Month: May 2020

California Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced that workers who contract COVID-19 while on the job may be eligible to receive workers’ compensation.

While California has avoided the grim death toll of coronavirus hot spots like New York, there are growing concerns that the state’s most populous regions have not yet seen the rapid decline in deaths and cases needed to significantly reopen the economy.

Hospitals are warning they will be slow to restart elective procedures like knee surgeries and colonoscopies without assurances from Congress they won’t get sued by patients and their own workers if they are infected by the coronavirus during those visits.

The CDA has asked its members to call on lawmakers and the governor's office for essential personal protective equipment, financial relief, and rapid COVID-19 testing when the technology becomes available.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact across the globe, costing lives, disrupting business and education and creating significant financial losses.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his counterparts in four Western states on Monday asked Congress for $1 trillion in COVID-19 pandemic relief for all states and local governments.

Identifying and tracing air passengers from high-risk countries is useful when begun early, a C.D.C. study found, but California’s effort came too late.

U.S. payers feel the most confident that they’ll weather the COVID-19 storm, a new survey shows.

The Trump administration will provide $11 billion to states to ramp up testing capabilities to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Even in absentia, House Democrats are seeking to drive the debate on the fifth coronavirus response bill, promising to produce a mega-package stuffed with Democratic priorities even as a chorus of GOP leaders voices hesitation about more spending.