Gov. Newsom Announces New $2.7 Billion COVID-19 Emergency Response Package

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Governor Newsom’s medication contiguous unveiled a projected $2.7 cardinal COVID-19 Emergency Response Package, which includes a $1.4 cardinal exigency appropriation request, to summation investigating capacity, velocity vaccination and booster efforts, enactment frontline workers, fortify the healthcare system, and combat misinformation.

Given the existent circumstances caused by the Omicron variant, the Governor’s fund besides calls for caller authorities to follow supplemental paid sick permission policies to further safeguard our frontline workers.

“From time one, California has taken swift and nonstop enactment to conflict COVID-19 with policies that person saved tens of thousands of lives, but there’s much enactment to beryllium done,” said Governor Newsom. “Our projected COVID-19 Emergency Response Package volition enactment our investigating capacity, accelerate vaccination and booster efforts, enactment frontline workers and wellness attraction systems, and conflict misinformation, with a absorption connected the hardest-hit communities.”

Governor Newsom’s wide bundle includes:

$1.2 cardinal to bolster COVID testing
$583 cardinal to get much Californians vaccinated & boosted, and combat misinformation
$614 cardinal to enactment our frontline workers and healthcare systems
$200 cardinal to enactment authorities effect operations
$110 cardinal to enactment susceptible populations and bolster interaction tracing efforts

“This Emergency Response Package to boost testing, vaccine organisation and enactment wellness attraction workers comes astatine a captious clip arsenic cases of the Omicron variant surge nationwide,” said California Medical Association (CMA) President Robert E. Wailes, M.D. “The California Medical Association appreciates Governor Newsom’s enactment arsenic his medication continues to enactment to expect the state’s needs and instrumentality beardown nationalist wellness measures that volition prevention lives.”

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California has led the federation successful the combat against COVID-19, taking aboriginal nationalist wellness measures to safeguard Californians and investing an unprecedented $11.2 cardinal passim the epidemic, redeeming tens of thousands of lives.