California’s health department announced that stay-at-home orders for Southern California and San Joaquin Valley and are being extended indefinitely amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tough restrictions imposed earlier this month on social and economic life were extended in densely populated Southern California—home to more than half of the state’s 40 million people—based on data showing intensive care units there likely to stay filled at or near capacity for weeks to come. Hospital ICUs in San Joaquin Valley have likewise remained for weeks with little or no bed space to spare. California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said that the regional stay-at-home order will persist “until the ICU projections are above or equal to 15 percent” in a given region. He noted that Los Angeles County, the most populous county, has been particularly hard hit by weeks of infections and hospitalizations. At least 90 percent of the county’s hospitals, he …