CHL Weekly Edition: Oct. 27, 2023

Watch: California and Feds Invest in Health Care for Homeless People

KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses big developments in street medicine, both statewide and nationally.

California Expands Paid Sick Days and Boosts Health Worker Wages

Don Thompson

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation expanding paid sick leave to five days, extending bereavement leave to miscarriages and failed adoptions, and approving an eventual $25-an-hour health care minimum wage. Still, in a possible sign of national ambitions, the Democrat vetoed free condoms in schools and refused to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

Why Is Finding Covid Shots for Young Children Still So Hard?

Jackie Fortiér, LAist

In Los Angeles and elsewhere, some parents are having trouble finding the new pediatric covid shot, especially for young children. Not all pediatricians or pharmacies have it and can administer it, even if vaccines.gov says they can.