Used N95 masks are collected at Boston s Massachusetts General Hospital on April 13. Hospital staff members wrote their names on the masks so each could be returned after being cleaned, a strategy used to alleviate critical shortages of respirator masks. (Blake Nissen/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The Strategic National Stockpile, which the U.S. has traditionally depended on for emergencies, still lacks critical supplies nine months into one of the worst public health care crises this country has ever seen, an NPR investigation has learned.
A combination of long-standing budget shortfalls, lack of domestic manufacturing, snags in the global supply chain and overwhelming demand has meant that the stockpile is short of the gloves, masks and other supplies needed to weather this winter s surge in COVID-19 cases.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom held back details from the public and lawmakers about a $990 million state N95 mask contract with a China-based firm scrutinized by Congress.
But now, a trove of 848 pages of documents is available to the public, obtained by government watchdog group Judicial Watch. The documents provide details on how the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services selected BYD to make 300 million face masks for protection against COVID-19, a virus that originated in Wuhan.
Earlier this year, state legislators
tried to press Newsom to provide details about the deal, as one senior Democratic lawmakers called the deal
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January 17, 2021 - SACRAMENTO – As property owners begin the process of recovering after last year’s wildfires, there are programs and resources available to help get them back on track. One of those is the State’s
Consolidated Debris Removal Program led by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, CalRecycle, and local governments.
Wildfire survivors participating in the
Consolidated Debris Removal Program can now access an informational dashboard that provides details of the cleanup progress.
This Debris Operations Dashboard for the 2020 statewide wildfires is updated every hour and provides users with the ability to sort by branch or county via the filters at the top of the page. Users can also search by address via the magnifying glass icon at the top of the map to learn of the debris removal status of their property.
Monday, Jan. 11. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.
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As healthcare workers line up to receive their shots in California, many are being asked to provide proof that they’re in this high-priority group. But some healthcare workers say they haven’t gotten access to the shot and are being left behind because they’re
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Outside the statehouse Monday, the presence of law enforcement was already noticeably greater than in previous days.
Around noon, when an anti-vaccine group was scheduled to protest, dozens of California Highway Patrol officers were scattered in clusters around the grounds. Near the main entrance, walkways that would normally be crowded with legislators, staffers and visitors were blocked with barricades and closely watched by officers in plainclothes, in uniform and mounted on horses.
Only four women turned out for the protest and were kept on the far side of the barricade.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that “everybody is on high alert, in terms of making sure that everybody is safe” and that “people’s free speech can be advanced, but there’s no violence.”