The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- San Diego County, California · San Diego · California
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 101040, 101030, 120175, 120215, 120220, 120225
- Issued
- 2021-07-22 July 22, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-22 (the Apr. 5, 2021 version governed July 1-21, 2021) (read as 2021-07-22)
- End
- 2022-07-06 (superseded by the July 6, 2022 version) (read as 2022-07-06)
- In force
- July 22, 2021 to July 6, 2022
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all persons not fully vaccinated who have had close contact with a COVID-19 patient
- health-care, emergency-response and social-service employers (return-to-work rules)
- Functions reached
- WF every unvaccinated exposed employee removed from the workplace for 10 to 14 days
- HR staffing of hospitals, long-term care, emergency response and social services
- IC infection control
- CB customers and clients under quarantine
- Collection
- San Diego MET-SAN
Operative words
All persons not fully vaccinated without COVID-19 symptoms who have had close contact with a COVID-19 Patient must immediately take the following actions: 1. Quarantine themselves in their home or another residence for at least 10 days and up to 14 days after the last contact with a COVID-19 Patient.... b. During critical staffing shortages when there are not enough staff to provide safe patient care, healthcare workers, emergency response, and social service workers who work face to face with clients in the child welfare or long term care setting are able to work after Day 7 from the date of last exposure if they have received a negative PCR test result from a specimen collected on or after Day 5 and continue to be asymptomatic.... c. Health care employers with critical staffing shortages... may use Contingency Capacity Strategies as described by CDC...
Enforcement
Health & Safety Code § 120295; quarantine powers under §§ 120215-120225
Notes
Third-quarter-2021 local instrument with force of law in every San Diego County workplace. The Limited Order (Ex. MET-SAN-022) preserved the Apr. 5, 2021 version; the July 22, 2021 revision (footer 'Health Officer Quarantine Order July 22, 2021') added the fully-vaccinated exemption and the health-care return-to-work rules.
Retrieval noteThe Apr. 5, 2021 text itself was not separately retrieved; its date is fixed by Ex. MET-SAN-022 para. 1b.