Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday said he’s considering imposing stay-at-home orders on California counties to curb an explosion in coronavirus cases that threaten to overwhelm hospitals by Christmas.

Newsom said he could impose the additional restrictions within the next couple of weeks. He suggested that the state could target the orders in areas where hospitals are most at risk of being overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients.

“We are trying to be much more specific, more surgical … and more prescriptive in terms of looking at the efficacy and looking at where the data leads us to making those determinations sector by sector,” Newsom explained.