COVID 365: A year on lockdown and the health impact in Central California
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) The health care system has felt a tremendous strain due to the coronavius.
All week on Action News, we re sharing with viewers a special series called, COVID 365: A year on lockdown.
Stories will focus on the impact the pandemic has had on our every day lives here in Central California.
The loss of a friend and fellow nurse, Sandy Oldfield, to COVID-19, shook Kaiser ICU Nurse Amy Arlund to her core.
Arlund said, After watching a nurse colleague die, I realized I m not ready to die and I don t have my life in order. A lot of us started drawing up our own wills.
Fresno County working to vaccinate more citizens with increased allotment
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Fresno County s vaccine allotment more than doubled this week, and health officials say that means the next couple of weeks will be crucial in getting many of those doses into the arms of residents.
During their update on Tuesday, county public health officials say they received 19,000 vaccines instead of their usual 8,000.
Community Division manager, Joe Prado, says they re working on mobilizing vaccines into rural areas. So in our rural areas, we are mobilizing on some of the unincorporated areas, and also in Orange Cove, he said. We ll be in the Lanere area are looking at the Riverdale area on Thursday.
Fresno County health officials preparing for wave of COVID cases after holiday gatherings
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) While many are celebrating a fresh start, Fresno County health officials are bracing for a new wave of COVID-19 cases to come after December s holiday gatherings. So I think January is going to be a very hard beginning to the year, but we re prepared to work as hard as we need to, says Dr. Rais Vohra.
There are 606 hospitalized, and only 10 ICU beds available in all of Fresno County.
More than 700 people have died from the virus and that number is climbing.