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Over the last few weeks, the local COVID-19 landscape has changed dramatically. In the San Joaquin Valley, average daily cases have dropped to a fraction of what they were in late July and early August, and hospitals are regaining the beds necessary for their normal, non-COVID volume of patients. Dozens of people are still dying of the virus each week, however, and health officials are on high alert for bumps in cases associated with Labor Day festivities. Statewide, Governor Gavin Newsom in late August unveiled his new Blueprint for a Safer Economy, a tiered system that aimed to streamline how counties reopen schools and businesses. But the system uses each county’s testing rate to improve or worsen its metrics for reopening, which Kern County in particular has called out as unfair. To put all of this into context, this week’s COVID-19 update features an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Kenny Banh, an emergency physician at UCSF Fresno Medical School, as well as a statement from
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