Governor Gavin Newsom began his Wednesday news conference with coronavirus by taking a page from the playbook of Donald Trump’s press conference.
The mayor began by recalling how he started his first business by writing to 14 people he could and asking for start-up money.
He then spent the next 45 minutes of his regular, hour-long COVID-19 press conference reviewing the economic performance of his administration to date.
Newssom talked about tax credits for line items, loans for small business, unemployment, housing capacity, eviction moratoriums, “shake-ready” infrastructure projects, wildfire prevention, labor training, small business rental credit, subsidy subsidies, housing extensions, housing extensions counting and bridging the digital divide.
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Newsom spoke about the 100-member economic task force created to lead the sector after COVID struck, namely drop Tim Cook and Bob Iger. He thanked Secretary of State Alex Padilla. He thanks Kamala Harris. He thanks legislators for their partnership.
He quoted Voltaire about the dignity of the work. He talks about the ‘time value of money’.
Finally, three-quarters of the way to his presentation, Newsom turned to the coronavirus, noting that “companies cannot thrive in a world that fails.”
He said the state reported 11,645 new cases over the past 24 hours. That includes 6,212 arrears.
Newsom said over the next 72 hours that much talk about overdue new cases would be returned to the appropriate dates.
Hospitalizations have been down about 19 percent over the past 14 days. ICU permissions related to coronavirus were 16 percent over the same period.
Newsom’s focus on business came after what could be said to be one of the worst weeks of his tenure, as news leaked about a massive data breach in the state’s coronavirus data reporting system. The governor did not address the issue, and did not hold one of his regular press conferences for nearly a week. His first comments came on Monday and, it seems, he sought to turn the page on the debacle on Wednesday.
Watch his Wednesday news conference here.
Tuesday marked the arrival of those much-discussed numbers of California coronavirus, which were made by state-level mistakes.
The reported daily new case total in the state increased by nearly 5,000 infections from Monday to Tuesday.
On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom said there were 75,751 new cases in the state. That’s a substantial drop from about 10,000 two weeks ago, just before the data errors began to take hold.
On Tuesday, the state reported 12,500 new cases, an interesting round number that is just 307 new cases shameful of the entire state. That was 12,807, reported on July 22, just a week before the state’s reporting system was affected by the mistakes of government officials.
Tuesday’s new cases were accompanied by the following disclaimer on the state’s COVID-19 dashboard: “Today’s cases include overdue cases that would have been reported in previous days and weeks and are not an accurate representation of cases reported in the previous 24 hours. “
The state reported 109 new deaths Tuesday, for a total of 10,468 since the pandemic began. Hospital stays and ICU stays related to COVID were both less than one percent down.
