1,200 Medical Workers Deployed to Respond to Pandemic
The extra staff includes more than 800 contract workers, but those workers are from the same pool that a lot of hospitals around the state already pull from to get extra help.
Reporter: Marco Siler-Gonzales, KQED
Last week, stay at home orders were extended for another 3 weeks for the Greater Sacramento region, due to low ICU capacity and rising coronavirus numbers.
Reporter: Kate Wolffe, KQED
Companies are now requirement to notify employees within 24 hours if there's been a COVID-19 exposure in the workplace. In labor news, the minimum wage is now $14 dollars an hour for larger companies.
Guy Marzorati, KQED