Victor Valley College to reopen campus to students, public in May
Classes will continue online or remotely through the Spring semester
Victorville Daily Press
As COVID-19 vaccinations rise and cases drop, Victor Valley College announced this week that in-person campus services will reopen to students and the public in May after being closed for more than a year during the pandemic.
While classes will continue being taught online or remotely for the Spring semester, in-person student services will become available Monday, May 10, VVC officials said in a statement released Saturday.
“Safety will be our utmost concern and guidelines provided by the state of California will be strictly followed,” VVC Superintendent/President Dr. Dan Walden said.
In the time of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, most events have been cancelled or postponed. King of the Hammers, an annual off-road racing event, is an exception. King of the Hammers received its permit January 14 from the Bureau of Land Management, and the race will go on as usual in 2021, starting
In the time of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, most events have been cancelled or postponed. King of the Hammers, an annual off-road racing event, is an exception. King of the Hammers received its permit January 14 from the Bureau of Land Management, and the race will go on as usual in 2021, starting January 30. Managing editor Tami Roleff explains the safety precautions organizers say are in place to keep the week-long race from becoming a “super-spreader” event…
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th annual King of the Hammers off-road race, which in past years has brought 50,000 to 60,000 spectators to Hammertown in the Means Dry Lake bed in Johnson Valley, will take place this year January 30 to February 6.
LOS ANGELES â Two makeshift hospital rooms sit outside the ambulance entrance to Arrowhead Medical Center in San Bernardino County, a hint of how dire things have become as the county faces a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Things have gotten so bad at times that paramedics and ambulance drivers have had to wait up to six hours to offload COVID-19 patients, many of them often struggling to breathe.
âWe had patients who were taking 40 to 50 breaths per minute. The average is 20,â said Dr. Joel Labha, who has taken care many of those patients.
Hospitals across California are being overwhelmed by the surge in coronavirus, but the conditions in San Bernardino County and the greater Inland Empire are particularly acute. New cases of the coronavirus in San Bernardino County are growing faster than any other county in California on a per capita basis, according to The Timesâ tracker.
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LOS ANGELES – Two makeshift hospital rooms sit outside the ambulance entrance to Arrowhead Medical Center in San Bernardino County, a hint of how dire things have become as the county faces a surge of COVID-19 cases.
Things have gotten so bad at times that paramedics and ambulance drivers have had to wait up to six hours to offload COVID-19 patients, many of them often struggling to breathe.
“We had patients who were taking 40 to 50 breaths per minute. The average is 20,” said Dr. Joel Labha, who has taken care many of those patients.