dr. co lfax. whenever you're ready director. >> i'm ready. >> the first set of questions are from aaron with the san francisco chronicle. how will you decide to lift the stay at home order will it be in place through january 4th. >> the order is effective until january 4th. we will be looking at a couple of key variables with regard to lifting the order. one is we will need to see a consistent decrease in the rate of covid 19 diagnosis and hospitalizations in san francisco for at least three weeks. we will need to ensure that we have at least a 25% capacity in our intensive care unit beds at the same time. those will be the key variables we'll be looking at to consider lifting this order. if trends continue and we meet the state criteria for going into their stay at home order we'll be subject to those state restrictionrestrictions and whae required to come out of those restrictions. >> thank you. will there be any coordination between the bay area counties in terms of taking care of icu patients.

dr. co lfax. whenever you're ready director. >> i'm ready. >> the first set of questions are from aaron with the san francisco chronicle. how will you decide to lift the stay at home order will it be in place through january 4th. >> the order is effective until january 4th. we will be looking at a couple of key variables with regard to lifting the order. one is we will need to see a consistent decrease in the rate of covid 19 diagnosis and hospitalizations in san francisco for at least three weeks. we will need to ensure that we have at least a 25% capacity in our intensive care unit beds at the same time. those will be the key variables we'll be looking at to consider lifting this order. if trends continue and we meet the state criteria for going into their stay at home order we'll be subject to those state restrictionrestrictions and whae required to come out of those restrictions. >> thank you. will there be any coordination between the bay area counties in terms of taking care of icu patients.

dr. co lfax. whenever you're ready director. >> i'm ready. >> the first set of questions are from aaron with the san francisco chronicle. how will you decide to lift the stay at home order will it be in place through january 4th. >> the order is effective until january 4th. we will be looking at a couple of key variables with regard to lifting the order. one is we will need to see a consistent decrease in the rate of covid 19 diagnosis and hospitalizations in san francisco for at least three weeks. we will need to ensure that we have at least a 25% capacity in our intensive care unit beds at the same time. those will be the key variables we'll be looking at to consider lifting this order. if trends continue and we meet the state criteria for going into their stay at home order we'll be subject to those state restrictionrestrictions and whae required to come out of those restrictions. >> thank you. will there be any coordination between the bay area counties in terms of taking care of icu patients.

dr. co lfax provide an update on exactly where we are at this time. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you mayor breed for your leadership and dedication to the people of san francisco. unfortunately as the mayor has said we're in our worst surge yet of covid 19. it is stressing health care systems across the state and taxing our health care workers. i wish the people in the hospital now with covid 19 exceedy recovery. my condolences of the loved ones of those lost from covid 19. unfortunately the current situation is likely to worsen. in san francisco everyday now 145 people in our city are testing positive for covid 19. the virus is spreading rapidly throughout the city like never before. the increase in infections has been climbing for over a month now and covid 19 cases have quadrupled in that time. we need to move fast, keeping ahead of this virus as much as possible. and we need to make hard decisions to avoid a truly catastrophic possibility. not be able to adequately care for people who are sick. we need urgent intervention now to dent the trajectory of this surge. to beg

dr. co lfax. whenever you're ready director. >> i'm ready. >> the first set of questions are from aaron with the san francisco chronicle. how will you decide to lift the stay at home order will it be in place through january 4th. >> the order is effective until january 4th. we will be looking at a couple of key variables with regard to lifting the order. one is we will need to see a consistent decrease in the rate of covid 19 diagnosis and hospitalizations in san francisco for at least three weeks. we will need to ensure that we have at least a 25% capacity in our intensive care unit beds at the same time. those will be the key variables we'll be looking at to consider lifting this order. if trends continue and we meet the state criteria for going into their stay at home order we'll be subject to those state restrictionrestrictions and whae required to come out of those restrictions. >> thank you. will there be any coordination between the bay area counties in terms of taking care of icu patients.