Dr. Marc Eckstein, medical director and emergency medical services commander of the Los Angeles Fire Department, said transporting someone without a pulse gives families false hope, takes the ambulance out of service, exposes workers to COVID-19 and requires decontaminating the vehicle. "To be cle...
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...
not far behind. With the type of emergency and dire circumstances that the world is in now, everyone wants their orders immediately," he explained. "But we can only produce so many per day, even with three round-the-clock shifts." ...
California to end mandatory pay for workers with COVID California will stop making companies pay employees who can’t work because they caught the coronavirus while on the job. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California will stop making companies pay employees who can’t work because they caught the...
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...
In a pre-Thanksgiving Facebook post, Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini asked people to be responsible but said he “will not be enforcing the compliance of any health or emergency orders related to curfews, stay at home orders, Thanksgiving or other social gatherings” or mask mand...
Here’s a look at what you need to know about the updated shelter-in-place orders: Advertisement Article continues below this ad Q: Why are we being asked to stay at home? A:To safeguard public health and safety. The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is easily transmitted between people,...
Dr. Clayton Chau, the county's public health officer. told the county's Board of Supervisors that "emergency rooms have no capacity to triage people as quick as they can." He pleaded with residents to avoid gathering with people from outside their households. ...
indoctrination and inadequacies plaguing our public schools. And if parents are successful at reclaiming a majority of school boards, asserting rights over their children and refuse to comply with the Governor’s never-ending emergency orders, we’ll see the state legislature exert extraordinary fina...
into the emergency rooms with COVID-19 symptoms. while still bracing for a possible flood. As of Friday, San Francisco has 279 confirmed cases and the city saw its largest increase of COVID-19 diagnoses on Thursday. California now has more than 4,000 known COVID-19 cases.—Christina Farr...