NEW: Just launched billboards in 7 of the most restrictive anti-abortion states that explain how women can access care--no matter where they live.
To any woman seeking an abortion in these anti-freedom states: CA will defend your right to make decisions about your own health. @GregAbbott_TX this will be launching in your state today.

On Monday, CA announced state and health care workers must show proof of vaccination or submit to regular testing.
 
Since then, many others have followed suit….👇👇👇 LA announced it will have city employees show proof of vaccination or get tested: google.com/amp/s/www.lati…

THREAD: Some people (...meaning the @GOP and @NRA) like to point to horrific shootings like yesterday’s and say CA’s strict gun laws don’t work.

The reality is that is simply not true.

A quick review... In 1993, CA had the 3rd highest rate of gun homicides in the country and the 16th highest rate of gun deaths overall.

Since then CA has become a national leader on gun safety.

CA has tripled and sustained our pace of administering the #COVID19 vaccine.

But we know we must do more and move faster including: 1. Simplifying our vaccine eligibility framework:

- CA is moving to a single, statewide, baseline standard

- Continue through 65+ and healthcare workers, prioritize first responders, food & ag workers, teachers & school staff
 
-From there, transition to age-based eligibility

VACCINE UPDATE: CA will be receiving 327k doses of the new Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine in mid December.

The Drafting Guidelines Workgroup & Community Advisory Committee have now finalized recommendations for who will receive these initial doses.

We have prioritized into 3 tiers: Tier 1:
 
- Acute care, psychiatric and correctional facility hospitals
- Skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and similar settings for older or medically vulnerable
- Paramedics, EMTs and others providing emergency medical services
- Dialysis centers

Our ICUs are climbing quickly toward their capacity. Our death rate is rising.

To slow the surge of #COVID19 and save lives, CA is introducing a Regional Stay-At-Home Order.

Regions where ICU capacity
fall below 15% will be placed into this Stay-at-Home Order
for 3 weeks. Sectors that will remain open when a region is placed into the Regional Stay-At-Home, include: 

- Schools that are already open
- Critical infrastructure
- Retail (20% capacity to reduce exposure)
- Restaurants (take-out and delivery)

THREAD: As we continue the fight against #COVID19, today we announced a Small Business Emergency Relief Package that will provide immediate relief for businesses impacted by the virus. CA will now provide billions in sales tax deferrals including an automatic 3-month extension for taxpayers with less than $1M in sales tax.

This includes hair salons, bars, restaurants, and other businesses heavily impacted by #COVID19.

In CA, science will determine when a school can be physically open--and when it must close. But learning must be non-negotiable.

Schools must provide meaningful learning during #COVID19. And we must do everything we can to keep our teachers, staff & students safe. That means: 1) Safe in-person school based on local health data.

Schools located in counties that are on CA’s Monitoring List must NOT physically open for in-person instruction until their county has come off the Monitoring List for 14 consecutive days.

CA is flattening the curve, but the reality is #COVID19 is not going away soon.

Our re-opening must be gradual, guided by public health and science, and will be done in the following STAGES: STAGE 1: Safety and Preparedness.

This is where we are now.

Staying home and flattening the curve.

Building out our testing, PPE, and hospital capacity.

Making our essential workplaces as safe as possible.

And preparing sector-by-sector guidelines for a safe re-opening.

Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics. We need to start targeting social determinants of health. We need to start treating brain health like we do physical health.

What’s more fundamental to a person’s well being than a roof over their head?

Tonight @realDonaldTrump offered a dark view of an America in which healthcare is taken from the sick, tax cuts are given to the wealthy, and our climate crisis is ignored.

It doesn’t have to be like this. CA is PROOF that progressive policies & economic growth go hand in hand. We're producing more income and output and investing more in our people than any state in history -- all while building the nation’s strongest fiscal foundation.

Unemployment at record lows. 118 months of consecutive job growth. In fact -- 1 in 7 US jobs come from California.

Spending some time looking back on 2019. CA made some serious "first-in-the-nation" and big moves... - First-in-the-nation subsidies for middle-income families-- expanding access and making healthcare MORE affordable.

- First-in-the-nation ban on “pay for delay” practices: blocking Big Pharma from keeping generic drugs off the market.

Californians should not pay the price for decades of PG&E’s greed and neglect. PG&E must be held to account for their gross mismanagement of the power shutoffs that impacted nearly 2 million Californians last week. Because of PG&E, Californians were forced to seek electricity for basic necessities, shut down their businesses, or travel to parking lots to keep medical devices charged. PG&E should provide affected customers compensation for their hardships -- an automatic credit or rebate.

California has made a lot of bold, progressive moves in the last two weeks -- working to defend our values against the Trump administration, make our state more affordable, and building a state that represents everyone who lives here. Here are a few highlights... CA has abolished the use of private, for-profit prisons and immigration detention facilities. The multi-billion dollar industry turning a profit off of incarcerated people will come to an end. time.com/5698905/califo…

While @realDonaldTrump continues to deny the reality of climate change and tries to revoke CA’s ability to set our own car emissions standards, CA is forging ahead — continuing our leadership.

Today, we took action: Diesel trucks make up only 4% of vehicles on the road in CA, but 20% of the greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

Today, I signed into law a first in the nation smog check for diesel trucks. We have to do everything in our power to transition to cleaner vehicles.

Trump is choosing to spend his time pandering to the @NRA while lives are being lost every day to senseless gun violence. Let’s spend our time talking about the facts on gun violence in America: Gun violence kills nearly 100 Americans every day. Nearly 40,000 Americans were killed by gun violence in 2017.

From healthcare to housing to wildfires to immigration, we’ve spent our first 100 days focused on the biggest issues impacting our state, while standing tall against a federal government hostile to California’s values and interests. CA has always been a shining beacon of hope for the nation. Now more than ever, we’re front and center—substituting for leadership at a time when our president has abdicated it.

Taking care of each other. Showing courage when it matters most. That’s what we do. It’s who we are.

Spent my morning with some of the most inspiring young adults I’ve met in a while. They work hard every day to support themselves, their families, their relatives abroad, and pay their way through school. And yes, they are undocumented. Rather than spending time with their friends... or studying for their next test, their days are consumed by the fears and anxieties of what tomorrow will look like.

pscp.tv/w/bwOgnDFZTEVK… The California dream runs deep in the history and character of our state -- but there is nothing inevitable about it. It’s up to us to renew the CA dream for a new generation. But it’s also up to us to defend it.

We cannot stop raising our voices until every child, mother, father, brother, sister, community member, is safe at school, a concert, a mall, or a park. No one deserves to live their life in fear of being shot. But that’s the sad reality of today. It is the millions — literally, millions — of conversations that students and everyone marching today are holding - and winning - on gun violence that are changing our nation.