Fresno County well being officers warn residents to stay vigilant regardless of new ‘endemic plan’ by California

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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEEE/KGPE) – Governor Gavin Newsom introduced the state is shifting from a pandemic strategy to an endemic one within the battle in opposition to COVID 19 throughout a press convention Thursday.

Newsom is emphasizing a reactive strategy to the virus, which suggests specializing in early detection, stockpiling masks, and contracting with corporations that make at-home speedy assessments.

Native well being consultants say that is essential to maneuver from a “pandemic” to an “endemic”.

Fresno County has the third-highest lively instances in hospital sufferers of the virus within the state with 413 complete sufferers, behind solely Los Angeles, and San Diego counties, though these counties have a lot larger populations.

Nevertheless, ICU sufferers, instances and hospitalizations are each in a downward pattern.

“We have to perceive that, simply because the numbers are reducing doesn’t imply that they’re fairly regular but,” stated Dr. Rais Vohra, Interim Fresno County Public Well being Officer.

Dr. Rais Vohra urged folks to proceed to take preventative measures, like masking and being vaccinated.

“We actually have to be extra affected person, and we actually have to proceed to permit these numbers to come back down,” stated Vohra.

Nevertheless, one quantity officers don’t wish to see go down is vaccination charges. They are saying as of now numbers are method down.

“What we’ve seen on this final week is a big lower within the variety of vaccine doses per day being administered in Fresno County, we’re dropped right down to about 1,300 doses per day on common. It’s a few 46% discount from two weeks in the past,” stated Joe Prado, Fresno County Public Well being Vaccination Data Lead. 

This virus isn’t going anyplace anytime quickly, particularly with the BA-2 Omicron variant, the so-called “Stealth” Omicron variant now spreading in different elements of the world.

“It’s not essentially a brand new variant, it’s simply discovering new infections, principally in unvaccinated folks, and it occurs to be extra contagious which is why it’s elevating slightly bit extra of a priority,” stated Vohra.

If the variant is detected within the county, Vohra says they’ll research it and notify the general public.

The county says proper now, solely 38% of testing websites are getting used to their full capability throughout the county.

The state will consider these websites that fall beneath 50% use, and they’ll begin to cut back the capability of testing, and even shut these testing websites.



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