As Governor Gavin Newsom was touting the benefits of new FEMA mass distribution vaccine sites in Oakland and Los Angeles, officials at the Fresno County Department of Public Health were left scratching their heads as to why the Central Valley was left out. "Fresno County was not chosen to host...
Fresno’s Top Doc Senses “Tangible Change” in Attitudes of Hospital Staff as COVID Numbers Drop
As the calendar gets set to change to a new month, Fresno County Interim Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra says there seems to be a change in the air. "There's a tangible change that I noticed just in the overall flow of how the department was doing at my hospital,"...
ALDI Opening Brings Fresno Shoppers Low Prices. Maybe Higher Home Values, Too
Huge avocadoes at 25 cents a piece were a hot seller as ALDI celebrated the opening of its new Fresno store on Thursday. "The avocadoes were out of this world!," exclaimed shopper Herman Nagle. The store located at the corner of Shaw and West opened at 8 a.m. Despite a...
County Likely To Scale Back Vaccination Goal Over Uncertain Allocations
Fresno County health officials say they used to get at least a two week notice about how much COVID-19 vaccine they would receive from the state. That was before the announcement last week by the federal government that they didn't have additional vaccine doses in reserve like they'd previously stated....
Local COVID Survivors: Experience Ranged From Mild Symptoms To Lasting Effects
COVID-19 symptoms ranging from mild to severe are what's left in the wake from the earlier stages of the pandemic. Some people continue to deal with lingering issues long after being discharged from area hospitals. While others have recovered without much issue at all. Nearly nine months' worth of survivor...
Over 50% of Fresno Healthcare Workers Opting Out of COVID Vaccine, Officials Say
Herd immunity against the novel coronavirus could require vaccination rates approaching as high as 90%, Dr. Anthony Fauci recently told the New York Times. During a Tuesday briefing with reporters, Fresno County Community Health Manager Joe Prado said the trend among frontline healthcare workers is running way below that number. "We're...
CRMC Gives First Look of New Alternative Care Site in North Medical Plaza Building
Fresno's downtown Community Regional Medical Center has now opened their 50 bed alternate care site to address increased patient loads resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical personnel including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals contracted from private staffing company AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, worked for over a week to get the...
Stay at Home Order Likely To Be Extended, Newsom Says. Possible 1-Shot Vaccine Raises Hopes.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's regional stay at home order, originally scheduled to end December 28 in the San Joaquin Valley region, will likely continue for several more weeks. "It's very likely, based on those current trends, that we'll need to extend that stay at home order," Newsom said during a midday...
New Alternate Care Site Takes Shape Just as COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives
Tuesday was "a historic day" said Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County's interim health officer. The first shipment of 7,800 doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine arrived by Fedex at the health department early in the day. Simultaneously, a team contracted from AMI Expeditionary Healthcare that includes doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals...
COVID-19 Vaccine is Expected in Fresno County by Tuesday
The first shipment of Pfizer's COVID-19 is expected by Tuesday, according to the Fresno County Department of Public Health. Once the shipment arrives, it'll be taken to what officials have set up as their guarded 'vaccine room'. The Fresno County Sheriff's Office has been on site for over a week...