"We're looking carefully to decide whether we need to do an official declaration of emergency," he said at a briefing with reporters. At the moment, the state is "really mobilizing the tremendous resources and infrastructure that we built for COVID, and using it now for monkeypox." The m...
California officials say COVID-19 will now be treated as a manageable risk rather than an emergency, making it the first state to move from a pandemic approach to the virus toward an endemic one. CGTN’s Ediz Tiyansan looks at some of the most heavily impacted busine...
Gavin Newsom will end the state’s coronavirus emergency declaration in February and all of the executive orders that came with it. Thursday, the Orange County Public Health Agency announced it was shifting its coronavirus response "from an emergency posture to routine business operations." "Now ...
Before making their own emergency declaration last week, San Francisco city officials were criticized for not responding rapidly enough to the outbreak. They, in turn, faulted the federal government for failing to deliver enough vaccines. The city received about 4,000 doses on Friday, enabling it...
(AP) — California's governor on Monday declared a state of emergency to speed efforts to combat the monkeypox outbreak, becoming the second state in three days to take the step. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the declaration will help California coordinate a government-wide response, seek more ...
Others questioned that idea: Wages for such care have remained low despite existing shortages of caregivers, which were worsened by an exodus of employees amid the COVID-19 emergency, said Priya Chidambaram, a senior policy manager with KFF’s Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured. If wages hav...
The state's three biggest utilities—Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric—turned off power to more than 410,000 homes and businesses for about an hour at a time until the emergency declaration ended 3 1/2 hours later. The move came as temperatur...
Governor Gavin Newsom issued an Executive Order suspending the bulk of the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) for the duration of the current COVID-19 emergency, subject to certain conditions — an action that concern
COVID-19 State of Emergency No. 9—Reinstatement of Rules—In response to Governor Newsom’s March 4, 2020 declaration of state of emergency due to COVID-19, WCAB ordered temporary suspension of W.C.A.B. Rule 10500(b)(6) (Misc. No. 260), regarding witness signatures, W.C.A.B. ...
Another criticism was Bass being warned that the major Santa Ana wind event could cause an emergency scenario, yet deciding to travel to Ghana anyway. Her response in the first day following the massive fire sparking, a simple state of emergency declaration, was also criticized, with Governor ...