Soaring unemployment numbers could translate into nearly 27 million people losing their health insurance, according to a new report.

Yippee! The Internal Revenue Service has come up with a partial fix to the mess of so-called “flexible” spending arrangements that let workers stash pre-tax money into special accounts for healthcare and child care. The rules surrounding FSAs are anything but flexible.

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.