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 …
From the September 10, 2021 Edition
By Patric Hedlund, TME
Five years ago an energetic family came to live in these Mountain Communities who brought with them talent, compassion and boundless enthusiasm.
Jennifer Thoene and Brent Burket, both medical doctors, took …
From the September 3, 2021 Edition
By Marcy Axness, TME
Last week’s reported Kern County covid-19 case rate was 32.3 per 100,000 people. When we pointed out that the February 2021 case rate was 16.8 per 100,000, we did not point …
From the August 27, 2021 Edition
By Marcy Axness, TME
Kern County’s latest covid-19 case rate is 32.35 per 100,000 population. The case rate six months ago, in February—when we were stuck in the “most restrictive” purple tier—was 16.8 per 100,000.
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