What happens next? San Diego County eligible to fall off of California watch list

The county could be placed back on the list if it posts three straight days over the state thresholds once again.

If or when the county is removed from the list, officials say the region shouldn’t expect an immediate return to normal. California is not planning on issuing any further business reopening guidance and county officials have said that no new business sectors are scheduled to reopen if the county gets off the list.

“The goal of our exercise is not to get off the state’s monitoring list and get our case count below that, the goal is to have it remain below that,” Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said Thursday. “And we have to avoid the temptation or mindset that if tomorrow’s numbers are under 100 that somehow we feel like we’ve made it, that we’re done, we can go back to normal … we want to avoid the seesaw of up and down, opened or closed.”

But part of the uncertainty is the state hasn’t clearly outlined what happens after a county falls off the watch list. Mayor Kevin Faulconer sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom requesting guidance on how counties proceed after they fulfill the requirements to get off the list.

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That’s great. We need more uncertainty.