Lunar New Year, also known as Tet, is one of the most important celebrations in Vietnamese culture.
In Santa Clara County, home to the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam, extravagant festivities normally take place all over San Jose. Fireworks, tasty treats, little red envelopes and large crowds mark the occasion.
So officials recognize that requesting residents to stay at home and tune into celebrations online is a big ask. As a Vietnamese American physician, Tet is extremely important to me and my family. It s a time of celebration together with family, said Dr. Phuong Nguyen, chief medical officer at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Updated: 1:06 PM CST February 6, 2021
One year ago, 57-year-old Patricia Dowd died in California’s Santa Clara County. Autopsy results would later reveal that the woman, identified by family members as being from San Jose, had the coronavirus.
Dowd had not traveled outside the country to a coronavirus outbreak area. Her death came about three weeks before health officials in the Seattle area announced what were believed then to be the first U.S. deaths from the virus.
According to CNN, Dowd lived and worked in the Bay Area in California as a manager for a semiconductor company. She was known to have exercised regularly and was careful with her diet and did not take any medications.
The scarcity of COVID-19 vaccine doses in the Bay Area has caused health officials to urge all health care providers to prioritize injections for residents ages 65 and up because of the virus high mortality rate among older people.
New COVID-19 variant not yet found in Central Valley, health officials say
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) Medical experts indicated a new Coronavirus variant - L452R - was quickly spreading throughout California. They also worried it could be more infectious than the original strain but more research needed to be done.
When large COVID-19 outbreaks have occurred, health officials said samples of some infected patients were taken for genome sequencing so the virus structure could be analyzed.
UCSF Virologist Dr. Charlies Chiu said, The expectation would be that we would be able to rapidly identify new variants that may be of concern or new variants that may be worth investigating.
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