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 

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