(Sacramento, CA) — California is launching a small business emergency relief package. Governor Newsom announced today it will provide billions in sales tax deferrals. Businesses who have under a million dollars in sales tax will get an automatic three-month extension. The state has set aside 500-million in reserve funds which will be given out through 25-thousand-dollar grants. This as Governor Newsom threatens harsher lockdowns are coming.
California Health Officials Mulling New Stay-at-Home Order for Purple Counties
(Sacramento, CA) — California health officials are weighing another stay-at-home order for counties hit hardest by COVID-19. Governor Gavin Newsom says patients who are hospitalized due to the virus have increased by nearly 70 percent in the last two weeks.
Current projections show the state will run out of beds in intensive care units before Christmas Eve if the trend continues. There are currently 51 out of 58 counties in the most restrictive tier of the state’s guidelines for reopening the economy safely.
Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly says health care providers are not yet seeing the impact from the Thanksgiving holiday.