‘We thank you for what you’ve done. We thank you for what you will do.’ –Ryan Alsop, Kern County Administrator

By Marcy Axness, TME

Kern County has felt the purple-tier covid clampdown this past week since the case surge has hit all of California, along with the rest of the country and the world.

But here’s a hopeful notion we can give thanks for as we gather around our household Thanksgiving tables: as we go to press, the daily Kern County case count curve appears to be flattening. There were 284 new cases reported Tuesday, compared to 309 last Thursday.

“Our community is doing a good job,” affirmed Chief Administrative Officer Ryan Alsop at the county’s covid-19 press briefing Thursday.

“I want to thank our business community, who for the past nine months have been whip-sawed by varying rules and procedures and directives, and who are struggling.”

Alsop thanked businesses for “making sure that their employees and their patrons are…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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This chart of Kern County cases by age is a good reminder to stay safe and wise with the family this holiday: while children tend to be less symptomatic and not spread the virus as much, some do catch it; and while the 65+ age group has the lowest case rate, those cases account for the vast majority of covid-related deaths.

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This is part of the November 27, 2020 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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