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Bill To Require COVID-19 Testing Plans for All K-12 Schools Reaches Senate Discussion

February 23, 2022 4:20 pm

A bill to require all K-12 schools in the state to come up with COVID-19 testing plans for all students and staff began discussion in the Senate on Tuesday. Senate Bill 1479, authored by Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), would be...

California Health Secretary Ghaly Announces School Mask Mandate Will Stay in Place Until March

February 14, 2022 8:53 pmFebruary 14, 2022 9:02 pm

California Health and Human Services (CHHS) Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly announced Monday that the school mask mandate would stay in place for the rest of February despite drastically falling COVID-19 cases in the state and other states ending similar mandates...

CA Sen. Richard Pan Says More Than 1,000 California Children Have Died from COVID-19

January 10, 2022 1:02 pmJanuary 10, 2022 12:18 pm

Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), a pediatrician and state lawmaker, wrote a recent article on his Senate website “regarding the death of more than 1,000 children from COVID-19.” “I grieve to learn that more than 1,000 children have now died from...

Newsom Admin Allows Hospitals to Force COVID-Positive Healthcare Employees to Work if Asymptomatic

January 10, 2022 7:01 amJanuary 10, 2022 10:42 am

This story has been edited to include comment from CDPH and to clarify that the CDPH is not forcing healthcare workers back but rather is allowing hospitals to do so. In addition to unveiling a proposed $2.7 billion COVID-19 Emergency...

Is the Legal Bill Coming Due Over California’s Nursing Home COVID Deaths?

December 27, 2021 2:20 amApril 3, 2022 8:46 am

Several U.S. Governors ordered COVID-19 patients into nursing homes during the pandemic in 2020. But it was only Democrat governors in blue states: Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan,...

State Health Officials Exempt San Francisco From Returning Mask Mandate

December 15, 2021 12:08 pm

Shortly before the new statewide mask mandate was reinstalled in California on Wednesday, the California Department of Health announced that the city and County of San Francisco would be largely exempt from the order due to a large percentage of...

SEIU Leader Suspended For Six Months Following $44,000 Time Sheet Fraud

November 29, 2021 12:00 pmDecember 8, 2021 3:47 pm

Tony Owens, the former Vice President of Bargaining for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 in Los Angeles, was suspended for six months without pay from his California Public Employee’s Retirement System (CalPERS) on Monday following an investigation...