California will require healthcare workers to get booster shots against the coronavirus. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the mandate Tuesday, citing the rise of the omicron variant.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists California as a place with “high” transmission of the virus, along with nearly everywhere else in the country. But in the last week California averaged 114 new cases per 100,000 people, less than half of the national rate.
“The staffing shortages we are experiencing are worse than ever,” said Kiyomi Burchill, group vice president for policy for the California Hospital Association. “I’m on the fence a little bit about how horrible is this,” said Dr. Brad Pollock, associate dean for public health sciences at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. “We’re going to have more people infected because of the more transmissible variant. It may be a little less virulent, which means it causes less symptoms.”
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom, who imposed the fist statewide shutdown order in March 2020, warned that cases would likely rise and re-imposed a rule requiring everyone to wear masks at public indoor gatherings. Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city, once again canceled its in-person New Year’s Eve celebration, moving to a virtual event as the number of daily new cases tripled over the week.
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