Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled California’s “endemic” virus policy – and it’s going to cost billions of dollars.
Newsom used an acronym to best describe his shift to an ‘endemic’ approach: SMARTER: Shots, Masks, Awareness, Readiness, Testing, Education and Rx (prescriptions).
“This disease is not going away,” he told The Associated Press. “It’s not the end of the quote, unquote, war.”
Newsom will also keep many of his executive emergency orders in place (shocker).
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