Weekly CA-COVID Update 9/20/22

California

Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Court bill into law, a sweeping proposal to order mental health and addiction treatment for thousands of Californians…

Gov. Newsom recently signed six air pollution reduction measures, bringing the total of climate-related bills enacted this legislative session to 40… 

Proposition 27, which offers to both legalize online sports gambling in California and deliver millions of dollars for homeless services, is on life support…

Two years after Gov. Newsom signed into law a ban on the sale of most flavored tobacco products, Californians will get their say in a referendum vote this November…

Coronavirus

A recent study of more than six million people 65 and older found that seniors who had COVID-19 had a substantially higher risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease within a year…

A new survey conducted by the American College Health Association found that students were far more likely than the general adult population to get vaccinated against COVID-19…

President Biden's declaration that "the pandemic is over" could complicate the administration's effort to battle COVID-19, public health experts say…