In early April, Firebaugh was a COVID-19 hot spot for positive cases and deaths. Now the west-side farming town of 8,300 people is being cited by...
Dr. Rais Vohra, interim Fresno County health officer, is amending his early order requiring all residents to wear cloth face masks while shopping or indoors at...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated. Read the new story at this link. Original story: Dr. Rais Vohra, interim Fresno County health officer, signed an...
“In a perfect world, remdesivir should be given to anyone,” says Dr. Eyad Almasri of UCSF Fresno. Dr. Almasri made the comments during a teleconference with reporters...
Letter sent, letter received, and a Monday phone meeting is set. The subject: Allow Fresno County to open restaurants. Fresno County’s interim health officer Vohra and...
Testing doesn’t appear to be an issue. Nor is housing the homeless or having the hospital capacity to handle a surge in COVID-19 cases. But, if...
More than two dozen California counties have asked for permission to loosen their stay-at-home orders beyond what the state allows. But Fresno County is not one...
Call, text, email, and repeat. Call, text, email, and repeat again. The job of a COVID-19 contact tracer, or what Gov. Newsom calls a “disease detective,”...
“We’re not doing any antibody testing right now,” answered interim Fresno County Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra in response to a question Monday during a teleconference. “That’s...
The city of Fresno’s shelter-in-place order goes until the first Wednesday in May. Mayor Lee Brand extended the shelter-in-place order to May 6 based on modeling...
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