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Health Officials Warn Of Dwindling ICU Beds, Overcrowded Hospitals: COVID-19 Update For Dec. 11

Five days into a regional stay-at-home order, COVID-19 infections in the San Joaquin Valley are soaring and hospitals are scrambling to make space on floors already crowded with flu patients. On Thursday of this week, the California Department of Public Health estimated that intensive care units in the San Joaquin Valley reported fewer than 2 percent of their beds were available, all while more people are dying of the virus than they have in months. In stark contrast, an FDA advisory panel has given the greenlight for the FDA to approve emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech, which means hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses could be on their way to California in a matter of days. This week’s COVID-19 update addresses this juxtaposition of scarcity with optimism, featuring excerpts of conversations with Fresno County Interim Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra, Kern Medical CEO Russell Judd, and Mariposa County Health Officer Dr. Eric Sergienko. Meanwhile,
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