click here.