āāāāWhat āāSMARTER Stands For
Weāre using the lessons of the lastā two years to prepare for future COVID-19 surges or variants.
Read The SMARTER Steps one-paāge summary (PDF)
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SMARTER staānds for:
Shots ā Vaccines are the most powerful weapon against hospitalization and serious illness.
Masks ā Properly worn masks with good filtration help slow the spread of COVID-19 or other respiratory viruses.
Awareness ā We will continue to stay aware of how COVID-19 is spreading, evolving variants, communicate clearly how people should protect themselves, and coordinate our state and local government response.
Readiness ā COVID-19 is not going away and we need to be ready with the tools, resources and supplies we will need to quickly respond and keep public health and the healthcare system well prepared.
Testing ā Getting the right type of testsāPCR or antigenāto where they are needed most. Testing will help California minimize the spread of COVID-19.
Education ā California will continue to work to keep schools open and children safely in classrooms for in-person instruction.
Rx ā Evolving and improving treatments will become increasingly available and critical as a tool to save lives.
The SMARTER Plan is not just for COVID-19. We can use these strategies and systems for future emergencies. Weāll improve the SMARTER Plan as we learn what works.
How We'll āāMove Forward
COVID-19 will remain with us for the foreseeable future. The SMARTER Plan focuses on how we manage that reality.
We've learned a lot over the last two years. We know what we need to:
Minimize the strain on our healthcare system
Keep staff and the public safe
Keep businesses open and schools in person
We will keep California moving by:
Increasing vaccination rates especially among kids
Ensuring we can quickly deploy staff, personal protective equipment (PPE), and resources to hospitals and communities
Quickly matching patients up with effective treatments
Tracking cases to address spikes as we see them and quickly identify new variants
Building our own supply chain for tests and keeping stockpiles of masks and PPE
SMARTER builds on California's successes. It is flexible by design so we can respond quickly as the virus changes.
We can move forward with the confidence that we can:
Respond to whatever COVID-19 has in store
Keep people healthy and out of hospitals, which will keep California openā
How Weāā'll Measure Success
We've set goals as part of the SMARTER Plan.
Shotsāā
| Ability to administer at least 200,000 vaccines per day on top of existing pharmacy and provider infrastructure |
| Masks | Maintain a stockpile of 75 million high quality masks and the ability to distribute them as needed |
| Awareness | Maintain ability to promote vaccination, masking, and other mitigation measures in all 58 counties. Support engagement with at least 150 community based organizations |
| Readiness | Maintain wastewater surveillance in all regions and enhance respiratory surveillance in the healthcare system while continuing to sequence at least 10% of positive COVID-19 test specimens. Ability to add 3,000 clinical staff within 2 ā 3 weeks of need and across various healthcare facility types |
| Testing | Maintain commercial and local public health capacity statewide to perform at least 500,000 tests per day (PCR and antigen) |
| Education | Expand school-based vaccination sites by 25% as eligibility expands |
| Rx | Ensure local entities can order effective therapeutics within 48 hoursā |
Readā The Dāetails
The full details are in Californiaās SMARTER Plan: The Next Phase of Californiaās COVID-19 Response.
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