Level 1: Stay at Home
Everyone was required to stay at home except for grocery shopping, exercise and necessary activities. Only critical businesses were open.
Level 2: Safer at Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors
While we are all still safer at home, we are also able to practice greater social distancing in our great outdoors than in confined indoor spaces.
Level 3: Protect Our Neighbors
Local public health agencies have the ability to contain surges in cases and outbreaks through testing, case investigation, contact tracing, isolation, quarantine, site-specific closures, and the enforcement of public health orders.
55,341
cases
673,913
people tested
1,824
deaths due to COVID-19
572
outbreaks
Blog post
What's poop got to do with it?
Oh yes, we might laugh or cringe at that word “poop,” but it actually contains vital information that we think may be able to give us an early warning about COVID-19 cases in a community.
Guidance
Updated workplace outbreak guidance
This guidance offers workplaces and non-healthcare, non-residential facilities best practices for preventing and reducing the severity of outbreaks and contains tools for reporting outbreaks to public health.
Press release
New guidance released to help schools respond to COVID-19 cases and outbreaks
This case and outbreak guidance, in addition to the school opening guidance, CDE’s toolkit for the 2020-21 school year, and guidance from local public health agencies will provide districts with the information they need to start the school year in a way that makes sense for their local communities.