Although Fresno wasn't one of the two California sites chosen earlier this week by federal and state emergency officials to be mass vaccination centers, Fresno County officials say they are lobbying hard for the Save Mart Center to be considered by FEMA and the California Office of Emergency Services. "There...
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,"...
Fresno’s Top Doc Says Lifting of State COVID Order Was ‘Disorienting’
Governor Gavin Newsom lifted the stay at home order Monday based on projections that hospital intensive care capacity would climb above 15% within the next 4-weeks. In the San Joaquin Valley Region, as defined by California's online dashboard, ICU capacity remains at 0% as of Tuesday. Getting into the more granular...
Fresno County Asked for 38,000 COVID Vaccine Doses. It Got Just 8,000.
The supply of COVID-19 vaccine is slowing considerably and falling far short of demand in Fresno County, health officials said Friday. Joe Prado, the county's community health manager , said he requested 38,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the state this week, but received only enough supply for 8,000 shots. "It's...
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....
County Hits Goal of 3,000 COVID Vaccinations in a Day. More Sites Coming On Line.
The Fresno County Department of Public Health met its goal of administering 3,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine a day by hitting the target on Friday. "The goal was reached through the combined effort of three local vaccination operations that began this week. We're definitely right above that," Fresno County's community...
Fresno County Leaders Wants To Get 3,000 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses a Day Administered by Week’s End
Fresno County Department of Public Health leaders told the Board of Supervisors they want to deplete all their COVID-19 vaccine supply by the middle of next week. That's a shift from an earlier philosophy of holding some back for the required second doses people will eventually need. "Unless the state...
California’s COVID Vaccinations are Lagging. Will Fresno Use Fairgrounds to Catch Up?
Texas has used 41% of its COVID-19 vaccine, according to figures from Bloomberg's state-by-state vaccine tracker. West Virginia, 71.8%. Florida, 44%. Meanwhile, lagging well behind most of the large states is California at 31.7%. Even former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is speaking out over the slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in California....
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...
Local Doctors May Have To Choose Who Gets a Ventilator, Who Doesn’t. ‘Nobody Likes To Think About This.’
Fresno County added 1,763 new COVID-19 cases on Christmas and the day after, and had just 8 ICU beds available as of Saturday. Across the San Joaquin Valley ICU capacity fell to 0% again over the long holiday weekend. "There's going to come a time if we overwhelm the system, that...