California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state's roughly 2.5 million health care workers have until Feb. 1 to get a coronavirus vaccine booster shot or risk losing their jobs.
One ABC News medical expert talks about the latest COVID-19 headlines after the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first antiviral pill amid rising omicron cases.care workers have until Feb. 1 to get a coronavirus vaccine booster shot or risk losing their jobs, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.
California also requires other groups to either be vaccinated or submit to weekly testing, including state workers and, eventually, teachers and students. But Newsom said Wednesday there is no plan to require those other groups to get a booster shot. As of Tuesday, California had 3,589 coronavirus patients in the hospital, a 12% increase since Dec. 1. But that's far less than the peak of last winter's surge, when the state had nearly 22,000 coronavirus patients back before vaccines were widely available. Today, more than 70% of California's roughly 40 million residents are fully vaccinated.
California reported more than 10,900 new cases on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Los Angeles County — the nation's most populous with nearly 10 million residents — reported more than 6,500 new cases, more than double the amount from Tuesday. Local health officials said the county could have more than 20,000 cases per day by the end of the year.
A new mandate for booster shots could convince more workers to quit. But the California Hospital Association on Wednesday said it supported the new rule “to further protect health care workers and hospital patients.”
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