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With a total of more than 200 deaths and 8,000 cases tallied so far, the burden of COVID-19 continues to grow in the San Joaquin Valley and foothills. This week, the rise in numbers has put three Valley counties on the state’s watch list. The state’s goal for each county is for less than 8 percent of all COVID-19 tests to turn out positive, a measure called the “positivity rate.” But in Fresno, Tulare and Kings Counties, the positivity rate is above 10 percent. Tulare and Fresno Counties also contain some of the state’s worst hit nursing homes, and an outbreak at Avenal State Prison has spiked the numbers in Kings County. As a result, all three counties are now among the nine counties subject to what the state public health department calls “targeted engagement,” a process involving heightened communication with state health officials to bring those markers back down. In a press call earlier this week, Fresno County Interim Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra said that while the rising
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