The county also ended the year by announcing a grim new death toll of 62, the single highest one-day figure since the pandemic began.
Hospitals, particularly in Southern California and the agricultural San Joaquin Valley in the middle of the state, have been overrun with virus patients and don’t have any more intensive care unit beds for COVID-19 patients.
“We’re exhausted and it’s the calm before the storm,” said Jahmaal Willis, a nurse and emergency room leader at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley. “It’s like we’re fighting a war, a never-ending war, and we’re running out of ammo. We have to get it together before the next fight.”
Fresno County doctors fearful of COVID cases after Christmas holiday
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Fresno County health officials say what they are experiencing right now is unlike anything they ve ever witnessed in our local healthcare system. We have turned auditoriums and offices into patient care spaces, says Dr. Anneli Von Reinhart. We have expanded and expanded and stretched and stretched, and we are now at a breaking point.
But more patients with and without the coronavirus continue to overwhelm emergency rooms.
Dr. Rais Vohra with the Department of Public Health says the surge is impacting every aspect of the healthcare system from vital equipment, to the mental health of staff.
Fresno council member to refine language for proposed order that would close retail stores The goal is to ensure the health and safety of residents and employees and help keep/re-open our small businesses as soon as possible, Councilman Luis Chavez said Wednesday.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Days after Fresno City Councilmember Luis Chavez proposed a five-day closure of all retail businesses within the city, he said Wednesday he will now work with the council to refine the language in the draft of the proposed emergency bill.
In the original draft obtained by Action News on Monday, Fresno s emergency shutdown order would last five days once the number of available ICU beds in the county is down to zero.
Coronavirus update: Fresno death toll sets new record as city weighs shutdown order
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Dec. 22 As one of the regions facing the highest increase in coronavirus cases across the state, Fresno County on Monday reported 89 new COVID-19 related deaths, bringing the countywide total to 646 since the pandemic began, according to state data.
The county also added 952 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, pushing the total to 58,568 since March.
December is now Fresno County s deadliest related month tied to the pandemic with about 167 deaths. The previous record was 152 deaths in August.
Frontline healthcare workers at Clinica Sierra Vista in Fresno and Kern counties will be first in line to receive the first doses of Moderna s recently approved coronavirus vaccination sometime this week, the hospital confirmed Monday.
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After months of relentless lobbying and fervent speculation, Gov. Gavin Newsom has chosen California’s next senator.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate, making him California’s first Latino senator.
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Newsom faced competing pressures to select either a Latino politician or a Black female politician for the role, with either choice potentially rectifying broader issues of representation: Latinos outnumber any other ethnic group in California, yet the state has never had a Latino senator. But without a Black woman chosen to succeed Harris, the number of Black women in the Senate would dwindle back to zero.