The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), as part of its efforts to simplify and streamline the vaccine management process, has announced its recently launched CalVax Provider system will now become myCAvax. According to the Newsom Administration, the name change will reduce confusion with other systems and will have a similar look to California’s vaccine…
Read More »This afternoon, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) issued a report describing how COVID-19 spending is reflected in the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) budget. The LAO report provides information on CDPH’s COVID-19 spending, as well as funding that has flowed through CDPH’s budget to California’s 61 local health departments to support local response…
Read More »This week, the Center at Sierra Health Foundation, in partnership with the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA), today announced awarding more than $17.3 million in grants to 110 community-based organizations (CBOs) statewide to support community engagement, provide public health education, and encourage COVID-19 vaccination. Organizations received…
Read More »On Thursday, Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical division Janssen Biotech, Inc. requested from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine. According to Johnson & Johnson, the COVID-19 vaccine has a 72 percent efficacy rate in the U.S., but only a 57 percent efficacy rate in South…
Read More »This week, the White House announced the purchase of 8.5 million rapid at-home COVID-19 tests that can be taken without a prescription. Recall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an EUA to Ellume in December 2020 for its at-home rapid COVID-19 test. The Biden-Harris Administration this week indicated it reached a $231.8 million…
Read More »Early this week, Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced an agreement to extend the eviction moratorium in the California through June 30, 2021. The state’s eviction moratorium, initially imposed amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, was set to expire on January 31, 2021. Both the Senate and…
Read More »On Thursday, the California Assembly Select Committee on Latina Inequities convened an informational hearing entitled, “Unseen Latinas: Economic and Health Impacts on Latinas During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Thursday’s hearing was the select committee’s inaugural hearing and featured two panels of expert witnesses to discuss the economic and health implications of the ongoing COVID-19 public health…
Read More »This week, the Newsom Administration announced several sweeping changes related to COVID-19 vaccine allocation, distribution, and administration. The Administration framed the forthcoming changes as lessons learned from the state’s 10-day one-million vaccine doses challenge from earlier this month. Led by the Government Operations Agency (GovOps) and the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS), the…
Read More »This week, Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-02-21 to support state efforts in vaccinating as many Californians as possible against COVID-19. The order confirms existing law related to provider liability protections applies to health care professionals and providers participating in the state’s vaccine administration program. The order additionally extends liability protections to others, including…
Read More »On Monday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced the end of the state’s Regional Stay-at-Home Order, effectively lifting the order for all regions statewide, including the three regions that had still been under the order (Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley, and Southern California). Four-week ICU capacity projections for the three regions still under…
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