California Watch
News stories in this section spotlight activities in California, including actions by the state Assembly and state Senate; proposed legislation; regulators like the Department of Managed Health Care and Department of Insurance; and the state ACA exchange, Covered California.
Acknowledging that more California communities are in a position to slowly reopen businesses, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday loosened rules linking coronavirus infection rates to allowed activities — a change that could release most parts of the state from the tightest restrictions of his stay-at-home order.
State eyeing first week of June for pro sports — without spectators — to return
Gov. Gavin Newsom submitted his 2020-21 May revision budget proposal to the Legislature — a plan aimed to close the budget gap of more than $54 billion brought on by the COVID-19 recession.
As California looks to ease stay-home restrictions imposed to keep COVID-19 in check, infections of the new coronavirus seem to be spreading fastest in the southern third of the state, according to a Bay Area News Group analysis.
Despite the major changes to retirement account rules under the CARES Act, nearly 72% of Americans opted to stay the course and stick to their investment plan during the COVID-19 crisis, according to a YouGov survey in this Forbes article.
Although some hope the worst of California’s coronavirus crisis has passed, there are signs the pandemic in the Golden State has merely stabilized, and the worst may be yet to come.
When Aimee Paulson, a nurse practitioner, learned in late March she was being temporarily laid off from the private family practice she’d worked at for the last three years, she was disappointed but not surprised. Patient visits in the San Ramon office had gone down by almost 80% as the coronavirus outbreak kept people at home.
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.
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.