The key to relaxing social distancing rules is testing. The question is, when will Fresno County hit the benchmark? Dr. Rais Vohra, interim Fresno County health officer, says, "We're doing between 500 to 700 hundred tests a day in the county." The good news? We may be doing a lot more...
Riverside County Offers Virus Testing to All Who Seek It
RIVERSIDE — A Southern California county on Friday said it would offer free coronavirus testing to any resident who wants it. Riverside County health officials said testing will be available to residents even if they don't have symptoms of the virus. So far, the county of 2.5 million people has...
Fresno COVID-19 Cases Jump Past 200 in Latest Report from Health Department
Ten more cases of COVID-19 were reported in Fresno County on Saturday, bringing the local total to 201 infections. The latest case count was reported in a news release from the Fresno County Health Department. Seventy cases have been attributed to community spread, while 36 are travel related and 60 resulted...
Fresno County Reports Two More Deaths From COVID-19
The Fresno County Public Health Department reported two more deaths Friday attributed to COVID-19. In a teleconference with reporters, the county said it has 191 cases, 36 of those travel-related, and 69 from community spread. The two deaths were both described as "elderly gentleman" by the county health department. That...
Stanford Medical Center Teaming Up to Make 1-Million+ Coronavirus Test Swabs a Week
Stanford Medical Center and digital manufacturer Carbon have teamed up with several other universities on a project to 3D print millions of COVID-19 test swabs for medical facilities. Carbon will announce plans to scale up production of the critically-needed testing item on Wednesday, according to a release sent to GV Wire. On...
FDA Approves 5-Minute Coronavirus Test
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared a new rapid test from Abbott Laboratories, which the company says can detect the coronavirus in about 5 minutes. Medical device maker Abbott announced the emergency clearance of its cartridge-based test in a release Friday night. The company says that...
Walters: California’s Big Educational Dilemma
California’s largest, most important — and perhaps most troubled — governmental program is the education of nearly 6 million elementary, middle and high school students. Federal, state and local taxpayers are spending more than $100 billion each year on the assumption, or hope, that the state’s 944 school districts, ranging...
'Vaxxed II' Bus Rolls Into Clovis. Wants to Hear Stories.
Vaccine safety has lead to emotional — and, on social media, not so civil — debate. The question of whether childhood vaccines are safe and tested thoroughly, along with government laws mandating vaccinations to attend schools, have lead to protests, accusations, and lawsuits. Listen to this article: All the...
Twin Births in US Now Going Down, at Lowest Level in Decade
NEW YORK — Fewer U.S. families are seeing double, according to a government report that finds a drop in new twins. Twin births steadily increased for more than three decades, driven largely by older white moms undergoing fertility treatments. But the rate of twin births apparently peaked in 2014 and...
UPS Gets Government Approval to Become a Drone Airline
DALLAS — UPS has won government approval to operate a nationwide fleet of drones, which will let the company expand deliveries on hospital campuses and move it one step closer to making deliveries to consumers. Many regulatory obstacles remain, however, before UPS — or other operators who are testing drones...