COVID-19 This Week: San Joaquin Valley

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This podcast's continued coverage of COVID-19 received a 2022 Golden Mike Award from the Radio Television News Association of Southern California. Read about other winners here.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.

  1. 06/18/2021

    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.

    9 min

  2. 06/11/2021

    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.

    8 min

  3. 06/05/2021

    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.

    13 min

  4. 05/21/2021

    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.

    8 min

  5. 05/14/2021

    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.

    9 min

  6. 05/07/2021

    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.

    9 min

  7. 04/23/2021

    Lull In COVID-19 Vaccine Interest Leads To Thousands Of Returned Doses – Virus Update For April 23

    *Correction 4/24: This interview inadvertently implies that Eric Bream employs undocumented workers, which he does not.*

    10 min

  8. 04/16/2021

    So You've Been Vaccinated – What's Next? COVID-19 Update for April 16

    As of this week, more than a half million San Joaquin Valley residents have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. For some, that means being able to more safely visit grandkids or elderly parents, while for others it’s a ticket to spending more time in public or feeling more secure in person-to-person interactions at work.

    9 min
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This podcast's continued coverage of COVID-19 received a 2022 Golden Mike Award from the Radio Television News Association of Southern California. Read about other winners here.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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