Dr. Vohra is doing his MWF media availability early today. Notes to follow on this thread.
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Cemetery guidance has changed to allow people to visit loved ones provided they social distance. https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/home/showdocument?id=44671 …
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Why isn’t Fresno County flattening the curve? Dr. Vohra wants people to have a discussion about what we can all be doing to flatten it. Also, how is COVID affecting other illnesses? The CDC has noted childhood vaccinations are falling, for example:https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e2.htm …
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Dr. Vohra says they took a hard look at the data and submitted an attestation packet with the state. (This is the step they need to take to move forward deeper into Phase 2.) This will be the topic of this afternoon’s call with Dr. Angell. They’ll discuss how we flatten the curve
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They’ll also discuss how some of the outbreaks affecting Fresno County are at large employers *outside* of the county — Central Valley Meat and Ruiz Foods, for example.
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Dr. Vohra says Fresno County has some business sectors easy to reopen safely, but we should proceed cautiously and have checks in place in case it creates more cases and deaths.
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Guidance for new sectors to open is out there for restaurants — from the state restaurant association.
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Dr. Vohra says he’s not putting expectations on today’s phone call with Dr. Angell. He says they’ll have more information about where to go from here, but he’s not going to hold out hope for acceptance of the variance today.
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David Pomaville, the county public health director, says they’ve trained people internally and some paramedics from
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Regarding the deaths, the last three were over the age of 65 (as were the previous 13.) As for whether underlying conditions existed in all 16 of the county’s COVID-19 victims, Dr. Vohra says he’ll have an answer for me during Wednesday’s meeting.
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Dr. Vohra says he’ll have his staff work on separating out the active cases in the county’s “cases by community” chart. But he warns that this virus loves complacency, so we shouldn’t take anything for granted.
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Dr. Vohra says the increasing case numbers here are partly a result of increased testing, but also people “going rogue” and not following the shelter in place orders. He says the number of hospitalizations and deaths won’t show up immediately when people break out. 2-3 weeks.
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Why doesn’t ABC30 state unequivocally and regularly that the curve is not flattening? (Show the graph!) Because much of our news comes from the Northeast, many people think we’re doing better like they are!
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