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California is rolling back protections for frontline workers. This is wrong and dangerous
Zenei Cortez
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As California struggles with record infections, hospitalizations and deaths, it’s hard to imagine that hospital industry executives, with the cooperation of state regulators, would come up with a plan to make conditions worse. Sadly, they have.
Pushed by the California Hospital Association, California’s Department of Public Health has granted hospitals the ability to obtain blanket, expedited waivers, granted presumptively, that force nurses to care for more patients in hospital emergency rooms, intensive care units and on several other floors.
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LOS ANGELES California became the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as nearly the entire state was under a strict stay-at-home order. Gov. Gavin Newsom warned that hospitalizations could soon double if people don t change their behaviour for the holidays. A tally by Johns Hopkins University showed the nation s most populous state has recorded 2,010,157 infections since January. At least 23,635 people have died from the virus. The first COVID-19 case in California was confirmed Jan. 25. It took 292 days to get to 1 million infections on Nov. 11. Just 44 days later, the number topped 2 million.
California became the first state to record 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases, reaching the milestone on Christmas Eve as nearly the entire state was.