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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, April 3rd, 2020 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Columns, Latest news, Small Business / Comments Off on Dubroff: Loan program will stabilize America’s small businesses
Within the next week or so, thousands of small companies are going to be applying for loans — and possible loan forgiveness — under the Paycheck Protection Program or PPP that’s part of the $2 trillion in federal funding approved under the CARES Act. I’ve been studying the PPP since the first details began to Read More →
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By Staff Report / Thursday, April 2nd, 2020 / Biotech, East Ventura County, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Amgen collaborating with Adaptive to create COVID-19 medicine
Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen announced April 2 that it is collaborating with Adaptive Biotechnologies to discover and develop antibodies that can be used to prevent or treat COVID-19. Amgen shares gained 4 percent to $205.88 as of 10:25 a.m and Adaptive’s stock was up 0.8 percent to $27.72. Year-to-date, Amgen’s stock is down 14 Read More →
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By Guest commentary / Monday, March 30th, 2020 / Central Coast Health Watch, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion, South Coast, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Gerhardt and Wilson: Everyone must fight COVID-19
By Drs. Nels Gerhardt and Brett Wilson We are emergency physicians at Cottage Health. We live and work in this community, so we are also your neighbors, friends, and the local doctors who may diagnose your child’s ear infection at 3 a.m., or fix your broken wrist. These are trying times and nowhere is the Read More →
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By Tony Biasotti / Friday, March 27th, 2020 / Central Coast, Central Coast Health Watch, Latest news, South Coast, West Ventura County / Comments Off on Tri-county hospital rebuilds make room for beds
The tri-county region, like the rest of California, is likely to face shortages of hospital beds and other medical resources during the coronavirus pandemic, but the bed shortage could be made less severe by the region’s recent hospital building boom. Until the pandemic, parts of the region had an oversupply of potential hospital beds — Read More →
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By Marissa Nall / Friday, March 27th, 2020 / Central Coast, Central Coast Health Watch, Latest news, Small Business, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on COVID-19 challenging for tri-county spas and salons
Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, the region’s salon and spa businesses had witnessed a transformation of their business model, moving toward memberships and express services as customers integrated them into a broad approach to wellness. In recent weeks, though, the heavily touch-based businesses have been among the hardest hit by shelter-in-place orders Read More →
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, March 27th, 2020 / Central Coast Health Watch, Editorials, Latest news, Opinion / Comments Off on Our view: COVID-19 is spreading but difficult to forecast
After watching the slow but steadily increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the Tri-Counties, we are left with a single question: Is San Luis Obispo County an emerging hot spot for coronavirus or is it a harbinger of things to come? As coronavirus numbers have risen past the 100 mark across the region, SLO County Read More →
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By Marissa Nall / Friday, March 27th, 2020 / Central Coast, Central Coast Health Watch, Latest news, Nonprofits, Small Business, South Coast, West Ventura County / Comments Off on Small businesses forced to adapt to COVID-19 outbreak
Small businesses on the Central Coast are finding ways to adapt to sweeping new coronavirus restrictions, staying connected to customers even as they keep them at arm’s length. Whether it’s through online orders and curbside pickup or careful limits to the number of customers in a store, business owners are changing the way their products Read More →
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