Valley firefighters, nursing students could soon be trained to administer COVID-19 shot
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) In an effort to get more COVID-19 doses out of the freezers and into patients, California Governor Gavin Newsom says it s all hands on deck.
State officials are expanding the list of people who can vaccinate, which will include dentists, pharmacists, and 15 National Guard strike teams.
Firefighters could be next.
Fresno City fire officials say there are ongoing discussions, but they would need additional training. Fresno fire is a BLS, which is basic life support . We don t have paramedic certifications on our trucks. Our personnel would have to receive additional training. I don t think it d be tough to train our personnel, says Shane Brown with Fresno City Fire.
Dec. 23, 2020
Six weeks after my eldest daughter was born, my husband and I packed up her swaddles and burp cloths and boarded a plane to Massachusetts, where our extended family was gathering for a reunion. I was nervous. The original plan was to leave our daughter with my husband’s aunts for a day while we attended a nearby folk music festival. But at some point during the first exhausting weeks of my life as a parent, I realized that wasn’t going to work and I knew everyone would be disappointed.
Before, it seemed simple: I could leave my family with a few bottles of breastmilk and then spend a relaxing day sitting on a blanket in the sunshine. But after struggling to establish a still-fragile breastfeeding routine, it sounded ridiculous. How could I possibly pump an entire day’s worth of milk before we left for the festival? Where would I pump at an event taking place in an open field, and what would I do with the expressed milk afterward? Plus, my daughter had only jus
Key, McMurray finalized college choices [The Bakersfield Californian]
Dec. 18 With the COVID-19 pandemic casting a rather large shadow on their upcoming high school seasons, seniors Jaiden Key and Emma McMurray now have something a little more concrete to set their sights on.
The two signed a National Letter of Intents this week to continue their respective athletic careers in college.
Key, who committed to women’s basketball at Holy Names University in Oakland, was an All-Southwest Yosemite League honorable mention selection last year after helping Bakersfield High to its third straight Central Section title.
“It just felt like a good decision,” said Key of her choice to play at Holy Names. “It feels right. And it’s probably one of the best decisions I’ve made. The campus is really beautiful and I liked the coach. And it feels like it’s going to be a second home.”
Even in the most frustrating, hopeless, boring, grief-filled days of the pandemic, California families found slivers of joy.
In Los Banos, the Ruiz and Gutierrez family played indoor badminton and learned American Sign Language together. In the Lucerne Valley, 8-year-old Colton Reichow careened over the desert hills on his dirt bike and learned how to butcher a cow at his grandfather’s farm. In Los Angeles, Shari Abercrombie found a way to make math fun for her son with special needs.
And just about everyone in EdSource’s families project rediscovered the simple comfort of talking to each other. In the third installment of our year-long series “California Families Struggle to Learn,” on how families are coping with distance learning, we asked families for their bright spots: What’s helping them survive this most challenging of school years?