The state imposed a nighttime curfew for the state’s hardest-hit counties, saying it was crucial to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations. “We’ve seen slight reductions (from the curfew,) but nothing too significant,” Mark Ghaly, Secretary of California Health and Human Services, said last week. On Tuesday, Sacramento County health officials withdrew an ordinance that would have allowed police to fine businesses up to $10,000 for violating COVID-19 health orders. “We really are now moving from a case surge to what I’ve been talking about being a viral tsunami,” he said. “It builds on itself, and that’s what we’re seeing right now.”On Tuesday, California officials tried yet another new tactic to encourage compliance.
