COVID-19 This Week: San Joaquin Valley Unknown
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- Health & Fitness
A weekly roundup of the latest COVID-19 news for Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, and Tulare Counties in California’s San Joaquin Valley. We also include this in our other weekly podcast, Valley Edition. All this and more at www.kvpr.org.Editor's note: This podcast ceased production in June 2021.
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As State Reopens, A Look Back At Loss, Adaptation, Resilience – Final COVID-19 Update For June 18
After 15 months of pandemic-related restrictions, California is back open for business. In downtown Clovis, reactions ranged from cautious optimism to elation.
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Next Week, California To Lift COVID-19 Restrictions…Mostly – Virus Update For June 11
Next Tuesday, California is slated to reopen its doors following more than a year of pandemic-related restrictions. The state’s reopening system, known as the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, will dissolve, and businesses and houses of worship will be permitted to open without capacity limits or distancing restrictions.
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Equity And The Pandemic Response – COVID-19 Update For June 4, 2021
Last August, the state of California introduced a “health equity metric” in its method of evaluating progress in fighting COVID-19. Ostensibly, that meant the state would be grading counties not just on their countywide case rates, positivity rates, testing and (later) vaccine numbers, but also on all of those measures within their most disadvantaged census tracts.
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This Pediatrician’s Kids Got The Vaccine, And She Says Yours Should Too – COVID-19 Update For May 21
As of earlier this month,127 kids aged 12 to 17 years old had died of COVID-19 in the United States. The number may pale in comparison to the more than half a million adults who’ve died so far, but because deaths among kids are so rare, the total is still high enough to rank COVID-19 among the leading causes of death among that age group.
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COVID Puts Pregnant Women At Risk Of Childbirth Complications – Virus Update For May 14
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, many basic questions about the virus have been answered, including how it spreads, how it responds to treatment, and how it affects the body. But even those lessons learned apply mostly to generally healthy people and those with the most common pre-existing conditions, and unknowns still abound for many population subsets—including pregnant women.
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Pandemic Leaves Hospitals On Shaky Financial Footing – COVID-19 Update For May 7
For many of us, hospitals are pillars of communities, representing safety nets that we hope will always be there. But there’s no guarantee they will be. A new report estimates thatCalifornia’s hospitals have suffered billions of dollars in losses in the last year, and that they could lose billions more before 2021 is through.