California spent 16 weeks in either of those categories, and in the summer of 2023, the state recorded eight weeks with “high” viral wastewater levels.
The U.S. hasidentified its second caseof the new and more infectious Covid strain that was initially discovered in the United Kingdom. Colorado health officials on Tuesday announced that they detected the country’s first known case and California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday said the new st...
Several counties in the U.S. state of California declared local emergency over COVID-19 last week. Washington State on Saturday declared a state of emergency after the first death caused by the disease in the United States was reported in the state. Florida State also declared a public health...
California is not the first state to adopt a symptom-based approach for COVID-19 isolation, and CDPH points to Oregon, which took a similar approach in May 2023. In comparing COVID-19 trends between California and Oregon after their change in isolation guidance, CDPH found no difference. The...
Some older hospitals in Southern California had outdated systems that can't handle the flow of oxygen, and the state contracted with the Army Corps of Engineers to upgrade them. At Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, a large number of patients not being held in traditional rooms required...
Notably, California was the first state to announce this. Looking at answers by age, senior citizens (ages 65+) are more likely than younger Americans to say the U.S. declaring COVID-19 a national emergency. Equal numbers say a national emergency being declared (37%) and their state ...
This Viewpoint discusses the financial pressures placed on US state budgets from the likely growth of Medicaid rolls during the COVID-19 pandemic, and
And of course, be aware of the WCAB state of emergency en banc decisions, some of which are still in effect, and some of which have been rescinded, since the COVID-19 pandemic began back in March of 2020. These can be ...
California’s COVID-19 state of emergency officially ended Tuesday, nearly three years after Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order. The official end will likely have no effect on the state’s nearly 40 million residents as the gov...
CALIFORNIA GOV. NEWSOM OFFICIALLY ENDS COVID STATE OF EMERGENCY NEARLY THREE YEARS LATER Later that year, the county's public health department began allowing indoor gatherings at churches as long as they were limited to 100 people or 25% of a facility's capacity, whichever was fewer. Face...