California Is Providing Hotel Rooms for Essential Workers
April 16, 2020
California Gov. Gavin Newsom updates the state’s response to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool) California has begun offering no-cost and low-cost hotel rooms to doctors, nurses and other critical frontline healthcare workers who test positive for, or have come into contact with COVID-19. Gov. Newsom announced the new program April 9, and the reservation portal opened through the CalTravelStore website April 10. The program is designed to help infected healthcare workers avoid spreading the virus by staying in hotel rooms in close proximity to medical facilities after leaving their shifts. “California is fighting to protect those who are