From the December 17, 2021 Edition
By Marcy Axness, TME
The U.S. hit “another depressing pandemic milestone” on Tuesday, Dec. 15, reported The Associated Press—800,000 deaths. California has seen a 47% increase in covid-19 cases and a 14% increase in hospitalizations …
From the December 3, 2021 Edition
By Marcy Axness, TME
As we go to press Wednesday, Dec. 1, the first case of the Omicron covid-19 variant in California—also the first in the U.S.—has been confirmed in a patient who returned from …
From the November 12, 2021 Edition
The graph shows a one-day jump of 264 new cases in Kern County from November 8 to November 9.
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Good news / bad news: Last week, final approval came through for children 5-11 to receive the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine. Also announced last week in an alert from Kern County Public Health’s Michelle Corson, new …
From the October 29, 2021 Edition
California has 2,405,797 adult citizens diagnosed as suffering from asthma, the highest number of asthma sufferers among the United States (as of 2018, before the plague of wildfires became chronic). Next in line is Texas, …
From the October 15, 2021 Edition
Medicare’s annual Open Enrollment period starts Friday, Oct. 15, and runs through December 7.
This is the time of year when you can change how you get your Medicare coverage, switch your type of health …
From the October 1, 2021 Edition
At the August meeting of the Mountain Communities Collaborative (MCC), it was announced that Mountain Communities Urgent Care aims to open on November 1.
Brandon Moor made a presentation about the project to the MCC …
From the September 24, 2021 Edition
By Marcy Axness, TME
The covid-19 hospitalization rates are soaring higher now than they were during the summer surge of 2020. Kern County Public Health Department officials sent out an urgent plea Friday, Sept. 17.
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From the September 17, 2021 Edition
On Friday, Sept. 10, Bakersfield-based California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer Scott Merritt passed away due to complications of covid-19.
Officer Merritt, 42, served Kern County over the past 11 years as a member of the …
From the September 10, 2021 Edition
Last week we were alarmed to report that the covid-19 case rate in Kern County was more than double February’s rate. The case rate has continued to rise, to 41.44 cases per 100,000 people (see …