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More Central Valley schools bring back students for in-person learning this week This week marks the return to on-campus instruction for many school districts across the Central Valley and state. KFSN Share: FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) This week marks the return to on-campus instruction for many school districts across the Central Valley and state. As campuses prepare to welcome back some students for in-person learning, Gov. Gavin Newsom encouraged others to follow their lead. Let s do this. Let s not wait, Newsom said on Sunday. Weeks become months, and months become the school year. Newsom said districts should resume class for the youngest children first. He recommends schools start with Kindergarten through second-grade and then move onto third to sixth grade. ....
Remember what things were like a month ago? (We don t blame you if the answer is no two weeks in, 2021 already feels like a long year.) On Dec. 15, California was at an inflection point in the winter COVID-19 surge. We were already feeling the effects of a post-Thanksgiving spike in cases, and fearing what would come after Christmas. The state was averaging 163 coronavirus-related deaths a day. Think about if we continue down the path we re on, what that Jan. 14 number may look like, Newsom said. Since then, things have gotten worse much, much worse. As of Jan. 14, California is seeing 506 lives lost to COVID-19 every day. That s when we look at the seven-day average the same metric Newsom was referring to one month ago. ....
I told you the goal, a million will be vaccinated, he said. In ten days. More than 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been shipped to local health departments and healthcare systems across the state. Yet, ABC7 s analysis found only 29 percent have actually been used. That s up slightly from 25 percent reported Thursday. That has resulted in more than 1.4 million vaccines left waiting in warehouses or stuck in transit across California. I know, it s inexcusable, said Newsom. The governor is working to provide flexibility at local levels so providers can start to administer vaccines within different tiers and cohorts. Newsom explained much of the backlog stems from network providers like third-party distributors, who are responsible for distributing a majority of the state s doses. ....
Governor Gavin Newsom expects an even bigger post-holiday COVID-19 surge in California, he said in a noon press conference update today. He also gave an update on the regional stay-at-home order and the slow vaccine rollout. Wisherop is the interim director for the College of San Mateo nursing program. She tells ABC7 there are 100 trained nursing students in her program that are certified to administer vaccines and need to complete clinical hours. I have students who need clinical hours, said Wisherop. All last semester they were practicing with the flu vaccine.who can totally help with this. According to Wisherop, her students are required to complete 100 hours per semester. ....