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Flattening the curve means slowing the spread of the epidemic so that the peak number of people requiring care at a time is reduced, and the health care system does not exceed its capacity. Flattening the curve relies on mitigation techniques such as hand washing, use of face masks and social distancing.
California was one of the states to expand its Medicaid program. [6] As of 2018, about one-third of California was covered by Medi-Cal. It is administered by the California Department of Health Care Services, which operates it in accordance with California's Medicaid State Plan and Title XIX of the Social Security Act. [7]
Optimal mitigation policies might reduce peak healthcare demand by two-thirds and deaths by half, but still result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and overwhelmed health systems. Suppression can be preferred but needs to be maintained for as long as the virus is circulating in the human population (or until a vaccine becomes available), as ...
Hundreds of thousands of health care workers in California are set to earn a new minimum wage of $25 an hour. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday night that he signed Senate Bill 525, which ...
Testing for SARS-CoV-2 can allow healthcare workers to identify infected people. It is also an important component of tracking the pandemic. There are various types of tests currently on the market; some identify whether or not a patient is currently infected, while others give information about previous exposure to the virus.
Healthcare workers are more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection than the general population due to frequent contact with positive COVID-19 patients. [2] Healthcare workers have been required to work under stressful conditions without proper protective equipment, and make difficult decisions involving ethical implications.
Lynne Levin-Guzman stood in the front yard of her 90-year old parents’ home in Los Angeles County, California, trying to protect it with a garden hose — because their insurance company no ...
What is a loss mitigation outroad that will get you through it quickly? Reinstatement — but you’ll need to have some cash on hand. With this choice, you repay your missed payments in a lump sum.