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Fresno County Sheriff Won’t Enforce Stay-At-Home Order; First Round Of Vaccines Anticipated

In a press call on Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that regional stay-at-home orders are imminent . He explained that these orders would be triggered locally when intensive care units in a particular region’s hospitals become so crammed that they’re more than 85 percent full. The nine counties of the San Joaquin Valley make up one of the state’s five designated regions. No region in the state has yet reached such a high ICU occupancy rate , but Newsom projects that most will in the next week or so. In a media call on Friday, Fresno County’s Interim Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra said he wouldn’t be surprised if the San Joaquin Valley reached such a high patient load this weekend. However, it’s up to local authorities to enforce these orders, and in Fresno County, Sheriff Mims has said her office will not. “My position is the sheriff’s office will be to keep doing what we’ve been doing, by answering calls for service, taking care of our responsibilities to address criminal
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