This week, California Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek issued a post warning of potential state budget problems in coming years despite California’s persistent strong state tax collections. The LAO recently conducted a fiscal analysis of 10,000 possible revenue scenarios, finding that in 95 percent of its simulations, the state encountered a budget problem at fiscal year…
Read More »This week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state has released its Extreme Heat Action Plan, outlining a strategic and comprehensive set of state actions to adapt and strengthen resilience to extreme heat. With the launch of the Extreme Heat Action Plan, the Newsom Administration is announcing an all-of-government approach to address extreme heat across four…
Read More »The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week issued a nationwide health alert to update health care providers, public health departments, and the public about the availability and use of recommended therapies for COVID-19 and to advise against using unproven treatments that have known or potential harms for outpatients with mild to moderate…
Read More »On Thursday, Moderna announced it is requesting a formal emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for use in children ages six months to under six years. Moderna seeks an EUA for a low-dose version of its vaccine based on a study of approximately 6,700…
Read More »This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled two proposed product standards to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and to prohibit all characterizing flavors (other than tobacco) in cigars. According to the FDA, these actions have the potential to significantly reduce disease and death from combusted tobacco product use, the…
Read More »County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R), supported by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this week released its 2022 County Health Rankings, providing a county-by-county examination of health statuses and conditions. As the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and crises of racism and economic exclusion, CHR&R underscores…
Read More »This week, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) released a report on its 2020 Forces of Change survey, which focused on effects to local health department infrastructure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half of local health departments reported their leaders and staff were targets of harassment in response to…
Read More »The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, has awarded a total of more than $2 million to 24 local health departments nationwide through the Building Local Operational Capacity for COVID-19, Healthcare Associated Infections, and Antimicrobial…
Read More »The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continues its work on “Developing the Capacity to Support Older Adult Fall Prevention” project, which is designed to assist local health departments identify older adults at high risk for falls, increase awareness about fall…
Read More »The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) recently issued a research report examining the state of modern health and health care in California, the historical policy decisions and societal shifts that created the current situation, and trends influencing change in the existing health care environment. The CHPR report examines…
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