Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to present a proposed $2.7 billion COVID-19 emergency response package Monday in Sacramento as part of his proposed 2022 state budget amid the surge driven by the Omicron variant, state administration officials said Saturday.
The Governor’s proposed budget also calls for new legislation to put supplemental paid sick leave policies in place to help protect the state’s healthcare workers, according to state officials.
The money from the emergency response package would be used to bolster testing capacity, accelerate vaccination and booster efforts, support frontline workers, strengthen the health care system and battle misinformation, officials said.
The package allocates a proposed $1.2 billion to bolster testing capacity by expanding hours at state testing sites, distributing COVID-19 antigen tests to local health departments and supporting the state’s testing facilities. $583 million would go toward getting more Californians tested for COVID-19, among other things, while $614 million would be used to support healthcare workers and health care systems.
The package also allocates $200 million to enhance the state’s emergency response and public health capacities, including staffing and information technology at the state’s Department of Public Health, Office of Emergency Services and Emergency Medical Authority. $110 million would go to increase public health efforts at the California-Mexico border to keep migrants safe in various ways, including vaccinations. The funds would also be used to enhance contact tracing.
The California Medical Association and the California Hospital Association Saturday issued statements in favor of the emergency package.
“This emergency response package to boost testing, vaccine distribution and support health care workers comes at a critical time as cases of the Omicron variant surge nationwide,” said California Medical Association President Dr. Robert E. Wailes in a statement. “The California Medical Association appreciates Governor Newsom’s leadership.”
Carmela Coyle, chief executive of the California Hospital Association, said, “The Governor’s request for this funding, including resources to shore up a depleted workforce, represents a vital step toward making sure the health care needs of every Californian are met.”
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Blah, blah, blah.
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More taxpayer funds proposed to be wasted.
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Delete the proposal in the May revise of Newsolini’s proposed budget.
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.. and deport illegal immigrants. They’re not supposed to be here. PERIOD.
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More graft.
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Bye bye California.
…nothing in there for schools that drove away their little moneymakers by teaching unlimited genders and woke politics over a zoom screen?
Too bad, so sad. The CA education machine is grinding to a halt, and it can’t come soon enough. You reap what you sow. The reaper is here.
A big round of “applause” for Gavin Newsom to grant funds for excessive testing, which fuels public awareness to “heighten” needs of Joe Normie to subjugate themselves to further vaccination updates.
I see no mention Monoclonal therapy (Storovimab)
Please God, please let CA citizens wake up and realize how insane this is.
Covid 19 has been nothing but a diverse causing money laundering opportunity.
So sad what our state has become
Glad to move out of a China control state soon.
I still pray for ya all
I love so many people on Claycord! I will continue to pray for you even after I leave
Faith over Fear
Lol, the up and comer Word Economic forum Stooge / Disciple of Klaus Schwab.
What? That’s got to be some of the most false filled stupidly I’ve ever heard.
Bruh,
You shouldn’t stick your foot in your mouth or shoot from the hip.
Perhaps use your fingers and do a quick search on what was said. Research is really not too difficult.
“False filled” Bwahaha. BTW, who checks on the ‘fact checkers’???
gavin newsom is 100% confirmed a stooge of klaus schwab, the great reset and the world economic forum. 100% confirmed up and down. There is zero way you can prove it wrong. Impossible.
Where is he getting the money? The gas tax?
I wonder how much of these proposed funds will end up with the criminal element in our State Prsions?
Here we go 2.7 sounds like the money he did not get for the bullet train!
Per the sac bee (https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article257075657.html), California has a massive surplus $31 billion. Good thing we have such high taxes in this state. We are awash in taxpayer money, and he is doing what his type does best, spending money that is not his/theirs. How about a refund to those individuals who have paid a large amount in income tax? A scary part is the use of the taxpayer provided riches to battle “misinformation.” In other words, only the state message is to be deemed appropriate.
“ A scary part is the use of the taxpayer provided riches to battle “misinformation.” In other words, only the state message is to be deemed appropriate.”
Exactly! Use our tax dollars to help decimate our constitutional right to free speech! Only info allowed to go out to the public is that info that coincides with what the government wants us to hear. Goes right in line with contrary info being blocked on social media platforms and one sided info passed by our media sources. We’re sounding more and more communist every day. We are only seeing what the government wants us to see. Everything else s labeled “misinformation.”Unfortunately, the enlightened critical thinkers are outnumbered by the blind followers.
It may sound extreme, but if we don’t wise up quickly and take our state (and country) back, our children will live in a country far different than that which we’ve lived in.
Probably a good portion of that money will be spent to “battle misinformation”. Which is really quite unnecessary as mainstream media and big tech are already spending huge dollars creating the “preferred misinformation”. It’s a solid reminder that Gavin Newsom has no ability to manage money as he’s always had an unlimited supply.
I don’t want to believe the majority of Californians are truly obtuse. However if this Nimrod gets re-elected the evidence will be irrefutable. As such more of us will decide we really don’t want to be a part of that population; who would?
Most are criminally ignorant. So, there’s that. The public school systems ensure this is true.
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CA Department of Health is now allowing asymptomatic Covid-positive healthcare workers to work….
Science!
Beep beep …..
Honk honk…..
Clown speaks yet again
“May the odds be evah is your favor”
It’s a shame all of this money hasn’t been put to use to find a cure for Cancer.
Yet another reason to get the heck out of Corruptifornia…
So the state sent me $600 I don’t need while my saving is not going up as fast as inflation. Who in the heck is doing their math.
Newsom loves to spend OUR money. He is a spendaholic!
$31 billion surplus is a lie. But you don’t care:
“We know California state and local governments face more than $400 billion in unfunded liabilities for public employee retirement benefits—enough money to cover the state’s general fund for three years, including funding schools, universities, prisons and health care for the poor.
That debt is made up of two chunks: $254 billion in pension liabilities and $147 billion in retiree health care.”
https://calmatters.org/articles/california-retirement-pension-debt-explainer/#How-big-is-the-problem
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More of the same. Gavin spending huge amounts of other people’s money and trying to get credit for it. And Democrats having us live under a constant state of emergency.
I’m surprised there isn’t anything in there about funding gun buy-back programs.
Oh good I can use an extra million to tide me over until things go back to normal with Bidens plan. Food and taxes, that’s all I budgeted for. Health care will have to wait.
Each time I read this column I think California has a massive amount of level headed folks that will rise up and stop this insanity. Then I remember past elections and the recall.
Send the bill to China
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