Californians. Reporter californians applying for unappointed benefits will have to wait pick the States Employment Development Department has halted taking new applications until october 5. A two week reset while they switch their updated online Identification System and moved to id me. This comes after a strike team put forth recommendations to update the service. They have been plagued with issues with so many californians applying for caliph fournette an appointment benefits at once. Theres been a massive backlog in claims because so many people are out of work. The former edd director says some very significant action needed to be taken. And i think there is reason to say this new approach with the Identity Verification that at least is claimed to be able to reduce the manual claims which are holding up the process from a 40 to 10 . Reporter with maidla proces which led to that bottleneck here it will still take months to catch up. Part of the statement reads, i am concerned this i
Thanks for joining us on kron 4 news at 3 im noelle bellow just over 6 months since shelterinplace orders began california is seeing widespread improvement. An infection levels at the same time the nation and california are about to mark some grim milestones in the pandemic the United States is on the brink of reaching 200,000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic right now there are little more than 199,743 deaths and more than 6 million cases have been reported across the country here at home that grim nationwide milestone comes as california and statewide covid19 numbers continue to improve governor Gavin Newsome provided an update this afternoon. He says the state has averaged about 3400 cases over a sevenday period. The latest numbers showing the low that with just under 3300 cases reported yesterday. Now the governor says on average theyre conducting more than 100,000 tests a day and with the number of testing going up the Positivity Rate is going down over the last 7 days weve have
Global leader in public health, at the recommendations at the much more the national leader. Task force just made. I think theres a lot of damage thats right. That has been done already but given the states dubious during covid, and, you know, i think we are scrambling to record of making technology changes, the edd is facing a figure out who to believe. All right. So just so we have some of the chance of ridicule in something Important Information out there goes awry. The backlog has been growing by on the likelihood and how 10,000 applications every day. So over the weekend, the edd common airborne transmission is, we know the world health announced it will not accept organization recognized the new applications for two weeks threat posed by aerosols back in july. What does the research in an overall sense suggest about can to it can install a new system transmitted through those to speed up the process. Aerosols, and is the evidence our report, which we have conclusive . So the evid
House. And later, advancing Health Equity founder and ceo dr. Uche blackstock joins us to discuss covid19s impact on minority communities. Another ruling on the Affordable Care act, the Supreme Court ruled 72 yesterday in favor of a 2017 Trump Administration rule extending the exemption to the Affordable Care acts birthcontrol mandate. It is thursday, july 9, 2020. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal. We open the show and ask whether support employers decided denying contraceptive health care to employees. Here is how to join the conversation. If you support the exemptions, two of 274s 88000. Two748pose, it is to 80001. Commentsost additional at facebook. Com cspan. , specificallyting on that case, the New York Times this morning with a graphic on how justices voted and how people for it feel about where the public stands on this issue. They write the Affordable Care act requires Health Insurance plans for women include coverage for contraceptives, Birth Control, but the Tr
Loud and clear. So why the declaration . World health says it is only a characterization of the current outbreak. There is no specific criteria that triggers the definition. It is not to in sight panic. The last pandemic was the h1n1 thats affected nearly a quarter of the worlds population. The dow is down more than 1400 points. The dow is officially entered a bare market. New at noon, it past few hours, San Francisco saying there should be a ban on more than 1,000 people. Jackie ward with who is affected. Reporter this ban is disruptive but saying it is an important step to support Public Health and stop the spread of the coronavirus. This means the warriors will play to an empty arena tomorrow night. We know this is necessary because right now it is about milt gating the impacts. It is about making sure that we reduce and eliminate the spread, and we have followed in every single instance, in every decision we have made, it has come based on thctof public hea the warriors are support